My poem “A Theme Song That Never Gets Old” was the featured poem online at Verse Daily on June 11. This poem was originally published by Kill Author, and it appears in my book The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy, which is available from Amazon and Barnes & Noble Online.
Click HERE to read the poem.
Today I received my contributor’s copy of Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art issue 53 which includes my poem, “So That’s What an Invisible Barrier Looks Like.”
This poem was selected by judge Beth Ann Fennelly as the winner of the 2015 Poetry Competition. Thanks so much again to the readers, to Carlie Hoffman (Poetry Editor) and to Beth Ann Fennelly!
I just received my contributor’s copies of Salt Hill 34, which contains my poem “You’re Welcome To the Rest.” Thanks so much Patrick Dundon, Jessica Poli and the other Salt Hill Editors!
Today I received my contributor’s copies of The Hollins Critic, Vol. LII, No. I which contains my poem “Mostly It’s Me Taking” along with poetry by Richard Kostelantz and William Ford. This issue continues their survey of the work of Seymour Krim and reviews of recent books by Tarfia Faizullah, Judith Claire Mitchell, and Julie Marie Wade.
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Thank you Cathryn Hankla and the other Hollins Critic editors!
My first book of poetry, The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy by Christopher Citro, has just been published by Steel Toe Books, an independent press affiliated with Western Kentucky University. The price is $12 plus shipping and handling.
You can order today from Amazon and Barnes & Noble Online.
Visit my website to read sample poems and blurbs about the book from poets Amy Gerstler, Catherine Bowman, Maurice Manning and Erika Meitner.
Bookstores and educators can contact the publisher directly for information on discounts and ordering in bulk.
The very parking garage where Christopher Citro (pictured) wrote “Gathering a Few Facts,” featured in Best New Poets 2014.
Posted at the Best New Poets Facebook page
My poem “Nobody Is Ever Missing” has just been published in Barrow Street‘s winter 2014/2015 issue.
This issue is full of great poetry, including work by Meg Day, Molly Peacock, Christina Pugh, and more. There’s a poem by the wonderful James Harms called “Umbrella” that nearly made my heart fall down a spiral staircase.
You can grab a copy for ten bucks HERE.
The title of my poem was taken from the last line of John Berryman’s “Dream Song 29.” You can watch a video of him reading his poem HERE.
I just received my contributor’s copy of the Every River on Earth: Writing From Appalachian Ohio. This anthology was edited by the poet Neil Carpathios and published by Ohio University Press in Athens, Ohio.
From the anthology’s website:
Every River on Earth: Writing from Appalachian Ohio includes some of the best regional poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction from forty contemporary writers, both established and up-and-coming. The wide range of material from authors such as David Baker, Don Bogen, Michelle Burke, Richard Hague, Donald Ray Pollock, and others, offers the reader a window into daily life in the region. The people, the landscape, the struggles, and the deepest undercurrents of what it means to be from and of a place are revealed in these original, deeply moving, and sometimes shocking pieces.
The book is divided into four sections: Family & Folks, The Land, The Grind, and Home & Away, each of which explores a different aspect of the place that these authors call home. The sections work together beautifully to capture what it means to live, to love, and to die in this particular slice of Appalachia. The writing is accessible and often emotionally raw; Every River on Earth invites all types of readers and conveys a profound appreciation of the region’s character.
The authors also offer personal statements about their writing, allowing the reader an intimate insight into their processes, aesthetics, and inspirations. What is it to be an Appalachian? What is it to be an Appalachian in Ohio? This book vividly paints that picture.
You can learn more at the anthology’s website HERE — where you can read for free the title poem, the Table of Contents, the Foreword by Donald Ray Pollock, the Introduction by Neil Carpathios and author biographies. You can order the book directly from the publisher, purchase e-versions for various platforms, and request a desk/exam copy if you’re an instructor. Also, here’s the book’s Amazon page.
I’m proud as all get-out to have three of my poems in this anthology, including one poem previously published in The Cincinnati Review and two previously unpublished poems written while living in Scio, Ohio, a small southern Ohio village, pop. 800.
Thank you Neil Carpathios for including me in this wonderful volume!
My poems “Almost the Woods” and “There’s Always Abracadabra,” which were written in collaboration with Dustin Nightingale, have just been published in The Chattahoochee Review Fall/Winter 2014. This issue has a “skin” theme and tons of great poetry, prose, reviews, visual art and more.
You can grab a copy HERE or HERE.
Thanks again editors Michael Diebert and Lydia Ship!
