I’m reading from my new poetry book, If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun, Wednesday June 9 from 6-7 EDT and anyone can attend the reading! Just register for your free Zoom link via the bit.ly address in this image. My reading is part of next week’s virtual Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, where I’m also teaching. You don’t have to be attending the Institute to attend the reading though! It’s open to the public. Plus you get to hear the awesome Matthew Gavin Frank! Come on by!
My book, If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun, winner of Elixir Press’ Antivenom Poetry Award, is one month old! 🍋🌞 I just posted another batch of signed copies. If you’d like one of your own, you can order a signed copy HERE. Thank you to everyone who has ordered a signed copy, or bought one from Amazon, Small Press Distribution, Bookshop.org! Huge thanks to everyone who has rated and reviewed it on Goodreads and Amazon! My book and I are purring with gratitude. ❤❤❤
Thank you New Pages for featuring my new poetry book, If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun, on today’s installment of their Books Stand’s New & Noteworthy! My book, which won Elixir Press’ Antivenom Poetry Award, is three weeks old today! 😀 Go HERE if you want to buy a signed copy. Copies are also available at Small Press Distribution, Amazon, and at Bookshop.org. 🍋🌞
My new poetry book is one week old–If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun, winner of the Elixir Press Antivenom Poetry Award! Thank you everyone who has bought a copy! Thank you everyone who has rated and reviewed it on Amazon and Goodreads, everyone who has requested a review copy, everyone who has posted awesome pics of the book in your hands, everyone who has reached out personally to me with kind and gracious words about it. My book and I are purring like kittens on tiny motorcycles.
It’s publication day for my second poetry book, If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun, which won the Elixir Press Antivenom Poetry Award! I’ve got some heartfelt thankin’ to do! Thank you to judge Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis for selecting it to win. Thank you to Dana Curtis for creating such a beautiful object, and to Amanda Friedman for allowing us to use your luminous photograph for the cover. Thank you to my generous blurbers Diane Seuss, Lee Upton, Dean Young, and Ross Gay. Thank you to everyone who has pre-ordered copies from Amazon and Small Press Distribution. Thank you to everyone who has ordered signed copies from my website! Thank you to my partner Sarah without whom this book would not exist. And thank you to you all for reading!
Thank you Amanda and MG for my new poetry book’s first Goodreads reviews! Such kind words, a generous gesture, and wonderful help to a book. I really appreciate it! 🍋 🌞😀
Off to post another batch of signed copies of my new book, If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun, winner of the Elixir Press Antivenom Poetry Award! Huge thank you to everyone who has bought one! If you’d like to order your own signed copy, go HERE.
Oh my goodness! My book has just been reviewed at New Pages! Susan Kay Anderson has written such a beautiful, generous, insightful review. I and my book are jumping up and down making little squealing noises. Thank you Susan Kay Anderson and New Pages!
“What Citro does in these poems is make us wonder about our very existence and our inventiveness as humans. … Every title is like a movie title and each poem a small film with you sitting inside a theater, or, are you in the film too?”
It’s Ross Gay for the final Blurb Wednesday! We’ve had the awesome Diane Seuss, the awesome Lee Upton, and the awesome Dean Young, today it’s the awesome Ross Gay! Yes! Words cannot express how grateful I am that these wonderful poets took time out to read my new poetry book and say such generous things about it. Here’s what Ross Gay wrote:
<< Reading Christopher Citro’s If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sunis like
taking a meandering stroll with your weird, brilliant, soulful friend who
points out a zillion things you never noticed even though you’ve been down this
back alley a thousand times. The utterly familiar, quotidian landscapes of
Citro’s poems–in the garden, in the kitchen or living room, at work–are
revealed to be not only quirky or funny or bizarre (though often those things
too), but truly mysterious. Quiet repositories of all the questions. How lucky
we are for such loving, rigorous, and luminous vision. How lucky we are, I
mean, for Christopher Citro’s beautiful work.>>
If you want a signed copy of my book right now, go HERE, and I’ll get it to you pronto!
