Late last summer I started work on a series of lyric essays, each inspired by one of the four classical elements: earth, air, water and fire. As I begin drafting the final one, it’s a massive delight to announce that the first essay, “Each Breeze Began Life Somewhere As a Little Cough” has just been accepted by Passages North as a future online bonus. In a nightmarish national news week(s), I’m very thankful for this.
It’s a sunny day here in Syracuse – yippee! – and I’ve just received my contributor copies of The Laurel Review issue 49.2, which contains my poem “Right Like Yellow Along a Banana” – a poem about sunlight, among other things. So many great voices in this issue – Bruce Bond, Nancy Naomi Carlson, Maxine Chernoff, Matthew Cooperman, Kristina Marie Darling, Shawn Fawson, Alex Lemon, Michael Robins, Kathleen Rooney, Martha Silano, Tony Trigilio – to name but a few. Thanks so much again Daniel Biegelson, John Gallaher, Luke Rolfes, and the rest of the Laurel Reviewers!
Thank you so much to The Iowa Review for accepting my poem “We Might As Well Be Hovering” for The Iowa Review Blog, as part of this April’s National Poetry Month poem-a-day celebration.
I’ve received my contributor copies of The Missouri Review featuring 6 of my poems!!! I’m ecstatic. I’m over the moon. Thank you so much again Poetry Editor Leanna Petronella, Evelyn Somers, Traci Cox, and the rest of the Missouri Review staff. It’s an honor to share issue 39.4 with poets Sharon Dolin, Heather Derr-Smith, and the rest of the amazing writers and artists. I’m going to try to calm down now and read.
Many misty-eyed thank yous to editor Brian Daldorph and the Coal City Review & Press for this issue’s generous, insightful review of my first poetry book The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy published by Steel Toe Books in 2015.
Huuuge thanks to Dominic Ng, Drew Scott Swenhaugen, and all the folks at Gramma Poetry for featuring “A Fern Uncurling in Her Skull Is Not an Answer Or a Reflection” and “I Love Where I Am Right Now” — two of the prose poems I’ve been writing collaboratively with Dustin Nightingale — today at Daily Gramma!
Read the poems HERE.
My collaborative prose poem “When Looking at Old Photos Only Makes It Worse” — from a series written with Dustin Nightingale — has just been published in Jerry Magazine Issue 11. You can also read a statement about our collaborative process written for this issue. Who else is here? Only the likes of Adam O. Davis, Claire Marie Stancek, Emily Hunt, Robert Whitehead, Lytton Smith, Candice L. Wuehle, and Joseph Spence. Thanks again editors Emily Wolahan & Ethan J. Hon & Daniel Bevacqua!
Read our poem HERE.
Read our collaboration statement HERE.
My short poem “But I Live Here (Empty Place)” has just been published online in Cider Press Review vol. 18 issue 5. As usual, it’s a cracking great issue with poems by Sara Henning, Elizabeth Onusko Cafferkey, Hayden Saunier, John A. Nieves, Wendy Drexler, and more. Thanks so much Ruth Foley, Caron Andregg, and the rest of the CPR staff!
Read the poem HERE.
I’m excited to announce that I’ll be teaching an 8-week poetry writing workshop called “In the Landscape of Contemporary Poetry” starting February 1 at The Downtown Writer’s Center in sunny Syracuse, NY. If you’re in the area come on down!
In the Landscape of Contemporary Poetry with Christopher Citro. Wednesdays, 6:00-8:00. 8 weeks, starting Feb. 1. “A galaxy of wildflowers/ shimmers. Shimmers/and hollers,/’C’mon!’” writes Ross Gay in his 2015 book Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude. In this workshop we’ll discuss poetry from recent books and journals, then use prompts from our readings to inspire us in our own writing.
Registration is inexpensive and open to the public. To learn more about The Downtown Writer’s Center, download the winter class schedule, and register for this workshop, visit the Center’s website HERE. Feel free to share with anyone who might be interested!
