I’m offering private Zoom classes this Spring!

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I’m offering private Zoom classes this Spring! One’s a short-form creative nonfiction workshop and the other is a discussion seminar where we’ll read and chat about contemporary world poetry (in English). Classes begin the last week of April 2022. Register early as classes will cap at 12 participants each. Feel free to share this with anyone who might be interested! 😀

For more info and to register visit http://christophercitro.com/private-classes/!

“Look! Fruit!” in the new Bat City Review!

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Thrilled to receive my contributor copies of the new Bat City Review, which contains “Look! Fruit!” one of the collaborative prose poems I’ve been writing with Dustin Nightingale. There’s so much literary awesomeness in this gorgeous issue! Massive thank yous to Luci Arbus-Scandiffio, Sarah Matthes, and the whole BCR crew!

I’m interviewed in the new print edition of Rain Taxi!

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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!

New poem video with my nephew Brian – “Smell of Wet Earth Like the Inside of My Hands”

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“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’ve joined the Seneca Review crew!

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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! 🙂

My poem “The Effect Lasting Half a Minute” in Barrow Street!

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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!