My poem “Like a River Stood on End,” first published in Cherry Tree, has just been republished online at The Talbot Spy. And there’s a short video of me reading the poem. Thank you, James Dissette!
Read/watch the poem HERE!
I wrapped up my week teaching for the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing by teaching my class on strategies for building a poetry book manuscript. What a great week, what an inspiring time I’ve had with all the attendees and my fellow faculty. Wow! And plus we ended with readings by Adrian Matejka & Keith Taylor. Wow wow!
Just a reminder that I’m reading this evening 6-7 EDT with the wonderful Matthew Gavin Frank. The event is free and open to the public, just register for the Zoom link via that bitly address in the image. I’ll be reading poems from my new book, If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun. Come join us already!
Day 2 of this summer’s virtual Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, and I just finished teaching my class on The Hermit Crab Essay. What an amazing session, such wonderful comments and questions, and the in-class writing that people shared was…wow…so generous, so moving, so beautiful.
This summer’s virtual Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing is underway this week! Today I’m delighted to be teaching my Introduction to the Lyric Essay class! Wonderful opening ceremony last night, with readings by Leonard A Slade Jr. and Alexander Weinstein. Skål!
I’m reading from my new poetry book, If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun, Wednesday June 9 from 6-7 EDT and anyone can attend the reading! Just register for your free Zoom link via the bit.ly address in this image. My reading is part of next week’s virtual Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, where I’m also teaching. You don’t have to be attending the Institute to attend the reading though! It’s open to the public. Plus you get to hear the awesome Matthew Gavin Frank! Come on by!
The new online issue of West Branch appears today, and among the wealth of wonderfulness, it contains my three poems, “If Alone Has a Flavor,” “Quartered Suns,” and “That’s Me When That’s You.” Thank you Joseph Scapellato, Andrew Ciotola, and the rest of the West Branch Magazine crew! I’m so delighted to have these poems appear here!!!
https://westbranch.blogs.bucknell.edu/christopher-citro/05/2021/
My book, If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun, winner of Elixir Press’ Antivenom Poetry Award, is one month old! 🍋🌞 I just posted another batch of signed copies. If you’d like one of your own, you can order a signed copy HERE. Thank you to everyone who has ordered a signed copy, or bought one from Amazon, Small Press Distribution, Bookshop.org! Huge thanks to everyone who has rated and reviewed it on Goodreads and Amazon! My book and I are purring with gratitude. ❤❤❤
The video of yesterday’s “Hybrid Forms Collaborations — Reading and Discussion” event is now available. Dustin Nightingale and I read some of our collaborative prose poems (for the first time ever live!), along with awesome readings by Aimee Parkison & Carol Guess and (hosts) Meg Pokrass & Jeff Friedman. Plus there’s an inspiring Q & A. Yay collaborative writing! 😀😀
What a total delight Dustin Nightingale and I had this evening reading our collaborative poetry alongside awesome collaborative duos Aimee Parkison & Carol Guess and (hosts) Meg Pokrass & Jeff Friedman, as part of the “Hybrid Forms Collaborations — Reading and Discussion.” Thank you Meg for inviting us, and thank you to all the great folks who attended the reading and discussion!