The good folks at the minnesota review have just nominated my poem “Sword Swallowers in Transition” for a 2013 Pushcart Prize. It appeared earlier this year in issue 80.
Thank you editors of the minnesota review!
The good folks at the minnesota review have just nominated my poem “Sword Swallowers in Transition” for a 2013 Pushcart Prize. It appeared earlier this year in issue 80.
Thank you editors of the minnesota review!
The editors at Salamander have made my short poem “Kindling Me” from the summer 2013 issue (V18 N2) available online in its entirety. The poem is supposed to be in couplets, but otherwise it’s okey-dokey.
You can read the poem HERE.
Thanks Salamander!
The good folks at New Pages have singled out my poem “Creation Myth” for mention in their new review of Prairie Schooner‘s Fall 2013 Issue (Vol. 83 Issue 3). Here are the kind words that reviewer Kenneth Nichols has to say:
Christopher Citro’s poem “Creation Myth” includes a number of powerful images. The narrator begins by describing a rural scene: “Overgrown weeds had hidden the car until / the brushfire revealed it. Once the doors cooled, / neighborhood kids came to investigate . . .” The car is occupied by a man and woman in formalwear. Those children receive a potent lesson in a few different kinds of “creation.” Citro’s poem distinguishes itself with the strength of the imagery and the interesting way in which Citro allows the reader to slide into the perspective of Timmy, one of the children whose understanding of the world is being changed by what he sees.
You can read the rest of the review HERE, along with reviews of current issues of Ploughshares, The MacGuffin, Green Mountains Review, Indiana Review, Willows Springs, and more.
You can read the whole poem, which Prairie Schooner made available online, HERE.
Thank you Kenneth Nichols and New Pages!
My poem “Back From the Edge of Hunger” has just been published in Third Coast‘s Fall 2013 issue. I’m elated to be part of this gorgeous issue.
Thanks Third Coast editors!
Two of my poems have been chosen to be part of the juried visual art and poetry show Trees: Symbols of Powerful Experience in the gallery at The Tech Garden here in Syracuse, NY. The show is curated by artist-in-residence Maria Rizzo.
My chosen poems are “Our Apple Trees” (first published as a broadside by Thrush Press) and “Kindling Me” (first published in Salamander).
The opening ceremony, including food, live music and awards, will be from 5-8 pm on November 21, 2013. The full exhibition runs from November 14 to December 31, 2013, Monday through Friday from 9 am to 4 pm.
Thank you Maria Rizzo and Poetry Juror Lindsey Bellosa!
Article at Syracuse.com, November 5, 2013
My poem “Mostly It’s Me Taking” has just been accepted by The Hollins Critic for an upcoming issue. Thank you Cathryn Hankla and Amanda Cockrell!
Prairie Schooner has chosen my poem “Creation Myth” from the new Fall 2013 issue as one of the samples made available online from the print issue. Pretty nifty.
You can read the poem in its entirety HERE.
My verse poem “Creation Myth” has just been published in the fall 2013 issue of Prairie Schooner.
The issue isn’t available online yet, but when it is you can order a copy for just 9 bucks HERE and get yourself some poetry, fiction, and essays by the likes of Nikki Giovanni, Floyd Skloot, Barry Lopez, Lisa Gornick, Marvin Bell, and many others.
Thank you editors of Prairie Schooner!
A personal essay I wrote this spring just got accepted by the Colorado Review today for their spring 2014 issue. Four hours after I got that acceptance, and agreed to it, (before I even had time to withdraw it from other journals) I got an email from another amazing journal also accepting it. Two acceptances for the same piece in the same day. That is a new one for me, and I’m still floored.
This is my first full essay acceptance, and that it was from the Colorado Review is a dream come true.
I recently received happy news of developments in the anthology of southern Ohio literature, edited by poet Neil Carpathios, which will contain three of my poems (two unpublished and one previously published in The Cincinnati Review). The anthology now has a title, Every River on Earth: Writing from Appalachian Ohio, a publisher, Ohio University Press (from my alma mater!), and a publication date of fall 2014.
This will be the first time my writing will be included in an anthology, and I am honored and extremely excited.