While I was on Martha’s Vineyard teaching this week, WPBS television in Central New York featured me reading my poem “You Can Keep Your Employee of the Month Award.” And the video is up on YouTube. Thank you WPBS! This poem is from my second book, If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun (Elixir Press, 2021)
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The Kenyon Review accepted my poem “Hawk Shadow Here to Help”
Friends! That sound you probably just heard was me yelling with delight at the news that The Kenyon Review has just accepted my poem “Hawk Shadow Here to Help.” Thank you thank you to Nicole Terez Dutton and everyone at KR! Oh…I’m about to start emoting again!
My poem “Red Birds the Size of Fists” has been published online in the new issue of Zone 3!
My poem “Red Birds the Size of Fists” has just been published online in the new issue of Zone 3! HUGE thank yous to Stephanie Dugger, Calie Benke, and everyone at Zone 3! This is my third appearance in this awesome journal.
https://zone3press.com/poetry-entries/red-birds-the-size-of-fists/
Another successful LiterarY Dinner last night!
Thank you to everyone who came out last night for the LiterarY Dinner to raise money for the Arts & Education Branch of the Syracuse YMCA, including The Downtown Writers Center. It was a joy to read my new poems alongside the awesome Elinor Cramer reading her poetry and the awesome Chris Cresswell playing his original songs! Thanks to the generosity of all who attended it was a very successful night’s fundraising!
My Poem “Sugar in the Gourd and the Gourd Upon the Ground” in Mid-American Review!
I’m thrilled to receive my contributor copy of Mid-American Review, with my poem “Sugar in the Gourd and the Gourd Upon the Ground,” along with a host of awesome fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Huge thanks to Megan Borocki, Abigail Cloud, and everyone at MAR! A wild turkey was gobbling at me from the woods while I took these photos. I think it could sense my excitement. 😀
An Emergency Every Day of the Week…
What a delightful surprise! Thank you to the folks at PoetryTaughtPoorly for making this lovely little video of my poem “An Emergency Every Day of the Week” from my second book.
My poem “Birds and Stars Suite” has been published online at Blackbird!
My long poem “Birds and Stars Suite” has just been published online in the new issue of Blackbird. I haven’t written longer poems in a long time, and this is one of the 3 that I wrote last year in a kind of new experiment. I’m delighted beyond measure that it found a home in Blackbird! Thank you again to everyone at Blackbird!!!
You can read the whole poem here:
https://blackbird.vcu.edu/birds-stars-suite/
My poem “Having Grown Inland I Can Make of Boats What I Wish” Published in Moon City Review!
What a joy to hold in my hands my contributor copy of Moon City Review 2024, which has my poem, “Having Grown Inland I Can Make of Boats What I Wish” a poem written on Martha’s Vineyard, sitting alone on the shore late one night. Thank you to Mike Czyzniejewki and everyone at MCR! The contributor list of this issue is FIRE! Get yourself a copy!
Announcing my Spring 2024 Private Virtual Writing Workshops
Announcing my SPRING 2024 poetry and creative nonfiction private online writing workshops!
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 April 3.
Thursdays 6-8 pm ET, I’m offering my also popular “Short-Form Creative Nonfiction.” Join me for this workshop in which we’ll read and discuss recent micro and flash nonfiction essays, using prompts I’ve written inspired by the readings to help motivate us to create new work! In this course, participants will write 2 micro essays and 2 flash essays. Writers at any level are welcome, including poets and fiction writers! Class begins Thursday April 4.
Registration is now open, and it closes on Sunday March 31.
Details & registration available at my website christophercitro dot com under “Private Classes” tab.
Register soon as spaces fill quickly!
My poem “When Our Grasses Seem Humming” accepted at Bennington Review!
Hot dog! My poem “When Our Grasses Seem Humming” has been accepted at Bennington Review! I am so thrilled that my poem will get to join the awesome awesome writing that they publish. Thank you Michael Dumanis and all at Bennington Review!