Christopher Watkins

Christopher Watkins’ second poetry collection, Famished, was published by Pine Row Press in Spring 2024. His debut, Short Houses With Wide Porches, was published by Shady Lane Press. His work has appeared in The Atlanta Review, The Massachusetts Review, Harpur Palate, Hayden's Ferry Review, and more. Watkins holds a Creative Writing-Poetry MFA from Stonecoast/USM and is also an award-winning songwriter with 13 albums released under the name Preacher Boy. He currently lives in Santa Cruz, CA, and has previously resided in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Seattle, and the west of Ireland.

Gladiator

By Christopher Watkins / November 10, 2025

With tattoo glistening in a chlorine slick, he breaststhe water stiffly; once an athlete, now calcifying.Oblivious […]

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