Christopher Kempf has published poetry in Best New Poets, Gettysburg Review, The New Republic, and Ploughshares, among other places. Recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, as well as a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, he is the 2016–2017 Emerging Writer Lecturer at Gettysburg College and a Ph.D. candidate in English literature at the University of Chicago. He received his MFA from Cornell University.

Other poems by Christopher Kempf in Verse Daily:
August 26 2015:   "Poem for the Giraffe Marius" "Because, they said, genetics. Et..."

Books by Christopher Kempf:

Other poems on the web by Christopher Kempf:
"High School Graduation Party"
Four poems
Three poems
"The Professors' Wives"
"Porn"
"Dominion"
"Call of Duty: Modern Warfare"
Four poems
"The Destruction of Tenochtitlan; or, What I Did on My Summer Vacation"
"Information Age"
"Skyping"

Christopher Kempf's Website.

Christopher Kempf on Twitter. About Late in the Empire of Men:

". . . Kempf is a master of seamless juxtaposition: almost every poem moves smoothly into and out of its immediate circumstances, weaving myth and history, literary reference and new events into its fabric. . . ."
—Martha Collins