Hot dang! I just received the new Rain Taxi which contains the interview with me about my book, If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun (Elixir Press, 2021). I’m doing loop-de-loops! I hope you’ll snag yourself a print copy in your bookstore, library, or by purchase or subscription! Thank you Eric Lorberer at Rain Taxi and thank you Christopher Carter Sanderson for interviewing me!
“Smell of Wet Earth Like the Inside of My Hands”
Poem & Video by Christopher Citro
Music by Brian Citro
I’m delighted to share this first poem video from a new poetry & music video project I’m doing with my nephew Brian. Hope you enjoy it! (It’s posted to my YouTube.)
Brian Citro has been playing and writing music on guitar for 30 years. A long-time member of The Drastics, he’s performed and toured with JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound, Ted Sirota’s Heavyweight Dub! and others. With Charles Gorczynski, Nate Lepine and Quin Kirchner he made music as Salamander and Video Gum Culture. Brian is also an international human rights lawyer and has lived, travelled and played music in Africa, Asia and Europe.
Christopher Citro is the author of If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun (Elixir Press, 2021), winner of the 2019 Antivenom Poetry Award, and The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy (Steel Toe Books, 2015). His awards include a 2018 Pushcart Prize for Poetry. He lives in Syracuse, New York.
Poem from If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun (Elixir Press, 2021)
I just received the exciting news that the next print issue of Rain Taxi will contain their interview with me about my new book, If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun! What a thrill! Thank you Eric Lorberer at Rain Taxi and thank you Christopher Carter Sanderson for interviewing me!
I’ve been brought on board the team at Seneca Review as an editorial assistant! As someone who has long loved the poetry and essays they publish, I’m over-the-moon to be a part of their team…the literary journal that NAMED the lyric review! Yippee! Since decomP magazinE changed hands in 2020, becoming an institutional journal with their own in-house editorial team, I have been on the lookout for a new opportunity to edit for a literary journal. I couldn’t be more delighted that it’s Seneca Review! Send us your awesome writing…and maybe I’ll be one of the people who gets to read it! 🙂
Hi friends! I haven’t been able to log into my original Instagram page for months now. Dunno why… So tonight I made a new one. Please (re)follow me on Instagram. Thanks! https://www.instagram.com/christophercitropoet/
Thankfully today’s arctic windstorm hasn’t blown away the mailbox, and I received my contributor’s copy of the new Barrow Street, which contains my poem “The Effect Lasting Half a Minute,” as well as a ton of awesome poems by an amazing list of poets and friends! Huge thank yous to Michael Broek and the other Barrow Street editors and readers!
Wow! What a total delight reciting my poems for WPBS Watertown this afternoon! Huge heartfelt thanks to Joleene, Ryan, Leah, and my buddy Big Bird!!! I’m thrilled to be able to share these readings with everyone when they air!
What a delight to be nominated by a contributing editor (thank you!) for this year’s Pushcart Prize. Winning a Pushcart in 2018 was such an honor. Fingers crossed for another chance!
Oh my goodness oh my goodness!!! The American Poetry Review has just accepted my full-length craft essay “On Giving Up: Its Uses and Benefits in the Writing Life.” What a dream come true! Thank you Elizabeth Scanlon and everybody at APR. Wow!!!
Another box of my new poetry book has arrived! Want a signed copy of If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun, winner of the Antivenom Poetry Award from Elixir Press? Order one directly from me via my website or this link: https://checkout.square.site/buy/T2GSZQN2ZYSFOIN4FVAYAF5J