Category Archives: Teaching

Announcing my WINTER 2026 Zoom-based private poetry workshop!

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I just opened registration for my WINTER 2026 private Zoom-based poetry workshop. It will take place, as usual, Wednesday evenings 6-8 pm Eastern Time. It begins February 11 and runs for 6 classes.

“In the Landscape of Contemporary Poetry.” Wednesdays, 6:00-8:00 p.m. ET. 6 weeks, starting February 11. We’ll read recently published poetry from literary journals and books, generate new poems with the help of prompts that I create, and spend the bulk of each class in a fun, inspiring poetry workshop. In this course participants will write and receive workshop comments on five original poems. Writers at all levels are welcome. I teach In the Landscape of Contemporary Poetry often, and every time the readings are all new, so you can take it again and again!

Registration is now open, and it closes on Sunday February 8.

FYI my current workshop filled really quickly, so if you’re planning to register, maybe sooner than later?!

View the class details and register at my website: https://christophercitro.com/private-classes/

Announcing my late fall private poetry workshop!

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In the Landscape of Contemporary Poetry. Wednesdays, 6:00-8:00 p.m. ET. 6 weeks, starting December 3 (skipping December 24 and 31). We’ll read recently published poetry from literary journals and books, generate new poems with the help of prompts that I create, and spend the bulk of each class in a fun, inspiring poetry workshop. In this course participants will write and receive workshop comments on five original poems. Writers at all levels are welcome. I teach In the Landscape of Contemporary Poetry often, and every time the readings are all new, so you can take it again and again!

Participants will receive:

  • 6 two-hour live Zoom classes
  • weekly pdf packets of sample poems from recent literary journals and books, focusing on craft elements and themes
  • original writing prompts written by me inspired by each week’s sample poems
  • workshop comments from the class and me on your five original poems

This is a live online writing workshop. Registered participants will receive a Zoom link prior to the beginning of classes. Registration will close when full (12 students). The class requires a minimum of 6 registered participants. Register early, as spots fill quickly.

Registration fee: $275

Registration deadline: Sunday November 30

Class begins: Wednesday December 3

Click here to register by credit card: https://square.link/u/MUWXeJMq

Thank you to the students in Studies in Nonfiction!

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What a joy to spend this morning Zoom-visiting John Howard’s Studies in Nonfiction class, where they have been reading and responding to my lyric essay “What You’re Thinking Now Is a Chunk of Marble” published in the Southeast Review. Thank you to John and his students for their insights and generosity!

The Southeast Review has made the entire essay available to read online:

https://www.southeastreview.org/single-post/38-2-christopher-citro

Announcing my three FALL 2025 writing workshops!

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Announcing my FALL 2025 creative writing online workshops! Yeah! Registration opened today!

~My 3-week How to Submit Your Creative Writing to Literary Journals on Tuesdays starts Sept 30.

~My 6-week poetry workshop “In the Landscape of Contemporary Poetry” on Wednesdays starts Sept 24.

~My 6-week Intro to the Lyric Essay workshop on Thursdays starts Sept 25

All classes take place 6-8 Pm Eastern Time via Zoom.

See https://christophercitro.com/private-classes/ for more info and to register!

Kettle Pond Writers’ Conference Post 4

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A perfect day with Chen Chen, Michael Seidlinger, Andy Tran, my sweetie, and me… Going for a writer’s walk in the woods at Paul Smith’s College: the butterfly tent, the floating bridge, wild orchids, not getting lost or dying of blood loss to mosquitos! More from the Kettle Pond Writers’ Conference at Paul Smith’s College of the Adirondacks!

Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing 2025: my teaching!

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Two weeks after teaching poetry at the Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture on Kefalonia, Greece, I taught my 13th year at the Martha’s Vineyard Institute for Creative Writing: prose poetry & flash fiction, the lyric essay, and literary publishing…plus a writers life panel and my poetry reading. I’m a very fulfilled poet and teacher this summer! On top of that I have one more writing conference to teach at: the awesome Kettle Pond Writers’ Conference at Paul Smith’s College in the Adirondacks!