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Christopher Citro @christophercitro.bsky.social · 7h

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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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Steve Castro x Christopher Citro x Dustin Pearson @christophercitro.bsky.social / @dustinkpearson.bsky.social

Smoke Moving Out of the Way as It Rises

Flamenco Sanchez owned a racehorse. The horse would die once a year by catching on fire and turning in bones & ashes before reappearing a week later good as new insight Flamenco's stable. Flamenco did not know what to do, whom to tell and trust with such a heavy secret. The horse loved to race locomotives and dream about his political ambitions. The horse once dreamt it was the Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. It stood like men stand for speeches. Rearing on its hind legs, ascending to 12 feet and to the awe of everyone who gathered to hear, but for all its climbing it was not granted words to move men. Its power remained in the realm of beasts, and so when it moved toward its calling to lead, it could only do as much through fear. Its wild stomps, its pained neighing drove everyone away from it, the upset and excitement forming first a matrix of crystals in its heart, then a palace to glow blue in sunlight and purple-gold in night. Only to awaken again to a wet slap of skin and muscle, the hardness of bone beneath.

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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

Here's a video of me reading my poem "Threads Braided and Those Braids Twisted" last night, in the backyard, the night before a full moon. Crickets in evidence. This poem first appeared in the Tampa Review. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmhU...

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Christopher Citro Reads His Poem "Threads Braided and Those Braids Twisted"

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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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Read A Little Poetry @readalittlepoem.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Day 18 of #thesealeychallenge • Our featured poet is Christopher Citro (@christophercitro.bsky.social), whose work appeared in West Branch (@westbranchmagazine.bsky.social). For the whole month of August, we'd like to put a spotlight on individual poets as well as some of our favourite lit mags.

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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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-ette review @ettereview.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

“Wolves switch on and off.” Contrasts catalyze a fleeting summer mood in this gem of a prose poem by @christophercitro.bsky.social ettereview.com/summer2026/c...

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Christopher Citro | -ette-review

Christopher Citro in -ette-review Issue 8: Summer 2026

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Christopher Citro @christophercitro.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Friends! My little prose poem "A Bee Lands a Yellow Violet Sags" has just been published online in the gorgeous new issue of -ette. Thank you Beth Hahn, Nora Maynard, and Melanie Hoopes! 😀 ettereview.com/summer2026/c...

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Christopher Citro | -ette-review

Christopher Citro in -ette-review Issue 8: Summer 2026

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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 · 10/07/2026

Here's a video of me reading my poem "Keep Moving (Home)" at the Kettle Pond Writers Conference June 23, 2026. This poem was first published as the liner notes to the album "Keep Moving (Home)" by my nephew Brian Citro (Calligram Records, 2026, digital, CD, & vinyl). www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7PY...

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Christopher Citro Reads His Poem "Keep Moving (Home)" at the Kettle Pond Writers Conference 2026

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