Hot golly! Barrow Street has accepted my poem “Rock Back They Close Rock Forward They Open” for their upcoming issue. A sonnet about, among other things, migraine headaches, Raggedy Andy, a paper shredder, and a creepy Victorian doll my mom kept on a tiny rocking chair in the living room.
This will be my second time having poetry in Barrow Street and I’m so thrilled. Thank you so much Charles Kell and everyone at BR!
Thank you to the Artisan Gallery in Binghamton New York for hanging the text pf my poem “Birds and Stars Suite” as part of their April gallery show. What a delight to be asked to be a part of this. The show is not longer up, but if you want you can read the poem online at Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts:
https://blackbird.vcu.edu/birds-stars-suite/
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!
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!
Yip-a-dang! Third Coast has accepted my poem “When We Fall Asleep Our Grips Relax!” I received the acceptance last night while reorganizing the bookcase where I keep my contributor copies of literary journals, so…that was a cool coincidence! Thanks so much Poetry Editors Emily Daniel and Alyssa Start and everyone who makesĀ Third Coast! I’m delighted to have a poem appear in this journal again.
With new year’s fast approaching, I thought I’d take a moment to reflect on the writing I’ve had accepted or published in 2025. It’s been a fortunate year for me, and I thank every one of the wonderful editors who made these publications possible! And thank you to the awesome poetry collaborators I’ve been lucky enough to write with!
How delightful to close out this blizzardy Thanksgiving weekend with an acceptance from -ette review for my prose poem “A Bee Lands a Yellow Violet Sags.” Thank you to co-editors Beth Hahn and Nora Maynard!
Hot golly! Bellingham Review just accepted my poem “Set Before a Feast We Lift a Fork” Huge thank you to Sam X Wong and everyone at BR! It’s, um, another poem of mine set in a grocery store. So thank you also to Wegmans. š¤
This will be my second appearance in the awesome Bellingham Review. They were kind enough to publish my lyric essay “Licked by Our World We Get Licked by Our World” in 2021.
You can read the whole essay online here:
https://bhreview.org/articles/licked-by-our-world-we-get-licked-by-our-world/
You can read an interview they did with me here:
https://bhreview.org/contributor-spotlight-christopher-citro/
Huge thank you!! to the online journal Poetose for accepting my poem “Our Lungs Fill and Empty.” I’ve been invited to handwrite the poem to be published next to a printed-text version, so I cranked up my fountain pen and fancy ink to have a go!
Jumpin’ for joy to have my poem “Raise It All Like Food to the Sky” accepted for the American Pop Culture Almanac: 1776-2026. Huge thanks to editor J.D. Isip…and to the movie The Princess Bride, for the inspiration, and much else.