On this Monday of sunlight glinting across the snowfall from this weekend,, I’m thrilled to be reviewing proofs of my two poems “Air Damp as the Back of the Throat” and “We’ve Come All This Way Got Dressed Up” which will soon appear in The Iowa Review!!!
I’m delighted to share the news that my poem “The Shape the Air Makes Between Us” has just been accepted by North American Review. Thank you J D Schraffenberger and the rest of the NAR crew! This poem mentions the amazing sculpture from 1993 “House” by the amazing artist Rachel Whiteread. She filled a three story house with concrete then removed the house part.
Thrilled!!! to review proofs of my poem “We Couldn’t Be More Biological” which will appear in the January issue of The American Poetry Review!!! Wow!
I never know what I’m going to write about when I write my poems. I sure didn’t know this love poem would be inspired by a couple creatures peeping out from the middle of a 4 hour NOAA deep sea science expedition video, which is the kind of thing my partner and I like to watch late at night with the lights down low…
As the 1st snow of winter falls, what a warm bit of news to learn that The Shore has accepted “The Island Designated Yes,” a collaborative prose poem I wrote with Dustin Nightingale! Thank you Caroline Chavatel, Emma DePanise, John A. Nieves!
This autumn I created videos for the collaborative prose poems written by me and Dustin Nightingale which Bear Review published. I just posted the 3rd and final of these to my YouTube page. I hope you enjoy them!
My friend, the poet Steve Castro, is translating some poems from my second book for a dual Spanish/English reading we’re going to be doing together next year at Syracuse Stage (more on that later!), and I find myself very touched, filled with a warm gratitude that several states away a wonderful poet is turning my little poems into another language, one which sadly I have no facility in. And such an awesome poet as Steve Castro! Everyone should get his poetry book Blue Whale Phenomena published in 2019 by Otis Books!
On my birthday yesterday, one of my very favorite journals, Colorado Review, accepted my two poems: “Night but Unlike Night” & “Peel the Black Walnut Bark like Small Fists in our Fists.” What a treat! CR has published two of my poems before, as well as a creative nonfiction essay, and it’s a journal I hold close to my heart. Thank you Matthew Cooperman and everyone at CR! These two poems are particular favorites of mine, and at the center of the developing manuscript of my third poetry book. I’m overjoyed they will appear in Colorado Review!
Folks! Registration is now open for my late fall 2022 private online writing classes! Come join us for a poetry workshop and a creative nonfiction essay workshop! Registrations ends November 4. Classes begin the second week of November. Re-energize your writing this autumn in a fun, inspiring, supportive environment! For details and the links to register, visit: http://christophercitro.com/private-classes/
Delighted to receive my contributor copy of the Whitman on Walls anthology, which includes my newly commissioned poem “Circuitry Suite,” responding to passages from Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself. It was a delight and an honor to perform this last August at the Everson Museum of Art alongside an awesome group of other poets and performers. Huge thanks to Karin Coonrod and everyone with Compagnia de’ Colombari for making this all happen.
You can view their short film “Infinite Variety,” which my poem was also responding to on their Vimeo page here: https://vimeo.com/507829941
My nephew Brian Citro has just had released an album of solo jazz guitar (5 of his original compositions 2 Thelonious Monk tunes, and a jazz standard) from Chicago’s ears&eyes Records. It’s called “Acoustic Pastime – Solo Guitar,” and it’s a dreamy, meditative, beautiful album and I highly recommend it. Also, I wrote the liner notes to it! You can purchase the album (for any price you wish) HERE.And you can read my liner notes there too!