Off to post another batch of signed copies of my new book, If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun, winner of the Elixir Press Antivenom Poetry Award! Huge thank you to everyone who has bought one! If you’d like to order your own signed copy, go HERE.
Oh my goodness! My book has just been reviewed at New Pages! Susan Kay Anderson has written such a beautiful, generous, insightful review. I and my book are jumping up and down making little squealing noises. Thank you Susan Kay Anderson and New Pages!
“What Citro does in these poems is make us wonder about our very existence and our inventiveness as humans. … Every title is like a movie title and each poem a small film with you sitting inside a theater, or, are you in the film too?”
You can read the full review HERE
It’s Ross Gay for the final Blurb Wednesday! We’ve had the awesome Diane Seuss, the awesome Lee Upton, and the awesome Dean Young, today it’s the awesome Ross Gay! Yes! Words cannot express how grateful I am that these wonderful poets took time out to read my new poetry book and say such generous things about it. Here’s what Ross Gay wrote:
<< Reading Christopher Citro’s If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun is like taking a meandering stroll with your weird, brilliant, soulful friend who points out a zillion things you never noticed even though you’ve been down this back alley a thousand times. The utterly familiar, quotidian landscapes of Citro’s poems–in the garden, in the kitchen or living room, at work–are revealed to be not only quirky or funny or bizarre (though often those things too), but truly mysterious. Quiet repositories of all the questions. How lucky we are for such loving, rigorous, and luminous vision. How lucky we are, I mean, for Christopher Citro’s beautiful work.>>
If you want a signed copy of my book right now, go HERE, and I’ll get it to you pronto!
It’s also in stock now at Small Press Distribution and Amazon!
Another box of books arrived today! If you’d like a signed copy, use this link: https://checkout.square.site/buy/T2GSZQN2ZYSFOIN4FVAYAF5J
There are about two weeks left to apply to the Writing Contest for this summer’s virtual Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing! I’m the judge of the poetry contest! Send in your poems (or fiction and CNF to be judged by Wendy Rawlings) to maybe win a full or partial fellowship!
With a week until my second poetry book is officially released, seems like a good idea to do a new draft of my next poetry book manuscript. My cat is obviously impressed.
I have review copies of my new book, If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun, winner of the Elixir Press Antivenom Poetry Award and released April 1. If you’re a reviewer and would like to request a review copy, email me at christopher AT christophercitro DOT com! (Cat not included.)
Howdy! Just a little reminder that you can pre-order my new poetry book from Amazon and Small Press Distribution (it’s in stock both places). And you can buy a signed copy directly from me HERE, and I’ll get it to you pronto. If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun, winner of the Elixir Press Antivenom Poetry Award, published April 1.
I had a wonderful time Zoom visiting Jared Green’s ENG 344 class at Stonehill College to talk about my writing and all things Lyric Essay. What a great group of students!
We’ve had the awesome Diane Seuss and Lee Upton, today it’s the awesome Dean Young! Each week until it’s officially published on April 1st, I’m sharing one blurb from my new poetry book, If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun. Words cannot express how grateful I am that these wonderful poets took time out to read my manuscript and say such generous things about it.
If you’d want a signed copy of my book right now, go HERE, and I’ll get it to you pronto!
It’s also in stock now at Small Press Distribution and Amazon!