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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 continued: My Poetry Teaching Trip to Kefalonia Greece

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Day 5 Poetry Teaching Trip to Kefalonia Greece: After reading my poem at the Zervati Cave, a boat ride through Melisani Cave, a swim at Antisamos beach, sea bass for lunch in Sami, crawling around Ayioi Fanetes Monastery / the Acropolis of Kyatis, first views of Myrtos Beach, and basically a lot of adoring the Kefalonian mountainous countryside.

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.

Day 4: my poetry teaching trip to Kefalonia Island Greece

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Day 4 poetry teaching trip to Kefalonia Island Greece: walking the mountain town of Kastro, exploring the Medieval Church of Evangelistria (1508), an impromptu visit inside a mountainside villa with the angriest cat in Kefalonia, a gift of preserved bergamot oranges, trees full of bougainvillea dates almonds oranges, and Sophia’s awesome dinnertime story of the time she slapped a crooked priest.

I’ve Been Awarded a Ragdale Residency Fellowship for Next Spring!

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Holy. Moly. I’ve been awarded a residency at Ragdale for next spring, fully funded with a fellowship!!! I’d never applied to do any residency before being invited to apply to this one, and wow I never expected all this. Thank you Jeffrey Meeuwsen, Amy Sinclair, Regin Igloria, and the Curational Board, selection committee, & staff at Ragdale Foundation for this amazing opportunity. I’m honored and elated. Having this to look forward to will certainly help keep things glowing when winter winds come a-blowing.