Thrilled to receive the news that Cream City Review has accepted “On a Planet of Gas and Dust and Smoky Mountains, Bird Calls” a collaborative prose poem that Dustin Pearson, Steve Castro, and I wrote together! Thank you CCR!
The North American Review has just posted to their YouTube channel the video of Tuesday’s reading by poets who have been published in NAR and are also in the anthology Invisible Strings 113 Poets Respond to the Songs of Taylor Swift! Enjoy a buncha awesome poets (and me!) reading a buncha awesome poems, so many of them love poems…
Yippee! Heavy Feather Review just published “Placatory Congregation,” a collaborative prose poem that Steve Castro, Dustin Pearson, and I wrote together. Huge thanks to Editors Bill Lessard, Jason Teal, and everyone who makes HFR so awesome!
Read the poem here:
https://heavyfeatherreview.org/2025/02/05/placatory-congregation/
I’m so deeply, deeply honored that Union Mutual Aid at Union Theological Seminary in NYC has asked to use “I love you. I want us both to eat well.” from my poem “Our Beautiful Life When It’s Filled with Shrieks” as the motto for their new weekly food program and pantry. My words and I bow deeply to Anna and everyone involved in this beautiful and needed endeavor.
The new issue of Tupelo Quarterly just launched and it contains a portfolio of 5 (five!) of my poems –plus a staggering abundance of literary riches. Thank you to Kristina Marie Darling, Yamini Pathak, and all the awesome people who make Tupelo Quarterly happen. You can read my poems here: https://www.tupeloquarterly.com/poetry/christopher-citro-a-portfolio-of-poetry/
Yip-a-dang! I’m thrilled share the news that The Glacier just accepted my three poems “Feathered Dinosaur,” “Live Feeds,” and “These Late Summer Nights When You Exist.” Huge thanks to Managing & Poetry Editor John T. Leonard and Editor-in-Chief David Dodd Lee!
Hot golly! Tupelo Quarterly accepted a packet of my poems and will publish them as a Portfolio of Poetry in the next issue! Thank you Kristina Marie Darling and all the great folks who make TQ. I’m feeling very fortunate as 2024 winds to a close…
The Inflectionist Review just published two collaborative prose poems that Steve Castro, Dustin Pearson, and I wrote together, “Forgotten Village” and “Bright Sides and Glass.” Please visit https://www.inflectionism.com/ to read them along with all the amazing writing in this new issue! Huge thanks to Editors Anatoly Molotkov & John Sibley Williams!
A dream come true publication! ❤️The Kenyon Review just sent my contributor copy with my poem “Hawk Shadow Here to Help.” I took the magazine outside to show the hawks but I think they’re all down in Miami Beach until the sun comes back. 🙏 Thank you to everyone at the Kenyon Review!
You can also read it online at KR here: https://kenyonreview.org/piece/hawk-shadow-here-to-help/
The North American Review just accepted my poem “In Bed with Green Gels.” This will be my third appearance in the awesome magazine! HUGE thanks to Editor Jeremy Schraffenberger. This dark, gray Syracuse “day” just got considerably brighter. 🌞