Christopher Citro

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)

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It's publication day for my second poetry book, If We Had a Lemon We'd Throw It and Call That the Sun, which won the Elixir Press Antivenom Poetry Award! Thank you to everyone who helped make this possible and to everyone who has gotten a copy already! ❤🍋❤

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@JulianD86666247 Thank you Julian! 🙏

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Day 6 & 7 of the Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing...teaching my Literary Publishing class, attending closing ceremonies...traveling home from that island I love so much! Thank you to the awesome attendees, faculty, & staff who made this a wonderful time!!!
#mvicw

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Day 5 of the Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing...teaching my workshops Flash Away and Welcoming Surprises, then faculty Dinner at Oak Bluff's Black Joy Kitchen followed by the traditional late night visit to Back Door Donuts!
#mvicw

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Day 4 of the Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing...manuscript conferences with tons of awesome writers (not pictured 😀) followed by a faculty trip to Menemsha for sunset lobsters and then fog fog lighthouse fog fog! #mvicw

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Day 3 of the Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing...talking over manuscripts with writers at the Vineyard Arts Project and hearing the evening readings by the wonderful Hannah Bae and the wonderful Jackson Brown! #mvicw

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Oh, just 3 alumni from Indiana University's MFA in Creative Writing strolling along the night-time docks in Edgartown on Martha's Vineyard: Alexander Weinstein, Jackson Brown, and yours truly!

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Day 2 of the Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing...exploring Edgartown, then giving my poetry reading tonight alongside the wonderful Vogue Robinson!

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With a "skol" and a raised glass of elderflower wine Director Alexander Weinstein opens The Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing 2026 Summer Conference. I'm teaching here for my 13th year, alongside Alexander, Hannah Bae, Vogue Robinson, & Jackson Brown! #MVICW

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Here's an interview with me from the literary magazine of Uskudar American Academy in Istanbul, Türkiye. A 12th grader there found my poem "Our Beautiful Life When It's Filled with Shrieks" & reached out to me. Thank you to Efe Oğuz Aktaş. My poem & I are humming with gratitude.

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Friends! Join me tonight, May 12, for my poetry reading on Zoom for Cobalt Poets. It also includes an open reading you can sign up for in the chat! 10:30 pm Eastern / 7:30 pm Pacific time. The Zoom link is written in the event poster.

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Sending a copy of my 2nd book to the students of Uskudar American Academy, Istanbul, Türkiye, who somehow found my poem "Our Beautiful Life When It's Filled with Shrieks," with its line about men who bicycled across Turkey in the 1800s, & are translating it for their magazine. ❤️

[Christopher Citro @CCitroPoet]

Friends! I'm reading online for the Cobalt Poets series next week, May 12 at 10:30 pm Eastern. Stay up late! Do crimes! Then tune in to hear me read and then maybe read something yourself at the open reading that follows me lipping off!

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This Is Today | 2026-05-04

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Thank you BCAC Artisan Gallery in Binghamton New York for hanging my poem "Birds and Stars Suite" in their April gallery show. How delightful to be asked to be in this! The show's over but you can read the poem at Blackbird where it was first published:
https://t.co/XOLhj8XRr8

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This Is Today | 2026-05-03

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This Is Today | 2026-05-02

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This Is Today | 2026-05-01

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My nephew Brian Citro's beautiful new jazz album "Keep Moving (Home)" is released today on Chicago's Calligram Records, as a digital download, CD, & vinyl! I wrote a poem for the liner notes. Sample & order the album in all formats at: https://t.co/tXPrCW3fU5

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This Is Today | 2026-04-30