Thank you to The Boiler Journal for accepting “Brush Aside the Noise with Locks of Matted Hair” – another collaborative prose poem written with Dustin Nightingale!
Author Archives: Christopher
“He Must Have Gone To Sleep Eventually” in The Southampton Review
The newest issue of The Southampton Review contains my poem “He Must Have Gone To Sleep Eventually.” With a special section on Food & Wine, this is a seriously sumptuous issue full of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and tons of art, photography, and cartoons. I want to eat this magazine. Thank you to Emily Smith Gilbert, Lou Ann Walker, and the other TSR readers and editors!
2 Collaborations Accepted at Horsethief
Seriously dazzled to have “My Markings Easily Recognizable Even In a Windstorm” and “Sometimes You Walk Around and Get Decapitated” — 2 collaborative prose poems written with Dustin Nightingale — accepted at Horsethief. Yeehaw!
“I Fear We Have Made a Terrible Mistake” Accepted at Two Peach
Great big summertime thank yous to the editors of Two Peach for accepting “I Fear We Have Made a Terrible Mistake” — another in the series of collaborative prose poems I’ve been writing with Dustin Nightingale.
Profiled for CNY Books & Authors on Syracuse.com
When it rains it pours! This profile of me has just been published on Syracuse.com’s CNY Books & Authors column and will appear in the Syracuse Post-Standard‘s Sunday print edition Empire Magazine on either the 4th or the 11th. Thank you to author Casey Rose Frank for reaching out and for writing such a generous piece about me and my poetry
Interviewed in Folio v31 Spring 2016
I’m thrilled and honored to share the news that a full-length interview with me has just been published in the new issue of FOLIO, the literary magazine at American University. At 7 pages it’s the longest interview that I’ve ever done, and I want to thank Editor-in-Chief Kangsen Feka Wakai for his thoughtful and stimulating questions. The interview appears in Issue 31 (Spring 2016), which is focused on the Surreal and Fantastical, and some of the questions address my first poetry book published last year by Steel Toe Books, The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy. This issue’s other interview is with Alberto Rios! You can grab a copy of the journal for $8 HERE.
The Doll Collection
Thank you to Luanne Castle for this comment about my poem in The Doll Collection anthology:
“The poems are stunning. I wish I had written Christopher Citro’s ‘The Secret Lives of Little Girls.’ I’m achingly jealous of it.”
You can read her entire Goodreads review of the anthology, edited by Diane Lockward and published by Terrapin Books, HERE.
And you can snag a copy of the anthology in print or Kindle HERE.
“The Mutual Building” in Rattle 52
I’m jazzed and delighted to have just received my contributor copy of Rattle issue 52, which contains my poem “The Mutual Building,” inspired by the MONY building in Syracuse, sitting in a newly opened Tim Hortons downtown, and the arrival of a particularly absurd blizzard. This issue features a tribute to poetry by Angelenos, and there are young and shiny poems by such as Tiana Clark, Jenn Givhan, Robert Nazarene, Alexis Rhone Fancher, Ruth Madievsky, Charles Harper Webb, Cecilia Woloch, and many more. Thank you Editor Timothy Green!
“Staring Out a Window, Echoing the Actual Moon” on “Kurt Reads a Poem”
Thank you to Kurt Milberger for a charming reading of “Staring Out a Window, Echoing the Actual Moon” on his “Kurt Reads a Poem” YouTube channel. That was a fun surprise to find. This collaborative prose poem, written with Dustin Nightingale, was recently published in DIAGRAM 16.2.
Click HERE to watch.
“What Ample Feels Like” Accepted at Bayou Magazine
A great Big Easy thank you to the editors of The University of New Orleans’ Bayou Magazine for accepting “What Ample Feels Like,” another collaborative prose poem in the series I’ve been writing with Dustin Nightingale.