Delighted to learn that my poetry book manuscript was a semi-finalist in Conduit‘s Minds on Fire Book Prize…and the collaborative poetry book manuscript I wrote with Dustin Nightingale was a finalist!
Thank you Conduit Magazine, and congratulations to the winner Jeffrey Morgan!
I’m excited to announce that I’ll be teaching an 8-week poetry writing workshop called “In the Landscape of Contemporary Poetry” starting January 23, 2019 at The Downtown Writer’s Center in sunny Syracuse, NY. I teach this workshop every winter session, and the readings are all new every year. If you’re in the area come on down!
In the Landscape of Contemporary Poetry with Christopher Citro. Wednesdays, 6:00 – 8:00. 8 weeks, starting January 23. “You grow to love the creatures you create/ some of them come out with pupils swirling/ others with teeth” writes Kaveh Akbar in his 2017 book Calling a Wolf a Wolf. In this regular winter session workshop, with all different readings each year, we’ll discuss poetry from recent books and journals, then use prompts from our readings to inspire us in the creation of our own darling poetic creatures.
Registration is inexpensive and open to the public. To learn more about The Downtown Writer’s Center, download the winter class schedule, and register for this workshop, visit the Center’s website HERE. Feel free to share with anyone who might be interested!
Although my second poetry book manuscript, Gullier, has yet to find a home, it was gratifying to receive a recent rejection from Copper Canyon informing me they admired it, that the “manuscript was strong and made it through several rounds of review.” With the list of other places the manuscript has so far found a little love, it gives me hope that someday…
Georgia Poetry Prize (one of 9 finalists)
Sarabande Kathryn A. Morton Prize (one of 15 finalists)
Milkweed (“read attentively and with much interest”)
Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize U of Utah (one of 16 semi-finalists)
Pleiades Press Editors prize (semi-finalist)
Octopus Books (second round of consideration)
Black Lawrence Press (“read with interest”)
Brittingham & Pollak Prizes/U of Wisconsin Press (strong semi-finalist)
New Measure / Free Verse / Parlor Press (“admired”)
Tupelo Press (“truly enjoyed reading your work”)
What a thrill to hold my contributor copy of the new cream city review, which contains my poems “Sneaking Back Inside” and “We Live on a Foreign Planet this One,” alongside luminous new work by such bright lights as Adam Day, Virginia Konchan, Lisa Low, Saara Myrene Raappana, Karen Weyant, John Sibley Williams, and Brenna Womer. Thanks so much Alessandra Rolffs, Ae Hee Lee, Caleb Nelson, and the rest of the CCR staff!
Thrilled to have received the news that my poems “Dear Diary Where Is Everybody,” “Waves Frozen Like Wrinkles on Dog Skin,” and “Light at the Beach a Thousand Doctors” have been accepted at Raleigh Review!
On this rainy October morning, I’m delighted to have received my contributor’s copy of The Massachusetts Review, which contains my poem “Yesterday I Saw a Small Snake Holding Still” in addition to work from such wonderfuls as Chen Chen, Leah Poole Osowski, Emma Bolden, Dennis Finnell, Christopher Kondrich, Michael Hurley, to name but a few. Thank you so much to Ellen Doré Watson, Deborah Gorlin, Emily Wojcik, and the rest of the MR crew!
Fantastic to read poetry this afternoon at Lit Youngstown’s Fall Literary Festival along with the wonderful Sara Moore Wagner and Susan Wojnar!
Delighted to be heading out to read my poetry and moderate a publishing panel for Lit Youngstown’s Fall Literary Festival at Youngstown State University. There are tons of readings, panels, a book fair – so much literary goodness. I’ll be reading poems from my unpublished second book manuscript Friday Sept 21 at 2 pm, along with fellow readers Sara Moore Wagner and Susan Wojnar, then moderating an Editor’s Publishing Panel that features Dianne Borsenik, Rochelle Hurt, Larry Smith, Vertigo Xi’an Xavier, Jessica Fischoff, and John Gosslee. And that’s just one fragment of all that’s happening over the festival’s two days. If you’re in the neighborhood, come on by!
Lovely to learn that my second poetry book manuscript was a semifinalist for the Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize from The University of Utah Press. Congratulations to the winner Lindsay Lusby!
Holy. Moly. I’ve been awarded a residency at Ragdale for next spring, fully funded with a fellowship!!! I’d never applied to do any residency before being invited to apply to this one, and wow I never expected all this. Thank you Jeffrey Meeuwsen, Amy Sinclair, Regin Igloria, and the Curational Board, selection committee, & staff at Ragdale Foundation for this amazing opportunity. I’m honored and elated. Having this to look forward to will certainly help keep things glowing when winter winds come a-blowing.
