My three prose poems, “Only Better (Black Moths),” “Thomas at Home in the City,” and “If You Must Know” have been accepted by the exquisitely beautiful Paper Darts. They were chosen by guest editor John Jodzio, author of the short story collections “Get In If You Want To Live” and “If You Lived Here You’d Already Be Home.” Thank you Paper Darts and John Jodzio!
Author Archives: Christopher
Feb 9 Reading Rescheduled for Feb 16
My February 9 reading as part of the Deep Fried Reading Series in Rochester, NY at The Yards has been rescheduled for February 16. I’m really excited about this reading!
You can find further information about the reading via the Readings link at the top of this page.
Gargoyle 59
I just received my contributor’s copy of Gargoyle 59 which includes my poem “A Marriage Made on the Dining Room Floor.”
This beautiful 506 page issue is packed with poetry, fiction, and nonfiction by writers such as Gregory Sherl, Terese Svoboda, Adam Tavel, a remembrance of Paul Bowles by Mark Terrill, & a selection of rediscovered poems by Jean Genet translated by Mark Spitzer and accompanied by his essay “Polemic: The history of Pirated English Translations of Jean Genet’s Poetry (With Chronology).”
Cover by Ren Garczynski
You can order a copy HERE.
B O D Y
My poem “Apparently, I’m Not a Joiner” has been accepted for publication by the online journal B O D Y.
If you haven’t yet, you should check out the great poetry, prose and media they publish — such as these selections from Daniil Kharms translated by Ilya Kaminsky and Katie Farris.
Stop Doing That … Vectorized
Some kind and sneaky person has Vectorized my poem “Stop Doing That,” which was illustrated by Amy Meissner and published last August by Broadsided. You can read all about Broadsided and their distribution Vectors HERE.
The digital broadside of my poem can be read and downloaded from Broadsided HERE.
Beach Sloth on LOG
The fine folk(s) that is(are) Beach Sloth wrote a wonderful two part review/gloss/celebration/introduction of NAP’s Nature Poems About Nature echapbook/anthology called LOG.
Beach Sloth had this to say about my poem called “The Tree I Just Leaned Against Is the Exact Age As Me”:
Christopher Citro has sunlight hit him on the face. This is what happens when people go outside. Helicopters are commas in the real world. Nature is a scary place. People bump against each other. Without nature there would be no language because there wouldn’t be anything worth describing. Nature can be beautiful despite its uncertainty, just like people.
Read the rest of the descriptions at Beach Sloth’s Tumblr HERE & HERE.
Download for free and read LOG from NAP HERE.
Poetry East
My poem “Still Life with Plums” has just been published in the Fall 2012 issue of Poetry East, edited by Richard Jones and published by DePaul University. This grand volume, comprising numbers 76, 77 & 78, contains over 300 pages of poetry by the likes of Jim Daniels, Chard deNiord, and Jody Bolz, a series of paintings by Makoto Fujimura and photographs of old Chicago, and extended portfolios of poems by John Donne, James Armstrong, Garrette J. Brown, and Edgar Allan Poe. You can order yourself a copy for just ten bucks HERE.
My poem in this volume was inspired by reading a 2008 article about the Italian painter Giorgio Morandi by Peter Schjeldahl in The New Yorker. It’s the opening poem in my first manuscript “The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy” which, as the phrase goes, is looking for a publisher.
Thank you Richard Jones and the editors of Poetry East!
Kugelmass 3!
My prose poem “The Tale of the Clerk and the Miniature Desperado” has just been published in the third issue of Kugelmass: A Journal of Literary Humor edited by David Holub and published by Firewheel Editions. This issue contains fiction, poetry and prose by the likes of Robert Atwan, David Kirby, Denise Duhamel & Amy Lemmon, Roxane Gay, and more. You can see the table of contents, read and listen to excerpts, and then order yourself a copy for twelve bucks HERE.
Cover illustration by Peter Oravetz
Beecher’s
Beecher’s magazine has accepted for their next issue a collaborative prose poem from a series written with my friend the poet Dustin Nightingale. This is the second of our collaborations to find a home. The first was published in the recent Yemassee 19.2.
Beecher’s magazine is “published annually in Lawrence, Kansas and run by the students of the graduate program in creative writing at the University of Kansas.” It warms my December in Syracuse heart to have a poem in this gorgeous new journal published by my former school KU in the town I lived in for ten years. Thanks Beecher’s!
LOG!
My poem “The Tree I Just Leaned Against Is the Exact Age As Me” has been published in NAP’s new issue of “Nature Poems About Nature” called LOG. You can view the free pdf of the issue HERE. There’s a ton of great work in this issue, and I’m proud to be a part of it. Thanks Chad!