Thrilled to receive my contributor copies of the new Bat City Review, which contains “Look! Fruit!” one of the collaborative prose poems I’ve been writing with Dustin Nightingale. There’s so much literary awesomeness in this gorgeous issue! Massive thank yous to Luci Arbus-Scandiffio, Sarah Matthes, and the whole BCR crew!
“Smell of Wet Earth Like the Inside of My Hands”
Poem & Video by Christopher Citro
Music by Brian Citro
I’m delighted to share this first poem video from a new poetry & music video project I’m doing with my nephew Brian. Hope you enjoy it! (It’s posted to my YouTube.)
Brian Citro has been playing and writing music on guitar for 30 years. A long-time member of The Drastics, he’s performed and toured with JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound, Ted Sirota’s Heavyweight Dub! and others. With Charles Gorczynski, Nate Lepine and Quin Kirchner he made music as Salamander and Video Gum Culture. Brian is also an international human rights lawyer and has lived, travelled and played music in Africa, Asia and Europe.
Christopher Citro is the author of If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun (Elixir Press, 2021), winner of the 2019 Antivenom Poetry Award, and The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy (Steel Toe Books, 2015). His awards include a 2018 Pushcart Prize for Poetry. He lives in Syracuse, New York.
Poem from If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun (Elixir Press, 2021)
What a delight to learn that the awesome Bat City Review has accepted “Look! Fruit!” a collaborative prose poem that I wrote with Dustin Nightingale. Huge thanks to Poetry Editor Luci Arbus-Scandiffio and the rest of the Bat City Review crew!
Three collaborative prose poems that I wrote with Dustin Nightingale just got published in the new issue of The Rupture (formerly The Collagist). Thank you so much to Gabriel Blackwell, Marielle Prince, and the rest of the good folk at The Rupture!
After a little hiatus on our poetry collaboration project, Dustin Nightingale and I started back up earlier this year and what a thrill it’s been to have had 4 of our poems accepted at 2 journals over the last week! I posted yesterday about The Rupture. Today we learned that New South has taken “Like a Fist Next to Your Heart” – one of my personal favorites. Maybe someday someone will want our book manuscript?! Huge thank you to Caroline Chavatel and the crew of New South!
The video of yesterday’s “Hybrid Forms Collaborations — Reading and Discussion” event is now available. Dustin Nightingale and I read some of our collaborative prose poems (for the first time ever live!), along with awesome readings by Aimee Parkison & Carol Guess and (hosts) Meg Pokrass & Jeff Friedman. Plus there’s an inspiring Q & A. Yay collaborative writing! 😀😀