Someone posted the Broadsided broadside of my poem “Stop Doing That,” illustrated by Amy Meissner, on the door to the MFA office at UMass Boston.
If I could hug them, I surely would.
Category Archives: Publication
Toad Suck Review
Five prose poems that I wrote in collaboration with the poet Dustin Nightingale have just been published in issue #4 of the Toad Suck Review from the University of Central Arkansas.
Other poems from this ongoing series have been published in recent issues of Beecher’s and Yemassee.
Thank you Toad Suck editors!
“Sword Swallowers in Transition” at the minnesota review blog
My poem “Sword Swallowers in Transition,” which was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize by the minnesota review, has just been posted on their blog.
You can read the poem in its entirety HERE.
Thanks minnesota review!
“Kindling Me” Online at Salamander
The editors at Salamander have made my short poem “Kindling Me” from the summer 2013 issue (V18 N2) available online in its entirety. The poem is supposed to be in couplets, but otherwise it’s okey-dokey.
You can read the poem HERE.
Thanks Salamander!
New Pages Mention
The good folks at New Pages have singled out my poem “Creation Myth” for mention in their new review of Prairie Schooner‘s Fall 2013 Issue (Vol. 83 Issue 3). Here are the kind words that reviewer Kenneth Nichols has to say:
Christopher Citro’s poem “Creation Myth” includes a number of powerful images. The narrator begins by describing a rural scene: “Overgrown weeds had hidden the car until / the brushfire revealed it. Once the doors cooled, / neighborhood kids came to investigate . . .” The car is occupied by a man and woman in formalwear. Those children receive a potent lesson in a few different kinds of “creation.” Citro’s poem distinguishes itself with the strength of the imagery and the interesting way in which Citro allows the reader to slide into the perspective of Timmy, one of the children whose understanding of the world is being changed by what he sees.
You can read the rest of the review HERE, along with reviews of current issues of Ploughshares, The MacGuffin, Green Mountains Review, Indiana Review, Willows Springs, and more.
You can read the whole poem, which Prairie Schooner made available online, HERE.
Thank you Kenneth Nichols and New Pages!
Third Coast
My poem “Back From the Edge of Hunger” has just been published in Third Coast‘s Fall 2013 issue. I’m elated to be part of this gorgeous issue.
Thanks Third Coast editors!
“Creation Myth” in Prairie Schooner
Prairie Schooner has chosen my poem “Creation Myth” from the new Fall 2013 issue as one of the samples made available online from the print issue. Pretty nifty.
You can read the poem in its entirety HERE.
Prairie Schooner
My verse poem “Creation Myth” has just been published in the fall 2013 issue of Prairie Schooner.
The issue isn’t available online yet, but when it is you can order a copy for just 9 bucks HERE and get yourself some poetry, fiction, and essays by the likes of Nikki Giovanni, Floyd Skloot, Barry Lopez, Lisa Gornick, Marvin Bell, and many others.
Thank you editors of Prairie Schooner!
Every River on Earth: Writing from Appalachian Ohio
I recently received happy news of developments in the anthology of southern Ohio literature, edited by poet Neil Carpathios, which will contain three of my poems (two unpublished and one previously published in The Cincinnati Review). The anthology now has a title, Every River on Earth: Writing from Appalachian Ohio, a publisher, Ohio University Press (from my alma mater!), and a publication date of fall 2014.
This will be the first time my writing will be included in an anthology, and I am honored and extremely excited.
Beecher’s 3
Beecher’s issue 3 has just been published and it contains “Incredible Journey” a collaborative prose poem written by me and the poet Dustin Nightingale.
This is a wonderfully designed journal and my photograph above hardly does it justice. The inside is as just a beautiful, with poetry, fiction and nonfiction by writers such as Nate Pritts, Michael Bazzett, Heather Frese, & F. Daniel Rzicznek, as well as drawings, including the embossed image on the cover above, by Brett Millard.
Thank you Ben Cartwright and the other editors of Beecher’s!