My poem Circuitry Suite in the Whitman on Walls Anthology!

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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

Brian Citro’s Acoustic Pastime – Solo Guitar just released from ears&eyes Records!

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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!

I’m Teaching a Contemporary World Poetry Seminar This Autumn Online via The Downtown Writers Center!

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I’m teaching an online 8-session (Thurs 6-8:00 pm ET) contemporary world poetry seminar starting October 6 for the Downtown Writers Center. Join me Thursday evenings for a fun, inspiring tour of what poets all around the world are doing these days. All readings will be in English. No prior knowledge is required! Registration is inexpensive and open to the public. You can register with a credit card by calling (315) 474-6851 x380.

To learn more about The Downtown Writer’s Center and download the autumn class schedule, with all of their awesome class offerings, visit the Center’s website: https://ymcacny.org/creative-writing-workshops.

Thank you Esteban Rodriguez & Tupelo Quarterly!!!

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Oh my goodness!!! Thank you Esteban Rodríguez & Tupelo Quarterly for this luminous review of my book If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun. To be read with such sensitivity, generosity, and insight! My poems and I bow deeply in thanks! And now we reach for a box of tissues (and make really loud blowing noises)… 😀❤️😭

https://www.tupeloquarterly.com/uncategorized/a-review-of-if-we-had-a-lemon-wed-throw-it-and-call-that-the-sun-by-christopher-citro/

Registration is now open for my fall Zoom writing workshops!

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Howdy! I’m teaching 2 private fall Zoom workshops starting in September: my basic poetry workshop “In the Landscape of Contemporary Poetry” (always new readings each time I teach it) & “The Lyric Essay,” my popular workshop on this exciting Creative Nonfiction genre. Supercharge your writing this fall! Join us! 😀 Register soon as spaces fill quickly! 😀

Details & registration available at http://christophercitro.com/private-classes/.

I’m reading at Whitman on Walls August 18, 2022 in Syracuse

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Syracuse-area friends! I’m reading a newly comissioned poem next Thursday Aug 18, 2022, as part of Whitman on Walls, a fun film and poetry event at the Everson Museum of Art. Come by, bring a lawn chair, enjoy a food cart dinner, and listen as local poets respond to short films inspired by “Song of Myself.” Yes yes!

WoW! at the Everson

I’m judging this year’s Annual Poetry Award at Elixir Press!

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I’m delighted to announce that I’m this year’s final judge for the 23rd Annual Poetry Award at Elixir Press! I’m so excited to read your manuscript and help a new poetry book come into the world!

Entries accepted from Aug 1 to Oct 31. The prize is $2,000 and publication of your poetry book! For details & to enter, visit: http://elixirpress.com/guidelines/annual-poetry-awards

Note: close friends, students, and former students of the final judges or editors of Elixir Press are ineligible. 😀

2 of my collaborative prose poems just published online at CutBank!

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CutBank has just published online 2 of my collaborative prose poems written with Dustin Nightingale: “A Crumb of Wind” and “Here Beside Us with Us.” Thank you so much Luke Larkin & all the awesome folk at CutBank! Dustin & I are thrilled that our poems have found a home there! 

Read ‘em here: http://www.cutbankonline.org/weekly-flash-prose-and-prose-poetry/2022/7/two-poems-by-christopher-citro-amp-dustin-nightingale