An early present arrived! My contributor copy of The Idaho Review which contains “Don’t Fall” a collaborative prose poem I wrote with Dustin Nightingale. Thank you to Mary Pauline Lowry, Desmond Everest Fuller and everyone at The Idaho Review.
I’m delighted to announce that I’m teaching History of the Prose Poem: from the 1800s to the Present for The Downtown Writers Center. This inexpensive, 8-week Zoom-based class is open to anyone anywhere (you do not have to be a member of the YMCA to take this class).
We’ll read prose poetry, from its establishment in 1842, through Modernism, the surreal 70s, up to today. This online class features audio and video for a fun session each week, including handouts for further reading and exploration. Intended for both writers and readers who love poetry and wish to gain a deeper experience of this form. No prior knowledge required.
I’m delighted to share that the always wonderful Verse Daily has featured my poem today: “Peel the Black Walnut Bark Like Small Fists in Our Fists.” Thank you to J.P. Dancing Bear and to the Colorado Review for first giving the poem a home. https://www.versedaily.org/2023/peeltheblackwalnutbarklike.shtml
I am thrilled to announce that I’m teaching a special weekend of virtual generative poetry workshops through the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing April 5-7, 2024! Give yourself the gift of a concentrated weekend of fun writing prompts, with audio, video, & poetic inspiration, all in a welcoming, inspiring environment with an awesome fellow group of poets! We’ll get a bunch of new poems drafts begun! Plus I’ll give a poetry reading and there will be open mics for attendees to share and celebrate their work! Hot damn this is going to be a blast. Register now!
For more info (including info about fellowships) and to register:
https://www.mvicw.com/weekend-seminars
Oh yes!! I am profoundly excited to announce that Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing is back for 2024!!! And I’ll be returning as faculty, teaching seminars in poetry, the lyric essay, and publishing, along with awesome fellow faculty for an inspiring week of creative writing on the island. Come join us for an experience you’ll cherish. Registration is open now!
A ray of sunlight arrived today with my contributor copy of the new Tampa Review, which has my poem “Threads Braided and Those Braids Twisted.” Such a beautiful volume filled with awesome poetry, fiction, and nonfiction! Thanks so much again Jodi Johnson, Paul Corrigan, Yuly Restrepo Garcés & the whole Tampa Review crew!
I raise my clogged head from my cold-induced torpor to… CELEBRATE the new issue of Diode which has 2 of my poems: “The Body the Fact of It” & “Great the Light Failing Again” alongside a stellar line-up of awesome poets! Thank you again Patty Paine and everyone who helps make Diode. *cough cough* Where’s the orange juice? *cough cough*
http://diodepoetry.com/citro_christopher-2/
Delighted to have just received the wonderful news that Zone 3 has accepted my poem, “Red Birds the Size of Fists.” Thanksgiving has arrived early. HUGE thank you to Stephanie Dugger and everyone at Zone 3! This will be my third appearance in this awesome journal.
Thrilled to receive my copy of the new Colorado Review with my poems “Night But Unlike Night” and “Peel the Black Walnut Bark Like Small Fists in Our Fists.” These poems mean a lot to me, and I think of them as a pair. I could not be more delighted that they found their home in CR, a journal close to my heart and which has been kind enough to publish a lyric essay of mine and two other poems before. Thank you Matthew Cooperman, Lauren Furman, Cecil Janecek, Stephanie G’Schwind, and everyone with a hand in making the always awesome Colorado Review!
Wow!! Blackbird just accepted my poem “Birds and Stars Suite.” This is one of the long poems that I’ve been writing since the summer, and it’s a great shot in the arm to have this validation of my new experimentation. Thank you thank you thank you to Caroline Richards and everyone at Blackbird! This will be my second appearance in Blackbird, and I’m celebrating as jubilantly as that first one!