How wonderful! Post Road has accepted my poems “Meanwhile Everything Else Is Gone” and “Kicking the Mud Free.” Thank you so much to Okwudili Nebeolisa and everyone at Post Road Magazine!
2 Poems Accepted at Post Road Magazine!
Author Archives: Christopher
Signing the colophon for my new collaborative chapbook from Aureole Press!
Hot golly! What a pleasure to be signing the colophon pages for our new collaborative chapbook, “The Box We Put the World in to Keep a Corner from Shattering,” which I wrote with the awesome poets Dustin Pearson and Steve Castro! Thank you Timothy Geiger and Aureole Press for letterpress printing this beautiful object!
Watching my next chapbook get made!?!
Wow! Never before have I been able to watch a book of mine actually get made!?! Enjoy this footage of poet Timothy Geiger, founder and proprietor of Aureole Press (at the University of Toledo), hand letterpressing the title page of The Box We Put the World in to Keep a Corner from Shattering, the forthcoming collaborative chapbook I wrote with Steve Castro and Dustin Pearson. Thank you for sharing this Dustin! And thank you Timothy for being such an artist! 🙌
Thank you Columbia Daily Tribune!
Thank you to the Columbia Daily Tribune for including me among the 15 authors you wrote about for next week’s Unbound Book Festival in Columbia, Missouri! What a lovely surprise!
Announcing my spring creative writing workshops!
Announcing my SPRING 2025 poetry and creative nonfiction private online writing workshops!
On Wednesdays, I’ll teach “In the Landscape of Contemporary Poetry” 6:00-8:00 p.m. ET, 6 weeks, starting April 16. 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!
On Thursdays, I’m offering my also popular combination generative and workshop class “Introduction to the Lyric Essay” 6:00-8:00 p.m. ET, 6 weeks, starting April 17. This workshop will usher you into the wild and liberating world of the lyric essay, a popular form of the contemporary experimental creative nonfiction essay. This class is made for both writers who are new to lyric essays and writers wishing to deepen their relationship with lyric essays. If you are a nonfiction writer wanting to engage with this popular form, this is the class for you! If you are a poet wanting to branch out into a new genre, this is the class for you! If you have never written creative nonfiction before, this is the class for you! Writers at all levels are welcome.
Registration is now open, and it closes on Sunday April 13.
😀 Details & registration available http://christophercitro.com/private-classes/. Register soon as spaces fill quickly! 😀
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I’m part of Unbound Book Festival this April in Columbia, Missouri!
I’m delighted to be a part of the 10th anniversary Unbound Book Festival April 17-20, 2025 in Columbia, Missouri! I’ll be presenting on 2 panels, one on birds and one on coffee. I’m writing a coffee poem specially for the festival. So many awesome authors will be presenting, make your plans now to come on and join us!
https://www.unboundbookfestival.com/
Cream City Review accepted “On a Planet of Gas and Dust and Smoky Mountains, Bird Calls”
Thrilled to receive the news that Cream City Review has accepted “On a Planet of Gas and Dust and Smoky Mountains, Bird Calls” a collaborative prose poem that Dustin Pearson, Steve Castro, and I wrote together! Thank you CCR!
Invisible Strings Poetry Reading Available on North American Review’s YouTube!
The North American Review has just posted to their YouTube channel the video of Tuesday’s reading by poets who have been published in NAR and are also in the anthology Invisible Strings 113 Poets Respond to the Songs of Taylor Swift! Enjoy a buncha awesome poets (and me!) reading a buncha awesome poems, so many of them love poems…
“Placatory Congregation” Published in Heavy Feather Review!
Yippee! Heavy Feather Review just published “Placatory Congregation,” a collaborative prose poem that Steve Castro, Dustin Pearson, and I wrote together. Huge thanks to Editors Bill Lessard, Jason Teal, and everyone who makes HFR so awesome!
Read the poem here:
https://heavyfeatherreview.org/2025/02/05/placatory-congregation/
Announcing my private writing workshops for Winter 2025!
In the Landscape of Contemporary Poetry. Wednesdays, 6:00-8:00 p.m. ET. 6 weeks, starting February 19. 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!
Short-Form Creative Nonfiction Workshop. Thursdays, 6:00-8:00 p.m. ET. 6 weeks, starting February 20. In this class I’ll provide craft talks, original writing prompts, and we’ll take recent micro and flash literary essays apart to see how the writers achieved their astonishing effects in condensed forms. Then we’ll workshop your own short-form creative nonfiction essays. 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 any level are welcome, including poets and fiction writers!
Registration is now open, and it closes on Sunday February 16.
Details & registration available at: https://christophercitro.com/private-classes/
Register soon as spaces fill quickly!