Christine Kanownik
Christine Kanownik is a poet and curator. She hosts FIELD TRIP, a monthly reading series in and around Detroit, and is a founding editor of the Electric Pumas. She is the author of two books of poetry: HEAD (Trembling Pillow Press, 2018) and King of Pain (Monk Books, 2016). Blood Bath, her latest chapbook, is out from Philadelphia horror press, Cul-de-Sac of Blood. You can find her poetry at FENCE, b l u s h, Bone Bouquet, DIAGRAM, and The Huffington Post, among others. She also writes the Substack Trees for the Trees, where she thinks about trees, our changing ecological environment, and time.
2019 Events
Trembling Pillow Press Reading
2026 Events
FIELD TRIP Detroit
“One Need Not Be a Chamber to Be Haunted”: Grotesque Forms, Gothic Nightmares, & Grimy Affect in Horror Poetry
“One Need Not Be a Chamber to Be Haunted”: Grotesque Forms, Gothic Nightmares, & Grimy Affect in Horror Poetry