Description: Poetry. Written through a dark time, Curry's poems in OUR CHROME ARMS OF GYMNASIUM navigate, as she says, "sexual communication and logic and the breakdown that occurs when people are perceiving different realities and trying to make sex, love and relationships work." She approaches this cavernous struggle with, in her words, "glee and mania" and breathes a fresh breath into formal meter.
Brief description: Crystal Curry was born in Greenville, Illinois, in 1974. She is the author of Logotherapy Pant (Cosa Nostra Editions, 2008) and OUR CHROME ARMS OF GYMNASIUM (Slope Editions, 2010). She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she received a Maytag Fellowship, a Teaching-Writing Fellowship and an Alberta Kelly Postgraduate Fellowship. Her poems have appeared widely in journals both off and online, such as Verse, DENVER QUARTERLY, Conduit, Open City, Interim, and Action, Yes. She lives in Seattle with poet Nico Vassilakis and their two children.