Author Archives: Christopher

Announcing my private writing workshops for late fall 2024!

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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 teaching again for the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing in 2025 and registration has OPENED!!

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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!

“Yonder” published at The Cincinnati Review!

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Yippee! “Yonder,” the collaborative poem that I wrote with Steve Castro and Dustin Pearson, just got published online at The Cincinnati Review, with accompanying audio of us 3 reading the poem (and some harmonica played by my darling Sarah)! Huge thanks to Kate Jayroe, Rebecca Lindenberg, Lisa Ampleman, and all at CR!

https://www.cincinnatireview.com/micro/micro-yonder-by-steve-castro-christopher-citro-and-dustin-pearson/

The Cincinnati Review accepted “Yonder” a prose poem I wrote collaboratively with Steve Castro and Dustin Pearson!

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Yippee! The Cincinnati Review just accepted “Yonder” a collaborative prose poem that I wrote with Steve Castro and Dustin Pearson. It’ll be published soon in their online miCRo series. Huge thanks to Kate Jayroe and all at CR!

Fugue has nominated my poem “In a Kingdom of Little Gusts and I Want Out” for Best of the Net!

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Wow! I just received a second Best of the Net 2024 nomination, this time for my poem “In a Kingdom of Little Gusts and I Want Out” published online by Fugue. Thank you again to Maggie Nipps, Reid Davis and everyone at Fugue Literary Journal! Here’s the link to read the poem:

https://fuguejournal.com/in-a-kingdom-of-little-gusts-and-i-want-out-citro

I happened to be working on an ekphrastic poem about Virgil Marti’s 1992 “Bullies Wallpaper” when the email came. Usually if I get an email while I’m writing a poem it’s a rejection from some literary magazine. This was a lovely surprise!

Announcing my private writing workshops for fall!

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Wednesdays 6-8 pm ET, I’m offering another session of my popular poetry workshop “In the Landscape of Contemporary Poetry.” The title is always the same but the readings, prompts, craft talks are always different, so you can take it again and again! We’ll read very recent poetry, I’ll provide original prompts to help inspire your new poems, we look at craft elements, we’ll workshop your poems. Writers at all levels are welcome! Class begins Wednesday September 11.

Thursdays 6-8 pm ET, I’m offering my also popular “Introduction to the Lyric Essay.” 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. 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. Class begins Thursday September 12.

Registration is now open, and it closes on Monday September 9.

Details & registration available at:

https://christophercitro.com/private-classes/

Register soon as spaces fill quickly! 😀