Piker Press — Weekly Journal of Arts and Literature
April 27, 2026
Charlie Brice

Charlie Brice

Charlie Brice won the 2020 Field Guide Poetry Magazine Poetry Contest and placed third in the 2021 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Prize. His sixth full-length poetry collection is Pinnacles of Hope (Impspired Books, 2022).

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About Charlie Brice

Charlie Brice is a retired psychoanalyst and is the author of Flashcuts Out of Chaos (2016), Mnemosyne's Hand (2018), and An Accident of Blood (2019), all from WordTech Editions.

He won the 2020 Field Guide Poetry Magazine Poetry Contest and placed third in the 2021 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Prize. His sixth full-length poetry collection is Pinnacles of Hope (Impspired Books, 2022).

His poetry has been nominated for the Best of Net anthology and twice for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in The Atlanta Review, The Main Street Rag, Chiron Review, Fifth Wednesday Journal, SLAB, The Paterson Literary Review, Muddy River Poetry Review and elsewhere.

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  • Eleven Questions Honoring the Fortieth Anniversary of the New York Times Science Page

    "...What equation would we use?..."

  • Too Muchness

    "...she could have shot a Czar in 1917..."

  • Pig Penned

    "...there I was jammed into a dirt pen with a 600 pound porcine..."

  • The Psychotic Kitchen

    "...the writhing, wailing, whining, flesh- aggrieved, chicken carcass..."

  • Waiting Room

    "...worry's weight heavy on neck and shoulders..."

  • Ike and Mike

    "...She was two and a half inches taller than I..."

  • Can of Worms

    "...There should be monuments to my father..."

  • Nostalgia

    "...This whole megillah is so PC...."

  • The Truth About Shadows

    "...she never captures a single shadow..."

  • The Truth About Wind

    "...imagined the wind on a California beach, ocean roar..."

  • The Truth About What Could Have Happened

    "...On the way to the bridge we pass birches, cedars, aspens, and evergreens..."

  • The Truth About Curveballs

    "...All she requires is a view..."

  • The Truth About Paper

    "...Never acts violated by the ink I smear..."

  • The Truth About Birds

    "...let a blanket of sky swaddle me in its splendor..."

  • M.Y.W.I.F.E.

    "...our first foray as a family to France..."

  • My Face

    "...Could the world endure two of me?.."

  • A Rising Starr

    "...Gear, he said. Fab, he said, and kept playing..."

  • Failing Up

    "...some casual sit-ups, maybe a knee bend before retiring to the snack bar..."

  • The Angler's Dilemma

    "...He must have lost his head..."

  • On Ignorant Design

    "...Thanatos has already spread his black wings..."

  • The Hearty Roar of Autumn

    "...wind that skitters leaves across boulevards and prairies..."

  • Standing Against Wyoming Wind

    "In Cheyenne there were no thoughts, only wind..."

  • Bring ‘Em Young

    "...Those jokers in university housing must have had a hoot..."

  • Fledgling

    "...anxious people often place in others their most feared feelings..."