Announcing my winter 2023 private online writing workshops!

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Announcing my 2 private winter Zoom workshops starting at the end of January! I’m offering my poetry workshop “In the Landscape of Contemporary Poetry” (always new readings each time I teach it) & “Adventures in the Lyric Essay,” my popular workshop on this exciting Creative Nonfiction genre.

If you’ve taken my “The Lyric Essay” class before, this is an all NEW class with new readings! If you don’t have experience with the lyric essay, this class is ALSO for you, as I’ll provide a brief introduction to the form in the first class. Heat up your writing this winter! Join us!

Details & registration available at http://christophercitro.com/private-classes/

Register soon as spaces fill quickly!

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“The Island Designated Yes” published at The Shore!

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“The Island Designated Yes,” a prose poem I co-wrote with Dustin Nightingale, has just been published online at The Shore.

It’s very short. It’s a love poem. And it mentions indigo cherry drops which are tomatoes we grow every year and taste like when funk songs mention sunshine. I hope you enjoy it.

Huge thank yous to editors Caroline Chavatel, Emma DePanise, John A. Nieves!

Read the poem HERE.

“The Shape the Air Makes Between Us” Accepted at the North American Review!

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I’m delighted to share the news that my poem “The Shape the Air Makes Between Us” has just been accepted by North American Review. Thank you J D Schraffenberger and the rest of the NAR crew! This poem mentions the amazing sculpture from 1993 “House” by the amazing artist Rachel Whiteread. She filled a three story house with concrete then removed the house part.

Reviewing proofs for my upcoming poem in The American Poetry Review!

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Thrilled!!! to review proofs of my poem “We Couldn’t Be More Biological” which will appear in the January issue of The American Poetry Review!!! Wow!

I never know what I’m going to write about when I write my poems. I sure didn’t know this love poem would be inspired by a couple creatures peeping out from the middle of a 4 hour NOAA deep sea science expedition video, which is the kind of thing my partner and I like to watch late at night with the lights down low…

The Shore has accepted my collaborative prose poem “The Island Designated Yes”

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As the 1st snow of winter falls, what a warm bit of news to learn that The Shore has accepted “The Island Designated Yes,” a collaborative prose poem I wrote with Dustin Nightingale! Thank you Caroline Chavatel, Emma DePanise, John A. Nieves!

My poems are being translated!

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My friend, the poet Steve Castro, is translating some poems from my second book for a dual Spanish/English reading we’re going to be doing together next year at Syracuse Stage (more on that later!), and I find myself very touched, filled with a warm gratitude that several states away a wonderful poet is turning my little poems into another language, one which sadly I have no facility in. And such an awesome poet as Steve Castro! Everyone should get his poetry book Blue Whale Phenomena published in 2019 by Otis Books!