“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!

I have a poem in the upcoming anthology Invisible Strings: 113 Poets Respond to the Songs of Taylor Swift!

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!