Author Archives: Christopher

“Stop Doing That” published by Broadsided

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The broadside of my poem “Stop Doing That” has just been published today by Broadsided. The poem has been wonderfully illustrated by Amy Meissner, an artist and illustrator who lives in Anchorage, Alaska.

The broadside is available as a free downloadable pdf from Broadsided HERE, where you can also read short interviews with Amy and me.

If you’re not familiar with Broadsided, since 2005 they’ve paired up writers with visual artists to create broadsides which are published online, one a month, as pdfs and which people all across the country (and beyond) download, print, and post in the streets or anywhere. The name for anyone who distributes a Broadsided piece is a Vector. All you have to do is print out a Broadsided publication and post it somewhere. Then, if you wish, you can email Broadsided to let them know where you’ve put it (and maybe take a picture of it) so they can put your town/city on the Vector map.

On a personal note, if anyone posts my Broadsided poem, my head will explode. In a good way.

Spillway 18

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I just received my contributor’s copy of Spillway Magazine 18, the Games People Play issue. It contains my poem “Turn Down the Thermostat, Darling,” alongside poems by David Kirby, Nicky Beer, Norman Dubie, Nancy Carol Moody, David St. John, and a prose poem by Pierre Reverdy translated by Dan Bellm. You can pick up a copy here. Thank you Susan Terris and Spillway!

Yemassee, Yes!

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I just received news that Yemassee has accepted for their next issue a collaborative prose poem from a series written with my friend the poet Dustin Nightingale. This is the first of our collaborations to find a home, and we’re jazzed. Seriously. The poem, by the way, is called “Little Buzzings,” and it’s sort of about fruit flies…among other things.

Dustin doesn’t have a webpage, but you can read one of his poems in Stickman Review, and you can hear him read several poems on this episode of my old radio show The Poets Weave.

Crate Volume 8

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Received my contributor’s copy of Crate Literary Magazine today and it’s a beauty. It contains my poem “(They Were) There All the Time,” and fantastic work by the likes of Keith Dunlop, Kristin Abraham, and many others including three knock out poems by fellow IU MFA student Bethany Carlson. The cover was created by artist Jen Lau. You can pick up a copy here. Thanks Crate!

Used Furniture Review & NAP

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Used Furniture Review and NAP have both accepted poems for publication, and I’m spinning around for joy in the falling cottonwood fluff.

NAP has taken a nature-y poem for its upcoming special issue of nature poems about nature titled, appropriately, LOG.

UFR has taken a group of poems from a series I’ve been working on a for a while called The Little Book of Monsters.

Boo.

New Pages reviews NANO Fiction V5 N1

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Reviewer Aimee Nicole graciously singled out my prose poem “No, I Will Not Be Your Girlfriend” in her review of NANO Fiction Volume 5 Number 1 published a couple days ago at the wonderful New Pages.

Some stories left lingering thoughts behind that I found myself being reminded of for days after reading. Christopher Citro’s story “No, I will not be your Girlfriend” discusses the mirror-like setup of the human body. Everything is either centered (nose, bellybutton, mouth) or placed evenly on each side (arms, legs, nipples). Except the heart, he points out. Apparently when the heart was smack in the middle of our rib cage, it was at a “structural weak point.” After evolution, the heart now lies securely and safely on the left side of our chest. Citro writes: “It illustrates the innate ability of the human heart to get out of the way of danger.”

You can read the rest of her review HERE.

You could watch me jumping up and down with joy, if you happened to be in my living room right now, HERE.