With a glass of elderflower wine and a skol, Director Alexander Weinstein opens the third week of the 2026 Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing! My 14th year teaching here. My second week of this year’s three sessions. Yip-a-dang! Here’s to a great week of writing on the Vineyard!
What a thrill to receive my contributor copy of the new Post Road, containing my poems “Meanwhile Everything Else Is Gone” and “Kicking the Mud Free” and much more literary goodness! HUGE thanks to the wonderful editors of PR!
Announcing my FALL 2026 private creative writing workshops in poetry and creative nonfiction!
On Wednesdays I’ll be teaching my poetry workshop, “In the Landscape of Contemporary Poetry” beginning September 30.
On Thursdays I’ll be teaching my creative nonfiction workshop, “Introduction to the Lyric Essay” beginning October 1.
Both workshops run for 6 classes, from 6-8 PM Eastern Time, via Zoom. Classes can be recorded for you to watch later if you are absent.
Earlybird Discounted Registration just opened and closes Sunday August 23.
Regular Registration will close Monday September 21.
Register early as these classes usually fill up!
See my website https://christophercitro.com/private-classes/ for more info and to register.
So sweet and wonderful to read my poetry last week alongside so many lovely people for the Seneca Review, at Two Goats Brewing on the shore of Seneca Lake!
My little prose poem “A Bee Lands a Yellow Violet Sags” has just been published online in the gorgeous new issue of -ette. Thank you Beth Hahn, Nora Maynard, and Melanie Hoopes!
What a warm and delightful experience reading my poetry on Friday alongside the wonderful Suzanne Frischkorn for St. David’s Rhythm & Rhyme in Fayetteville, NY. Thank you to Laura Hannett for inviting me and thank you to all the kind folks who came!
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.
Central New York friends! I’m reading poetry Friday July 17 for St. David’s new Rhythm & Rhyme series, alongside the wonderful poet Suzanne Frischkorn and pianist Logan Blackman. Come on by!
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.
