Yippee! “Yonder,” the collaborative poem that I wrote with Steve Castro and Dustin Pearson, just got published online at The Cincinnati Review, with accompanying audio of us 3 reading the poem (and some harmonica played by my darling Sarah)! Huge thanks to Kate Jayroe, Rebecca Lindenberg, Lisa Ampleman, and all at CR!
While I was on Martha’s Vineyard teaching this week, WPBS television in Central New York featured me reading my poem “You Can Keep Your Employee of the Month Award.” And the video is up on YouTube. Thank you WPBS! This poem is from my second book, If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun (Elixir Press, 2021)
What a delightful surprise! Thank you to the folks at PoetryTaughtPoorly for making this lovely little video of my poem “An Emergency Every Day of the Week” from my second book.
“I love you. I want us both to eat well.” 😀
Here’s the video of me reading my poem “Our Beautiful Life When It’s Filled with Shrieks” which was broadcast 2 days ago on WPBS Weekly: Inside the Stories. I hope you enjoy it!
I’m delighted to share this 3rd poem video I’ve made with my nephew Brian Citro: “One Light in a Field of Other Lights”
Poem by Christopher Citro
Music by Brian Citro
Video by Christopher
Here’s a video of me, Christopher Citro, and Sarah Ruhlen and Steve Castro doing a living room Zoom reading from Sunday March 5, 2023. Sarah Ruhlen reads her short story “Shepherds Take Warning” first published in Waccamaw. I read poems from my second book, If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun (Elixir Press, 2021), along with newer poems. And Steve Castro reads poems from his book Blue Whale Phenomena (Otis Books, 2019) along with newer poems. Hope you enjoy it!
Howdy! Here’s a video of me and Steve Castro reading our poems for last Sunday’s Poetry + Play event at Syracuse Stage. Steve reads his poems in Spanish and I read his English translations of them. Then I read my poems in English and Steve reads his original translations of them into Spanish. This event was part of an afternoon of poetry in English and Spanish before the final performance of Espejos: Clean, a play by Christine Quintana performed at Syracuse Stage in Syracuse, New York on March 5, 2023.
This July 4th weekend I appeared on WRVO’s Campbell Conversations reading poems from the manuscript-in-progress of my 3rd book. The stream is now available, and you also get to hear the wonderful Dana Spiotta and Phil Memmer. Have a listen! Huge thank you to host Grant Reeher for having me back on the program.
Howdy! Listen to me and Dustin Nightingale read our 3 collaborative prose poems in Bear Review with awesome improvised piano music by my partner Sarah! Thank you to the whole Bear Review crew for sharing this, and thank you especially to Marcus Myers for your generous words about our audio.
I just uploaded to my YouTube page a short video I made in June 2021 of me reading my poem “Like a River Stood on End,” which was first published in Cherry Tree issue 7. I hope you enjoy it.
You can read the text of the poem HERE.
And yes, an owl really did attack my head while walking in the woods. Twice. I chose to take it as a compliment.
