Monthly Archives: July 2013

Every River on Earth: Writing from Appalachian Ohio

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I recently received happy news of developments in the anthology of southern Ohio literature, edited by poet Neil Carpathios, which will contain three of my poems (two unpublished and one previously published in The Cincinnati Review). The anthology now has a title, Every River on Earth: Writing from Appalachian Ohio, a publisher, Ohio University Press (from my alma mater!), and a publication date of fall 2014.

This will be the first time my writing will be included in an anthology, and I am honored and extremely excited.

Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing 2013

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The Classroom

I’ve recently returned from a week on Martha’s Vineyard where I was an instructor in the the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. This was my third year working as an instructor for the institute. This year’s session, the institute’s fourth, was the best of all, with an amazing selection of poetry and fiction instructors and a group of truly inspiring and inspired students all working together in the elegant surroundings of this beautiful island.

West Chop Lighthouse, Vineyard Haven Harbor

If you are interested in attending as a student, I encourage you to keep an eye on the institute’s website early next year as details for the 2014 session become available. In the meantime, here are some of my snapshots of this year’s teaching faculty. [NB: We didn’t actually spend all of our time at the beach, despite how these pictures may appear.]

Institute Director & Fiction Instructor Alexander Weinstein

Fiction Instructors Michael Martone & Phong Nguyen

Poetry & Translation Instructor Rebecca Gayle Howell

Poetry Instructor Keith Leonard

Poetry Instructor & Yours Truly Christopher Citro

Gay Head Lighthouse, Aquinnah

Beecher’s 3

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Beecher’s issue 3 has just been published and it contains “Incredible Journey” a collaborative prose poem written by me and the poet Dustin Nightingale.

This is a wonderfully designed journal and my photograph above hardly does it justice. The inside is as just a beautiful, with poetry, fiction and nonfiction by writers such as Nate Pritts, Michael Bazzett, Heather Frese, & F. Daniel Rzicznek, as well as drawings, including the embossed image on the cover above, by Brett Millard.

Thank you Ben Cartwright and the other editors of Beecher’s!