Congratulations to all the reciters at tonight’s Semifinals of the NY State Poetry Out Loud Competition. It was an honor to be one of the judges. All those poems, all that passion. Best of luck to the winner and the runner up at next month’s state finals!
Deeeelighted to receive the news that The Idaho Review has accepted “Don’t Fall,” a collaborative prose poem that I wrote with Dustin Nightingale. Thank you Desmond Fuller and the whole IR crew!
I’m delighted to receive an invitation to be a judge for the Poetry Out Loud semifinals at Onondaga Community College next week. I was a judge for the finals in Indiana years ago, and it was such a fun, inspiring event!
What a thrill to be nominated by a contributing editor (thank you!) for this year’s Pushcart Prize. Winning a Pushcart in 2018 was such an honor. Fingers crossed for another chance!
As the snow flurries fall, I’m delighted to be reviewing proofs of my collaborative prose poem, written with Dustin Nightingale, “Like a Fist Next to Your Heart,” soon to appear in the next issue of New South!
Turned on the TV and what did I see? Me! Reading my Pushcart Prize-winning poem “It’s Something People in Love Do” broadcast on WPBS Weekly: Inside the Stories last Tuesday. Hope you enjoy!
Announcing my 2 private winter Zoom workshops starting at the end of January! I’m offering my poetry workshop “In the Landscape of Contemporary Poetry” (always new readings each time I teach it) & “Adventures in the Lyric Essay,” my popular workshop on this exciting Creative Nonfiction genre.
If you’ve taken my “The Lyric Essay” class before, this is an all NEW class with new readings! If you don’t have experience with the lyric essay, this class is ALSO for you, as I’ll provide a brief introduction to the form in the first class. Heat up your writing this winter! Join us!
Details & registration available at http://christophercitro.com/private-classes/
Register soon as spaces fill quickly!
I’m thrilled to received my contributor’s copy of The American Poetry Review with my poem “We Couldn’t Be More Biological.” This is my 2nd appearance in APR and I’m spinning around the house doing a whirly dance just like the 1st time. Thank you Elizabeth Scanlon!
That cozy feeling, sitting under the tree, reviewing proofs of my poem “The Shape The Air Makes Between Us,” which will appear in the spring issue of the North American Review…
“The Island Designated Yes,” a prose poem I co-wrote with Dustin Nightingale, has just been published online at The Shore.
It’s very short. It’s a love poem. And it mentions indigo cherry drops which are tomatoes we grow every year and taste like when funk songs mention sunshine. I hope you enjoy it.
Huge thank yous to editors Caroline Chavatel, Emma DePanise, John A. Nieves!
Read the poem HERE.