Talk About Poetry

Reading by Christopher Citro at the Greater Syracuse YMCA's Downtown Writers Center in October 2015. Mr. Citro's first book of poetry was published by Steel Toe Books in March , 2015. He won the 2015 Poetry Writing Competition at Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art (judged by Beth Ann Fennelly) and has a poem included in Best New Poets 2014. His poetry was an honorable mention for the 2015 River Styx International Poetry Prize, shortlisted for the 2015 Booth Poetry Prize, a semifinalist for the 2015 Crab Creek Review Poetry Prize, and a finalist for the 2015 Arts & Letters Rumi Prize in Poetry and the 2015 Rattle Poetry Prize. He currently lives in Syracuse, NY where he teaches creative writing classes at the Downtown Writer’s Center. He is the Poetry Editor for the online literary magazine decomP.