Category Archives: Reading

Steve Castro and I are doing a Zoom reading March 5 at 7pm!

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Poet Steve Castro, author of Blue Whale Phenomena (Otis Books, 2019), and I are giving a Zoom poetry reading on Sunday March 5, 2023 at 7 pm ET. We haven’t seen each other in person for over a decade. He’s in town to read in person with me at Syracuse Stage earlier in the day, but since only folks around here will be able to attend that in-person reading, we thought we’d also read on Zoom later that day! Come join us!

Registration in advance is required. It’s free and simple! All you need is your name and an email address! Use the QR code above or visit the registrations link here:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwrcuitrDwiGta6iaHRL5Q3YZlFXsl3CXJL

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

I’m reading in person at Syracuse Stage March 5!

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Central New York friends! I’m giving an in-person poetry reading this Sunday March 5 @ 12:30 at Syracuse Stage. I’ll be reading my poetry in English and Steve Castro will read his original translations of them in Spanish! Steve will be reading his original poetry in Spanish and English. Plus there are other readers in this jam packed afternoon of poetry in English and Spanish! The reading is free and open to the public.

This event occurs prior to the matinee performance of the play Espejos: Clean, but you do not have to have a ticket to the play right in order to attend the poetry reading. You can come for just the reading…or enjoy the reading and get tickets to the play! Yes yes!

My poems are being translated!

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My friend, the poet Steve Castro, is translating some poems from my second book for a dual Spanish/English reading we’re going to be doing together next year at Syracuse Stage (more on that later!), and I find myself very touched, filled with a warm gratitude that several states away a wonderful poet is turning my little poems into another language, one which sadly I have no facility in. And such an awesome poet as Steve Castro! Everyone should get his poetry book Blue Whale Phenomena published in 2019 by Otis Books!

I’m reading at Whitman on Walls August 18, 2022 in Syracuse

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Syracuse-area friends! I’m reading a newly comissioned poem next Thursday Aug 18, 2022, as part of Whitman on Walls, a fun film and poetry event at the Everson Museum of Art. Come by, bring a lawn chair, enjoy a food cart dinner, and listen as local poets respond to short films inspired by “Song of Myself.” Yes yes!

WoW! at the Everson

Listen to me reading new poems on The Campbell Conversations!

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This July 4th weekend I appeared on WRVO’s Campbell Conversations reading poems from the manuscript-in-progress of my 3rd book. The stream is now available, and you also get to hear the wonderful Dana Spiotta and Phil Memmer. Have a listen! Huge thank you to host Grant Reeher for having me back on the program.

https://www.wrvo.org/show/campbell-conversations-0/2022-07-02/local-authors-read-from-their-recent-works-on-the-campbell-conversations

Thank you Uncloistered Poetry!

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What a delightful and heartfelt Zoom reading tonight at Uncloistered Poetry! Thanks again to Jonie McIntire for inviting me! It was such a pleasure to be a featured reader along with Aleathia Drehmer and Rick C. Christiansen and to hear all the open mic poets read after. Warmed me up on this chilly Syracuse night.

New poem video with my nephew Brian – “Smell of Wet Earth Like the Inside of My Hands”

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“Smell of Wet Earth Like the Inside of My Hands”
Poem & Video by Christopher Citro
Music by Brian Citro

I’m delighted to share this first poem video from a new poetry & music video project I’m doing with my nephew Brian. Hope you enjoy it! (It’s posted to my YouTube.)

Brian Citro has been playing and writing music on guitar for 30 years. A long-time member of The Drastics, he’s performed and toured with JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound, Ted Sirota’s Heavyweight Dub! and others. With Charles Gorczynski, Nate Lepine and Quin Kirchner he made music as Salamander and Video Gum Culture. Brian is also an international human rights lawyer and has lived, travelled and played music in Africa, Asia and Europe.

Christopher Citro is the author of If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun (Elixir Press, 2021), winner of the 2019 Antivenom Poetry Award, and The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy (Steel Toe Books, 2015). His awards include a 2018 Pushcart Prize for Poetry. He lives in Syracuse, New York.

Poem from If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun (Elixir Press, 2021)