Category Archives: Book

My poems are being translated!

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My friend, the poet Steve Castro, is translating some poems from my second book for a dual Spanish/English reading we’re going to be doing together next year at Syracuse Stage (more on that later!), and I find myself very touched, filled with a warm gratitude that several states away a wonderful poet is turning my little poems into another language, one which sadly I have no facility in. And such an awesome poet as Steve Castro! Everyone should get his poetry book Blue Whale Phenomena published in 2019 by Otis Books!

My poem Circuitry Suite in the Whitman on Walls Anthology!

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Delighted to receive my contributor copy of the Whitman on Walls anthology, which includes my newly commissioned poem “Circuitry Suite,” responding to passages from Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself. It was a delight and an honor to perform this last August at the Everson Museum of Art alongside an awesome group of other poets and performers. Huge thanks to Karin Coonrod and everyone with Compagnia de’ Colombari for making this all happen.

You can view their short film “Infinite Variety,” which my poem was also responding to on their Vimeo page here: https://vimeo.com/507829941

Thank you Esteban Rodriguez & Tupelo Quarterly!!!

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Oh my goodness!!! Thank you Esteban Rodríguez & Tupelo Quarterly for this luminous review of my book If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun. To be read with such sensitivity, generosity, and insight! My poems and I bow deeply in thanks! And now we reach for a box of tissues (and make really loud blowing noises)… 😀❤️😭

https://www.tupeloquarterly.com/uncategorized/a-review-of-if-we-had-a-lemon-wed-throw-it-and-call-that-the-sun-by-christopher-citro/

My poem Stop Doing That in the new Broadsided Press 2005-2020 Anthology!

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Hot dang! My contributor copy of the new Broadsided Press 2005-2020 Anthology just landed here in Syracuse and it’s a real beauty! This hefty art book contains my poem “Stop Doing That,” collaboratively illustrated by the awesome Amy Meissner, plus so much great writing and art by the likes of Camille Dungy, Danez Smith, Catherine Pierce, Robert Wrigley, Jane Hirshfield, Philip Metres…that’s just the beginning of the Table of Contents! Thank you Elizabeth Bradfield, Alexandra Teague, Miller Oberman!

Order your copy here: https://provincetown-arts-press.myshopify.com/products/broadsided-press-fifteen-years-of-poetic-and-artistic-collaboration-2005-2020

My book is reviewed in the new Asheville Poetry Review!

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Huge THANK YOU to David Ebenbach for this generous review of my book, If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun, in the new Asheville Poetry Review, together with Matthew Lippman’s new book, Mesmerizingly Sadly Beautiful, a poet whose work I deeply adore, to put it lightly. How awesome to be reviewed together!
“These books, in their flights from the personal to the ceiling of the universe and back again, truck in classic themes of love and purpose, and yet they do it in a way that finds readers where they are in the peculiarity of the moment. Citro and Lippman are two voices we really need right now.”

Happy 1st birthday to my 2nd poetry book!

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My book is 1 year old! Happy birthday to my second poetry book If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun, winner of the Antivenom Poetry Award and published by Elixir Press! My book and I would like to say a huge, quivering THANK YOU to everyone for reading it and for being so awesome about it over these 12 months.

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If you’d like a signed copy, you can order one from my website. (I’ll mail it out with a bright yellow lemon sticker on the front of the package which makes our local postal clerk Vinnie say, “Sold another book, did you? Good job!”

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You can also buy a regular copy just from Bookshop dot org, Small Press Distribution, Amazon, and elsewhere!

I’m interviewed in the new print edition of Rain Taxi!

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Hot dang! I just received the new Rain Taxi which contains the interview with me about my book, If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun (Elixir Press, 2021). I’m doing loop-de-loops! I hope you’ll snag yourself a print copy in your bookstore, library, or by purchase or subscription! Thank you Eric Lorberer at Rain Taxi and thank you Christopher Carter Sanderson for interviewing me!

Order a signed copy of my new poetry book, If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun!

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Another box of my new poetry book has arrived! Want a signed copy of If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun, winner of the Antivenom Poetry Award from Elixir Press? Order one directly from me via my website or this link: https://checkout.square.site/buy/T2GSZQN2ZYSFOIN4FVAYAF5J

Thank you Superstition Review!

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Huge sparkly thank yous to Sara Walker and The Superstition Review for posting about my new poetry book, If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun! They included a the title poem and a video of me reading other two poems from the book.

https://blog.superstitionreview.asu.edu/when-life-gives-you-lemons/