Hot golly! The new issue of The Glacier has arrived, containing 3 of my poems, and a seriously impressive roster of poetry, prose and art. Here’s one of my poems. I hope you’ll read the others online. HUGE thanks to David Dodd Lee and all the lovely people who make The Glacier.
I’m giving a reading at the BCAC Artisan Gallery in Binghamton, NY on January 24, 2026, with Jenn Powers and Jen DeGregorio, as part of their Triple-A Reading Series! Yippee!
Any Southern Tier NY friends out there? Mark yer calendars!
How delightful to close out this blizzardy Thanksgiving weekend with an acceptance from -ette review for my prose poem “A Bee Lands a Yellow Violet Sags.” Thank you to co-editors Beth Hahn and Nora Maynard!
Thank you to Poetose for nominating my poem “Our Lungs Fill and Empty” for a Pushcart Prize. What an honor!
You can read the poem online, in both a typed and handwritten version, here:
https://www.poetose.com/pub/our-lungs-fill-and-empty-christopher-citro#
Hot golly! Bellingham Review just accepted my poem “Set Before a Feast We Lift a Fork” Huge thank you to Sam X Wong and everyone at BR! It’s, um, another poem of mine set in a grocery store. So thank you also to Wegmans. đź¤
This will be my second appearance in the awesome Bellingham Review. They were kind enough to publish my lyric essay “Licked by Our World We Get Licked by Our World” in 2021.
You can read the whole essay online here:
https://bhreview.org/articles/licked-by-our-world-we-get-licked-by-our-world/
You can read an interview they did with me here:
https://bhreview.org/contributor-spotlight-christopher-citro/
In the Landscape of Contemporary Poetry. Wednesdays, 6:00-8:00 p.m. ET. 6 weeks, starting December 3 (skipping December 24 and 31). 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!
Participants will receive:
This is a live online writing workshop. Registered participants will receive a Zoom link prior to the beginning of classes. Registration will close when full (12 students). The class requires a minimum of 6 registered participants. Register early, as spots fill quickly.
Registration fee: $275
Registration deadline: Sunday November 30
Class begins: Wednesday December 3
Click here to register by credit card: https://square.link/u/MUWXeJMq
Hot golly! My contributor copies of the new Water~Stone Review arrived with my poem “Why Our Bathtub Sparkles” and thank you again to Jose Hernandez Diaz, Kayla Knoll, and Meghan Maloney-Vinz. This happy arrival in the mail helps take some of the sting out of having to go on…somehow…now that Halloween is over for another year….
What a joy to spend this morning Zoom-visiting John Howard’s Studies in Nonfiction class, where they have been reading and responding to my lyric essay “What You’re Thinking Now Is a Chunk of Marble” published in the Southeast Review. Thank you to John and his students for their insights and generosity!
The Southeast Review has made the entire essay available to read online:
https://www.southeastreview.org/single-post/38-2-christopher-citro
Jumpin’ jubilation! I just got my contributor copy of the new Cream City Review, with the collaborative prose poem “On a Planet of Gas and Dust and Smoky Mountains, Bird Calls” which Steve Castro, Dustin Pearson, and I wrote together. Thank you to everyone at CCR for the beautiful things that you do!
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!