Awesome! LIT just accepted my poem “Playing Baseball with a Pocket Knife.” Huge thank yous to Rebecca Endres & Richard Berwind and everyone at LIT.
And thank you to my dad for teaching me this game on our backyard picnic table when I was little…and I never even chopped off any of my fingers or toes while playing it, go figure!
I’m delighted to receive my contributor copy of this year’s Rhino with my poem “The Groundhog Full of Yellow Roses” Huge thanks to everyone at Rhino! And thank you also to Gary, our backyard groundhog, for the inspiration.
Awesome afternoon getting new author photos taken along with my fellow Downtown Writers Center faculty by the wonderful Marc Safran Photography in Syracuse!
I’m delighted to share this 3rd poem video I’ve made with my nephew Brian Citro: “One Light in a Field of Other Lights”
Poem by Christopher Citro
Music by Brian Citro
Video by Christopher
Announcing my 2 private summer Zoom workshops starting in July: my poetry workshop “In the Landscape of Contemporary Poetry” & my “Creative Nonfiction Workshop.”
Both classes have all new readings and materials each time I teach them.
Heat up your writing this spring! Join us!
Details & registration available http://christophercitro.com/private-classes/.
Register soon as spaces fill quickly!
I’m delighted to share that today I’ve had 2 poems published in the new issue of Sweet, complete with audio of me reading them: “It’s Only Me the Toyota with the Bungeed Muffler” and “I Want To Reach Out and Hold Your Reach Out.” Huge thanks to Andy Braithwaite, Katie Riegel, Chelsea Dingman, and everyone at Sweet!
https://sweetlit.org/christopher-citro-volume-15/
Yippee! Kettle Pond Writers Conference is back for 2023, and I’ll be teaching there again! There’s still time to apply for the writing residency, June 17-24! Join us for a week in the Adirondacks with readings, craft lectures, generative workshops, and plenty of time to write by the lake. A wonderful week of writing in a magical place surrounded by inspiring people. Join us!
More information here: https://www.kettlepondwriters.com
Thank you to the editors and crew of Sprung Formal: The Kansas City Art Institute’s Literary Arts Journal for publishing my poems “We Are Different in This Room” and “The Sailors All Dance and Sing As Their Ship Goes Down.” The issue is published online right now and also as a print issue. Snazzy!
Today Poetry Daily today is featuring my poem “Sneaking Back Inside” from my second book, If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun.
HUGE thank to Judy Leserman and everyone at Poetry Daily!
Holy-moly! 32 Poems just accepted my poem “A Wolf Chases Honestly Bites You” and I’m freaking out! Wow! Thank you George David Clark and everyone at 32 Poems! I’m headin’ out for some prosecco, cuz there’s gonna be some celebratin’ going on around the ol’ homestead tonight!