Award-winning author and Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing teacher Christopher Citro reads from his new book of poetry, If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun. Reading followed by Q&A. Workshop to follow in July.

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“Reading Christopher Citro’s If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun is like taking a
meandering stroll with your weird, brilliant, soulful friend who points out a zillion things you never
noticed even though you’ve been down this back alley a thousand times.  The utterly familiar, quotidian landscapes of Citro’s poems—in the garden, in the kitchen or living room, at work—are revealed to be not only quirky or funny or bizarre (though often those things too), but truly mysterious.  Quiet repositories of all the questions.  How lucky we are for such loving, rigorous, and luminous vision.  How lucky we are, I mean, for Christopher Citro’s beautiful work.”
–Ross Gay, author of The Book of Delights and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude

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. Christopher’s poetry appears widely in
literary journals such as American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Iowa Review, West Branch,
Gulf Coast, and Alaska Quarterly Review, and it has been anthologized in venues such as Best
New Poets, New Poetry from the Midwest, Every River on Earth: Writing from Appalachian
Ohio, They Said: An Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing, and elsewhere. He has
taught at the University of Kansas, Indiana University, Kettle Pond Writers’ Conference, and in
the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. 
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