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Day 7: My Poetry Teaching Trip to Kefalonia Greece…I gave a poetry reading atop Mount Aenos!!!

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Day 7 Poetry Teaching Trip to Kefalonia Greece: I gave a poetry reading atop Mount Aenos!!!

…at 5,300 ft the tallest mountain on the Ionian island of Cephalonia, Greece…on a mossy stone outcrop, surrounded by Greek fir, black pine, wild bellflowers, violets, and poppies…and generous people willing to pay attention to me lipping off for 20 minutes while on top of the world.

Here I am reading my poem “Come In Go Ahead Say Again” recently published online at The Normal School.

https://www.thenormalschool.com/blog/2024/11/21/come-in-go-ahead-say-again-by-christopher-citro

Day 5: My Poetry Teaching Trip to Kefalonia Greece

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Day 5 of my Poetry Teaching Trip to Kefalonia Greece: I read my poetry in a Greek cave! I read my poetry in a Greek cave! I read my poetry in a Greek cave!

The poem: “Hawk Shadow Here to Help,” temporarily retitled “κότσυφας Shadow Here to Help” in honor of the blackbirds singing around us.

The cave: Zervati Cave on Kefalonia Island.

I’m reading Saturday May 10!

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I’m reading Saturday May 10 at 7 pm EDT for this benefit for Ukraine. It’s in person here in Syracuse AND available to stream on Zoom (register via the QR code or the link below). Readings from me and Jessica Cuello, Virgie Townsend, Misha Tentser, Tim McCoy, Sara Parrott, Mary Jumbelic, Deb Diemont, Stephen Kuusisto, and Georgia Popoff. Music and singing from a local Ukrainian choir.

https://ymcacny-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/qP0Qwuk4QpaHmKordQ7INQ?dxk=H4sIAAAAAAAEAKtWKs4vLUpOVbJScs1LT0xPVdJRSk7MLUjMTM8DimXmZZZkJpZklqUWx-gbmxmbGJkq1QIAFPJ-bTQAAAA1#/registration

“Yonder” published at The Cincinnati Review!

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Yippee! “Yonder,” the collaborative poem that I wrote with Steve Castro and Dustin Pearson, just got published online at The Cincinnati Review, with accompanying audio of us 3 reading the poem (and some harmonica played by my darling Sarah)! Huge thanks to Kate Jayroe, Rebecca Lindenberg, Lisa Ampleman, and all at CR!

https://www.cincinnatireview.com/micro/micro-yonder-by-steve-castro-christopher-citro-and-dustin-pearson/

Another poem of mine featured on WPBS in Central New York!

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While I was on Martha’s Vineyard teaching this week, WPBS television in Central New York featured me reading my poem “You Can Keep Your Employee of the Month Award.” And the video is up on YouTube. Thank you WPBS! This poem is from my second book, If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun (Elixir Press, 2021)

Another successful LiterarY Dinner last night!

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Thank you to everyone who came out last night for the LiterarY Dinner to raise money for the Arts & Education Branch of the Syracuse YMCA, including The Downtown Writers Center. It was a joy to read my new poems alongside the awesome Elinor Cramer reading her poetry and the awesome Chris Cresswell playing his original songs! Thanks to the generosity of all who attended it was a very successful night’s fundraising!

I read my poem “Our Beautiful Life When It’s Filled with Shrieks” on WPBS on Tuesday!

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“I love you. I want us both to eat well.” 😀
Here’s the video of me reading my poem “Our Beautiful Life When It’s Filled with Shrieks” which was broadcast 2 days ago on WPBS Weekly: Inside the Stories. I hope you enjoy it!

http:// https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mElmdXMUrjw

Awesome to read last night with Corey Zeller!

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Fantastic (so very!) to do a poetry reading last night along with the wonderful Corey Zeller at a LiterarY Dinner to raise money for the Arts Branch of the Downtown Syracuse YMCA. Thank you to everyone who attended! It was so great to see so many friends and familiar faces. Thank you to Lisa and Sarah for the wonderful dinner and hosting the event! (I wish I’d have taken more pictures!)

Video of a Zoom Reading by Sarah Ruhlen, Christopher Citro, and Steve Castro – March 5, 2023

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Here’s a video of me, Christopher Citro, and Sarah Ruhlen and Steve Castro doing a living room Zoom reading from Sunday March 5, 2023. Sarah Ruhlen reads her short story “Shepherds Take Warning” first published in Waccamaw. I read poems from my second book, If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun (Elixir Press, 2021), along with newer poems. And Steve Castro reads poems from his book Blue Whale Phenomena (Otis Books, 2019) along with newer poems. Hope you enjoy it!

Video of Steve Castro and me reading our poems in Spanish & English for Syracuse Stage’s Poetry + Play

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Howdy! Here’s a video of me and Steve Castro reading our poems for last Sunday’s Poetry + Play event at Syracuse Stage. Steve reads his poems in Spanish and I read his English translations of them. Then I read my poems in English and Steve reads his original translations of them into Spanish. This event was part of an afternoon of poetry in English and Spanish before the final performance of Espejos: Clean, a play by Christine Quintana performed at Syracuse Stage in Syracuse, New York on March 5, 2023.