Huge thanks to The Inflectionist Review editors A. Molotkov & John Sibley Williams for accepting “Forgotten Village” and “Bright Sides & Glass” — two of the collaborative poems I’ve written with Dustin Pearson and Steve Castro!
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!
What a lovely surprise! Blackbird has nominated my long poem “Birds and Stars Suite” for Best of the Net! Thank you to Matt Schroeder and everyone at Blackbird!
You can read the whole poem here:
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!
I’m delighted to share the news that I have a poem coming out in the anthology Invisible Strings: 113 Poets Respond to the Songs of Taylor Swiftpublished by Ballantine Books, released December 3, and available for preorder today! This was such a fun project and I’m thrilled to have my work alongside so many poets I adore, such as Kim Addonizio, CA Conrad, Cornelius Eady, Jo Harjo, Jane Hirshfield, Yusef Komunyakaa, Naomi Shihab Nye, Diane Seuss…to name but a few!
I just got my contributor copies of the new Fugue, with my poem “In a Kingdom of Little Gusts and I Want Out.” So much wonderful poetry, fiction, CNF & art! Thank you to Reid Davis, Maggie Nipps, Kacy Cheslek, & everyone at Fugue!
While I was on Martha’s Vineyard teaching this week, WPBS television in Central New York featured me reading my poem “You Can Keep Your Employee of the Month Award.” And the video is up on YouTube. Thank you WPBS! This poem is from my second book, If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun (Elixir Press, 2021)
Friends! That sound you probably just heard was me yelling with delight at the news that The Kenyon Review has just accepted my poem “Hawk Shadow Here to Help.” Thank you thank you to Nicole Terez Dutton and everyone at KR! Oh…I’m about to start emoting again!
My poem “Red Birds the Size of Fists” has just been published online in the new issue of Zone 3! HUGE thank yous to Stephanie Dugger, Calie Benke, and everyone at Zone 3! This is my third appearance in this awesome journal.
https://zone3press.com/poetry-entries/red-birds-the-size-of-fists/
I’m thrilled to receive my contributor copy of Mid-American Review, with my poem “Sugar in the Gourd and the Gourd Upon the Ground,” along with a host of awesome fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Huge thanks to Megan Borocki, Abigail Cloud, and everyone at MAR! A wild turkey was gobbling at me from the woods while I took these photos. I think it could sense my excitement. 😀
