Showing off to some friends in my backyard my contributor’s copy of North American Review with my sunburn at the beach poem “In Bed with Green Gels.” Such an honor to appear in these pages for my 3rd time! HUGE thanks to Editor Jeremy Schraffenberger & everyone who helps make NAR so awesome!
Poetose just published my short poem “Our Lungs Fill and Empty” in their online journal, alongside a handwritten version of the poem. Huge thanks to Poetose!
Head on over to see the poem in both versions…and the awesome other pieces they’ve published!
https://www.poetose.com/pub/our-lungs-fill-and-empty-christopher-citro#
Huge thank you!! to the online journal Poetose for accepting my poem “Our Lungs Fill and Empty.” I’ve been invited to handwrite the poem to be published next to a printed-text version, so I cranked up my fountain pen and fancy ink to have a go!
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.
Hey! Dustin Nightingale and I are doing a Zoom reading for the release of our collaborative poetry chapbook that just came out from Ghost City Press! Monday Sept 15 at 7 pm ET. Join us!
Here’s the link to register for the event:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/sHImUEhHSZmRaL0cokIeNw
Here’s the link to get a free copy of the micro e-chapbook:
https://ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-series/i-wear-a-top-hat-when-i-go-into-the-forest
Today I WEAR A TOP HAT WHEN I GO INTO THE FOREST, a micro e-chapbook of collaborative prose poetry I wrote with Dustin Nightingale, has been released by Ghost City Press!!! It’s free or you can pay whatever you want for it! Get your copy today! Read it while riding the rails, taking breaks from making love, setting out lemon cakes for your backyard tea party with neighborhood cats, sitting on a bus…Whatever! We hope you enjoy these poems. And huge ever-shimmering thanks to Kevin Bertolero and Ghost City Press.
Get yer copy here: https://ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-series/i-wear-a-top-hat-when-i-go-into-the-forest
HUGE congratulations to my darling Sarah for her short story “Where the Mile-Long Blazers Fly” just published online in the new issue of Tupelo Quarterly!!! This story is so awesome. I’m so proud of you Sarah!
Read this story online in TQ’s new issue #35!
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.