Visited my friend the wonderful poet Emma Rhodes (in the middle of this photo) with my partner Sarah in Toronto last week! A mini Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing AND Ionian Center for the Arts & Culture reunion! Yes yes!
Howdy! Here’s a video of me reading my poem “When Our Grasses Seem Humming” which was published recently in the Bennington Review.
Hot golly! My contributor copies of the new Bennington Review arrived with my poem “When Our Grasses Seem Humming,” as well as so much amazing work by so many poets and writers I adore. Thank you Bennington Review for this bright flame in March’s deep freeze!
What an honor to be nominated by a contributing editor (thank you!) for this year’s Pushcart Prize. Winning a Pushcart in 2018 was such a thrill and an honor. Fingers crossed for another chance!
Hot golly! Allium, A Journal of Poetry & Prose has just accepted my poems: “To Find the Ridge to Watch the Sun Drop” and “Fireflies Meadow Highway Ramp”!!! Huge thank you to Marc Meierkort, Tony Trigilio, and everyone who cultivates the Allium at Columbia College Chicago!
Howdy! Here’s a video of me reading my poem “Hawk Shadow Here to Help” which was published recently in The Kenyon Review.
Huge thank you to Water~Stone Review for interviewing me and posting it to their blog today! It was a joy to respond to these thoughtful and generous questions! I hope you all enjoy reading it. It even includes the cover of the first photocopied book of my poetry i made waaaaay back in undergraduate days.
Iron Horse Literary Review accepted my poem “Draw a Door There Draw a Door” for their upcoming TOYS theme issue! Thank you Geffrey Davis, Jo Anna Gaona, and the entire IHLR staff!
What a warm and welcoming thrill it was to read for the Triple-A Reading Series this afternoon in Binghamton. Thank you Ralph Pennel for making it all happen, and for the BCAC Artisan Gallery for hosting. And thank you to my awesome fellow readers Jenn Powers and Jen DeGregorio (a Kettle Pond Writers Conference friend from years ago!). And I guess thank you also to this oncoming blizzard for holding off long enough for us to make the drive down and back from Syracuse!
I just opened registration for my WINTER 2026 private Zoom-based poetry workshop. It will take place, as usual, Wednesday evenings 6-8 pm Eastern Time. It begins February 11 and runs for 6 classes.
“In the Landscape of Contemporary Poetry.” Wednesdays, 6:00-8:00 p.m. ET. 6 weeks, starting February 11. 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!
Registration is now open, and it closes on Sunday February 8.
FYI my current workshop filled really quickly, so if you’re planning to register, maybe sooner than later?!
View the class details and register at my website: https://christophercitro.com/private-classes/