Signing the colophon for my new collaborative chapbook from Aureole Press!

Hot golly! What a pleasure to be signing the colophon pages for our new collaborative chapbook, “The Box We Put the World in to Keep a Corner from Shattering,” which I wrote with the awesome poets Dustin Pearson and Steve Castro! Thank you Timothy Geiger and Aureole Press for letterpress printing this beautiful object!

Watching my next chapbook get made!?!

Wow! Never before have I been able to watch a book of mine actually get made!?! Enjoy this footage of poet Timothy Geiger, founder and proprietor of Aureole Press (at the University of Toledo), hand letterpressing the title page of The Box We Put the World in to Keep a Corner from Shattering, the forthcoming collaborative chapbook I wrote with Steve Castro and Dustin Pearson. Thank you for sharing this Dustin! And thank you Timothy for being such an artist! 🙌

Invisible Strings Poetry Reading Available on North American Review’s YouTube!

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…

“Placatory Congregation” Published in Heavy Feather Review!

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/

A portfolio of 5 of my poems published in Tupelo Quarterly!

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/