A dream come true publication! ❤️The Kenyon Review just sent my contributor copy with my poem “Hawk Shadow Here to Help.” I took the magazine outside to show the hawks but I think they’re all down in Miami Beach until the sun comes back. 🙏 Thank you to everyone at the Kenyon Review!
You can also read it online at KR here: https://kenyonreview.org/piece/hawk-shadow-here-to-help/
The North American Review just accepted my poem “In Bed with Green Gels.” This will be my third appearance in the awesome magazine! HUGE thanks to Editor Jeremy Schraffenberger. This dark, gray Syracuse “day” just got considerably brighter. 🌞
My poem “Come In Go Ahead Say Again” was just published today online at The Normal School. Massive thank you to Angelina Leanos and all the wonderful folks at The Normal School!
Diode has just published two collaborative poems that Steve Castro, Dustin Pearson, and I wrote together. Please visit http://diodepoetry.com/castro_pearson_citro/ to read them! Huge thanks to Patty Paine and the whole Diode crew!
Wow! The Normal School just accepted my poem “Come In Go Ahead Say Again.” Thanks so much Angelina Leanos and everyone at The Normal School. Instead of my spaceman costume, I think I’ll be greeting trick-or-treaters tonight as a Super-Happy Poet!
Yippee! My collaborative poems “Avalon at the End of the Alley” and “Earthly Imagination” — written with Dustin Pearson and Steve Castro — have just been accepted at Diode! Massive thank you to Patty Paine!
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!
Huge thanks to The Inflectionist Review editors A. Molotkov & John Sibley Williams for accepting “Forgotten Village” and “Bright Sides & Glass” — two of the collaborative poems I’ve written with Dustin Pearson and Steve Castro!
Yippee! The Cincinnati Review just accepted “Yonder” a collaborative prose poem that I wrote with Steve Castro and Dustin Pearson. It’ll be published soon in their online miCRo series. Huge thanks to Kate Jayroe and all at CR!
Wow! I just received a second Best of the Net 2024 nomination, this time for my poem “In a Kingdom of Little Gusts and I Want Out” published online by Fugue. Thank you again to Maggie Nipps, Reid Davis and everyone at Fugue Literary Journal! Here’s the link to read the poem:
https://fuguejournal.com/in-a-kingdom-of-little-gusts-and-i-want-out-citro
I happened to be working on an ekphrastic poem about Virgil Marti’s 1992 “Bullies Wallpaper” when the email came. Usually if I get an email while I’m writing a poem it’s a rejection from some literary magazine. This was a lovely surprise!