A ray of sunlight arrived today with my contributor copy of the new Tampa Review, which has my poem “Threads Braided and Those Braids Twisted.” Such a beautiful volume filled with awesome poetry, fiction, and nonfiction! Thanks so much again Jodi Johnson, Paul Corrigan, Yuly Restrepo Garcés & the whole Tampa Review crew!
I raise my clogged head from my cold-induced torpor to… CELEBRATE the new issue of Diode which has 2 of my poems: “The Body the Fact of It” & “Great the Light Failing Again” alongside a stellar line-up of awesome poets! Thank you again Patty Paine and everyone who helps make Diode. *cough cough* Where’s the orange juice? *cough cough*
http://diodepoetry.com/citro_christopher-2/
Delighted to have just received the wonderful news that Zone 3 has accepted my poem, “Red Birds the Size of Fists.” Thanksgiving has arrived early. HUGE thank you to Stephanie Dugger and everyone at Zone 3! This will be my third appearance in this awesome journal.
Thrilled to receive my copy of the new Colorado Review with my poems “Night But Unlike Night” and “Peel the Black Walnut Bark Like Small Fists in Our Fists.” These poems mean a lot to me, and I think of them as a pair. I could not be more delighted that they found their home in CR, a journal close to my heart and which has been kind enough to publish a lyric essay of mine and two other poems before. Thank you Matthew Cooperman, Lauren Furman, Cecil Janecek, Stephanie G’Schwind, and everyone with a hand in making the always awesome Colorado Review!
Wow!! Blackbird just accepted my poem “Birds and Stars Suite.” This is one of the long poems that I’ve been writing since the summer, and it’s a great shot in the arm to have this validation of my new experimentation. Thank you thank you thank you to Caroline Richards and everyone at Blackbird! This will be my second appearance in Blackbird, and I’m celebrating as jubilantly as that first one!
Friends! Announcing my late fall poetry workshop: “In the Landscape of Contemporary Poetry.” Warm up your end-of-year writing with my popular 6-week combination generative, craft, and workshop class via Zoom, with entirely new readings, prompts, and craft talks every time I teach it. Registration is now open. And it closes November 13. Class begins Wednesday November 15. Join us!
😀 Details & registration available http://christophercitro.com/private-classes/. Register soon as spaces fill quickly! 😀
I’ve been a fan of Conduit for soooo long. To hold my contributor copy in my hand, which contains my poem “How the Sun Got Crushed That One Monday”–it’s such a joy of joys. Thank you everyone at Conduit, who crushes it with every issue.
“I love you. I want us both to eat well.” 😀
Here’s the video of me reading my poem “Our Beautiful Life When It’s Filled with Shrieks” which was broadcast 2 days ago on WPBS Weekly: Inside the Stories. I hope you enjoy it!
Delighted to receive the news on this rainy autumn Saturday that Diode has accepted my poems “The Body the Fact of It” and “Great the Light Failing Again.” Thank you to Patty Paine and the whole Diode crew!
I’m delighted to share the news that Fugue just published online my poem “In a Kingdom of Little Gusts and I Want Out.” This poem is particularly close to my heart. I hope you enjoy it. Thankyouthankyouthankyou to Maggie Nipps, Reid Davis and everyone at Fugue!
https://fuguejournal.com/in-a-kingdom-of-little-gusts-and-i-want-out-citro