The newest issue of The Southampton Review contains my poem “He Must Have Gone To Sleep Eventually.” With a special section on Food & Wine, this is a seriously sumptuous issue full of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and tons of art, photography, and cartoons. I want to eat this magazine. Thank you to Emily Smith Gilbert, Lou Ann Walker, and the other TSR readers and editors!
When it rains it pours! This profile of me has just been published on Syracuse.com’s CNY Books & Authors column and will appear in the Syracuse Post-Standard‘s Sunday print edition Empire Magazine on either the 4th or the 11th. Thank you to author Casey Rose Frank for reaching out and for writing such a generous piece about me and my poetry
I’m thrilled and honored to share the news that a full-length interview with me has just been published in the new issue of FOLIO, the literary magazine at American University. At 7 pages it’s the longest interview that I’ve ever done, and I want to thank Editor-in-Chief Kangsen Feka Wakai for his thoughtful and stimulating questions. The interview appears in Issue 31 (Spring 2016), which is focused on the Surreal and Fantastical, and some of the questions address my first poetry book published last year by Steel Toe Books, The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy. This issue’s other interview is with Alberto Rios! You can grab a copy of the journal for $8 HERE.
Thank you to Luanne Castle for this comment about my poem in The Doll Collection anthology:
“The poems are stunning. I wish I had written Christopher Citro’s ‘The Secret Lives of Little Girls.’ I’m achingly jealous of it.”
You can read her entire Goodreads review of the anthology, edited by Diane Lockward and published by Terrapin Books, HERE.
And you can snag a copy of the anthology in print or Kindle HERE.
I’m jazzed and delighted to have just received my contributor copy of Rattle issue 52, which contains my poem “The Mutual Building,” inspired by the MONY building in Syracuse, sitting in a newly opened Tim Hortons downtown, and the arrival of a particularly absurd blizzard. This issue features a tribute to poetry by Angelenos, and there are young and shiny poems by such as Tiana Clark, Jenn Givhan, Robert Nazarene, Alexis Rhone Fancher, Ruth Madievsky, Charles Harper Webb, Cecilia Woloch, and many more. Thank you Editor Timothy Green!
Absolutely thrilled to receive my contributor’s copy of Columbia Poetry Review issue 29, which contains my poem “Bring Me with You.” Thanks again Cora Jacobs and the other CPR editors!
I’m thrilled to share the news that two of the collaborative prose poems I’ve been writing with Dustin Nightingale — “And Me with Only a Bottle Opener in My Pocket” and “Staring Out a Window, Echoing the Actual Moon” — have been published today in DIAGRAM 16.2. A big thank you to Ander Monson, EA Ramey, and the rest of the DIAGRAM crew!
Chick HERE to read them.
Hot-diggity what a week! My poem – “Beehive Soaked in Tea and How To Leave (Part One)” – has been published today in Radar. It’s another collaborative prose poem written with Dustin Nightingale. It includes an accompanying photograph by Williamson Brasfield and an audio file of us reading the poem, featuring a piano intro/outro composed and performed by my partner Sarah. Issue 10 includes fantastic new work by Daniel Eduardo Ruiz, Sara Biggs Chaney, Clare Paniccia, and others, and Dustin and I are delighted to be a part of it. Thank you Editors Rachel Marie Patterson and Dara-Lyn Shrager!
Read and listen to the poem HERE.
The good folks at JuxtaProse have just published two of my prose poem collaborations with Dustin Nightingale in their new issue – “Gluing the Teapot Back Together Anyway” and “Run For Your Life But Don’t Forget To Tie Your Shoe.” Thanks Ian Haver, Seth Luke, Ashley Schellhous, and the rest of the JuxtaProse team!
My poem “Setting Things Around Me Free” has been published today online in Red Paint Hill Poetry Journal issue 10. It’s another collaborative prose poem in the series I’ve been writing with Dustin Nightingale. There’s audio of us reading the poem. We tried something different this time and each read it separately. I recorded Dustin reading over the phone. He asked me to put phone noises at the start of his version so people would know. It’s a beautiful issue as always packed with fantastic poetry and we’re jazzed to be a part of it — thank you Editor Stephanie Bryant Anderson and the whole Red Paint Hill Publishing crew!
Read and listen to the poem HERE.