Christopher Citro is the author of 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). His honors include a 2018 Pushcart Prize for poetry, a 2019 fellowship from the Ragdale Foundation, Columbia Journal's poetry award, and a creative nonfiction award from The Florida Review. His poetry appears in Alaska Quarterly Review, American Poetry Review, Best New Poets, Gulf Coast, Iowa Review, Pleiades, Ploughshares, West Branch, and elsewhere. He lives in Syracuse, New York.

Other poems by Christopher Citro in Verse Daily:
July 18, 2017:   "Elegy for the Travel Agents" "It might be easier to look at photographs of a lake..."
June 11 2015:   "A Theme Song That Never Gets Old" "We keep a bear above our bed...."
July 8, 2014:   "An Emergency Every Day of the Week" "It's how you know I love you..."
July 14, 2013:   "An Emergency Every Day of the Week" "It's how you know I love you..."
November 26, 2009:   "I Never Intend To, How 'Bout You?" "It's eight o'clock. Time to plug the ladder in. I love our new..."
September 4, 2009:   "Emily, It's Better This Way" "They landed in the morning and nothing happened...."

Other poems on the web by Christopher Citro:
Two poems
"Alfred Hitchcock and The Three Investigators in The Mystery of The Rest of Your Life"
"Go On Take Another Little Piece of My Heart"
"Anyway and Try to Stay Alive on What It Gives Us"
"Our Beautiful Life When It's Filled with Shrieks"
Three poems
Two poems
Four poems
Three poems
"Improving the Odds"
Three poems
Six poems
"Apparently, I'm Not a Joiner"
Two poems
Five poems
"Me in My Place"
Three poems
"Done Playing Hard To Get"
"First Indications (of Trouble at the Ranch)"

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