How to Burn

by Christopher Locke

26 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

Christopher Locke (b. 1968) is the Nonfiction Editor at Slice magazine in Brooklyn. His essays and poems have appeared many magazines. Locke has five collections of poetry published: How to Burn (Adastra Press—1995), Slipping Under Diamond Light (Clamp Down Press—2002) Possessed (Main Street Rag—2005), End of American Magic (Salmon Poetry—2010), and Waiting for Grace & Other Poems (2013—Turning Point). His collection of essays and poems detailing his travels through Mexico and Central America, Ordinary Gods, is forthcoming with Salmon in 2017.

Locke has received over a dozen grants, fellowships, and awards for his poetry including two Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Awards, state grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, a Fellowship from Fundacion Valparaiso, (Spain), and three Pushcart Prize nominations.