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Christopher Citro @christophercitro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Wow! The great poet David Kirby wrote an essay that features my poem "Our Beautiful Life When It's Filled with Shrieks" and Plume Poetry just published it online today. I'm so honored. I have to go sit in the backyard and try to calm down. plumepoetry.com/how-to-becom...

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Christopher Citro @christophercitro.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A weekend sleeping in a lighthouse? Oh yes! Thank you 30 Mile Point Lighthouse!

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Christopher Citro @christophercitro.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Huge thanks to the Laurel Review for nominating "Three Deaths Near a Body of Water," a poem I wrote collaboratively with Steve Castro and Dustin Pearson, for Black Lawrence Press' Best Small Fiction Anthology! What a delightful surprise!

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Christopher Citro @christophercitro.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Overjoyed to learn that the mighty Sixth Finch accepted my poems "Warm to Warm" & "Stone I Control Nothing" for their fall issue. I'm so delighted! This will be my 3rd time having my poems in @sixthfinch.bsky.social , one of my very favorites! I never miss an issue. Thank you Editor Rob MacDonald!

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Christopher Citro @christophercitro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Day 7 of Freeing the Muse on the island of Kefalonia, Greece! Myrtos Beach, Avithos Preview Taverna at Avithos Beach, a praying mantis on our apartment door, sunset trip to the top of Mount Ainos, goats, dinner at the Ionian Center for the Arts followed by an reading by the awesome participants!

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Christopher Citro @christophercitro.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Day 6 of Freeing the Muse on the island of Kefalonia, Greece! Teaching my poetry class with Polyphemus the cyclops outside the door. Evening drinks & appetizers with my fellow faculty at the cliffside restaurant the Sea Salt. Faculty readings after dinner at the Ionian Center for the Arts & Culture.

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Christopher Citro @christophercitro.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Day 5 of Freeing the Muse on the island of Kefalonia, Greece! A trip to Zeus Island, 139 steps to the top, in the past a temple to Zeus, before that Aphrodite. A swim at a beach only accessible by boat. Evening martinis at the wonderful Lilly's Cafe Bar on the mountain beside the St George Castle.

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Christopher Citro @christophercitro.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Day 4 of my 2nd year teaching poetry for Freeing the Muse on the island of Kefalonia, Greece! Reading our poems in a library in Lixouri with Greek poets! An amazing lunch; when we asked for the menu he showed us 2 trays of freshly caught fish! A boat to Fteri Beach (only accessible by boat) to swim.

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Christopher Citro @christophercitro.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Day 3 of my 2nd year teaching poetry for Freeing the Muse on the island of Kefalonia, Greece! Classes, beach, taramasalata + grouper + prawn w/ Sarris Winery robola, succulent roadside dates, sightseeing & writing at the mountain castle of Agios Georgios (est. 1085)! Plus an awesome cat friend.

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Christopher Citro @christophercitro.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Day 2 of my 2nd year teaching poetry for Freeing the Muse on the island of Kefalonia, Greece! No teaching! Instead a full day sightseeing before classes begin, 2 caves, Myrtos Beach from above, Swimming at Emplysi Beach, and visiting Fiskardo!

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Christopher Citro @christophercitro.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Day 1 of teaching for Freeing the Muse at the Ionian Center for the Arts and Culture on Kefalonia, Greece! 16 hours of sleep, a swim at Avithos Beach, sunlight on Mount Ainos, my first Greece cat sighting of this trip, ending with the opening night celebration dinner cooked by the wonderful Sophie!

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Christopher Citro @christophercitro.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

1 week after teaching at the Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, I jump on a plane, travel 12 hours (without sleeping) & here I am on the Greek Ionian island of Kefalonia to teach poetry for my 2nd year for Freeing the Muse at the Ionian Center for the Arts & Culture. Island hopping...

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Christopher Citro @christophercitro.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I've loved each of the 14 years I've been teaching for Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. This just finished September session was one of the very best! Thank you to my fellow faculty and to all the poets and writers who came and made it such an inspiring time!

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Christopher Citro @christophercitro.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Day 6 of the Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing! The final day! I taught The Intersections of Writing & Publishing, paneled about The Writing Life, then enjoyed the final night of participant readings. Such a heart-filling week. Thank you to everyone for making it so special!

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Christopher Citro @christophercitro.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Day 5 of the Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing! More manuscript meetings with awesome writers, a Seafood Shanty lunch by the Edgartown docks, sightseeing, ending with the 1st day of participant readings. So many moving poems & stories & essays! My heart left the reading overflowing.

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Christopher Citro @christophercitro.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I recently began a new writing project--maybe it'll be a book?-- and today Cold Mountain Review accepted 2 of the prose poems from this project. What a joy to have my work coming up this wonderful journal, & what an encouragement that I might not be on the totally wrong track with this new project!

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Christopher Citro @christophercitro.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Split Lip Magazine says on their CNF/Memoir page on Submittable: "We favor interesting, literary narratives with a modern, pop culture appeal." So maybe them? 😀

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Christopher Citro @christophercitro.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

28 days after starting Journal 123 it's time to say goodbye. Hello Journal 124! Also, a squirrel with a black walnut in its face stepped on my big toe while I was writing. So another reason to feel thankful.

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Christopher Citro @christophercitro.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Day 4 of the Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing September Edition! I met with awesome writers all day for manuscript consultations, then ate seafood at Menemsha Beach with fellow faculty and we clapped when the sun set. *sarcasm* It's a sort of life, I guess.

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Christopher Citro @christophercitro.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Day 3 of the Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing! I taught two craft/generative classes: one on broken things & anaphora and one on the hermit crab essay. Then in the evening we enjoyed readings by fellow faculty Hannah Bae and Vogue Robinson! Then wonderful Indian food at Indigo!

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Christopher Citro @christophercitro.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Day 2 of the Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing... No teaching for me today, but I read my poetry alongside the wonderful fiction writer Joy Deva Baglio! Thanks so much to all the awesome supportive people in the audience tonight! Golly that was a warm and welcoming time tonight!

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Christopher Citro @christophercitro.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Happy birthday to the love of my life! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

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Christopher Citro @christophercitro.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

With a glass of elderflower wine and a skol, Director Alexander Weinstein opens the third week of the 2026 Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing! My 14th year teaching here. My second week of this year's three sessions. Yip-a-dang! Here's to a great week of writing on the Vineyard!

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Christopher Citro @christophercitro.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Join me for my 6-week FALL 2026 writing workshops: Poetry (Weds) and Intro to the lyric Essay (Thus), via Zoom 6-8 pm ET. Both classes will run! Only 1 space left in the poetry class! See christophercitroDOTcom for more info & to register. #Poetry #Writing #WritersLife #WritingCommunity #essays

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Christopher Citro @christophercitro.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Here's my poem "Kicking the Mud Free" from the new Post Road Magazine! It's got motorcycles in it! Thank you Post Road Magazine!

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Christopher Citro @christophercitro.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

What a thrill to receive my contributor copy of the new Post Road, containing my poems "Meanwhile Everything Else Is Gone" and "Kicking the Mud Free" and much more literary goodness! HUGE thanks to the wonderful editors of PR!

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Christopher Citro @christophercitro.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Join me for my 6-week FALL 2026 writing workshops: Poetry (Weds) and Intro to the lyric Essay (Thus), via Zoom 6-8 pm ET. FYI: There's only 1 space left in my poetry workshop! See christophercitroDOTcom for more info & to register. #Poetry #Writing #WritersLife #WritingCommunity #essays

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Christopher Citro @christophercitro.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

First Quarter Moon Over Syracuse New York, August 20, 2026

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Christopher Citro @christophercitro.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Announcing my 6-week FALL 2026 writing workshops: Poetry (Weds) and Intro to the lyric Essay (Thus), via Zoom 6-8 pm ET. Earlybird discounted registration ends Aug 23. See christophercitroDOTcom for more info & to register. #Poetry #Writing #WritersLife #WritingCommunity #essays

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Christopher Citro @christophercitro.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Goodbye Journal #122. Hello Journal #122... I mean #123!

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Christopher Citro @christophercitro.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Today's solar eclipse, total in Greenland, Iceland and Spain, was a mere 10% visible here in Syracuse. But I tried...

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Christopher Citro @christophercitro.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Here's that 10-second grid of owls you didn't know you needed today. (Thank you to Joel Sartore's Photo Ark)

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Christopher Citro @christophercitro.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

So sweet and wonderful to read my poetry last week alongside so many lovely people for the Seneca Review, at Two Goats Brewing on the shore of Seneca Lake!

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Christopher Citro @christophercitro.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

A summer afternoon trimming some blackberry bushes in the backyard, followed by reviewing the proofs of my prose poem, "A Bee Lands a Yellow Violet Sags," soon to appear in the beautiful @ettereview.bsky.social !

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Christopher Citro @christophercitro.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

A midnight IMAX showing of The Odyssey, a rip-roaring re-telling, for this contemporary moment, of that most durable of stories. Christopher Nolan did a great job and Matt Damon was a compelling Odysseus. That Cyclops made me wanna burrow out of the theater through the bottom of my recliner.

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Christopher Citro @christophercitro.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Central New York friends! Come to a microbrewery on the beautiful banks of Seneca Lake and hear me read my poetry tomorrow evening, July 22, 2026, for the Seneca Review alongside a host of awesome @senecareview.bsky.social editors and contributors!

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Christopher Citro @christophercitro.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

What a warm and delightful experience reading my poetry on Friday alongside the wonderful Suzanne Frischkorn for St. David's Rhythm & Rhyme in Fayetteville, NY. Thank you to Laura Hannett for inviting me and thank you to all the kind folks who came!

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Christopher Citro @christophercitro.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Central New York friends! I'm reading poetry TONIGHT for St. David's new Rhythm & Rhyme series, alongside the wonderful Suzanne Frischkorn! Plus there's piano music! Yes yes! WHEN Friday, July 17, 7 pm WHERE St. David’s Parish Hall 14 Jamar Drive, Fayetteville, NY

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Christopher Citro @christophercitro.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Central New York Friends! I have another reading coming up. This one for the Seneca Review where I am an Editorial Assistant! It's July 22 at the Two Goats Brewery in the Finger Lakes, on a gorgeous hill overlooking Seneca Lake. Come join me and a bunch of awesome readers!

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Christopher Citro @christophercitro.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Friends! The new issue of The Boiler just appeared and it contains "Smoke Moving Out of the Way as It Rises" a collaborative prose poem I wrote with Steve Castro and Dustin Pearson!...alongside a ton of literary and art goodness! Thanks so much to all at The Boiler! @dustinkpearson.bsky.social

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Christopher Citro @christophercitro.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Christopher Citro | Oswego Bitters Schoolhouse #1 Sign

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Christopher Citro @christophercitro.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Barrow Street has accepted my poem "Rock Back They Close Rock Forward They Open." A sonnet about, among other things, migraine headaches, Raggedy Andy, a paper shredder, & a creepy Victorian doll my mom kept on a tiny rocking chair in the living room. Thank you so much Charles Kell & everyone at BR!

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Christopher Citro @christophercitro.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

It's the final day to register for my summer 2026 poetry workshop, "In the Landscape of Contemporary Poetry," which meets on Wednesdays 6-8 pm ET, starting July 8. Class takes place on Zoom and can be recorded to watch later if you are absent. #Poetry #Writing #WritersLife #WritingCommunity

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Christopher Citro @christophercitro.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Central New York friends! I'm reading poetry next week for St. David's new Rhythm & Rhyme series on July 17, alongside the wonderful Suzanne Frischkorn! The planners are finalizing some details, including a poster for the event, but I thought I'd share this now in case anyone can plan to come!

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Christopher Citro @christophercitro.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Just 2 days left to register for my summer 2026 poetry workshop, "In the Landscape of Contemporary Poetry," which meets on Wednesdays 6-8 pm ET, starting July 8. Class takes place on Zoom and can be recorded to watch later if you are absent. #Poetry #Writing #WritersLife #WritingCommunity

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Christopher Citro @christophercitro.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Early Bird Registration ends today! Spaces are still open for my summer 2026 poetry workshop, "In the Landscape of Contemporary Poetry," meeting Weds 6-8 pm ET, starting July 8. Class happen on Zoom & can be recorded to watch later if you are absent. #Poetry #Writing #WritersLife #WritingCommunity

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Christopher Citro @christophercitro.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Day 6 of Kettle Pond Writers' Conference! Writing on the shore of Akwasasne Lake at Paul Smith's College, waving hi to the wonderful Operations Manager Greta Hovland & our wonderful Director Virginia Zech, then enjoying the wonderful Brian Hall reading us his fiction! @kpondwriters.bsky.social

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Christopher Citro @christophercitro.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Day 5 of Kettle Pond Writers Conference! Writing and relaxing in an awesome treehouse overlooking Akwasasne Lake at Paul Smith's College, followed by the party at Blum House under a pale June moon... @kpondwriters.bsky.social

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Christopher Citro @christophercitro.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Day 4 of Kettle Pond Writers Conference continued! I gave my poetry reading alongside the wonderful Kem Joy Ukwu. Then sat out by a fire on the shore of Akwasasne Lake at Paul Smith's College. @kpondwriters.bsky.social

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