Christopher Howell’s eleventh collection of poems, Love’s Last Number, was published in 2017 by Milkweed Editions. His poems, essays, and translations have also appeared in a number of anthologies and journals, including Antioch Review, Colorado Review, Crazy Horse, Denver Quarterly, Field, Gettysburg Review, Harper’s, Hudson Review, Iowa Review, Northwest Review, Poetry Northwest, Southern Review, and Volt. He has been the recipient of three Pushcart Prizes, two National Endowment Fellowships, two fellowships from the Artist Trust, and the Stanley W. Lindberg Award for Editorial Excellence. Howel is the director and principal editor for Lynx House Press. Howell is also editor of Willow Springs Books, director of the Eastern Washington University Press, and on the faculty of the Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing at Eastern Washington University. He lives in Spokane, Washington.

"No excerpt of any of the poems will help you understand the poignancy and meaning in these poems. Read them. Read them all. It will change your life."

• PrefaceIIf He Remembers June Light in OsloRunningMetamorphosisTrusting the BeadsUnexpectationHistoryTodaySituation 2003A Party on the Way to RomeApacatastasisIf the World Were GlassThe CounterchimeConfessionHe Writes to the Soul1974II Stories for Braille CalliopeSometimes at the Braille CalliopeBird Man StrandedThe Eye Becomes Birds Because of WarThe Toad PrinceKing's ExZenoThe Thriteenth IntervalTeleology of the AirhoseKing of the ButterfliesThe Montavilla ReveriesThe Fire Elegies1. Family Values2. The Double Suicide of Marriage3. To Build a Fire4. Storm5. Arrivals6. The Angels of RescueA Christmas Ode After the Fashion of Michael Hefferman...HeavenIIIWhy the River Is Always LaughingGalileoStory TimeAll Day at the Brainard Pioneer CemeteryBackyard AstronomyLetterCole PorterThe GetawayKeatsEventLike Rain DescendingThe New OrpheusA Little BluesAcknowledgmentsAbout the Poet

Christopher Howell’s eleventh collection of poems, Love’s Last Number, was published in 2017 by Milkweed Editions. His poems, essays, and translations have also appeared in a number of anthologies and journals, including Antioch Review, Colorado Review, Crazy Horse, Denver Quarterly, Field, Gettysburg Review, Harper’s, Hudson Review, Iowa Review, Northwest Review, Poetry Northwest, Southern Review, and Volt. He has been the recipient of three Pushcart Prizes, two National Endowment Fellowships, two fellowships from the Artist Trust, and the Stanley W. Lindberg Award for Editorial Excellence. Howel is the director and principal editor for Lynx House Press. Howell is also editor of Willow Springs Books, director of the Eastern Washington University Press, and on the faculty of the Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing at Eastern Washington University. He lives in Spokane, Washington.

"No excerpt of any of the poems will help you understand the poignancy and meaning in these poems. Read them. Read them all. It will change your life."

• PrefaceIIf He Remembers June Light in OsloRunningMetamorphosisTrusting the BeadsUnexpectationHistoryTodaySituation 2003A Party on the Way to RomeApacatastasisIf the World Were GlassThe CounterchimeConfessionHe Writes to the Soul1974II Stories for Braille CalliopeSometimes at the Braille CalliopeBird Man StrandedThe Eye Becomes Birds Because of WarThe Toad PrinceKing's ExZenoThe Thriteenth IntervalTeleology of the AirhoseKing of the ButterfliesThe Montavilla ReveriesThe Fire Elegies1. Family Values2. The Double Suicide of Marriage3. To Build a Fire4. Storm5. Arrivals6. The Angels of RescueA Christmas Ode After the Fashion of Michael Hefferman...HeavenIIIWhy the River Is Always LaughingGalileoStory TimeAll Day at the Brainard Pioneer CemeteryBackyard AstronomyLetterCole PorterThe GetawayKeatsEventLike Rain DescendingThe New OrpheusA Little BluesAcknowledgmentsAbout the Poet