Submittin' 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.

*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! 😉 Come join an awesome group of poets ready to write and workshop the autumn away! #Writing #WritersLife #WritingCommunity #poetry

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!

Final 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. See <christophercitro DOT com> for details & to register! #Writing #WritersLife #WritingCommunity #poetry #essays

As 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!

Just 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. See <christophercitro DOT com> for details & to register! #Writing #WritersLife #WritingCommunity #poetry #essays

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. See <christophercitro DOT com> for details & to register! #Writing #WritersLife #WritingCommunity #poetry #essays

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.

Classes 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. See <christophercitro DOT com> for details & to register! #Writing #WritersLife #WritingCommunity #poetry #essays

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! #Writing #WritersLife #WritingCommunity #poetry #essays

Jumpin' 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.

Announcing 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! #Writing #WritersLife #WritingCommunity #poetry #essays

Not Quite the Full Moon - September 6, 2025 1:42 AM, Syracuse, New York

Hey! 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-...

Announcing my FALL 2025 writing workshops! ~Demystifying Submitting to Literary Journals: How to, Tips & Strategies ~In the Landscape of Contemporary Poetry poetry workshop ~ Introduction to the Lyric Essay workshop Classes occur on Zoom 6-8 pm ET. See my website for more info and to register!

Announcing my three FALL 2025 writing workshops! ~How to Submit Your Creative Writing to Literary Journals ~"In the Landscape of Contemporary Poetry" poetry workshop ~ Introduction to the Lyric Essay workshop Classes take place on Zoom 6-8 pm ET. See my website for more info and to register!

As a beautiful afternoon thunderstorm rolls in, it's a joy to be reviewing galleys of my poem "Why Our Bathtub Sparkles" soon to appear in Water~Stone Review! @waterstonereview.bsky.social

Hey! Dustin Nightingale & I are doing a Zoom reading for the release of our collaborative poetry chapbook from @ghostcitypress.bsky.social ! Mon Sept 15 @ 7 pm ET. Link to register: tinyurl.com/53p638cc Link to get a free copy of the e-chapbook: tinyurl.com/57bzdefr @dustinnightingale.bsky.social

Happy birthday happy birthday happy birthday to this beauty, the love of my life! ❤️ ❤️❤️❤️ @sahakanouch.bsky.social

Here I am reading Charles Wright's poem "Night Journal" for Read a Little Poetry's 20th anniversary celebration readalittlepoetry.com . ❤️ youtu.be/_yAR8CLoneA

Awesome mini Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing 2025 poet's reunion, getting to hang tonight with Kevin Byrne in here in Syracuse! Yippee! Bon voyage back to New Jersey Kevin!!! #mvicw

Hey my micro e-chapbook of prose poetry I co-wrote w/ Dustin Nightingale was published one week ago! It's called I WEAR A TOP HAT WHEN I GO INTO THE FOREST. Grab a copy for free, or whatever you'd like to pay, from Ghost City Press. ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-... @dustinnightingale.bsky.social

"...and clear, as cicadas who through the forest settle on trees, to issue their delicate voice of singing." I just read The Iliad for the first time, in Richmond Lattimore's luminous verse translation. Wow. I did not expect to be moved that much. Which is silly of me, really.

A dreamy August afternoon reviewing the proofs of my poem "In Bed with Green Gels" soon to appear in the North American Review! @northamerreview.bsky.social

My micro e-chapbook of collaborative prose poetry, I WEAR A TOP HAT WHEN I GO INTO THE FOREST, written with Dustin Nightingale, has just been released by Ghost City Press!!! It's free or you can pay whatever you want! ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-... @dustinnightingale.bsky.social

Friends!! Today I WEAR A TOP HAT WHEN I GO INTO THE FOREST, a micro e-chapbook of collaborative prose poetry I wrote with Dustin Nightingale (@dustinnightingale.bsky.social ) has been released by Ghost City Press!!! It's free or pay whatever you want! HUGE thanks to @ghostcitypress.bsky.social

In anticipation of the upcoming release from Ghost City Press of "I Wear a Top Hat When I Go Into the Forest, a micro-chapbook of collaborative poetry I wrote with Dustin Nightingale, here's a short film! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVFX... @dustinnightingale.bsky.social @ghostcitypress.bsky.social

Another awesome backyard reading today in the “Seemingly Mature” series run by Tim Carter and Liz Bowen! This evening’s awesomeness came from poets and fictioneers John Colasacco, Kofi Antwi, Gina Nutt, Misha Tentser, Tracy Dimond, and Jesse Nissim!

Fabulous poetry book release reading tonight for Cassandra Whitaker's awesome new book, Wolf Devouring a Wolf Devouring a Wolf just published Jackleg Press. You can buy a copy today! So great to also hear Cassandra's fabulous fellow readers, Tara A. O'Brien Elliott, John A Nieves, and Katie Kemple!

Another helpful new blog post from my sweetie's employee-side labor and employment law firm here in Syracuse, NY! @workplacelawyer.bsky.social ---------- Don't face a hostile work environment alone. www.satterlaw.com/831-2/ #attorneynearme #EmploymentLaw #HostileWorkEnvironment #LaborAndEmployment

Last night's Seneca Review reading, for contributors and staff, was AMAZING! So much awesome writing and wonderful readers! Just a joy and an inspiration to be a part of it! And the venue, Two Goats Brewing on the picturesque shores of Seneca Lake, was breathtaking. @senecareview.bsky.social

I'm reading for the Seneca Review tomorrow, Wednesday July 9, alongside a ton of awesome writers! Come join us! @senecareview.bsky.social

Catching up with some recent literary mail: lovely lovely postcards from Donald Quist and Michael Martone, and brand chapbook of 10 unpublished James Tate poems (Press Brake, 2025)!

Final Kettle Pond 2025 post! & so ends another nourishing, inspiring week teaching at Paul Smith's College, with the celebration readings at the Forestry Cabin. Kettle Pond Writers' Conference!?! Ya' did it again! Thank you everyone for making that week so magical! @kpondwriters.bsky.social #kpwc25

A perfect day with Chen Chen, Michael Seidlinger, Andy Tran, my sweetie, & me... A writer's hike at Paul Smith's College: the butterfly tent, the floating bridge, wild orchids, not getting lost or dying of blood loss to mosquitos! @kpondwriters.bsky.social #kpwc25

More from the Kettle Pond Writers' Conference at Paul Smith's College of the Adirondacks! Late night socializing on the deck over Lower St. Regis Lake, floating in on said lake, the book table and Ghost City Press, and watching geese do their geese thing! @kpondwriters.bsky.social #kpwc25

Kettle Pond Writers' Conference! Hanging with friends (fellow writers and teachers) on the shore of Lower St. Regis Lake at Paul Smith's College of the Adirondacks! @kpondwriters.bsky.social #kpwc25

And now it's....Kettle Pond Writers Conference! In Paul Smith's College of the Adirondacks! What a joy to be teaching here for my 6th year, the 6th year of this conference! The awesome faculty, the awesome staff, the awesome participants! Loons singing at night! @kpondwriters.bsky.social

Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing final post... 2 weeks after teaching at the Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture on Kefalonia, Greece, I taught my 13th year at MVICW: prose poetry & flash fiction, the lyric essay, & literary publishing...plus a panel and my reading.

Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing 2025 post #2: what an AMAZING group of attendees last week!!! I never take enough photos myself, but here are a few which people kindly shared. What an inspirational, engaged, energized, exciting, supportive group of writers! Wowsers!

Just got back from a week teaching at the Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, my 13th year! What a joy and a delight to teach alongside awesome faculty and friends Hannah Bae, Donald Quist, Vogue Robinson, and Alexander Weinstein! The week went by too quickly!

Final Post for my Poetry Teaching Trip to Kefalonia Greece: 8 days in a magical place, Kefalonia Greece, made all the more magical by the wonderful people who shared it all. I'll carry those days in my heart. May our paths cross again. 🙏❤️

Day 9 Poetry Teaching Trip to Kefalonia Greece: morning boat excursion to swim in the sea beside the island of Ithaca, lunch in Vathi, then a swim in a magical cave at magical Myrthos Beach with the magical marble pebble beach.

Day 8 Poetry Teaching Trip to Kefalonia Greece: 2 morning cats, visiting the Mycenaean Cemetery of Mazarakata (1390 BCE) for a dramatized duologue from the Persephone Project written by Vicky Yiannoutsos, another visit to the transcendent Avythos Beach!

RIP giant. RIP Sly Stone. Thank you for the music, the incalculably powerful music.

Day 7 Poetry Teaching Trip to Kefalonia Greece cont: in addition to reading my poetry atop Mt. Aenos, teaching a poetry workshop in a marble amphitheater, beachside lunch at Avithos Preview Taverna, Kefalonia beehives, the mountains, magical writers in a magical place!

Day 7 Poetry Teaching Trip to Kefalonia Greece: I gave a poetry reading atop Mount Aenos!!! ...the tallest mountain on Kefalonia, Greece...surrounded by wild poppies and generous people willing to pay attention to me lipping off for 20 minutes while sitting atop the world. 🙏 youtu.be/NDw3AH6z2Es

Day 6 Poetry Teaching Trip to Kefalonia Greece: Skyline lunch at il Borgo, visiting the mountaintop Byzantine Castle of Agios Georgios, Argostoli nightlife including a live performance of Astor Piazzolla tangos. Sigh...

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, crawling around Ayioi Fanetes Monastery / the Acropolis of Kyatis, first view of Myrtos Beach, and adoring the Kefalonian mountainous countryside.