Author Archives: Christopher

I’m teaching and reading on Martha’s Vineyard Jan 25 & 26, 2019

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I’m delighted to announce that I’ll be traveling to Martha’s Vineyard in a few weeks to offer a creative writing class on the lyric essay and to give a poetry reading – as part of the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing Year-Round Visiting Writers Series. Both the class and reading are free and open to the public. If you’re in the area come on by!

The Year-Round Visiting Writers Series highlights local and national writers and offers free creative writing workshops and readings to the Vineyard community.

Learn more here: http://oakbluffslibrary.org/event/mvicw-writing-series-the-poetic-essay-writing-seminar/

2 Poems Accepted at Sixth Finch!

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Delighted to receive the news that my poems “And Can Digest as Much” and “Craters the Naturally Forming Basins” have just been accepted at Sixth Finch! It’s so great to have work forthcoming again in one of my favorite journals–they were good enough to publish my poem “The Sweet of Being Made Right” in the winter 2016 issue.
(I thought I’d post the photograph that inspired one of the poems, from a weekend Adirondack cabin getaway last winter. You’ll have to imagine the sound of massive trees popping in the frigid cold yourself.)

I’m Teaching a Poetry Workshop This Winter at The Downtown Writer’s Center in Syracuse NY

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I’m excited to announce that I’ll be teaching an 8-week poetry writing workshop called “In the Landscape of Contemporary Poetry” starting January 23, 2019 at The Downtown Writer’s Center in sunny Syracuse, NY. I teach this workshop every winter session, and the readings are all new every year. If you’re in the area come on down!

In the Landscape of Contemporary Poetry with Christopher Citro. Wednesdays, 6:00 – 8:00. 8 weeks, starting January 23. “You grow to love the creatures you create/ some of them come out with pupils swirling/ others with teeth” writes Kaveh Akbar in his 2017 book Calling a Wolf a Wolf. In this regular winter session workshop, with all different readings each year, we’ll discuss poetry from recent books and journals, then use prompts from our readings to inspire us in the creation of our own darling poetic creatures.

Registration is inexpensive and open to the public. To learn more about The Downtown Writer’s Center, download the winter class schedule, and register for this workshop, visit the Center’s website HERE. Feel free to share with anyone who might be interested!

Gullier

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Although my second poetry book manuscript, Gullier, has yet to find a home, it was gratifying to receive a recent rejection from Copper Canyon informing me they admired it, that the “manuscript was strong and made it through several rounds of review.” With the list of other places the manuscript has so far found a little love, it gives me hope that someday…

Georgia Poetry Prize (one of 9 finalists)
Sarabande Kathryn A. Morton Prize (one of 15 finalists)
Milkweed (“read attentively and with much interest”)
Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize U of Utah (one of 16 semi-finalists)
Pleiades Press Editors prize (semi-finalist)
Octopus Books (second round of consideration)
Black Lawrence Press (“read with interest”)
Brittingham & Pollak Prizes/U of Wisconsin Press (strong semi-finalist)
New Measure / Free Verse / Parlor Press (“admired”)
Tupelo Press (“truly enjoyed reading your work”)

My poems “Sneaking Back Inside” and “We Live on a Foreign Planet this One” Published in cream city review!

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What a thrill to hold my contributor copy of the new cream city review, which contains my poems “Sneaking Back Inside” and “We Live on a Foreign Planet this One,” alongside luminous new work by such bright lights as Adam Day, Virginia Konchan, Lisa Low, Saara Myrene Raappana, Karen Weyant, John Sibley Williams, and Brenna Womer. Thanks so much Alessandra Rolffs, Ae Hee Lee, Caleb Nelson, and the rest of the CCR staff!

“Yesterday I Saw a Small Snake Holding Still” in The Massachusetts Review!

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On this rainy October morning, I’m delighted to have received my contributor’s copy of The Massachusetts Review, which contains my poem “Yesterday I Saw a Small Snake Holding Still” in addition to work from such wonderfuls as Chen Chen, Leah Poole Osowski, Emma Bolden, Dennis Finnell, Christopher Kondrich, Michael Hurley, to name but a few. Thank you so much to Ellen Doré Watson, Deborah Gorlin, Emily Wojcik, and the rest of the MR crew!