I’m delighted to share the news that my prose poem “Fetch Me That Jimson Weed” has been published today at Flash Flash Click, a new online journal and weekly email for flash fiction, prose poetry, and the like. This poem is from an old series of mine called The Little Book of Monsters. It’s set in Syracuse NY and Lawrence KS and everything in it is true. Click HERE to read. Thanks so much Siel Ju!
It’s snowing again here in sunny Syracuse…sigh…but that can’t ruin the pleasure of sharing the news that “Setting Things Around Me Free” – one of the collaborative prose poems I’ve been writing with Dustin Nightingale – has been accepted at Red Paint Hill Poetry Journal. Thanks so much Stephanie Bryant Anderson and Red Paint Hill Publishing!
I’m excited to be teaching a poetry writing workshop called “The River That Speaks” this spring at The Downtown Writer’s Center in sunny Syracuse, NY.
The River That Speaks with Christopher Citro. Thursdays, 6:00-8:00. 8 weeks, starting April 21. “Nearly to Milan, suddenly a small bridge,/And water kneeling in the moonlight.” (Robert Bly). In this workshop, we’ll discuss the Deep Image and contemporary poets for whom the image is central, using prompts drawn from our reading to create new poems of our own.
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 this workshop, visit the Center’s website HERE. Feel free to share with anyone in the area who might be interested!
I’m thrilled to announce that my poems “Holding My Head in Both My Hands” and “We Were Doing Fine and Then We Disappeared Completely” have just been published in volume 40.1 of The Journal. This wonderful issue also features poetry by J. Scott Brownlee, Jennifer L. Knox,Catherine Pond, Kevin Prufer and more, as well as fiction, nonfiction, an interview with Stuart Dybek and fantastic art by Boryana Rusenova-Ina. Thanks so much Mikko Harvey, Paige Quiñones, Willie VerSteeg, Zachary Leven, and Angela So!
Once upon a time, I received my contributor copies of Fairy Tale Review, and from the “This Book Belongs To: _____” on the first page to the “The End” on the last, it is a thing of dangerous and scintillating beauty. Bursting with poetry, nonfiction, stories, and art, The Ochre Issue contains my poems “Saving Myself (For Something)” and “We’re Actually Fabulous.” Thank you Jon Riccio, Joel Hans, and the other Fairy Tale Review two-headed lambs, kings, bears, queens, editors, goats, poor fisherfolk, glass dolls, lost children in the dark forest, etc.
Hi friends. My poem “Our Beautiful Life When It’s Filled with Shrieks” — a finalist for the 2015 Rattle Poetry Prize and published in issue 50 — has been posted today at Rattle.com for all to read. Go HERE to read the poem in full.
You can also listen to me perform the poem at a live reading I gave at The Downtown Writer’s Center here in Syracuse last October.
Thanks again Timothy Green and the rest of the Rattle crew!
On this frigid March morning it’s a joy to share the news that 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 been accepted for publication by Pool. Thank you Patty Seyburn & Judith Taylor!
Two of the collaborative prose poems I’ve been writing with Dustin Nightingale — “9 Lives and 8 Legs” and “In My Dreams I’m in a Small Capsule Spinning Free” — have been published today in Powder Keg issue 7. Plus there’s audio of us reading the poems together, which is a first for us. Head over HERE for a read and a listen! Thanks so much Editors Sarah Jean Grimm, Zoe Dzunko, and Rebecca Bates!
As the flowers begin their tentative, premature piercings of the frozen topsoil here in sunny Syracuse, tomorrow marks the one year anniversary of the publication of my first book of poetry, The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy. Thanks again to the wonderful poets who generously provided blurbs for my book: Erika Meitner, Catherine Bowman, Maurice Manning, and Amy Gerstler! Thank you to everyone who has read it, including those kind souls who have rated and reviewed it on Amazon, B&N, and Goodreads. It’s been a great year! If you’d like a copy, you can buy one from Amazon, Barnes and Noble Online, or direct from the publisher Steel Toe Books. If you’d like to request a review copy, just contact me directly. And thanks again for reading!
Hi friends. I’m thunderingly delighted to have received my contributor copies of Nothing to Declare: A Guide to the Flash Sequence published by White Pines Press. This anthology contains five prose poems from my ongoing sequence called The Little Book of Monsters. Its 300+ pages also contain sequences by a host of amazing poets and writers including Nin Andrews, Carol Guess, Gian Lombardo, F. Daniel Rzicznek, Julie Marie Wade, Gary Young, and Jim (yes, that Jim) Harrison. There are sequences of prose poems, flash fictions, lyric essays, fairy tales, koans, epistolary address, and other cross-genre work. Thank you editors Robert Alexander, Eric Braun, and Debra Marquart and the entire Marie Alexander Poetry Series team for creating this amazing anthology!