Harvest Supermoon Over Syracuse New York October 7 2025 1 am
07.10.2025 05:15 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@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
Harvest Supermoon Over Syracuse New York October 7 2025 1 am
07.10.2025 05:15 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Our Halloween 2025 Tableau - Fantasy on Sleepy Hollow
06.10.2025 00:33 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0What 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!
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Waxing Gibbous Moon Over Syracuse New York October 4 2025 12:30 am
04.10.2025 04:44 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Goodbye Journal #120. Hello Journal #121! To the tune of passing cars running over black walnuts down in the street. *Pop!* *Pop-pop!*
03.10.2025 16:50 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The eyes of this golden langur monkey (Trachypithecus geei).
Oh my goodness...
Yippee! Poetose just published my short poem "Our Lungs Fill and Empty" in their online journal, alongside a handwritten version of the poem. Huge thanks to Poetose!
Head on over to Poetose to see the handwritten version and the awesome other pieces they've published!
www.poetose.com/pub/our-lung...
A rare sighting of Comyns, the fox who lives in our woods, sunning himself in our backyard.
02.10.2025 01:24 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0New to submitting to literary journals, looking for someone to walk you through the process?
Experienced submitter looking for some tips and strategies to freshen your process?
This is the class for you! It starts today! Register by 5 pm today to join us!
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Huge thank you!! to the online journal Poetose for accepting my poem "Our Lungs Fill and Empty." I've been invited to handwrite the poem to be published next to a printed-text version, so I cranked up my fountain pen and fancy ink to have a go!
29.09.2025 18:57 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Awesome!
29.09.2025 03:02 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Tonight I'm reading submissions for the Seneca Review. Our fall submission period is open now and closes November 1. So you've got a month left to send us something wonderful! π
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I rarely submit to writing contests, so it's especially lovely news to learn that my poems were a finalist for Puerto del Sol's 2025 annual poetry contest. Huge thank you to everyone involved...and congratulations to the winner!
28.09.2025 18:08 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Submittin' poems to literary journals on a warm September afternoon to the sound of the local high school marching band coming from the stadium down the road.
27.09.2025 20:16 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0*Pppsssttt!* There's 1 space left in my fall poetry workshop which begins tomorrow Wed Sept 24 at 6 pm Eastern Time. Room for you if you act quickly! π Come join an awesome group of poets ready to write and workshop the autumn away!
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Hot golly! I'm in this anthology and the audiobook of Invisible Strings 113 Poets Respond to the Songs of Taylor Swift is in consideration for next year's Grammy Awards. Wow wow wow! Congratulations to Editor Kristie Frederick Daugherty for making this project so awesome and such a success!
23.09.2025 15:59 β π 2 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Final day to register! Join me for my FALL 2025 creative writing workshops on poetry, creative nonfiction, & submitting to literary journals! Classes from 6-8 PM ET on Zoom.
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Wow! Thanks so much Kelli! And as a huge fan of yours that's an extra wonderful compliment to hear! Thanks!
20.09.2025 19:26 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0As the wrens, chickadees, and nuthatches lip off from the woods, it's a lovely Saturday afternoon for proofing galleys of the three collaborative poems that Steve Castro, Dustin Pearson, and I wrote, which are coming out soon in the new issue of The Laurel Review!
20.09.2025 19:19 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Just 2 days left to register! Join me for my FALL 2025 creative writing workshops on poetry, creative nonfiction, & submitting to literary journals! Classes from 6-8 PM ET on Zoom.
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Just 3 days left to register! Join me for my FALL 2025 creative writing workshops on poetry, creative nonfiction, & submitting to literary journals! Classes from 6-8 PM ET on Zoom.
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Congratulations to Arthur Sze, our new US Poet Laureate. I love his poetry so so so much. Here he is reading the opening poem from his sequence "The Leaves of a Dream Are the Leaves of an Onion" from his book River River [1987] at a reading in 1989.
18.09.2025 17:47 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Classes start next week! Join me for my FALL 2025 creative writing online workshops on poetry, creative nonfiction, and submitting to literary journals! Classes from 6-8 PM ET via Zoom.
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Friends! I'm giving a Zoom reading TONIGHT, Monday Sept 15 at 7 pm ET with my buddy Dustin Nightingale for the release of our micro e-chapbook of collaborative poetry. Join us!
Reading registration link:
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Free digital chapbook here:
ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-...
Join me for my FALL 2025 creative writing online workshops on poetry, creative nonfiction, and submitting to literary journals! All classes take place 6-8 PM Eastern Time via Zoom.
See <christophercitro DOT com> for details & to register!
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I like to imagine there are millions of us... π
07.09.2025 20:16 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Jumpin' for joy to have my poem "Raise It All Like Food to the Sky" accepted for the American Pop Culture Almanac: 1776-2026. Huge thanks to editor J.D. Isip...and to the movie The Princess Bride, for the inspiration, and much else.
07.09.2025 19:17 β π 6 π 2 π¬ 0 π 1Announcing my FALL 2025 creative writing online workshops on poetry, creative nonfiction, and submitting to literary journals! All classes take place 6-8 PM Eastern Time via Zoom.
See <christophercitro DOT com> for details & to register!
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Not Quite the Full Moon - September 6, 2025 1:42 AM, Syracuse, New York
06.09.2025 05:48 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Hey! I'm giving a Zoom reading Monday Sept 15 at 7 pm ET with my buddy Dustin Nightingale for the release of our micro e-chapbook of collaborative poetry!
Reading registration link:
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Get a free copy of our new chapbook here:
ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-...