It’s gratifying to learn that my poem, “It’s Something People in Love Do,” has been named a finalist for the 2018 Wolverine Farm Poetry Broadside Prize. Congratulations to the winner, Derek Mong, and to the other finalists!
This poem of mine appears in this year’s Pushcart Prize Anthology and you can read it here.
The new issue of DecomP is out and it’s so good. I’m not biased, being the Poetry Editor. But seriously. Robert James Russell, Kimberly Burwick, Robert Wrigley, Liz Clift, to name but a few! Plus it’s our 14th anniversary issue. Happy birthday to us!
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It’s an honor and a joy to share the news that I’ve just received my contributor copy of the new Alaska Quarterly Review, which contains my three poems “In Small Significant Ways We Are Horses,” “To Keep At Least Partially In the Air,” and “We Are Many People Some Okay.” What a delight to share this issue with such amazing writers as Hananah Zaheer Bajwa, Sarah Barber, Matthew Minicucci, Mark Wagenaar, Bruce Cohen, G. C. Waldrep, Blas Falconer, Alyse Knorr, and so many others! Thank you so much to Ronald Spatz and the rest of the AQR crew!
My lyric essay “Root That Mountain” has been accepted for publication at The Florida Review. This essay is from a series I recently completed on the four classical elements. It’s the dirt essay. Yay dirt! Here’s the song that inspired the title:
I’m delighted to share the news that my poem “To the Dirt Which in Time Will Consume Us All” has just been published over at Narrative Magazine! You can read the poem HERE (logging in is required to read the poem in its entirely, but it’s completely free to do so!) Thank you so much Jack, Carol, Tom, and the rest of the staff at Narrative!
Howdy friends. I’m delighted to share the news that I’ll be teaching an eight-week poetry workshop called “Welcoming Surprises” this spring at The Downtown Writer’s Center in sunny Syracuse (see class description below). Registration is inexpensive and open to the public. To learn more about The Downtown Writer’s Center, download the spring class schedule, and register for these workshops, visit the Center’s website below. Feel free to share with anyone who might be interested!
Welcoming Surprises with Christopher Citro. Wednesdays, 6:00-8:00. 8 weeks, starting April 18. In this workshop, we’ll discuss poetry that incorporates leaps, turns, and the unexpected. We’ll use prompts and exercises drawn from our readings to inspire new writing that helps us break out of our ruts and embrace fresh discoveries.
I’m thrilled to share the news that my poem “Yesterday I Saw a Small Snake Holding Still” has been accepted for publication in The Massachusetts Review! I thought I’d share the photograph that inspired the title–a small ringneck snake I encountered on the Onondaga Community College campus last autumn. (Apologies to any ophidiophobics out there.)
I’m delighted to announce that I’ll be returning this year for my sixth summer teaching at the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. I’ll be there for Week 1 (June 10-16), during which I’ll conduct seminars on “The Voices of the Poet” and “The Lyric Essay.”
My fellow week one faculty includes Alexander Weinstein, Samantha Tetangco, Randi Beck, and Phong Nguyen. The second week’s faculty includes Alexander Weinstein, Amelia Martens, Britton Shurley, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Kea Wilson.
Click HERE to register for both or either weeks, learn about financial aid opportunities and fellowships (Parent Writers deadline April 21 & Voices of Color deadline March 20), and to enter this year’s contest (deadline March 31).
Come join us on the island!
Over-the-moon to receive my contributor copies of Passages North No. 39, which contains my poem “One Push on Top Is All it Takes.” I can’t wait to settle in and explore this amazing issue, packed with the likes of such favorites as Stephanie Bryant Anderson, Cortney Lamar Charleston, Leila Chatti, Jessica Cuello, Chelsea Hrechuk Dingman, Norman Dubie, Meghan Lamb, Kyle McCord, Anne Panning, Jericho Parms, and S. Jane Sloat to name a few.
It’s a special treat to be published in Passages North a second time, since they were kind enough to give my lyric essay “Each Breeze Began Life Somewhere As a Little Cough” a home last year as online Bonus Content.
Huge thank yous to Patricia Killelea, Willow Grosz and the rest of PN’s editors and readers!
I’m honored and delighted that the manuscript of my second book of poems — the newest version, just a few months old — has been named a finalist for the Georgia Poetry Prize from The University of Georgia Press. Huge congratulations to the winner Rosa Lane, to the runner-up Samuel Amadon, and to the other finalists.