Category Archives: Poem

Bellingham Review accepted my poem “Set Before a Feast We Lift a Fork”!

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Hot golly! Bellingham Review just accepted my poem “Set Before a Feast We Lift a Fork” Huge thank you to Sam X Wong and everyone at BR! It’s, um, another poem of mine set in a grocery store. So thank you also to Wegmans. 🤠

This will be my second appearance in the awesome Bellingham Review. They were kind enough to publish my lyric essay “Licked by Our World We Get Licked by Our World” in 2021.

You can read the whole essay online here:
https://bhreview.org/articles/licked-by-our-world-we-get-licked-by-our-world/

You can read an interview they did with me here:
https://bhreview.org/contributor-spotlight-christopher-citro/

My poem “Why Our Bathtub Sparkles” in Water~Stone Review!

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Hot golly! My contributor copies of the new Water~Stone Review arrived with my poem “Why Our Bathtub Sparkles” and thank you again to Jose Hernandez Diaz, Kayla Knoll, and Meghan Maloney-Vinz. This happy arrival in the mail helps take some of the sting out of having to go on…somehow…now that Halloween is over for another year….

My collaborative poem “On a Planet of Gas and Dust and Smoky Mountains, Bird Calls” in Cream City Review!

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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!

My poem “In Bed with Green Gels” in the new North American Review!

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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!

My poem “Our Lungs Fill and Empty” published online at Poetose!

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Poetose just published my short poem “Our Lungs Fill and Empty” in their online journal, alongside a handwritten version of the poem. Huge thanks to Poetose!
Head on over to see the poem in both versions…and the awesome other pieces they’ve published!

https://www.poetose.com/pub/our-lungs-fill-and-empty-christopher-citro#

Invisible Strings is up for a Grammy!

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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!

Day 7: My Poetry Teaching Trip to Kefalonia Greece…I gave a poetry reading atop Mount Aenos!!!

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Day 7 Poetry Teaching Trip to Kefalonia Greece: I gave a poetry reading atop Mount Aenos!!!

…at 5,300 ft the tallest mountain on the Ionian island of Cephalonia, Greece…on a mossy stone outcrop, surrounded by Greek fir, black pine, wild bellflowers, violets, and poppies…and generous people willing to pay attention to me lipping off for 20 minutes while on top of the world.

Here I am reading my poem “Come In Go Ahead Say Again” recently published online at The Normal School.

https://www.thenormalschool.com/blog/2024/11/21/come-in-go-ahead-say-again-by-christopher-citro