Category Archives: Publication

the minnesota review issue 80

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My poems “Single Make Seeks Someone Who’ll Stay” and “Sword Swallowers In Transition” have just been published in issue 80 of the minnesota review.

the minnesota review publishes creative writing alongside literary criticism, and this issue also contains creative work by the likes of Roxane Gay, Dean Rader, Sean Lovelace, & Patty Seyburn (and others). On the critical side there’s a special section on The Medieval Turn in Theory, guest edited by Andrew Cole, with essay titles such as “Derrida’s Noble Unfaith,” “Object-Oriented Mythography,” and ” Death and Texts: Finitude Before Form.” Cool, eh?

The beautiful cover image to this issue is a collage called The Holy Mountain by Marcus McDonald.

Thank you Janell Watson and the editors of the minnesota review!

Painted Bride Quarterly Print Annual 6

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Today I received my contributor’s copy of Painted Bride Quarterly Print Annual 6, and it’s a 420 page delight. It contains 2012’s Issues 84-87 of the online journal, including my two poems “This Year Will Be Your Last” and “On Top of an Already Losing Personality” which appeared in Issue 85 (currently unavailable as they’re migrating their content to a new website).

The amount of fine literature in this annual is silly, really, with tons of works by the likes of Matthew Rohrer, Major Jackson, Kathleen Graber, Doug Ramspeck, Mary Austin Speaker, and David Trinidad, to name but a few. You can grab a copy for $15 from the PBQ website.

In the meantime, here’s a picture of Chris Cooper (yes, that Chris Cooper, Academy Award winning actor who played John Laroche in Adaptation, etc.) holding a copy from this year’s AWP. Nifty, eh?

The Southeast Review

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My poem “An Emergency Every Day of the Week” has just been published in The Southeast Review, Volume 31 Number 1.

This beautiful volume is packed with poems, fiction, and nonfiction, along with comics and photography, and can be purchased for $8.00 from The Southeast Review website.

Contributors: Hal Ackerman, Johleen Adena, Heidi Bell, Rebecca Bourke, Kevin Brockmeier, Stace Budzko, Christopher Citro, Noel Crook, Robert M. Detman, Whitney DeVos, Michelle Dove, Stephanie Dugger, Alex Fabrizio, Peter Fontaine, Benjamin Goldberg, Kat Gonso, Les Gottesman, Jenny Halper, Emily Howorth, Rochelle Hurt, Sandra Jensen, Joshua Kleinberg, EJ Koh, John Lander, Andrea Lewis, Steven Moore, Ruth Moose, Travis Mossotti, Sam Paradise, Jessica Pitchford, Emily Pulfer-Terino, Michael Salman, Erika L. Sánchez, JLSchneider, Jaspal Kaur Singh, Kelly Sundberg, Jeff Tigchelaar, Aini Tolonen, Chris Tusa, Mark Wagenaar, Barrett Warner, Charles Harper Webb

 

Gargoyle 59

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I just received my contributor’s copy of Gargoyle 59 which includes my poem “A Marriage Made on the Dining Room Floor.”

This beautiful 506 page issue is packed with poetry, fiction, and nonfiction by writers such as Gregory Sherl, Terese Svoboda, Adam Tavel, a remembrance of Paul Bowles by Mark Terrill, & a selection of rediscovered poems by Jean Genet translated by Mark Spitzer and accompanied by his essay “Polemic: The history of Pirated English Translations of Jean Genet’s Poetry (With Chronology).”

Cover by Ren Garczynski

You can order a copy HERE.

Beach Sloth on LOG

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The fine folk(s) that is(are) Beach Sloth wrote a wonderful two part review/gloss/celebration/introduction of NAP’s Nature Poems About Nature echapbook/anthology called LOG.

Beach Sloth had this to say about my poem called “The Tree I Just Leaned Against Is the Exact Age As Me”:

                Christopher Citro has sunlight hit him on the face. This is what happens when people go outside. Helicopters are commas in the real world. Nature is a scary place. People bump against each other. Without nature there would be no language because there wouldn’t be anything worth describing. Nature can be beautiful despite its uncertainty, just like people.

Read the rest of the descriptions at Beach Sloth’s Tumblr HERE & HERE.

Download for free and read LOG from NAP HERE.

Poetry East

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My poem “Still Life with Plums” has just been published in the Fall 2012 issue of Poetry East, edited by Richard Jones and published by DePaul University. This grand volume, comprising numbers 76, 77 & 78, contains over 300 pages of poetry by the likes of Jim Daniels, Chard deNiord, and Jody Bolz, a series of paintings by Makoto Fujimura and photographs of old Chicago, and extended portfolios of poems by John Donne, James Armstrong, Garrette J. Brown, and Edgar Allan Poe. You can order yourself a copy for just ten bucks HERE.

My poem in this volume was inspired by reading a 2008 article about the Italian painter Giorgio Morandi by Peter Schjeldahl in The New Yorker. It’s the opening poem in my first manuscript “The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy” which, as the phrase goes, is looking for a publisher.

Thank you Richard Jones and the editors of Poetry East!

Kugelmass 3!

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My prose poem “The Tale of the Clerk and the Miniature Desperado” has just been published in the third issue of Kugelmass: A Journal of Literary Humor  edited by David Holub and published by Firewheel Editions. This issue contains fiction, poetry and prose by the likes of Robert Atwan, David Kirby, Denise Duhamel & Amy Lemmon, Roxane Gay, and more. You can see the table of contents, read and listen to excerpts, and then order yourself a copy for twelve bucks HERE.

Cover illustration by Peter Oravetz