What an honor to be nominated by a contributing editor (thank you!) for this year’s Pushcart Prize. Winning a Pushcart in 2018 was such a thrill and an honor. Fingers crossed for another chance!
Honored to be nominated again for a Pushcart Prize!
Category Archives: Award
Thank you Poetose for nominating for a Pushcart Prize my poem “Our Lungs Fill and Empty”
Thank you to Poetose for nominating my poem “Our Lungs Fill and Empty” for a Pushcart Prize. What an honor!
You can read the poem online, in both a typed and handwritten version, here:
https://www.poetose.com/pub/our-lungs-fill-and-empty-christopher-citro#
I’m a finalist for Puerto del Sol’s 2025 poetry contest!
I rarely submit to writing contests, so it’s especially lovely news to learn that my poems were a finalist for Puerto del Sol‘s 2025 annual poetry contest. Huge thank you to everyone involved…and congratulations to the winner!
Invisible Strings is up for a Grammy!
Hot golly! I’m in this anthology and the audiobook of Invisible Strings 113 Poets Respond to the Songs of Taylor Swift is in consideration for next year’s Grammy Awards. Wow wow wow! Congratulations to Editor Kristie Frederick Daugherty for making this project so awesome and such a success!
Fugue has nominated my poem “In a Kingdom of Little Gusts and I Want Out” for Best of the Net!
Wow! I just received a second Best of the Net 2024 nomination, this time for my poem “In a Kingdom of Little Gusts and I Want Out” published online by Fugue. Thank you again to Maggie Nipps, Reid Davis and everyone at Fugue Literary Journal! Here’s the link to read the poem:
https://fuguejournal.com/in-a-kingdom-of-little-gusts-and-i-want-out-citro
I happened to be working on an ekphrastic poem about Virgil Marti’s 1992 “Bullies Wallpaper” when the email came. Usually if I get an email while I’m writing a poem it’s a rejection from some literary magazine. This was a lovely surprise!
Blackbird has nominated my poem “Birds and Stars Suite” for Best of the Net!
What a lovely surprise! Blackbird has nominated my long poem “Birds and Stars Suite” for Best of the Net! Thank you to Matt Schroeder and everyone at Blackbird!
You can read the whole poem here:
Honored to be nominated again for a Pushcart Prize!
What an honor to be nominated by a contributing editor (thank you!) for this year’s Pushcart Prize. Winning a Pushcart in 2018 was such a thrill and an honor. Fingers crossed for another chance!
Thrilled to be nominated again for a Pushcart Prize!
What a thrill to be nominated by a contributing editor (thank you!) for this year’s Pushcart Prize. Winning a Pushcart in 2018 was such an honor. Fingers crossed for another chance!
My book’s been nominated for this year’s CNY Book Award for Poetry!
I’m delighted to share the news that my book, If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun, has been nominated for this year’s CNY Book Award for poetry. Congrats to all the other nominees!
I’ve been nominated again for a Pushcart Prize!
What a delight to be nominated by a contributing editor (thank you!) for this year’s Pushcart Prize. Winning a Pushcart in 2018 was such an honor. Fingers crossed for another chance!