Thank you to Luanne Castle for this comment about my poem in The Doll Collection anthology:
“The poems are stunning. I wish I had written Christopher Citro’s ‘The Secret Lives of Little Girls.’ I’m achingly jealous of it.”
You can read her entire Goodreads review of the anthology, edited by Diane Lockward and published by Terrapin Books, HERE.
And you can snag a copy of the anthology in print or Kindle HERE.
The snow has melted (again) and in my mailbox I’m delighted to find my contributor copy of The Doll Collection, an anthology of 88 poems about dolls from Terrapin Books, edited by Diane Lockward. In addition to my poem “The Secret Lives of Little Girls” – first published in Subtropics – this beautiful collection contains poetry by Paula Bonhice, Neil Carpathios, Denise Duhamel & Maureen Seaton, Alice Friman, Jeffrey Harrison, Christina Lovin, Denise Low-Weso, Kristine Ong Muslim, Sarah Rose Nordgren, Emma Sovich, Susan Terris, Lee Upton, and many more!
Purchase a print or Kindle copy from Amazon HERE.
Hi friends. I’m thunderingly delighted to have received my contributor copies of Nothing to Declare: A Guide to the Flash Sequence published by White Pines Press. This anthology contains five prose poems from my ongoing sequence called The Little Book of Monsters. Its 300+ pages also contain sequences by a host of amazing poets and writers including Nin Andrews, Carol Guess, Gian Lombardo, F. Daniel Rzicznek, Julie Marie Wade, Gary Young, and Jim (yes, that Jim) Harrison. There are sequences of prose poems, flash fictions, lyric essays, fairy tales, koans, epistolary address, and other cross-genre work. Thank you editors Robert Alexander, Eric Braun, and Debra Marquart and the entire Marie Alexander Poetry Series team for creating this amazing anthology!
I’m delighted to announce that my poem “The Secret Lives of Little Girls” has been accepted to appear in the forthcoming anthology of doll poems from Terrapin Books. This poem was first published in Subtropics issue 18 (fall/winter 2014).
Thanks so much Diane Lockward!
The very parking garage where Christopher Citro (pictured) wrote “Gathering a Few Facts,” featured in Best New Poets 2014.
Posted at the Best New Poets Facebook page
I just received my contributor’s copy of the Every River on Earth: Writing From Appalachian Ohio. This anthology was edited by the poet Neil Carpathios and published by Ohio University Press in Athens, Ohio.
From the anthology’s website:
Every River on Earth: Writing from Appalachian Ohio includes some of the best regional poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction from forty contemporary writers, both established and up-and-coming. The wide range of material from authors such as David Baker, Don Bogen, Michelle Burke, Richard Hague, Donald Ray Pollock, and others, offers the reader a window into daily life in the region. The people, the landscape, the struggles, and the deepest undercurrents of what it means to be from and of a place are revealed in these original, deeply moving, and sometimes shocking pieces.
The book is divided into four sections: Family & Folks, The Land, The Grind, and Home & Away, each of which explores a different aspect of the place that these authors call home. The sections work together beautifully to capture what it means to live, to love, and to die in this particular slice of Appalachia. The writing is accessible and often emotionally raw; Every River on Earth invites all types of readers and conveys a profound appreciation of the region’s character.
The authors also offer personal statements about their writing, allowing the reader an intimate insight into their processes, aesthetics, and inspirations. What is it to be an Appalachian? What is it to be an Appalachian in Ohio? This book vividly paints that picture.
You can learn more at the anthology’s website HERE — where you can read for free the title poem, the Table of Contents, the Foreword by Donald Ray Pollock, the Introduction by Neil Carpathios and author biographies. You can order the book directly from the publisher, purchase e-versions for various platforms, and request a desk/exam copy if you’re an instructor. Also, here’s the book’s Amazon page.
I’m proud as all get-out to have three of my poems in this anthology, including one poem previously published in The Cincinnati Review and two previously unpublished poems written while living in Scio, Ohio, a small southern Ohio village, pop. 800.
Thank you Neil Carpathios for including me in this wonderful volume!
I just received the wonderful news that my poem “Whatchamacallit” — which was published in Prairie Gold Anthology: An Anthology of the American Heartland from Ice Cube Press — has just been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
I’m so proud to be a part of this amazing anthology of writing from and about the Midwest. If you haven’t read the anthology, you can learn more about it and order a copy directly from the press HERE.
Thank so much Steve Semken and editors Lance M. Sacknoff, Xavier Cavazos and Stefanie Brook Trout!
Presents have arrived a little early here in Syracuse! My poem “Gathering a Few Facts” has just been published in the 2014 Best New Poets anthology guest edited by Dorianne Laux.
I am honored to be among the 50 poets chosen for this year’s anthology. The complete list:
Christine Adams, Annik Adey-Babinski, Nico Alvarado, Kate Angus, Linda Blaskey, Daniel Bohnhorst, Chuck Carlise, Anders Carlson-Wee, Christopher Citro, Noel Crook, Karen Embry, Sara Gelston, Benjamin Goldberg, Lenea Grace, Miriam Bird Greenberg, Richie Hofmann, Jen Jabaily-Blackburn, Wayne Johns, Danielle Jones-Pruett, Andrea Jurjević, Lisa Kwong, Peter LaBerge, Quinn Lewis, S.H. Lohmann, Karen Malzone, Amanda Jane McConnon, Corey Miller, Matthew Minicucci, Jenny Molberg, Rachel Morgenstern-Clarren, Erin J. Mullikin, C.L. O’Dell, Rosanna Oh, Joy Priest, Jacques J. Rancourt, Iliana Rocha, Erin Rodoni, Nicole Rollender, Carey Russell, T.J. Sandella, E.C. Sawatzky, Brittney Scott, Matt Sumpter, Talin Tahajian, Gabriella R. Tallmadge, Ocean Vuong, Anna Rose Welch, Lisa Wells, Phillip B. Williams, Jeremy Windham
You can order a copy from your local bookstore or online at places such as THIS, HERE, and ALSO.
Thanks so much again BNP editors, Jazzy Danziger and Dorianne Laux!
I’m overjoyed to receive my copy of Prairie Gold: An Anthology of the American Heartland, edited by Lance M. Sacknoff, Xavier Cavazos and Stefanie Brook Trout (Ice Cube Press, 2014).
This anthology contains my poems “One Kitchen One Afternoon” and “Whatchamacallit.”
It has a wealth of fiction, nonfiction and poetry about, concerning, set, dissecting, celebrating, criticizing and et cetera the American Midwest.
Learn more about the book and grab yourself a copy HERE.
A facebook page containing news of readings and otherwise related to the anthology is HERE.
My unpublished poem “Gathering a Few Facts” has been chosen to appear in the Best New Poets 2014 anthology, guest edited by Dorianne Laux.
The anthology comes out this November. You can see a list of the 50 poets/poems chosen HERE.
A facebook announcement with pictures of the poets is HERE.
I am honored and seriously excited by this happy news. Thanks so much BNP editors, Jazzy Danziger and Dorianne Laux!