Online Items

Poems Published Online:

Bear Review: “Curt Missives” & “Ode to Rain.” 2025: https://bearreview.com/br/v12-1-christopher-brean-murray

Tar River Poetry: “The American Redstart.” 2025: https://tarriverpoetry.com/65-1-fall-2025/christopher-brean-murray/

North American Review: “A Walk With the Seer.” 2025: https://northamericanreview.org/open-space/2025/christopher-brean-murray/walk-seer

The Cortland Review: “Bad Boats.” 2025: https://www.cortlandreview.com/issue-94/christopher-brean-murray

Action, Spectacle: “Sentence Sequence.” 2025: https://www.action-spectacle.com/winter-2025-part-ii/murray

The Idaho Review: “Survival Site.” 2025: https://www.idahoreview.org/archive/2025/3/26/survival-site

Painted Bride Quarterly: “Oslo” & “Street Scene.” 2025: https://pbqmag.org/christopher-brean-murray-street-scene/

Plume: “The Town of Horne.” 2024: https://plumepoetry.com/the-town-of-horne/

Colorado Review: “The Cabinet.” 2024: https://coloradoreview.colostate.edu/features/the-cabinet/

Quarterly West: “Anthology.” 2024: https://www.quarterlywest.com/issue-111-murray

Pinch: “The Rainbow-Maker.” 2024: https://www.pinchjournal.com/pjo/therainbowmaker

Waxwing: “News of the World” & “A Tale Told.” 2023: https://waxwingmag.org/items/issue29/15_Murray-A-Tale-Told.php

Diode Poetry Journal: “Locale” & “The Nine Unknown.” 2023: http://diodepoetry.com/murray_christopher-brean/

Poetry Daily: “A History of Clouds.” 2023: https://poems.com/poem/a-history-of-clouds/

New Ohio Review: “Homecoming.” 2023: https://newohioreview.org/2020/11/06/homecoming/

Tupelo Quarterly: “Arbor Day” & “The Map.” 2023: https://www.tupeloquarterly.com/poetry/christopher-brean-murray-arbor-day-the-map/

Southeast Review. “The Day & the Hour.” 2023: https://www.southeastreview.org/single-post/41-1-christopher-brean-murray

Sixth Finch: “The Garden.” 2023: https://sixthfinch.com/cmurray1.html

Washington Square Review: “Spartan Gavotte.” 2022: https://www.washingtonsquarereview.com/new-page-13

American Poetry Review. “Crimes of the Future.” 2022: https://aprweb.org/poems/crimes-of-the-future

American Literary Review. “An Adage.” 2022: https://americanliteraryreview.com/2022/04/04/christopher-brean-murray/

Disquieting Muses Quarterly Review. “The Ovenbird.” 2022: https://www.dmqreview.com/murrays22

Quarterly West: “Radical Revisions.” 2020: https://www.quarterlywest.com/issue-100/murray

So & So Poetry: “Thunderstorm Over the Prairie” & “A Voyage Thither.” 2019: https://www.soandsopoetry.org/christopher-brean-murray

Rattle: “W.S. Merwin.” 2019: https://www.rattle.com/w-s-merwin-by-christopher-brean-murray/

New Ohio Review: “A History of Clouds.” 2018: https://newohioreview.org/2019/03/15/a-history-of-clouds/

Salamander: “Endless Dictations.” 2015: https://salamandermag.org/endless-dictations/

Prose Published Online:

The Adroit Journal: “‘I’d Rather Break Your Heart’: James Tate’s Serious Intent.” 2023: https://theadroitjournal.org/2023/11/08/put-this-in-your-sow-hat-by-arisa-white-and-id-rather-break-your-heart-james-tates-serious-intent-by-christopher-brean-murray/

Interviews:

Interlocutor Magazine (with Isabelle Sakelaris), March 2024: https://interlocutorinterviews.com/new-blog/2024/3/13/christopher-brean-murray-interview-black-observatory-milkweed-editions?fbclid=IwAR3ABPPK30sAqa1CXesxVvJLrLrMVWeY5Sp63YJIiptl5i38m6koFs7Ud8g

Planet Poet Radio Show (hosted by Sharon Israel), April 2023: https://www.sharonisraelpoet.com/blog/christopher-murray-black-observatory

Videos:

Christopher Brean Murray reads “The Wayward Brother” @ Copper Nickel’s Jake Adam York Prize Reading, Seattle, March 2023: https://youtu.be/1xeCqWEUhE8?si=bhQWd-VO-P3WgXup

Christopher Brean Murray reads “A Welsh Scythe” @ Copper Nickel’s Jake Adam York Prize Reading, Seattle, March 2023: https://youtu.be/eOSYCATYVRc

A History of Clouds, a Film by Caitlin Morgan (Poem by Christopher Brean Murray) @ New Ohio Review: https://newohioreview.org/2019/03/15/history-of-clouds-film-by-caitlin-morgan/

Reviews of Black Observatory:

Publishers Weekly: https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781639550265

West Trade Review: https://westtradereview.com/westendmurryreview23.html

Shelf Awareness: https://www.shelf-awareness.com/sar-issue.html?issue=1161#m21125

The West Review: https://thewestreview.weebly.com/christopher-brean-murray.html