Wow! I just got my contributor copies of The Iowa Review and I’m touched and delighted to see that my poems open the issue, and that the first one, which has kite flying in it, has a marvelous photo of kites opposite it. HUGE THANK YOUs to Abagail Petersen, Lynne Nugent, Katie Berta and everyone at TIR. I have had poems published online at TIR, and now it’s a thrill to have 2 poems in this print issue!
Fantastic (so very!) to do a poetry reading last night along with the wonderful Corey Zeller at a LiterarY Dinner to raise money for the Arts Branch of the Downtown Syracuse YMCA. Thank you to everyone who attended! It was so great to see so many friends and familiar faces. Thank you to Lisa and Sarah for the wonderful dinner and hosting the event! (I wish I’d have taken more pictures!)
I’m teaching an online 8-session (Thurs 6-8:00 pm ET) seminar on the history of the prose poem starting starting April 20 for the Downtown Writers Center. I believe this is the final week to register, so don’t delay if you’re interested. Join me Thursday evenings for a fun, inspiring tour of the prose poem from its start to the present day. Registration is inexpensive and open to the public. You can register with a credit card by calling (315) 474-6851 x380.
To learn more about The Downtown Writer’s Center and download the spring class schedule, with all of their awesome class offerings, visit the Center’s website: https://ymcacny.org/creative-writing-workshops.
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Wow! Just received the awesome news that Mid-American Review has accepted my poem “Sugar in the Gourd and the Gourd Upon the Ground.” I’m so thrilled to have my work appear again in their pages. Thank you Megan Borocki and everyone at MAR!
I’m delighted to learn today that Tampa Review has accepted my poem “Threads Braided and Those Braids Twisted.” HUGE thanks to Jodi Johnson and everyone at Tampa Review!
I’m delighted to have just received my contributor copy of the new North American Review, which has my poem “The Shape the Air Makes Between Us” along with tons of awesome writing! Thank you to the whole North American Review crew!
Announcing my 2 private Spring Zoom workshops starting in April: my poetry workshop “In the Landscape of Contemporary Poetry” & my creative nonfiction workshop “Adventures in The Lyric Essay.”
Both classes have all new readings and materials each time I teach them.
Heat up your writing this spring! Join us! 😀
Details & registration available http://christophercitro.com/private-classes/.
Register soon as spaces fill quickly! 😀
Here’s a video of me, Christopher Citro, and Sarah Ruhlen and Steve Castro doing a living room Zoom reading from Sunday March 5, 2023. Sarah Ruhlen reads her short story “Shepherds Take Warning” first published in Waccamaw. I read poems from my second book, If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun (Elixir Press, 2021), along with newer poems. And Steve Castro reads poems from his book Blue Whale Phenomena (Otis Books, 2019) along with newer poems. Hope you enjoy it!
Howdy! Here’s a video of me and Steve Castro reading our poems for last Sunday’s Poetry + Play event at Syracuse Stage. Steve reads his poems in Spanish and I read his English translations of them. Then I read my poems in English and Steve reads his original translations of them into Spanish. This event was part of an afternoon of poetry in English and Spanish before the final performance of Espejos: Clean, a play by Christine Quintana performed at Syracuse Stage in Syracuse, New York on March 5, 2023.
The new digital issue of New South 14.2 just arrived and it contains “Like a Fist Next to Your Heart” a collaborative prose poem I wrote with Dustin Nightingale! Along with tons of awesome poetry, fiction and nonfiction! Huge thanks to Anna Sandy-Elrod and the whole New South crew!
Print issues will be coming out soon, but right now you can see the whole issue online!