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!
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“Creation Myth” in Prairie Schooner
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.
Prairie Schooner
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!
Essay in the Colorado Review
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.
Every River on Earth: Writing from Appalachian Ohio
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in the anthology of southern Ohio literature, edited by poet Neil Carpathios, which will contain three of my poems (two unpublished and one previously published in The Cincinnati Review).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.
Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing 2013
The Classroom
I’ve recently returned from a week on Martha’s Vineyard where I was an instructor in the the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. This was my third year working as an instructor for the institute. This year’s session, the institute’s fourth, was the best of all, with an amazing selection of poetry and fiction instructors and a group of truly inspiring and inspired students all working together in the elegant surroundings of this beautiful island.
West Chop Lighthouse, Vineyard Haven Harbor
If you are interested in attending as a student, I encourage you to keep an eye on the institute’s website early next year as details for the 2014 session become available. In the meantime, here are some of my snapshots of this year’s teaching faculty. [NB: We didn’t actually spend all of our time at the beach, despite how these pictures may appear.]
Institute Director & Fiction Instructor Alexander Weinstein
Fiction Instructors Michael Martone & Phong Nguyen
Poetry & Translation Instructor Rebecca Gayle Howell
Poetry Instructor Keith Leonard
Poetry Instructor & Yours Truly Christopher Citro
Gay Head Lighthouse, Aquinnah
Beecher’s 3
Beecher’s issue 3 has just been published and it contains “Incredible Journey” a collaborative prose poem written by me and the poet Dustin Nightingale.
This is a wonderfully designed journal and my photograph above hardly does it justice. The inside is as just a beautiful, with poetry, fiction and nonfiction by writers such as Nate Pritts, Michael Bazzett, Heather Frese, & F. Daniel Rzicznek, as well as drawings, including the embossed image on the cover above, by Brett Millard.
Thank you Ben Cartwright and the other editors of Beecher’s!
Verse Daily
My poem “An Emergency Every Day of the Week” is the featured poem today, July 14, 2013, on Verse Daily. This poem originally appeared in The Southeast Review.
This is my third poem to be featured on Verse Daily. Thank you VD!
Salamander
I am delighted to have a poem in the new issue of Salamander, Volume 18, No. 2, part two of their 20th year edition. Thanks Jennifer Barber and the editors of Salamander!
It’s Official!
As of May 31, 2013 I have officially graduated with my MFA in poetry from Indiana University! I’m proud, thrilled, and exhausted.
I had a wonderful time at IU and am especially thankful to have been able to study with such excellent teachers as Cathy Bowman (who directed my MFA thesis), Maurice Manning, Maura Stanton, Richard Cecil, Ross Gay, Alyce Miller, and Samrat Upadhyay. In addition to these teachers, I learned more than I can calculate from my amazing fellow students in the program, and from the many students in the classes I taught. It was a wild ride and a great time. Thanks everyone!