This summer’s virtual Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing is underway this week! Today I’m delighted to be teaching my Introduction to the Lyric Essay class! Wonderful opening ceremony last night, with readings by Leonard A Slade Jr. and Alexander Weinstein. Skål!
I’m reading from my new poetry book, If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun, Wednesday June 9 from 6-7 EDT and anyone can attend the reading! Just register for your free Zoom link via the bit.ly address in this image. My reading is part of next week’s virtual Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, where I’m also teaching. You don’t have to be attending the Institute to attend the reading though! It’s open to the public. Plus you get to hear the awesome Matthew Gavin Frank! Come on by!
The new online issue of West Branch appears today, and among the wealth of wonderfulness, it contains my three poems, “If Alone Has a Flavor,” “Quartered Suns,” and “That’s Me When That’s You.” Thank you Joseph Scapellato, Andrew Ciotola, and the rest of the West Branch Magazine crew! I’m so delighted to have these poems appear here!!!
https://westbranch.blogs.bucknell.edu/christopher-citro/05/2021/
My book, If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun, winner of Elixir Press’ Antivenom Poetry Award, is one month old! 🍋🌞 I just posted another batch of signed copies. If you’d like one of your own, you can order a signed copy HERE. Thank you to everyone who has ordered a signed copy, or bought one from Amazon, Small Press Distribution, Bookshop.org! Huge thanks to everyone who has rated and reviewed it on Goodreads and Amazon! My book and I are purring with gratitude. ❤❤❤
The video of yesterday’s “Hybrid Forms Collaborations — Reading and Discussion” event is now available. Dustin Nightingale and I read some of our collaborative prose poems (for the first time ever live!), along with awesome readings by Aimee Parkison & Carol Guess and (hosts) Meg Pokrass & Jeff Friedman. Plus there’s an inspiring Q & A. Yay collaborative writing! 😀😀
What a total delight Dustin Nightingale and I had this evening reading our collaborative poetry alongside awesome collaborative duos Aimee Parkison & Carol Guess and (hosts) Meg Pokrass & Jeff Friedman, as part of the “Hybrid Forms Collaborations — Reading and Discussion.” Thank you Meg for inviting us, and thank you to all the great folks who attended the reading and discussion!
It was a delight to have my prompt, “Traveling Toward a Poem,” and my poem “One Light in a Field of Other Lights” used as part of the Syracuse Airport’s POETRY IN FLIGHT poem contest for April. The contest is now closed. On April 16 they posted on twitter this cool gif/video they made from my poem.
Registration has just opened for this summer’s virtual Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing June 6-13! It’s gonna be a blast! I’m teaching there along with a bunch of other awesome writers. Come join us! 😀
Thank you New Pages for featuring my new poetry book, If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun, on today’s installment of their Books Stand’s New & Noteworthy! My book, which won Elixir Press’ Antivenom Poetry Award, is three weeks old today! 😀 Go HERE if you want to buy a signed copy. Copies are also available at Small Press Distribution, Amazon, and at Bookshop.org. 🍋🌞
On May 1st Dustin Nightingale and I will be reading/discussing our poetry collaborations as part of a collaborative writing Zoom event with Aimee Parkison & Carol Guess and hosts Meg Pokrass & Jeff Friedman. We’ve never done a collaborative reading, and we’re really excited about this!
Join us!
Email Meg for the Zoom link at megpokrass(at)gmail(dot)com.
Here’s the Facebook Event page.