I’m so happy to receive my contributor copy of the newest New Poetry from the Midwest anthology, which contains my poem “If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun,” the title poem for my second book of poetry which came out this April from Elixir Press. How grand to share this beautiful space with so many poets and friends I admire. Thank you to series editors Rita Mae Reese and Hannah Stephenson!
I’m thrilled to have received my contributor copy of The Open Page, the new anthology of creative writing exercises and poems, fictions, and essays from the faculty of The Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. I have a poetry exercise (and some poems) and a lyric essay exercise (and a whole lyric essay) in it. Plus there’s TONS of awesome stuff by so many of my fellow MVICW faulty! Get yourself a copy and write write write!
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The awesome list of contributors include: Tony Ardizzone, Ruth Awad, Bradley Bazzle, Christopher Citro 😀, Tia Clark, Rebecca Gayle Howell, Matthew Gavin Frank, John T Howard, Michael Kardos, Keith Leonard, Amelia Martens, Michael Martone, Amy Meng, Sequoia Nagamatsu, Phong Nguyen, Randi Beck Ocena, Catherine Pierce, Wendy Rawlings, Robert James Russell, Elizabeth Schmuhl, Britton Shurley, Keith Taylor, Samantha Tetangco, Samrat Upadhyay, Alexander Weinstein, and Kea Wilson!
The new online issue of West Branch appears today, and among the wealth of wonderfulness, it contains my three poems, “If Alone Has a Flavor,” “Quartered Suns,” and “That’s Me When That’s You.” Thank you Joseph Scapellato, Andrew Ciotola, and the rest of the West Branch Magazine crew! I’m so delighted to have these poems appear here!!!
https://westbranch.blogs.bucknell.edu/christopher-citro/05/2021/
It was a delight to have my prompt, “Traveling Toward a Poem,” and my poem “One Light in a Field of Other Lights” used as part of the Syracuse Airport’s POETRY IN FLIGHT poem contest for April. The contest is now closed. On April 16 they posted on twitter this cool gif/video they made from my poem.
My new poetry book is one week old–If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun, winner of the Elixir Press Antivenom Poetry Award! Thank you everyone who has bought a copy! Thank you everyone who has rated and reviewed it on Amazon and Goodreads, everyone who has requested a review copy, everyone who has posted awesome pics of the book in your hands, everyone who has reached out personally to me with kind and gracious words about it. My book and I are purring like kittens on tiny motorcycles.
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It’s publication day for my second poetry book, If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun, which won the Elixir Press Antivenom Poetry Award! I’ve got some heartfelt thankin’ to do! Thank you to judge Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis for selecting it to win. Thank you to Dana Curtis for creating such a beautiful object, and to Amanda Friedman for allowing us to use your luminous photograph for the cover. Thank you to my generous blurbers Diane Seuss, Lee Upton, Dean Young, and Ross Gay. Thank you to everyone who has pre-ordered copies from Amazon and Small Press Distribution. Thank you to everyone who has ordered signed copies from my website! Thank you to my partner Sarah without whom this book would not exist. And thank you to you all for reading!
It’s a delight to have received my contributor copy of the new Salamander #51, which contains my poem “Let Go Inside Let It Out,” as well as stunning work by so many poets and writers I admire. Thank you Katie Sticca, José Angel Araguz, Anna V.Q. Ross, and the whole Salamander team! I’ve been working on some lyric essays inspired by the strong and weak nuclear forces…and this poem sort of grew out of that little obsession. 🙂
My new book If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun (winner of the 2019 Elixir Press Antivenom Poetry Award) is NOW available to pre-order at Amazon!!! It’s publication date is April 1, 2021. And I can reveal the beautiful cover with an awesome photograph by Amanda Friedman. My heart is overflowing!
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It will also be available in the future from Small Press Distribution HERE!
It’s a joy to have received my contributor copy of the new Cherry Tree, which contains my poems “Like a River Stood on End” and “Black Bean Sauce.” What a delight to appear in this issue with so many awesome poets and writers! Seriously. Huge thank yous to James Allen Hall, Alyse Bensel, Kimberly Quiogue Andrews, and the whole classy Cherry Tree crew.