Two journal acceptances in one day!?

2 journal acceptances yesterday! If you write collaboratively with the likes of Steve Castro and Dustin Pearson, I suppose it shouldn’t come as a shock but really…Holy moly!! Heavy Feather Review has accepted “Placatory Congregation” (thank you Bill Lessard!) and The Boiler has accepted “Smoke Moving Out of the Way as It Rises” (thank you Diana Cao & Todd Dillard)!

“Yonder” published at The Cincinnati Review!

Yippee! “Yonder,” the collaborative poem that I wrote with Steve Castro and Dustin Pearson, just got published online at The Cincinnati Review, with accompanying audio of us 3 reading the poem (and some harmonica played by my darling Sarah)! Huge thanks to Kate Jayroe, Rebecca Lindenberg, Lisa Ampleman, and all at CR!

https://www.cincinnatireview.com/micro/micro-yonder-by-steve-castro-christopher-citro-and-dustin-pearson/

Fugue has nominated my poem “In a Kingdom of Little Gusts and I Want Out” for Best of the Net!

Wow! I just received a second Best of the Net 2024 nomination, this time for my poem “In a Kingdom of Little Gusts and I Want Out” published online by Fugue. Thank you again to Maggie Nipps, Reid Davis and everyone at Fugue Literary Journal! Here’s the link to read the poem:

https://fuguejournal.com/in-a-kingdom-of-little-gusts-and-i-want-out-citro

I happened to be working on an ekphrastic poem about Virgil Marti’s 1992 “Bullies Wallpaper” when the email came. Usually if I get an email while I’m writing a poem it’s a rejection from some literary magazine. This was a lovely surprise!

Chapbook accepted at Aureole Press!

I’m delighted to share the news that a chapbook of collaborative poetry that I wrote with Steve Castro and Dustin Pearson, titled The Box We Put the World in to Keep a Corner From Shattering, has been accepted for publication at University of Toledo’s Aureole Press!