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Christopher Citro

Christopher Citro
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Christopher Citro

Christopher Citro is the author of two full-length poetry books: If We Had a Lemon We'd Throw It and Call That the Sun (Elixir Press, 2021), winner of the 2019 Antivenom Poetry Award, and The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy (Steel Toe Books, 2015). In 2025 he’ll have two collaborative poetry chapbooks published: The Box We Put the World in to Keep a Corner From Shattering (Aureole Press), co-written with Steve Castro and Dustin Pearson, and I Wear a Top Hat When I Go Into the Forest (Ghost City Press), co-written with Dustin Nightingale. Christopher lives in sunny Syracuse, New York. (Source)

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Poems by Christopher Citro

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If Alone Has A Flavor by Christopher Citro

August 18, 2026
“It won’t end. What won’t end? This life / we feel’s always about to end,” — Christopher Citro
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In a Kingdom of Little Gusts and I Want Out by Christopher Citro

January 22, 2025
“I crush the spider and say to you, It must be / autumn because now I kill one or two things / every day.” — Christopher Citro
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Our Beautiful Life When It's Filled with Shrieks by Christopher Citro

July 7, 2023
"I worry I can no longer pretend / enough to get through another / year of pretending..." — Christopher Citro

Poems curated by Christopher Citro

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Night Journal by Charles Wright

August 25, 2025
“Abstracted as water glints, / The fields lion-colored and rope-colored, / As in a picture of Paradise,” — Charles Wright