Delighted to receive the news tonight that my poem “Calling For One Another When We’re Right There” has been accepted at The Cortland Review. These good folks were kind enough to have published my poem “Help! I’m Floating!” in issue 46 way back in 2010. My how the winds of time do blow…
As another blizzard prepares to descend upon us here in Syracuse, I’m curling up around the warm glow of the new issue of Sixth Finch which contains my poems, “And Can Digest as Much” and “Craters the Naturally Forming Basin,” as well as stellar new poems by folks such as Rachel Bennett, Lauren Camp, Bill Carty, Jeremy Allan Hawkins, Adam Tavel, and more! It’s such a thrill to have my poetry in Sixth Finch again. A thousand thanks to Rob MacDonald and Jaime Zuckerman!
My micro-fiction “Pushing Through the Cheap Crystals To Get at the Good Stuff” has just been published online by The Spectacle. Complete with a wonderful illustration! Huge thanks to Kelly Caldwell and the rest of The Spectacle crew!
Read it HERE.
I’m delighted to announce that I’ll be traveling to Martha’s Vineyard in a few weeks to offer a creative writing class on the lyric essay and to give a poetry reading – as part of the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing Year-Round Visiting Writers Series. Both the class and reading are free and open to the public. If you’re in the area come on by!
The Year-Round Visiting Writers Series highlights local and national writers and offers free creative writing workshops and readings to the Vineyard community.
Learn more here: http://oakbluffslibrary.org/event/mvicw-writing-series-the-poetic-essay-writing-seminar/
Delighted to receive the news that my poems “And Can Digest as Much” and “Craters the Naturally Forming Basins” have just been accepted at Sixth Finch! It’s so great to have work forthcoming again in one of my favorite journals–they were good enough to publish my poem “The Sweet of Being Made Right” in the winter 2016 issue.
(I thought I’d post the photograph that inspired one of the poems, from a weekend Adirondack cabin getaway last winter. You’ll have to imagine the sound of massive trees popping in the frigid cold yourself.)
As the snow begins to fall, I’ve received an early present, news that my micro-fiction, “Pushing Through the Cheap Crystals to Get at the Good Stuff,” has been accepted by The Spectacle.
Delighted to receive the news that my poem “As If It Didn’t Need Me” has been accepted for publication at DIAGRAM. This will be the second time I’ll have had work there, since they were good enough to publish two of my collaborative prose poems written with Dustin Nightingale in 2016.
Delighted to learn that my poetry book manuscript was a semi-finalist in Conduit‘s Minds on Fire Book Prize…and the collaborative poetry book manuscript I wrote with Dustin Nightingale was a finalist!
Thank you Conduit Magazine, and congratulations to the winner Jeffrey Morgan!
I’m excited to announce that I’ll be teaching an 8-week poetry writing workshop called “In the Landscape of Contemporary Poetry” starting January 23, 2019 at The Downtown Writer’s Center in sunny Syracuse, NY. I teach this workshop every winter session, and the readings are all new every year. If you’re in the area come on down!
In the Landscape of Contemporary Poetry with Christopher Citro. Wednesdays, 6:00 – 8:00. 8 weeks, starting January 23. “You grow to love the creatures you create/ some of them come out with pupils swirling/ others with teeth” writes Kaveh Akbar in his 2017 book Calling a Wolf a Wolf. In this regular winter session workshop, with all different readings each year, we’ll discuss poetry from recent books and journals, then use prompts from our readings to inspire us in the creation of our own darling poetic creatures.
Registration is inexpensive and open to the public. To learn more about The Downtown Writer’s Center, download the winter class schedule, and register for this workshop, visit the Center’s website HERE. Feel free to share with anyone who might be interested!
Although my second poetry book manuscript, Gullier, has yet to find a home, it was gratifying to receive a recent rejection from Copper Canyon informing me they admired it, that the “manuscript was strong and made it through several rounds of review.” With the list of other places the manuscript has so far found a little love, it gives me hope that someday…
Georgia Poetry Prize (one of 9 finalists)
Sarabande Kathryn A. Morton Prize (one of 15 finalists)
Milkweed (“read attentively and with much interest”)
Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize U of Utah (one of 16 semi-finalists)
Pleiades Press Editors prize (semi-finalist)
Octopus Books (second round of consideration)
Black Lawrence Press (“read with interest”)
Brittingham & Pollak Prizes/U of Wisconsin Press (strong semi-finalist)
New Measure / Free Verse / Parlor Press (“admired”)
Tupelo Press (“truly enjoyed reading your work”)