Howdy! Listen to me and Dustin Nightingale read our 3 collaborative prose poems in Bear Review with awesome improvised piano music by my partner Sarah! Thank you to the whole Bear Review crew for sharing this, and thank you especially to Marcus Myers for your generous words about our audio.
My book is 1 year old! Happy birthday to my second poetry book If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun, winner of the Antivenom Poetry Award and published by Elixir Press! My book and I would like to say a huge, quivering THANK YOU to everyone for reading it and for being so awesome about it over these 12 months.
If you’d like a signed copy, you can order one from my website. (I’ll mail it out with a bright yellow lemon sticker on the front of the package which makes our local postal clerk Vinnie say, “Sold another book, did you? Good job!”
You can also buy a regular copy just from Bookshop dot org, Small Press Distribution, Amazon, and elsewhere!
I’m offering private Zoom classes this Spring! One’s a short-form creative nonfiction workshop and the other is a discussion seminar where we’ll read and chat about contemporary world poetry (in English). Classes begin the last week of April 2022. Register early as classes will cap at 12 participants each. Feel free to share this with anyone who might be interested! 😀
For more info and to register visit http://christophercitro.com/private-classes/!
Thrilled to receive my contributor copies of the new Bat City Review, which contains “Look! Fruit!” one of the collaborative prose poems I’ve been writing with Dustin Nightingale. There’s so much literary awesomeness in this gorgeous issue! Massive thank yous to Luci Arbus-Scandiffio, Sarah Matthes, and the whole BCR crew!
Hot dang! I just received the new Rain Taxi which contains the interview with me about my book, If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun (Elixir Press, 2021). I’m doing loop-de-loops! I hope you’ll snag yourself a print copy in your bookstore, library, or by purchase or subscription! Thank you Eric Lorberer at Rain Taxi and thank you Christopher Carter Sanderson for interviewing me!
“Smell of Wet Earth Like the Inside of My Hands”
Poem & Video by Christopher Citro
Music by Brian Citro
I’m delighted to share this first poem video from a new poetry & music video project I’m doing with my nephew Brian. Hope you enjoy it! (It’s posted to my YouTube.)
Brian Citro has been playing and writing music on guitar for 30 years. A long-time member of The Drastics, he’s performed and toured with JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound, Ted Sirota’s Heavyweight Dub! and others. With Charles Gorczynski, Nate Lepine and Quin Kirchner he made music as Salamander and Video Gum Culture. Brian is also an international human rights lawyer and has lived, travelled and played music in Africa, Asia and Europe.
Christopher Citro is the author of If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun (Elixir Press, 2021), winner of the 2019 Antivenom Poetry Award, and The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy (Steel Toe Books, 2015). His awards include a 2018 Pushcart Prize for Poetry. He lives in Syracuse, New York.
Poem from If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun (Elixir Press, 2021)
I just received the exciting news that the next print issue of Rain Taxi will contain their interview with me about my new book, If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun! What a thrill! Thank you Eric Lorberer at Rain Taxi and thank you Christopher Carter Sanderson for interviewing me!
I’ve been brought on board the team at Seneca Review as an editorial assistant! As someone who has long loved the poetry and essays they publish, I’m over-the-moon to be a part of their team…the literary journal that NAMED the lyric review! Yippee! Since decomP magazinE changed hands in 2020, becoming an institutional journal with their own in-house editorial team, I have been on the lookout for a new opportunity to edit for a literary journal. I couldn’t be more delighted that it’s Seneca Review! Send us your awesome writing…and maybe I’ll be one of the people who gets to read it! 🙂
Hi friends! I haven’t been able to log into my original Instagram page for months now. Dunno why… So tonight I made a new one. Please (re)follow me on Instagram. Thanks! https://www.instagram.com/christophercitropoet/
Thankfully today’s arctic windstorm hasn’t blown away the mailbox, and I received my contributor’s copy of the new Barrow Street, which contains my poem “The Effect Lasting Half a Minute,” as well as a ton of awesome poems by an amazing list of poets and friends! Huge thank yous to Michael Broek and the other Barrow Street editors and readers!
