The Inflectionist Review just published two collaborative prose poems that Steve Castro, Dustin Pearson, and I wrote together, “Forgotten Village” and “Bright Sides and Glass.” Please visit https://www.inflectionism.com/ to read them along with all the amazing writing in this new issue! Huge thanks to Editors Anatoly Molotkov & John Sibley Williams!
A dream come true publication! ❤️The Kenyon Review just sent my contributor copy with my poem “Hawk Shadow Here to Help.” I took the magazine outside to show the hawks but I think they’re all down in Miami Beach until the sun comes back. 🙏 Thank you to everyone at the Kenyon Review!
You can also read it online at KR here: https://kenyonreview.org/piece/hawk-shadow-here-to-help/
The North American Review just accepted my poem “In Bed with Green Gels.” This will be my third appearance in the awesome magazine! HUGE thanks to Editor Jeremy Schraffenberger. This dark, gray Syracuse “day” just got considerably brighter. 🌞
My poem “Come In Go Ahead Say Again” was just published today online at The Normal School. Massive thank you to Angelina Leanos and all the wonderful folks at The Normal School!
2 journal acceptances yesterday! If you write collaboratively with the likes of Steve Castro and Dustin Pearson, I suppose it shouldn’t come as a shock but really…Holy moly!! Heavy Feather Review has accepted “Placatory Congregation” (thank you Bill Lessard!) and The Boiler has accepted “Smoke Moving Out of the Way as It Rises” (thank you Diana Cao & Todd Dillard)!
Diode has just published two collaborative poems that Steve Castro, Dustin Pearson, and I wrote together. Please visit http://diodepoetry.com/castro_pearson_citro/ to read them! Huge thanks to Patty Paine and the whole Diode crew!
In the Landscape of Contemporary Poetry. Wednesdays, 6:00-8:00 p.m. ET. 6 weeks, starting December 4. We’ll read recently published poetry from literary journals and books, generate new poems with the help of prompts that I create, and spend the bulk of each class in a fun, inspiring poetry workshop. In this course participants will write and receive workshop comments on five original poems. Writers at all levels are welcome. I teach In the Landscape of Contemporary Poetry often, and every time the readings are all new, so you can take it again and again!
Creative Nonfiction Workshop. Thursdays, 6:00-8:00 p.m. ET. 6 weeks, starting December 5. In this class I’ll provide craft talks, original writing prompts, and we’ll take recent literary essays apart to see how the writers achieved their astonishing effects. Then we’ll workshop creative nonfiction essays (micros, flash or full-length up to 4,000 words – all are welcome!). I teach this class often, and the readings are always different. If you’ve taken it before you can always take it again and the class content will be new. Writers at all levels are welcome!
Registration is now open, and it closes on Sunday December 1.
Details & registration available at: https://christophercitro.com/private-classes/
Register soon as spaces fill quickly!
I’m delighted to announce that I’ll be returning as a faculty member for next summer’s Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing and registration has OPENED! There are two 1-week sessions available (I’m teaching during the first week). Do something nice for yourself, and register to join us on the Vineyard next summer for a writing extravaganza!
Wow! The Normal School just accepted my poem “Come In Go Ahead Say Again.” Thanks so much Angelina Leanos and everyone at The Normal School. Instead of my spaceman costume, I think I’ll be greeting trick-or-treaters tonight as a Super-Happy Poet!
Yippee! My collaborative poems “Avalon at the End of the Alley” and “Earthly Imagination” — written with Dustin Pearson and Steve Castro — have just been accepted at Diode! Massive thank you to Patty Paine!