Iron Horse Literary Review accepted my poem “Draw a Door There Draw a Door” for their upcoming TOYS theme issue! Thank you Geffrey Davis, Jo Anna Gaona, and the entire IHLR staff!
Yip-a-dang! Third Coast has accepted my poem “When We Fall Asleep Our Grips Relax!” I received the acceptance last night while reorganizing the bookcase where I keep my contributor copies of literary journals, so…that was a cool coincidence! Thanks so much Poetry Editors Emily Daniel and Alyssa Start and everyone who makes Third Coast! I’m delighted to have a poem appear in this journal again.
Today Poetry Northwest published my poem, “Bone Above Our Heart,” as their weekly online poem. My heart is running around its living room, waving its arms, smashing into things, getting up, and running around some more! This was the first of the long poems I started writing a couple years ago. I drafted it during one summer’s travels in a little homemade notebook made for the purpose, alternating verse fragments with overheard bits of speech in Martha’s Vineyard, Paul Smith’s College, Block Island, Hartford CN, a home recording made by James Tate, a Costco parking lot, Lowe’s Lawn & Garden, and my own backyard. I hope you’ll enjoy it.
With new year’s fast approaching, I thought I’d take a moment to reflect on the writing I’ve had accepted or published in 2025. It’s been a fortunate year for me, and I thank every one of the wonderful editors who made these publications possible! And thank you to the awesome poetry collaborators I’ve been lucky enough to write with!
Hot golly! The new issue of The Glacier has arrived, containing 3 of my poems, and a seriously impressive roster of poetry, prose and art. Here’s one of my poems. I hope you’ll read the others online. HUGE thanks to David Dodd Lee and all the lovely people who make The Glacier.
How delightful to close out this blizzardy Thanksgiving weekend with an acceptance from -ette review for my prose poem “A Bee Lands a Yellow Violet Sags.” Thank you to co-editors Beth Hahn and Nora Maynard!
Thank you to Poetose for nominating my poem “Our Lungs Fill and Empty” for a Pushcart Prize. What an honor!
You can read the poem online, in both a typed and handwritten version, here:
https://www.poetose.com/pub/our-lungs-fill-and-empty-christopher-citro#
Hot golly! Bellingham Review just accepted my poem “Set Before a Feast We Lift a Fork” Huge thank you to Sam X Wong and everyone at BR! It’s, um, another poem of mine set in a grocery store. So thank you also to Wegmans. đź¤
This will be my second appearance in the awesome Bellingham Review. They were kind enough to publish my lyric essay “Licked by Our World We Get Licked by Our World” in 2021.
You can read the whole essay online here:
https://bhreview.org/articles/licked-by-our-world-we-get-licked-by-our-world/
You can read an interview they did with me here:
https://bhreview.org/contributor-spotlight-christopher-citro/
Hot golly! My contributor copies of the new Water~Stone Review arrived with my poem “Why Our Bathtub Sparkles” and thank you again to Jose Hernandez Diaz, Kayla Knoll, and Meghan Maloney-Vinz. This happy arrival in the mail helps take some of the sting out of having to go on…somehow…now that Halloween is over for another year….
Jumpin’ jubilation! I just got my contributor copy of the new Cream City Review, with the collaborative prose poem “On a Planet of Gas and Dust and Smoky Mountains, Bird Calls” which Steve Castro, Dustin Pearson, and I wrote together. Thank you to everyone at CCR for the beautiful things that you do!