I’m delighted to share the news that Fugue just published online my poem “In a Kingdom of Little Gusts and I Want Out.” This poem is particularly close to my heart. I hope you enjoy it. Thankyouthankyouthankyou to Maggie Nipps, Reid Davis and everyone at Fugue!
https://fuguejournal.com/in-a-kingdom-of-little-gusts-and-i-want-out-citro
My poem “Playing Baseball with a Pocket Knife” has just been published in the new online issue of LIT!
A poem about my dad and my mom and sitting in the backyard under the beechnut trees in the summer when I was a boy.
Thank you to Rebecca Endres & all the wonderful folks at LIT !
https://www.litmagazine.org/playing-baseball-with-a-pocket-knife/
Oh my goodness!!! My contributor copy of 32 Poems just arrived, with my poem “A Wolf Chases Honestly Bites You” along with poems by so many of my favorite poets! What a joy! Thank you to George David Clark, Elizabeth Clark, and everyone at 32 Poems.
I’m delighted to receive my contributor copy of this year’s Rhino with my poem “The Groundhog Full of Yellow Roses” Huge thanks to everyone at Rhino! And thank you also to Gary, our backyard groundhog, for the inspiration.
I’m delighted to share that today I’ve had 2 poems published in the new issue of Sweet, complete with audio of me reading them: “It’s Only Me the Toyota with the Bungeed Muffler” and “I Want To Reach Out and Hold Your Reach Out.” Huge thanks to Andy Braithwaite, Katie Riegel, Chelsea Dingman, and everyone at Sweet!
https://sweetlit.org/christopher-citro-volume-15/
Thank you to the editors and crew of Sprung Formal: The Kansas City Art Institute’s Literary Arts Journal for publishing my poems “We Are Different in This Room” and “The Sailors All Dance and Sing As Their Ship Goes Down.” The issue is published online right now and also as a print issue. Snazzy!
Today Poetry Daily today is featuring my poem “Sneaking Back Inside” from my second book, If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun.
HUGE thank to Judy Leserman and everyone at Poetry Daily!
Wow! I just got my contributor copies of The Iowa Review and I’m touched and delighted to see that my poems open the issue, and that the first one, which has kite flying in it, has a marvelous photo of kites opposite it. HUGE THANK YOUs to Abagail Petersen, Lynne Nugent, Katie Berta and everyone at TIR. I have had poems published online at TIR, and now it’s a thrill to have 2 poems in this print issue!
I’m delighted to have just received my contributor copy of the new North American Review, which has my poem “The Shape the Air Makes Between Us” along with tons of awesome writing! Thank you to the whole North American Review crew!
Howdy! Here’s a video of me and Steve Castro reading our poems for last Sunday’s Poetry + Play event at Syracuse Stage. Steve reads his poems in Spanish and I read his English translations of them. Then I read my poems in English and Steve reads his original translations of them into Spanish. This event was part of an afternoon of poetry in English and Spanish before the final performance of Espejos: Clean, a play by Christine Quintana performed at Syracuse Stage in Syracuse, New York on March 5, 2023.