Anyway and Try to Stay Alive on What It Gives Us

Christopher Citro is the author of The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy (Steel Toe Books, 2015). His poetry has been published in Ploughshares , Crazyhorse , The Missouri Review , Gulf Coast , Best New Poets , and elsewhere . His creative nonfiction has appeared in Boulevard , Quarterly West , Passages North , and Colorado Review . His awards include a 2018 Pushcart Prize for poetry and first place in the 2015 Poetry Competition at Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art . Christopher is the poetry editor for decomP magazinE and an adjunct professor of English at State University of New York at Oswego. Photo by Sarah Ruhlen