What a delight to receive an acceptance today from Postcard Lit for “Sunlight Spun on Spools” a collaborative prose poem from the series I’ve been writing with Dustin Nightingale! Someday our poem will be available on a postcard along with original art inspired by the poem…which could not be more awesome. Thank you Postcard Lit!
My poem “Playing Baseball with a Pocket Knife” has just been published in the new online issue of LIT!
A poem about my dad and my mom and sitting in the backyard under the beechnut trees in the summer when I was a boy.
Thank you to Rebecca Endres & all the wonderful folks at LIT !
https://www.litmagazine.org/playing-baseball-with-a-pocket-knife/
Fugue just accepted my poem “In a Kingdom of Little Gusts and I Want Out” in an email which also said, “Our team was immediately drawn into your poignant imagery, attention to sound, and the submission’s human themes.” Golly, my heart is curled up on the floor purring. Thankyouthankyouthankyou to Reid Davis and everyone at Fugue!
Oh my goodness!!! My contributor copy of 32 Poems just arrived, with my poem “A Wolf Chases Honestly Bites You” along with poems by so many of my favorite poets! What a joy! Thank you to George David Clark, Elizabeth Clark, and everyone at 32 Poems.
I’m delighted to receive my contributor copy of this year’s Rhino with my poem “The Groundhog Full of Yellow Roses” Huge thanks to everyone at Rhino! And thank you also to Gary, our backyard groundhog, for the inspiration.
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
I’m delighted to share that today I’ve had 2 poems published in the new issue of Sweet, complete with audio of me reading them: “It’s Only Me the Toyota with the Bungeed Muffler” and “I Want To Reach Out and Hold Your Reach Out.” Huge thanks to Andy Braithwaite, Katie Riegel, Chelsea Dingman, and everyone at Sweet!
https://sweetlit.org/christopher-citro-volume-15/
Thank you to the editors and crew of Sprung Formal: The Kansas City Art Institute’s Literary Arts Journal for publishing my poems “We Are Different in This Room” and “The Sailors All Dance and Sing As Their Ship Goes Down.” The issue is published online right now and also as a print issue. Snazzy!
Today Poetry Daily today is featuring my poem “Sneaking Back Inside” from my second book, If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun.
HUGE thank to Judy Leserman and everyone at Poetry Daily!
Holy-moly! 32 Poems just accepted my poem “A Wolf Chases Honestly Bites You” and I’m freaking out! Wow! Thank you George David Clark and everyone at 32 Poems! I’m headin’ out for some prosecco, cuz there’s gonna be some celebratin’ going on around the ol’ homestead tonight!