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The Cardio Tesseract

​A collaborative poetry collection co-authored with Christopher's wife, Amanda Knox.

​In this intimate and playful collaboration, Amanda Knox and Christopher Robinson write alternating love poems in conversation with each other, revealing the dynamics of their private life, their hopes, fears, and dark places, from thoughts of suicide and memories of prison, to dreams of raising children. Love is not static or stable, and in these fluid poems, its evolving and ever-unfinished essence is on full display.

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Brain vs. heart

A collaborative poetry chapbook co-authored with technologist and programmer Joseph Moon.

You're in love. The problem is, you haven't told the girl, and your brain and your heart have different ideas about how to proceed. Brain vs. heart is a dialog between the brain and the heart of one man as he attempts to "make the move." Both indulgently prosaic and absurdly poetic, with plenty of in-jokes for computer nerds and literature nerds alike, this beautiful chapbook will make you laugh, cry, and/or hate the authors.

Poems

"The Death of My Grandfather," Gulf Coast, Summer/Fall 2015.

"Slowpoke," Bellevue Literary Review, Spring 2015.

"Hogwash," "Fullboat," Post Road, Issue 28, Spring 2015.

"West Cork," New England Review, Vol. 35. No. 2, 2014.

"Terms," Gettysburg Review, Winter 2014.

“Livestock,” Southern Review, Vol. 50, No. 3, Summer 2014. Audio of the poem here.

“Vicesquad,” “Stillbirth,” “Yellow,” “Orange,” “The Soldier,” “The Sacrum,” (un)civil, Volume 1, Issue 1, January 2014.

“Postscript,” Mason’s Road, Issue 7, Fall 2013.

“Air Become Sinewed 1,” “Air Become Sinewed 2,” “Air Become Sinewed 3,” Jellyfish, Issue 9.0, July 2013.

“The Infant,” Inknode, March 18th, 2013.

"Song: On Suicide," Mare Nostrum, March 12th, 2013.

"Cartographies I. Borges," "Cartographies II. Shakleton," "Cartographies VIII. Columbus," "Cartographies IX. Stevenson," "Song: Geometry and Angling," The Missouri Review, 35.3, Fall 2012.

“Teargas" and "Tosspot,” Inknode, December 11th, 2012.

"Ghosttown," Branch Magazine, Issue #9, Fall 2012

"Blowjob," "Playpen," and "Spoilsport," Ghost Town, Summer 2012

"Cicatrix," Nimrod, Vol. 55, No. 2, Spring 2012

"Hotdog," Gwarlingo.com, Dec. 10th, 2011

"Anchor," "Ave Verum Corpus," "They Do Fall," "Air Become Sinewed 1," "Air Become Sinewed 2," Umbrella Factory, Issues 6, June 2011

“Blackbirds,” Alaska Quarterly Review, Vol. 28, spring, 2011.

"Every Girl," Night Train, Jan. 2011

“Dedication,” “Screen Memory,” & “Reading Tu Fu,” Chiron Review #92, Fall, 2010.

"Captain Blackbeard’s College of Piracy," McSweeney’s Online, Dec. 2009

“Ossuary at Kutna Hora” and “Exodus,” Cartographer Electric #5, Jan. 2008

“Statues of Jesus,” Mare Nostrum, Vol. IV, Summer, 2005

“Lifting Pakistan,” Federal Way News, 2005



Stories

“Laureate Ex Machina,” FlatmanCrooked’s Not About Vampires, January, 2010.

“Gradus Ad Parnassum,” a translation from the Spanish of Jorge Luis Borges, FlatmanCrooked First Winter, November, 2008.



Essays, Reviews, and Articles

"The Neurocryptographers of Kyoto: An Historical Forecast of the Oneiric Revolution,"Bright Ideas Magazine, Spring 2014.

"Out for the Gusto: Putting the Swagger Back into Independent Cinema," Bright Ideas Magazine, January 2014.

"Play for Mortal Stakes," Movie Maker Magazine, January 2013.

"Adapting Indie Fiction," Movie Maker Magazine, January 2013.

The Protean Brain: Joanie Mackowski’s View From a Temporary Window, The Kenyon Review Online, Summer 2011

Breaking Back into Poetry, Thethepoetry.com, March 16th, 2010

“What the Literary Establishment Must Learn from Hip-hop, Muthafucka. Parts I-X” Flatmancrooked Online. February – June, 2009.

Interview and excerpt from “A Hip-Hop Translation of MacBeth,” The Daily Free Press, 2006