I rarely submit to writing contests, so it’s especially lovely news to learn that my poems were a finalist for Puerto del Sol‘s 2025 annual poetry contest. Huge thank you to everyone involved…and congratulations to the winner!
Hot golly! I’m in this anthology and the audiobook of Invisible Strings 113 Poets Respond to the Songs of Taylor Swift is in consideration for next year’s Grammy Awards. Wow wow wow! Congratulations to Editor Kristie Frederick Daugherty for making this project so awesome and such a success!
Jumpin’ for joy to have my poem “Raise It All Like Food to the Sky” accepted for the American Pop Culture Almanac: 1776-2026. Huge thanks to editor J.D. Isip…and to the movie The Princess Bride, for the inspiration, and much else.
Day 7 Poetry Teaching Trip to Kefalonia Greece: I gave a poetry reading atop Mount Aenos!!!
…at 5,300 ft the tallest mountain on the Ionian island of Cephalonia, Greece…on a mossy stone outcrop, surrounded by Greek fir, black pine, wild bellflowers, violets, and poppies…and generous people willing to pay attention to me lipping off for 20 minutes while on top of the world.
Here I am reading my poem “Come In Go Ahead Say Again” recently published online at The Normal School.
https://www.thenormalschool.com/blog/2024/11/21/come-in-go-ahead-say-again-by-christopher-citro
Day 5 of my Poetry Teaching Trip to Kefalonia Greece: I read my poetry in a Greek cave! I read my poetry in a Greek cave! I read my poetry in a Greek cave!
The poem: “Hawk Shadow Here to Help,” temporarily retitled “κότσυφας Shadow Here to Help” in honor of the blackbirds singing around us.
The cave: Zervati Cave on Kefalonia Island.
Oh.My.Goodness. Poetry Northwest just accepted my long poem “Bone Above Our Heart” one of the poetic experiments I started 2 summers ago, carrying around a special notebook during my travels, collecting images, bits of overheard dialogue, to build a long poem from (it’s 5 pages, which is long for me). I’m over-the-moon to have this poem appear in Poetry Northwest. It’ll be my third appearance in this awesome journal! Thank you so much Bill Carty, Shriram Sivaramakrishnan, Keetje Kuipers, and everyone at PN!
Yippee! Water~Stone Review has accepted my poem “Why Our Bathtub Sparkles.” Huge thanks to Jose Hernandez, Kayla Knoll, and Meghan Maloney-Vinz.
Thrilled to receive the news that Cream City Review has accepted “On a Planet of Gas and Dust and Smoky Mountains, Bird Calls” a collaborative prose poem that Dustin Pearson, Steve Castro, and I wrote together! Thank you CCR!
The North American Review has just posted to their YouTube channel the video of Tuesday’s reading by poets who have been published in NAR and are also in the anthology Invisible Strings 113 Poets Respond to the Songs of Taylor Swift! Enjoy a buncha awesome poets (and me!) reading a buncha awesome poems, so many of them love poems…
Yippee! Heavy Feather Review just published “Placatory Congregation,” a collaborative prose poem that Steve Castro, Dustin Pearson, and I wrote together. Huge thanks to Editors Bill Lessard, Jason Teal, and everyone who makes HFR so awesome!
Read the poem here:
https://heavyfeatherreview.org/2025/02/05/placatory-congregation/