Jumping jelly beans! Ghost City Press accepted my chapbook “I Wear a Top Hat When I Go Into the Forest,” composed of collaborative prose poems written with Dustin Nightingale! It will appear in Ghost City’s 2025 Summer Micro-Chapbook Series. Huge thank you to judges Tom Snarsky and Gabrielle Hogan!
HUGE congratulations to my sweetie Sarah for having her short story “Where the Mile-Long Blazers Fly” accepted at Tupelo Quarterly! I’m so proud of you! 👏👏👏👏
The best part of the already amazing Unbound Book Festival? Seeing old friends and making new ones! I didn’t take many photos but here’s John Gallaher and Jenny Molberg in the hotel lobby special chair…and me, Amina Gautier and Gary Jackson sharing our homeward travels, talking writing, teaching, comic books, Michael Jordan, Jimmy Stewart, Cary Grant, and more!
Unbound Book Festival! You were amazing! What a great time I had presenting on my second panel, The Thing with Feathers…about boids! *flap-flap warble-warble* Hosted at the Serendipity Salon. Then doing a book signing at Skylark Bookshop .
Pictured: panelist Lindsey Drager, panelist Noppadol Paothong, moderator Dana Ripper, and panelist me!
Unbound Book Festival! I want to hold you in my heart! What a wonderful time I had presenting on the Bitter Beans panel about coffee, including reading my poem “Coffee Suite” commissioned for the panel!
Moderator: Jessica Vaughn Martin
Panelists: Mark Pendergrast, Heather Webber, and me!
How wonderful! Post Road has accepted my poems “Meanwhile Everything Else Is Gone” and “Kicking the Mud Free.” Thank you so much to Okwudili Nebeolisa and everyone at Post Road Magazine!
Hot golly! What a pleasure to be signing the colophon pages for our new collaborative chapbook, “The Box We Put the World in to Keep a Corner from Shattering,” which I wrote with the awesome poets Dustin Pearson and Steve Castro! Thank you Timothy Geiger and Aureole Press for letterpress printing this beautiful object!
Wow! Never before have I been able to watch a book of mine actually get made!?! Enjoy this footage of poet Timothy Geiger, founder and proprietor of Aureole Press (at the University of Toledo), hand letterpressing the title page of The Box We Put the World in to Keep a Corner from Shattering, the forthcoming collaborative chapbook I wrote with Steve Castro and Dustin Pearson. Thank you for sharing this Dustin! And thank you Timothy for being such an artist! 🙌
Thank you to the Columbia Daily Tribune for including me among the 15 authors you wrote about for next week’s Unbound Book Festival in Columbia, Missouri! What a lovely surprise!
Announcing my SPRING 2025 poetry and creative nonfiction private online writing workshops!
On Wednesdays, I’ll teach “In the Landscape of Contemporary Poetry” 6:00-8:00 p.m. ET, 6 weeks, starting April 16. We’ll read recently published poetry from literary journals and books, generate new poems with the help of prompts that I create, and spend the bulk of each class in a fun, inspiring poetry workshop. In this course participants will write and receive workshop comments on five original poems. Writers at all levels are welcome. I teach In the Landscape of Contemporary Poetry often, and every time the readings are all new, so you can take it again and again!
On Thursdays, I’m offering my also popular combination generative and workshop class “Introduction to the Lyric Essay” 6:00-8:00 p.m. ET, 6 weeks, starting April 17. This workshop will usher you into the wild and liberating world of the lyric essay, a popular form of the contemporary experimental creative nonfiction essay. This class is made for both writers who are new to lyric essays and writers wishing to deepen their relationship with lyric essays. If you are a nonfiction writer wanting to engage with this popular form, this is the class for you! If you are a poet wanting to branch out into a new genre, this is the class for you! If you have never written creative nonfiction before, this is the class for you! Writers at all levels are welcome.
Registration is now open, and it closes on Sunday April 13.
😀 Details & registration available http://christophercitro.com/private-classes/. Register soon as spaces fill quickly! 😀
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