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Christopher Citro
@christophercitro.bsky.social
If We Had a Lemon We'd Throw It and Call That the Sun (2021) and The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy (2015). Pushcart Prize (2018). Best New Poets (2014) Editorial Assistant @Seneca Review. https://christophercitro.com
My late fall private Zoom poetry workshop class is now FULL. Thank you to everyone who registered!

My next private classes will be early 2026. To stay informed about my class offerings, you can join my (very occasional) email list by sending me an email at christopher(at)christophercitro(dot)com.
November 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Awesome to get to hear my friend Steve Castro reading tonight for The Inflectionist Review, alongside lovely poets Ben Cooper and Jason Gordy Walker. Steve included in his reading some of the collaborative poems he and I wrote with Dustin Pearson, including ones published in TIR. 🙏
November 25, 2025 at 2:30 AM
What a delicate, tender concert tonight by The Syracuse Orchestra at St. Paul's beautifully performing Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra and Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel Suite.
November 23, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Waxing Crescent Moon Over Syracuse New York November 22 2025
November 22, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Thank you to Poetose for nominating my poem "Our Lungs Fill and Empty" for a Pushcart Prize. What an honor! 🙏
@poetose.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
My late fall private Zoom poetry workshop class is already half full! Come join a wonderful group of poets as we end this year, and open the next, writing and inspiring one another! See my website christophercitro DOT com for more info & to register. #Poetry #Writing #WritersLife #WritingCommunity
November 19, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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. 🤠
This will be my 2nd appearance in BR!
November 18, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Hey! There's my poem "You're So Gross and I Love You," here in the Syracuse Barnes & Noble, nestled inside the anthology Invisible Strings 113 Poets Respond to the Songs of Taylor Swift (Ballantine Books, 2024) edited by Kristie Frederick Daugherty . Have you gotten your copy yet? 😀
November 18, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Registration is now open for my LATE FALL 2025 online poetry workshop! Come join a wonderful group of poets as we end this year, and open the next, writing and inspiring one another! See my website christophercitro DOT com for more info & to register. #Poetry #Writing #WritersLife #WritingCommunity
November 17, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Announcing my LATE FALL 2025 online poetry workshop! Registration just opened.

"In the Landscape of Contemporary Poetry" meets on Zoom Weds 6-8 PM Eastern Time.

It starts Dec 3 & runs for 6 classes (skipping Dec 24 and 31).

See my website christophercitro DOT com for more info & to register.
November 15, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Happy 23rd anniversary to the girl I most wanna go watch whales with! Here's to 2300 more years! Good golly! ❤️
@sahakanouch.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Announcing my LATE FALL 2025 online poetry workshop! Registration just opened.

"In the Landscape of Contemporary Poetry" meets on Zoom Weds 6-8 PM Eastern Time.

It starts Dec 3 & runs for 6 classes (skipping Dec 24 and 31).

See my website christophercitro DOT com for more info & to register.
November 13, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Three days after the Beaver Moon, November 8, 2025 1:46 am
Syracuse, New York
November 8, 2025 at 6:54 AM
On such a blustery November afternoon, how lovely to review the galley proofs for my poem soon to appear in the Bennington Review!
November 5, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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 helps take the sting out of having to go on...somehow...now that Halloween is over....
November 4, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Given tonight's cold, wind, and rain, we weren't expecting much, but this was one of the best Halloweens for trick or treaters. Just goes to prove, they grow 'em tough here in the 'cuse.
(Video from before the storm arrived.)
November 1, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Happy Halloween! 🎃
October 31, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Another helpful new blog post from my sweetie's employee-side labor and employment law firm here in Syracuse, NY!
@workplacelawyer.bsky.social

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October 29, 2025 at 9:17 PM
What a joy to visit John Howard's Studies in Nonfiction class, where they've been reading my lyric essay "What You’re Thinking Now Is a Chunk of Marble" in the Southeast Review. Thank you to John and his students for their insights and generosity! You can read the essay here: tinyurl.com/yc2symbu
October 29, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Jumpin' jubilation! I just got my cream city review, with the poem "On a Planet of Gas and Dust and Smoky Mountains, Bird Calls" Steve Castro, Dustin Pearson, & I wrote together. Thank you to all at CCR for the beautiful things that you do!
@creamcityreview.bsky.social
@dustinkpearson.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Reposted by Christopher Citro
"Our Lungs Fill and Empty" by @christophercitro.bsky.social: www.poetose.com/pub/our-lung...

Christopher Citro is the author of IF WE HAD A LEMON WE'D THROW IT AND CALL THAT THE SUN and THE MAINTENANCE OF THE SHIMMY-SHAMMY. Learn more at christophercitro.com

#poetry #poem
October 12, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Harvest Supermoon Over Syracuse New York October 7 2025 1 am
October 7, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Our Halloween 2025 Tableau - Fantasy on Sleepy Hollow
October 6, 2025 at 12:33 AM
What a treat to get 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!
@northamerreview.bsky.social
October 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Waxing Gibbous Moon Over Syracuse New York October 4 2025 12:30 am
October 4, 2025 at 4:44 AM