What a warm and welcoming thrill it was to read for the Triple-A Reading Series this afternoon in Binghamton. Thank you Ralph Pennel for making it all happen, and for the BCAC Artisan Gallery for hosting. And thank you to my awesome fellow readers Jenn Powers and Jen DeGregorio (a Kettle Pond Writers Conference friend from years ago!). And I guess thank you also to this oncoming blizzard for holding off long enough for us to make the drive down and back from Syracuse!
What a joy to spend this morning Zoom-visiting John Howard’s Studies in Nonfiction class, where they have been reading and responding to my lyric essay “What You’re Thinking Now Is a Chunk of Marble” published in the Southeast Review. Thank you to John and his students for their insights and generosity!
The Southeast Review has made the entire essay available to read online:
https://www.southeastreview.org/single-post/38-2-christopher-citro
Jumpin’ jubilation! I just got my contributor copy of the new Cream City Review, with the collaborative prose poem “On a Planet of Gas and Dust and Smoky Mountains, Bird Calls” which Steve Castro, Dustin Pearson, and I wrote together. Thank you to everyone at CCR for the beautiful things that you do!
Showing off to some friends in my backyard my contributor’s copy of North American Review with my sunburn at the beach poem “In Bed with Green Gels.” Such an honor to appear in these pages for my 3rd time! HUGE thanks to Editor Jeremy Schraffenberger & everyone who helps make NAR so awesome!
Huge thank you!! to the online journal Poetose for accepting my poem “Our Lungs Fill and Empty.” I’ve been invited to handwrite the poem to be published next to a printed-text version, so I cranked up my fountain pen and fancy ink to have a go!
Last night’s Seneca Review reading, for contributors, editors, and staff, was AMAZING! So much awesome writing and wonderful readers! Just a joy and an inspiration to be a part of it! And the venue, Two Goats Brewing on the picturesque shores of Seneca Lake, was breathtaking. A dynamite view for a reading, under a rising saffron moon.
And so ends another nourishing, inspiring week teaching at Paul Smith’s College, with the celebration readings at the Forestry Cabin. Kettle Pond Writers’ Conference!?! Ya’ did it again! Thank you everyone for making that week so magical!
A perfect day with Chen Chen, Michael Seidlinger, Andy Tran, my sweetie, and me… Going for a writer’s walk in the woods at Paul Smith’s College: the butterfly tent, the floating bridge, wild orchids, not getting lost or dying of blood loss to mosquitos! More from the Kettle Pond Writers’ Conference at Paul Smith’s College of the Adirondacks!
More from the Kettle Pond Writers’ Conference at Paul Smith’s College of the Adirondacks! Late night socializing on the deck over Lower St. Regis Lake, floating in on said lake, the book table and Ghost City Press, and watching geese do their geese thing!
Kettle Pond Writers’ Conference! Hanging with friends (fellow writers and teachers) on the shore of Lower St. Regis Lake at Paul Smith’s College of the Adirondacks!
