Author Archives: Christopher

I’m reading Wednesday July 22 on Seneca Lake for the Seneca Review!

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Central New York Friends! I have another reading coming up. This one for the Seneca Review where I am an Editorial Assistant! It’s July 22 at the Two Goats Brewery in the Finger Lakes, on a gorgeous hill overlooking Seneca Lake. Come join me and a bunch of awesome readers and celebrate the release of the new issue of the Seneca Review.

My collaborative poem “Smoke Moving Out of the Way as It Rises” just published online in The Boiler

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The new issue of The Boiler just appeared and it contains “Smoke Moving Out of the Way as It Rises” a collaborative prose poem I wrote with Steve Castro and Dustin Pearson!…alongside a ton of literary and art goodness! In between trips to the beach and ice cream sundaes, check it out!

Thanks so much to everyone at The Boiler!

Read the poem HERE.

Here’s a video of me reading my poem “Keep Moving (Home)” at the Kettle Pond Writers Conference June 23, 2026

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Here’s a video of me reading my poem “Keep Moving (Home)” at the Kettle Pond Writers Conference June 23, 2026. This poem was first published as the liner notes to the album “Keep Moving (Home)” by my nephew Brian Citro (Calligram Records, 2026). You can stream and purchase the album (as digital, CD, and limited edition vinyl) from the label HERE. The CD includes the text of the poem in the 6-panel, full-spread digipack and the vinyl includes it as a full-size insert.

Barrow Street accepted my poem “Rock Back They Close Rock Forward They Open”!

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Hot golly! Barrow Street has accepted my poem “Rock Back They Close Rock Forward They Open” for their upcoming issue. A sonnet about, among other things, migraine headaches, Raggedy Andy, a paper shredder, and a creepy Victorian doll my mom kept on a tiny rocking chair in the living room.

This will be my second time having poetry in Barrow Street and I’m so thrilled. Thank you so much Charles Kell and everyone at BR!

Day 6 of Kettle Pond Writers Conference!

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Day 6 of Kettle Pond Writers’ Conference! Writing and relaxing on the shore of Akwasasne Lake at Paul Smith’s College, waving hi to the wonderful Operations Manager Greta Hovland & our wonderful Director Virginia Zech as they rise from the water, then enjoying the wonderful Brian Hall reading us his fiction!