I’m delighted to share the news that my book, If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun, has been nominated for this year’s CNY Book Award for poetry. Congrats to all the other nominees!
I’m teaching an online 8-session (Thurs 6-8:00 pm ET) contemporary world poetry seminar starting October 6 for the Downtown Writers Center. Join me Thursday evenings for a fun, inspiring tour of what poets all around the world are doing these days. All readings will be in English. No prior knowledge is required! Registration is inexpensive and open to the public. You can register with a credit card by calling (315) 474-6851 x380.
To learn more about The Downtown Writer’s Center and download the autumn class schedule, with all of their awesome class offerings, visit the Center’s website: https://ymcacny.org/creative-writing-workshops.
Oh my goodness!!! Thank you Esteban Rodríguez & Tupelo Quarterly for this luminous review of my book If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun. To be read with such sensitivity, generosity, and insight! My poems and I bow deeply in thanks! And now we reach for a box of tissues (and make really loud blowing noises)… 😀❤️😭
WoW! What a wonderful time last night reading my new poem for Whitman on Walls at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse! What an amazing group of fellow readers and performers! Thank you to Karin Coonrod & Compagnia de’ Colombari!
Howdy! I’m teaching 2 private fall Zoom workshops starting in September: my basic poetry workshop “In the Landscape of Contemporary Poetry” (always new readings each time I teach it) & “The Lyric Essay,” my popular workshop on this exciting Creative Nonfiction genre. Supercharge your writing this fall! Join us! 😀 Register soon as spaces fill quickly! 😀
Details & registration available at http://christophercitro.com/private-classes/.
Syracuse-area friends! I’m reading a newly comissioned poem next Thursday Aug 18, 2022, as part of Whitman on Walls, a fun film and poetry event at the Everson Museum of Art. Come by, bring a lawn chair, enjoy a food cart dinner, and listen as local poets respond to short films inspired by “Song of Myself.” Yes yes!
I’m delighted to announce that I’m this year’s final judge for the 23rd Annual Poetry Award at Elixir Press! I’m so excited to read your manuscript and help a new poetry book come into the world!
Entries accepted from Aug 1 to Oct 31. The prize is $2,000 and publication of your poetry book! For details & to enter, visit: http://elixirpress.com/guidelines/annual-poetry-awards
Note: close friends, students, and former students of the final judges or editors of Elixir Press are ineligible. 😀
CutBank has just published online 2 of my collaborative prose poems written with Dustin Nightingale: “A Crumb of Wind” and “Here Beside Us with Us.” Thank you so much Luke Larkin & all the awesome folk at CutBank! Dustin & I are thrilled that our poems have found a home there!
Read ‘em here: http://www.cutbankonline.org/weekly-flash-prose-and-prose-poetry/2022/7/two-poems-by-christopher-citro-amp-dustin-nightingale
I’m deee-lighted to share the news that Sweet: A Literary Confection has accepted my poems “It’s Only Me the Toyota with the Bungeed Muffler” and “I Want To Reach Out and Hold Your Reach Out.” Huge thank you to Chelsea Dingman and all the good folks at Sweet. I’m having a great big scoop of chocolate ice cream this morning to celebrate!
What lovely news! Terrain.org has accepted my poems “Birds Come in Two Basic Sizes” and “Fugus Beneath the Bark, Oil.” Thank you to Simmons Buntin and the whole Terrain.org crew!
Do yourself a favor today and listen to the 6 Arthur Sze poems they published this March! 😀
https://www.terrain.org/2022/poetry/arthur-sze-2/
