Category Archives: Publication

Beach Sloth on LOG

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The fine folk(s) that is(are) Beach Sloth wrote a wonderful two part review/gloss/celebration/introduction of NAP’s Nature Poems About Nature echapbook/anthology called LOG.

Beach Sloth had this to say about my poem called “The Tree I Just Leaned Against Is the Exact Age As Me”:

                Christopher Citro has sunlight hit him on the face. This is what happens when people go outside. Helicopters are commas in the real world. Nature is a scary place. People bump against each other. Without nature there would be no language because there wouldn’t be anything worth describing. Nature can be beautiful despite its uncertainty, just like people.

Read the rest of the descriptions at Beach Sloth’s Tumblr HERE & HERE.

Download for free and read LOG from NAP HERE.

Poetry East

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My poem “Still Life with Plums” has just been published in the Fall 2012 issue of Poetry East, edited by Richard Jones and published by DePaul University. This grand volume, comprising numbers 76, 77 & 78, contains over 300 pages of poetry by the likes of Jim Daniels, Chard deNiord, and Jody Bolz, a series of paintings by Makoto Fujimura and photographs of old Chicago, and extended portfolios of poems by John Donne, James Armstrong, Garrette J. Brown, and Edgar Allan Poe. You can order yourself a copy for just ten bucks HERE.

My poem in this volume was inspired by reading a 2008 article about the Italian painter Giorgio Morandi by Peter Schjeldahl in The New Yorker. It’s the opening poem in my first manuscript “The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy” which, as the phrase goes, is looking for a publisher.

Thank you Richard Jones and the editors of Poetry East!

Kugelmass 3!

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My prose poem “The Tale of the Clerk and the Miniature Desperado” has just been published in the third issue of Kugelmass: A Journal of Literary Humor  edited by David Holub and published by Firewheel Editions. This issue contains fiction, poetry and prose by the likes of Robert Atwan, David Kirby, Denise Duhamel & Amy Lemmon, Roxane Gay, and more. You can see the table of contents, read and listen to excerpts, and then order yourself a copy for twelve bucks HERE.

Cover illustration by Peter Oravetz

LOG!

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My poem “The Tree I Just Leaned Against Is the Exact Age As Me” has been published in NAP’s new issue of “Nature Poems About Nature” called LOG. You can view the free pdf of the issue HERE. There’s a ton of great work in this issue, and I’m proud to be a part of it. Thanks Chad!

The Los Angeles Review Vol 12.

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Today I received my contributor copy of The Los Angeles Review, Volume 12, and it’s a wonderful collection. In addition to my poem, “And We Make It Home Eventually,” this issue contains poems by Nancy Carol Moody, Gregory Sherl, David Wagoner, fiction by Ron Carlson and Robert Lopez, an essay/review by Mitchell L.H. Douglas, and lots more excellent poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Thank you Tanya Chernov, Kelly Davio, and The Los Angeles Review!

SCUD

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My prose poems “And Not Having the Least Bit of Luck” and “New Year’s Resolution TBA” have just been published online at SCUD. You can read the poems here.

Thank you Brad Liening and SCUD!

The Bakery

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My poems “My Own Nature” and “Me and What Army” have just been published by The Bakery, with audio of me reading in my backyard complete with crows cawing and dogs barking.

If you haven’t yet visited The Bakery, you’ll want to. They publish a piping hot poem every day of the week, by the likes of Matthew Cooperman, Joshua Young, Nick Sturm, Rob MacDonald, K.M.A. Sullivan & Nate Pritts, plus Monthly Specials such as October’s with Timothy Liu. The Bakery is edited by Albert Abonado. Thanks Al!

The 22 Magazine Blog

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My poem “I Keep a List of What I Must” has just been published on The 22 Magazine Blog.

You can read the poem here.

This poem is from the manuscript-in-process of my untitled second book of poetry. (My first, The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy, hasn’t found a publisher yet, but I’m pressing on regardless.) It’s built around poems begun during my five month stint living with my girlfriend and our black cat in an apartment over Main Street in a very small Ohio village (pop. 800) last year, moving in the day before Fall Festival and out the day after Xmas.

I am very excited about the poems I’m working on for my second book, and this is the first one of them to see the light of print. Others so far are forthcoming from journals such as Salamander, The Southeast Review, and The Los Angeles Review and an anthology of literature about Southern Ohio edited by Neil Carpathios.