I raise my clogged head from my cold-induced torpor to… CELEBRATE the new issue of Diode which has 2 of my poems: “The Body the Fact of It” & “Great the Light Failing Again” alongside a stellar line-up of awesome poets! Thank you again Patty Paine and everyone who helps make Diode. *cough cough* Where’s the orange juice? *cough cough*
http://diodepoetry.com/citro_christopher-2/
Thrilled to receive my copy of the new Colorado Review with my poems “Night But Unlike Night” and “Peel the Black Walnut Bark Like Small Fists in Our Fists.” These poems mean a lot to me, and I think of them as a pair. I could not be more delighted that they found their home in CR, a journal close to my heart and which has been kind enough to publish a lyric essay of mine and two other poems before. Thank you Matthew Cooperman, Lauren Furman, Cecil Janecek, Stephanie G’Schwind, and everyone with a hand in making the always awesome Colorado Review!
I’ve been a fan of Conduit for soooo long. To hold my contributor copy in my hand, which contains my poem “How the Sun Got Crushed That One Monday”–it’s such a joy of joys. Thank you everyone at Conduit, who crushes it with every issue.
I’m delighted to share the news that Fugue just published online my poem “In a Kingdom of Little Gusts and I Want Out.” This poem is particularly close to my heart. I hope you enjoy it. Thankyouthankyouthankyou to Maggie Nipps, Reid Davis and everyone at Fugue!
https://fuguejournal.com/in-a-kingdom-of-little-gusts-and-i-want-out-citro
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/
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 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!
