I’m delighted to share that today I’ve had 2 poems published in the new issue of Sweet, complete with audio of me reading them: “It’s Only Me the Toyota with the Bungeed Muffler” and “I Want To Reach Out and Hold Your Reach Out.” Huge thanks to Andy Braithwaite, Katie Riegel, Chelsea Dingman, and everyone at Sweet!
https://sweetlit.org/christopher-citro-volume-15/
Yippee! Kettle Pond Writers Conference is back for 2023, and I’ll be teaching there again! There’s still time to apply for the writing residency, June 17-24! Join us for a week in the Adirondacks with readings, craft lectures, generative workshops, and plenty of time to write by the lake. A wonderful week of writing in a magical place surrounded by inspiring people. Join us!
More information here: https://www.kettlepondwriters.com
Thank you to the editors and crew of Sprung Formal: The Kansas City Art Institute’s Literary Arts Journal for publishing my poems “We Are Different in This Room” and “The Sailors All Dance and Sing As Their Ship Goes Down.” The issue is published online right now and also as a print issue. Snazzy!
Today Poetry Daily today is featuring my poem “Sneaking Back Inside” from my second book, If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun.
HUGE thank to Judy Leserman and everyone at Poetry Daily!
Holy-moly! 32 Poems just accepted my poem “A Wolf Chases Honestly Bites You” and I’m freaking out! Wow! Thank you George David Clark and everyone at 32 Poems! I’m headin’ out for some prosecco, cuz there’s gonna be some celebratin’ going on around the ol’ homestead tonight!
I’m delighted to learn that Moon City Review has accepted my poem “Having Grown Inland I Can Make of Boats What I Wish.” This was written after a solitary walk down to Inkwell Beach late one night from the faculty house at the last in person Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. A big starlit sky. Lights of little boats in the distance. A water bottle filled with bourbon and orange juice… Thank you Sara Burge and everyone at MCR!
Wow! I just got my contributor copies of The Iowa Review and I’m touched and delighted to see that my poems open the issue, and that the first one, which has kite flying in it, has a marvelous photo of kites opposite it. HUGE THANK YOUs to Abagail Petersen, Lynne Nugent, Katie Berta and everyone at TIR. I have had poems published online at TIR, and now it’s a thrill to have 2 poems in this print issue!
Fantastic (so very!) to do a poetry reading last night along with the wonderful Corey Zeller at a LiterarY Dinner to raise money for the Arts Branch of the Downtown Syracuse YMCA. Thank you to everyone who attended! It was so great to see so many friends and familiar faces. Thank you to Lisa and Sarah for the wonderful dinner and hosting the event! (I wish I’d have taken more pictures!)
I’m teaching an online 8-session (Thurs 6-8:00 pm ET) seminar on the history of the prose poem starting starting April 20 for the Downtown Writers Center. I believe this is the final week to register, so don’t delay if you’re interested. Join me Thursday evenings for a fun, inspiring tour of the prose poem from its start to the present day. Registration is inexpensive and open to the public. You can register with a credit card by calling (315) 474-6851 x380.
To learn more about The Downtown Writer’s Center and download the spring class schedule, with all of their awesome class offerings, visit the Center’s website: https://ymcacny.org/creative-writing-workshops.
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Wow! Just received the awesome news that Mid-American Review has accepted my poem “Sugar in the Gourd and the Gourd Upon the Ground.” I’m so thrilled to have my work appear again in their pages. Thank you Megan Borocki and everyone at MAR!