What a delightful surprise! Thank you to the folks at PoetryTaughtPoorly for making this lovely little video of my poem “An Emergency Every Day of the Week” from my second book.
Category Archives: Publication
My poem “Birds and Stars Suite” has been published online at Blackbird!
My long poem “Birds and Stars Suite” has just been published online in the new issue of Blackbird. I haven’t written longer poems in a long time, and this is one of the 3 that I wrote last year in a kind of new experiment. I’m delighted beyond measure that it found a home in Blackbird! Thank you again to everyone at Blackbird!!!
You can read the whole poem here:
https://blackbird.vcu.edu/birds-stars-suite/
My poem “Having Grown Inland I Can Make of Boats What I Wish” Published in Moon City Review!
What a joy to hold in my hands my contributor copy of Moon City Review 2024, which has my poem, “Having Grown Inland I Can Make of Boats What I Wish” a poem written on Martha’s Vineyard, sitting alone on the shore late one night. Thank you to Mike Czyzniejewki and everyone at MCR! The contributor list of this issue is FIRE! Get yourself a copy!
My lyric essay “Have You Ever Given Your Sister a Snowman?” published in the Alaska Quarterly Review!
I’m thrilled to have received my contributor copy of the new Alaska Quarterly Review, which contains my lyric essay “Have You Ever Given Your Sister a Snowman?” along with a heap of amazing stories, essays, and poems. Thank you to my friends Dustin and J for graciously allowing me to interview them for this essay. Thank you to Ron Spatz and everyone at AQR for publishing it. You can buy issue in print/ebook/pdf/kindle on the AQR website, and I hope that you will!
Beautiful Postcard Issue 1 has arrived with my collaborative poem and a host of awesome others!
Behold Issue 1 of Postcard!! 10 gorgeously illustrated poetry postcards, with a collaborative poem by myself and Dustin Nightingale, alongside Kelli Russell Agodon, Jared Beloff, Lauren Camp, Denise Duhamel, Alban Fischer, Tom Snarsky, Leah Umansky, Donna Vorreyer, & Mary Zhou. Editor David Wojciechowski has made a thing of great beauty, and you can get the complete set for just $20 bucks. And the next submission period begins February 1. What a joy to be a part of this first issue! Thanks again David!
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My collaborative prose poem “Don’t Fall” in the new Idaho Review!
An early present arrived! My contributor copy of The Idaho Review which contains “Don’t Fall” a collaborative prose poem I wrote with Dustin Nightingale. Thank you to Mary Pauline Lowry, Desmond Everest Fuller and everyone at The Idaho Review.
Verse Daily has featured my poem “Peel the Black Walnut Bark Like Small Fists in Our Fists” today!
I’m delighted to share that the always wonderful Verse Daily has featured my poem today: “Peel the Black Walnut Bark Like Small Fists in Our Fists.” Thank you to J.P. Dancing Bear and to the Colorado Review for first giving the poem a home. https://www.versedaily.org/2023/peeltheblackwalnutbarklike.shtml
My poem “Threads Braided and Those Braids Twisted” published in the new Tampa Review!
A ray of sunlight arrived today with my contributor copy of the new Tampa Review, which has my poem “Threads Braided and Those Braids Twisted.” Such a beautiful volume filled with awesome poetry, fiction, and nonfiction! Thanks so much again Jodi Johnson, Paul Corrigan, Yuly Restrepo Garcés & the whole Tampa Review crew!
My poems “The Body the Fact of It” & “Great the Light Failing Again” published in Diode
I raise my clogged head from my cold-induced torpor to… CELEBRATE the new issue of Diode which has 2 of my poems: “The Body the Fact of It” & “Great the Light Failing Again” alongside a stellar line-up of awesome poets! Thank you again Patty Paine and everyone who helps make Diode. *cough cough* Where’s the orange juice? *cough cough*
http://diodepoetry.com/citro_christopher-2/
My poems “Night But Unlike Night” and “Peel the Black Walnut Bark Like Small Fists in Our Fists” are in the new Colorado Review!
Thrilled to receive my copy of the new Colorado Review with my poems “Night But Unlike Night” and “Peel the Black Walnut Bark Like Small Fists in Our Fists.” These poems mean a lot to me, and I think of them as a pair. I could not be more delighted that they found their home in CR, a journal close to my heart and which has been kind enough to publish a lyric essay of mine and two other poems before. Thank you Matthew Cooperman, Lauren Furman, Cecil Janecek, Stephanie G’Schwind, and everyone with a hand in making the always awesome Colorado Review!