Christian Teresi is the author of What Monsters You Make of Them (Red Hen Press, 2024). His poems, essays, and translations have appeared in many journals, including AGNI, The American Poetry Review, Blackbird, The Kenyon Review, Literary Hub, andNarrative. He lives in Washington, DC where he works on international education and public diplomacy initiatives.

Other poems on the web by Christian Teresi:
Three poems
"Nonnus of Panopolis's Dionysiaca: Book 7" (translation)
"Words in a Dead Girl's Mouth"
"Reading Nadezhda Mandelstam in Virgin Islands National Park"
"Dionysiaca, Book 38"
"Mike Tyson Explains Middle Age to John Keats"
Three poems

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About What Monsters You Make of Them:

"Echoing out from etymology, 'the place where they plant the unwanted,' reveling in the pastiche surreality of US cultural and political history, 'where each side of time lives in the other's deepest past,' Christian Teresi's exquisite poems are that rare work wrought from deep necessity and sung from an even deeper compassion. Each line captures the ache of desire, the delicate dance of hope, each poem lingering long after reading, haunting 'as murmurs no longer fluent in their origin.' Deft in form, this is a dazzling collection, reminding us we are all 'where the landscape nurtures the in-between,' and there, in yearning and grace, 'the end has never been the end.'"
—J. Michael Martinez

"Here, Teresi inhabits people, as well as the spaces between them, to reveal the self as a web of interconnections. The dialogue between famous authors, Mayan gods, mythic figures, and celebrities accumulates into both a communal self as well as a highly personal one—a mind whose edges are defined by what is questioned and considered. When he says, in 'Metamorphoses,' 'After enough time, no one remembers who anyone was,' it is actually a celebration of this communal, human interaction."
—Richard Siken