2 journal acceptances yesterday! If you write collaboratively with the likes of Steve Castro and Dustin Pearson, I suppose it shouldn’t come as a shock but really…Holy moly!! Heavy Feather Review has accepted “Placatory Congregation” (thank you Bill Lessard!) and The Boiler has accepted “Smoke Moving Out of the Way as It Rises” (thank you Diana Cao & Todd Dillard)!
Diode has just published two collaborative poems that Steve Castro, Dustin Pearson, and I wrote together. Please visit http://diodepoetry.com/castro_pearson_citro/ to read them! Huge thanks to Patty Paine and the whole Diode crew!
In the Landscape of Contemporary Poetry. Wednesdays, 6:00-8:00 p.m. ET. 6 weeks, starting December 4. We’ll read recently published poetry from literary journals and books, generate new poems with the help of prompts that I create, and spend the bulk of each class in a fun, inspiring poetry workshop. In this course participants will write and receive workshop comments on five original poems. Writers at all levels are welcome. I teach In the Landscape of Contemporary Poetry often, and every time the readings are all new, so you can take it again and again!
Creative Nonfiction Workshop. Thursdays, 6:00-8:00 p.m. ET. 6 weeks, starting December 5. In this class I’ll provide craft talks, original writing prompts, and we’ll take recent literary essays apart to see how the writers achieved their astonishing effects. Then we’ll workshop creative nonfiction essays (micros, flash or full-length up to 4,000 words – all are welcome!). I teach this class often, and the readings are always different. If you’ve taken it before you can always take it again and the class content will be new. Writers at all levels are welcome!
Registration is now open, and it closes on Sunday December 1.
Details & registration available at: https://christophercitro.com/private-classes/
Register soon as spaces fill quickly!
I’m delighted to announce that I’ll be returning as a faculty member for next summer’s Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing and registration has OPENED! There are two 1-week sessions available (I’m teaching during the first week). Do something nice for yourself, and register to join us on the Vineyard next summer for a writing extravaganza!
Wow! The Normal School just accepted my poem “Come In Go Ahead Say Again.” Thanks so much Angelina Leanos and everyone at The Normal School. Instead of my spaceman costume, I think I’ll be greeting trick-or-treaters tonight as a Super-Happy Poet!
Yippee! My collaborative poems “Avalon at the End of the Alley” and “Earthly Imagination” — written with Dustin Pearson and Steve Castro — have just been accepted at Diode! Massive thank you to Patty Paine!
Yippee! “Yonder,” the collaborative poem that I wrote with Steve Castro and Dustin Pearson, just got published online at The Cincinnati Review, with accompanying audio of us 3 reading the poem (and some harmonica played by my darling Sarah)! Huge thanks to Kate Jayroe, Rebecca Lindenberg, Lisa Ampleman, and all at CR!
Huge thanks to The Inflectionist Review editors A. Molotkov & John Sibley Williams for accepting “Forgotten Village” and “Bright Sides & Glass” — two of the collaborative poems I’ve written with Dustin Pearson and Steve Castro!
Yippee! The Cincinnati Review just accepted “Yonder” a collaborative prose poem that I wrote with Steve Castro and Dustin Pearson. It’ll be published soon in their online miCRo series. Huge thanks to Kate Jayroe and all at CR!
Wow! I just received a second Best of the Net 2024 nomination, this time for my poem “In a Kingdom of Little Gusts and I Want Out” published online by Fugue. Thank you again to Maggie Nipps, Reid Davis and everyone at Fugue Literary Journal! Here’s the link to read the poem:
https://fuguejournal.com/in-a-kingdom-of-little-gusts-and-i-want-out-citro
I happened to be working on an ekphrastic poem about Virgil Marti’s 1992 “Bullies Wallpaper” when the email came. Usually if I get an email while I’m writing a poem it’s a rejection from some literary magazine. This was a lovely surprise!