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Fall 2024 • Vol. XLVI No. 4 Poetry |

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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 Pushcart Prize for poetry, a fellowship from the Ragdale Foundation, Columbia Journal’s poetry award, and a creative nonfiction award from The Florida Review. His poetry appears in 32 Poems, Alaska Quarterly Review, American Poetry Review, Bennington Review, Best New Poets, The Iowa Review, Ploughshares, West Branch, and elsewhere. Citro is an editorial assistant for Seneca Review and lives in Syracuse, New York.

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