“I Haven’t Seen You in 13 Years and You Show Up Blind and So Do I” — A collaborative prose poem I wrote with Dustin Nightingale — has just been published at Barnstorm, complete with seriously awesome artwork (by Michael McConnell) and audio of me and Dustin reading the poem. Thanks a million poetry editors Stephen Brand & Katie Brunero!
Read & listen to the poem HERE.
Two of the collaborative prose poems I’ve been writing with Dustin Nightingale – “Raising the Titanic” and “I Think That Guy Came With a Violin On His Back and Wants To Play a Song” – have just been published in Elsewhere. It’s a pippin of an issue with new work by Jessica Hudgins,Kathleen McGookey, Andrew Michael Roberts, JD Scott, and Claudia Serea. Thank you to the elsewhere crew: Sam Thayn, Spencer Hyde, Zach T Power, and Lindsey Keller!
Read the poems HERE.
My poem “Otherwise Inexplicable Animation to the Forms Above” has just been published in The Collagist issue 86. Thank you to Marielle Prince, Gabriel Blackwell, and the rest of The Collagist crew!
Read the poem HERE.
On this sweltering afternoon in upstate New York it would be great to take a break and have a swim. In lieu of that, here are three poems that have just been published today online in Public Pool. (Along with a photo of a train in the snow.)
Read the poems HERE.
My prose poem “I Haven’t Seen You in 13 Years and You Show Up Blind and So Do I” — written collaboratively with Dustin Nightingale — has been accepted at Barnstorm. Thank you Poetry Editors Stephen Brand & Katie Brunero!
Dear Friends. Happy Labor Day! My poem “The Mutual Building” – first published in Rattle Issue 52 – has been posted online today for your literary delectation. It includes audio of me reading the poem here in Syracuse last year at The Downtown Writer’s Center. A winter poem at the end of summer.
Read the poem HERE.
Friends! I’m thoroughly jazzed to announce that I’ve been invited to read at Kent State University on October 5.
This event is a reading and discussion of the flash fiction/prose poem/flash nonfiction linked sequence. I’ll be reading/discussing along with Nin Andrews, F. Daniel Rzicznek, Kathleen McGookey, Lucas Southworth and Molly Fuller, some of my fellow contributors to Nothing to Declare: A Guide to the Flash Sequence (White Pines Press, 2016). It’s open to the public and should be a gas. If you’re in the area, swing on by!
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Reading by and discussion from contributors to Nothing to Declare: Flash Fiction Sequences:
Nin Andrews, F. Daniel Rzicznek, Kathleen McGookey, Lucas Southworth, Molly Fuller, and Christopher Citro
Nothing to Declare: Flash Fiction Sequences (White Pine Press/Marie Alexander Series, 2016) is the first anthology of this emerging hybrid form. Part prose poetry, micro fiction, or flash fiction, and often a collage of more than one, the flash fiction sequences laces together various stand alone pieces of writing into related larger works.
Reading and discussion will take place at Kent State University; room to be announced.
Co-sponsored by the NEOMFA and the Wick Poetry Center.
I’m delighted to share the news that three of my poems — “A Mud Puddle Shaped Mud Puddle,” “Lunch Hour Is an Hour of Our Lives,” and “The Stars Are Out and They’re Trying To Get Your Attention” — have just been published online in the venerable Pool: A Journal of Poetry. Thanks so much Editors Patty Seyburn & Judith Taylor. Dive on in!
Read the poems HERE.
Waking up with a sore throat today was a drag. The beautiful rain was a consolation. Getting my poem “Save the Receipts For a Kind of Diary” accepted at Hayden’s Ferry Review was a great big consolation.
I’m thrilled to be teaching a poetry writing workshop called “The Voices of the Poet” this fall at The Downtown Writer’s Center in sunny Syracuse, NY. If you’re in the area come on down!
The Voices of the Poet with Christopher Citro. Wednesdays, 6:00-8:00. 8 weeks, starting October 12. “Each time my heart is broken it makes me feel more adventurous,” wrote Frank O’Hara. In this workshop, we’ll use the influential New York School poets as a jumping off point for a focus on effective use of voice in our writing. We’ll use prompts drawn from our readings to help us continue the adventure of creating new poems.
Registration is inexpensive and open to the public. To learn more about The Downtown Writer’s Center, download the fall class schedule, and register for this workshop, visit the Center’s website HERE. Feel free to share with anyone who might be interested!