“Like a Fist Next to Your Heart” just published in New South!

The new digital issue of New South 14.2 just arrived and it contains “Like a Fist Next to Your Heart” a collaborative prose poem I wrote with Dustin Nightingale! Along with tons of awesome poetry, fiction and nonfiction! Huge thanks to Anna Sandy-Elrod and the whole New South crew!

Print issues will be coming out soon, but right now you can see the whole issue online!

“The Island Designated Yes” published at The Shore!

“The Island Designated Yes,” a prose poem I co-wrote with Dustin Nightingale, has just been published online at The Shore.

It’s very short. It’s a love poem. And it mentions indigo cherry drops which are tomatoes we grow every year and taste like when funk songs mention sunshine. I hope you enjoy it.

Huge thank yous to editors Caroline Chavatel, Emma DePanise, John A. Nieves!

Read the poem HERE.

The Shore has accepted my collaborative prose poem “The Island Designated Yes”

As the 1st snow of winter falls, what a warm bit of news to learn that The Shore has accepted “The Island Designated Yes,” a collaborative prose poem I wrote with Dustin Nightingale! Thank you Caroline Chavatel, Emma DePanise, John A. Nieves!

2 of my collaborative prose poems just published online at CutBank!

CutBank has just published online 2 of my collaborative prose poems written with Dustin Nightingale: “A Crumb of Wind” and “Here Beside Us with Us.” Thank you so much Luke Larkin & all the awesome folk at CutBank! Dustin & I are thrilled that our poems have found a home there! 

Read ‘em here: http://www.cutbankonline.org/weekly-flash-prose-and-prose-poetry/2022/7/two-poems-by-christopher-citro-amp-dustin-nightingale

My poem Stop Doing That in the new Broadsided Press 2005-2020 Anthology!

Hot dang! My contributor copy of the new Broadsided Press 2005-2020 Anthology just landed here in Syracuse and it’s a real beauty! This hefty art book contains my poem “Stop Doing That,” collaboratively illustrated by the awesome Amy Meissner, plus so much great writing and art by the likes of Camille Dungy, Danez Smith, Catherine Pierce, Robert Wrigley, Jane Hirshfield, Philip Metres…that’s just the beginning of the Table of Contents! Thank you Elizabeth Bradfield, Alexandra Teague, Miller Oberman!

Order your copy here: https://provincetown-arts-press.myshopify.com/products/broadsided-press-fifteen-years-of-poetic-and-artistic-collaboration-2005-2020

Listen to me and Dustin read our poems in The Bear Review (with piano accompaniment)!

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.

https://www.bearreview.com/post/three-collaborative-prose-poems-with-piano-accompaniment-read-by-the-poets