The sun finally came out this week in Syracuse. I saw a daffodil today along the highway.
My poem “Wings Like Powerful Versions of Me” has been accepted by New South and I couldn’t be happier. Thanks Hank Backer and the other New South editors!
Author Archives: Christopher
Shortlisted for the 2015 Booth Poetry Prize
My Poem “Go On Take Another Little Piece of My Heart” has made the shortlist for the 2015 Booth Poetry Prize!
Thanks Robert Stapleton and the other Booth editors!
Salt Hill
I just received my contributor’s copies of Salt Hill 34, which contains my poem “You’re Welcome To the Rest.” Thanks so much Patrick Dundon, Jessica Poli and the other Salt Hill Editors!
Fairy Tale Review
Once upon a time in the kingdom of here, my two poems “Saving Myself (For Something)” and “We’re Actually Fabulous” have been accepted by Fairy Tale Review for The Ochre Issue due out next year. If this is a dream, I hope I don’t wake up.
Thank you Jon Riccio and the other Fairy Tale Review Editors!
The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy at Goodreads
The Greensboro Review
My poem “As If Hurtling” has been accepted for publication at The Greensboro Review. Thanks to Mackenzie Connellee (Poetry Editor) and the other Greensboro Review editors.
I’m teaching a poetry workshop this spring in Syracuse
I’m thrilled to announce that I will be teaching a poetry writing workshop called “Improving the Blank Page” this spring at The Downtown Writer’s Center in sunny Syracuse, NY.
Improving the Blank Page with Christopher Citro. Weds., 6:30-8:00. 8 weeks, starting April 8, 2015. Nicanor Parra once said, “In poetry, everything is permitted. With only this condition, of course: you have to improve on the blank page.” In this workshop, we’ll read and discuss contemporary poetry from a writer’s perspective and create fresh poems of our own. We’ll share new work based on prompts and exercises, and improve on a few blank pages along the way.
Registration is open to the public. To learn more about The Downtown Writer’s Center, download the spring class schedule, and register for this workshop, visit the Center’s website HERE. Feel free to share with anyone in the area who might be interested!
Witness
I’m excited to announce that my poem “Nerve Endings like Strawberry Runners” has been accepted for publication at Witness Magazine.
Thanks Poetry Editor Olivia Clare and the other Witness Editors!
I won this year’s Poetry Competition at Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art
I am floored, jazzed, honored and breathless to announce that my poem “So That’s What an Invisible Barrier Looks Like” has been selected by judge Beth Ann Fennelly to win this year’s Poetry Competition at Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art . It will appear in issue 53.
Thanks so much to the readers, to Carlie Hoffman (Poetry Editor) and to Beth Ann Fennelly!
The Hollins Critic
Today I received my contributor’s copies of The Hollins Critic, Vol. LII, No. I which contains my poem “Mostly It’s Me Taking” along with poetry by Richard Kostelantz and William Ford. This issue continues their survey of the work of Seymour Krim and reviews of recent books by Tarfia Faizullah, Judith Claire Mitchell, and Julie Marie Wade.
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Thank you Cathryn Hankla and the other Hollins Critic editors!