Middle-America's most engaging authors since 1998.
Middle-America's most engaging authors since 1998.
Rick Christiansen is a former corporate executive, stand-up comedian, actor and director. His work can be found in MacQueen’s Quinterly, Oddball Magazine, Stone Poetry Journal, The Rye Whiskey Review, As It Ought to Be Magazine and other publications. His poem Bone Fragments is included in the 2023 New Generation Beats Anthology from the National Beat Poetry Foundation. He has been recently nominated for a Touchstone Award. He is the co-host of SpoFest, a member of The Writer’s Place and a member of The St. Louis Writers Guild. He lives in Missouri near his fiancé Kim and his eight grandchildren.
Published: 2025
The kind of poetry James Wright referred to as “the poetry of a grown man,” embracing adversities and shocking realities without idealizations or anger but with the distance of an observer who has seen a lot.
—Ximena Gómez, Conversations about Water/Conversaciones sobre Agua
A one-eyed man working up the courage to talk to a waitress, a one-armed butcher in the French countryside, an artist who stalks prey and paints masterpieces with blood, Christiansen conjures “sharp encounters” leaving only the bones on your plate and these living ghosts in your head.
—Scott Ferry, Sapphires on the Graves
Christiansen gets his Whitman on and sings a song of himself, his heroes, and those he’s met along the way. An eclectic mix for the most eclectic of times.
—Chad Parenteau, Associate Editor Oddball Magazine and Stone Soup Poetry
Author of Can’t Republic: Erasures and Blackouts
