Welcome to Christina Rodriguez Online
Christina Rodriguez Online is the brand of Christina D. Rodriguez, a New York-born Latinx poet, artist and entrepreneur.She is the author of Knees in the Garden.When the mood hits her, Christina dabbles in digital art and design.Christina provides freelance services in arts management, web design, digital content management and more.
About Christina
Christina is a writer and a digital content professional with a background in web content management, web design, creative writing, arts management, and digital art.
Literary Arts
With her work in the literary arts, Christina is currently working on a few ventures that include a non-profit literary arts organization and starting her own small publishing press.Her writing has appeared in various online, print, and college publications. Her debut poetry collection is forthcoming with Querencia Press.Christina is currently residing in Chicago. She obtained her Master in Arts Management degree at Columbia College Chicago in 2016 to expand on her emerging business practices in poetry and the arts.Christina is a current board member of the Chicago Writers Association, where she serves as the social media manager, internship coordinator and designer of most of the organization's promotional material, as well as the poetry editor for CWA's The Write City Magazine. She was a former member of the advisory board of the #GrowFierce writing community.Christina was the founding editor of the now-defunct literary journal, Typoetic.us.To learn more about Christina as a poet and writer, visit the "Writing" section of the site.
Digital/Web Content
As a web content professional, Christina works with the American Medical Association as a digital content specialist. Previously, Christina has worked with Creative Circle, a digital, creative staffing agency as a web content consultant. Past clients have included Aon, Hyatt Hotels, and the American Medical Association. She has also worked with the now-shuttered start-up Retale, a location-based shopping app, as a content manager with brands such as Hy-Vee, Raley’s, and Smart and Final.To learn more about Christina as a digital content professional, visit the "Hire Christina" section of the site for a copy of her resume, cover letter and portfolio of her writing, graphic design, and more.
Services
My life's journey is the pursuit of a creative life that bridges the artistic and business practices of others, as well as my own, through creating and sharing resources and creative work—reflecting on an artist’s ability to build a career around being their own boss or being in service to others in their industry. My belief in fulfilling your passion and leaving a mark will help result in an evolving personal or professional brand.Through consultancy, I aim to help others organize and realize ideas—to create simple, but effective road maps that put strategies into perspective—creating a brand through having a presence in the digital space, as well as discovering tools and resources. I offer services to everyone from artists and entrepreneurs to small business and non-profit organizations.
I offer services in:
Web Design
Writing and Editing
Web Content Management
Social Media Management
Graphic Design
Arts Management Consulting
Poetry Editing and Consulting
Website Hosting and Domains Reseller
Learn more
Contact Christina about working together on your next project.
Download a list of services offered and general rates/price list.
Visit the reseller site to purchase a domain name, web hosting, and more.
Hire Christina to be a part of your team with career opportunities.
Find resources for DIY web design, business formation, and more.
DIY Website and Business Tools & Resources
When an idea is born, a creator starts their journey by researching what they needs to make an idea come to life. Sometimes all the tools they need is right at their feet. Other times, they need a little help. I've always been a do-it-yourself person, taking the time to research the best tools for my project and trying products, learning through trial and error.Over time, it's become my passion to help others build their home on the web. Some people are happy to hand off one part of their project to someone else, expressing their needs and desires for the look and feel, but letting someone else bring it to the finish line. Others have come to me for guidance because while they know I would do a great job on their site, they also have the desire to see their vision come to life in their own hands.I've always encouraged people to do what they can themselves because I know what it's like to work on a project from beginning to end, and feel the sense of accomplishment and pride of doing it yourself.
Getting Started
For those ready to build their own websites, I've compiled a list of resources from web builders and domain names purchase to business resources for launching a business and keeping you organized. With this constantly growing list, I hope to provide everyone with the best tools they need for their project.
Find resources for web building, domain name purchasing, graphic design, learning about business entities, and more.
I often hear from creatives when it comes to building a site:I don’t have a ton of content.
I just want to connect some of my social media pages together.
It seems too complicated to build a website.
It costs too much money.While some of this is true (it can be complicated and cost a lot of money), it doesn't have to be! Even if you just have an idea, with a name, you can create a landing page with email sign up or links to your social media. For those of you who are hardcore Instagram users, you can make your own version of a Linktree page. You don't have to have everything to create a simple home on the web.
How did you build your website?
I built the latest version of my website using a platform called Carrd. Carrd is a platform for building simple, responsive, one-page sites for pretty much anything. You can create a free Carrd site or upgrade to a Carrd Pro account. Pro accounts are ridiculously affordable at only $19/year and include:
Custom domain support
Multiple sites, up to 10 per account
Contact forms – support for MailChimp, Revue, ConvertKit, MailerLite, etc.
Widget elements – Add third party widgets to your sites such as PayPal, etc.
Unbranded – Remove Carrd branding
Google Analytics integration
Need help? Hire me for design or as a consultant
Not savvy with websites? Don't want to think about the in and outs of building a website?Let me build your Carrd site starting at $250 or a website on another platform at my standard rates.Working on building your site or forming your business, but have questions?Book me for a session where I can consult with you about your choices, next steps, etc. One hour sessions for $75. Additional time at same rate per hour.Learn more about my Services rates for web design or consulting.
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Check back often for new tools and resources.
Find resources for web building, domain name purchasing, graphic design, learning about business entities, and more.
Learn more about the services Christina offers in web design, writing & editing, arts management, and more.
Contact Christina about working together on your next project as a web designer or business consultant.
Hire Christina
I'm always looking for opportunities to work with clients as a web content manager, to oversee the content that's on your website(s). Behind every website’s amazing landing page of photos, CTAs, and engaging articles is a content management system (CMS) that pulls it all together. Navigating through a CMS requires attention to detail and knowledge of how to navigate different modules to build a page and maintain a site. I work with collaborators to create and deploy pages, layouts, and content based on user requirements and feedback—to ensure consistency in the style, tone, and quality of your site.Beyond content management, I also work in social media management, SEO practices, graphic design, and general web design.
Download a copy of my resume to learn more about my experience. Review a copy of my portfolio filled with samples of work in writing, graphic design, and more.
Contact for opportunities
If you are interested in collaborating for projects, visit the "Services" section for an overview of services offered or fill out the contact form with details of your project.
Projects
Find a list of current and past projects that Christina has created or been involved in.
Founded in 2016, The Write Movement is a developing nonprofit organization dedicated to providing education, resources, and opportunities for careers in the literary, publishing, and new media arts/industries. The Write Movement also celebrates the literary arts by curating performances and publishing opportunities.
Sex In Your Mouth is a food blog written by journalists and food lovers Christina Rodriguez and Elizabeth Ramanand. Sex In Your Mouth is when you experience a crazy euphoria in your mouth and you feel like you have reached your peak. Let’s face it, sometimes there are things that are just as good or better than sex. Good food is one of them.
A Twitter feed featuring Christina's favorite tracks, albums, and new music circling on the web.
Typoetic.us was a quarterly literary magazine that explored everything that is poetry on the web. Typoetic.us featured poems, essays, interviews, visual/audio art and more from poets and enthusiasts of all levels, aiming to show the world how important poetry is to not only its participants, but also its spectators. The journal's site is up for archive.
Poetry + Other Writing
Learn more about Christina's poetry and writing life. Book Christina for readings and more.
Artistic Statement
I am a lover of language and a worshiper of making people into altars. I started writing as a way to talk about living with a broken heart, navigating through rejection of my body in many forms. As a writer, I want to make space for the sacred and the mundane, hoping that it transcends into a moment that stays with others, bridging the gap of constant loneliness. Always in a sense of community, I hope to provide resources to other writers through my work with non-profits and one day establishing my own, including publishing voices that don't always make it into books.
Selected Poems
Daily Bread, Tupelo Quarterly
Music Lessons, Yes, Poetry
Dusted & Sunken Ships, Rust + Moth
Dot, War Crimes Against the Uterus, 2019
Generations: La Familia, She Will Speak Series: Gender Based Violence Anthology, 2019
Books
Knees in The Garden, Querencia Press, 2023Forthcoming Collections:
Sweltering Sugar, in-progress, TBDChapbooks:
Cognitive Constructs: Digital Chapbook
Heart’s a Twitter: Digital Chapbook
Knees in the Garden
Querencia Press
Available in Paperback, Hardcover and Ebook
February 10, 2023Knees in the Garden is a moody caress of a collection. Rodriguez exemplifies a clear-cut devotion for the intricacies words can convey. These pieces traverse crescendos of melancholic and passionate loves to dance through the kindling of a righteous feminine rage. This work is a testament to self-respect and control and the ability to surrender without losing either.Buy your copy from Bookshop, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Blackwell's and Waterstones. Also available through select online book retailers and local bookstores in NYC and Chicago.Paperback: $12.00 | Hardcover: $18 | Ebook: $2-2.99
“While biblical references infuse this collection, Rodriguez employs them not so much as a commentary on religion or the notion of God, but rather to show how one’s notion of romantic love might be shaped by blind faith. In poem after poem, we observe the self’s gradual refusal of the agony in her garden, enabling her not only to reclaim her self-worth, but to recover her cultural identity, and ultimately, her true Self.”—Elsa Valmidiano, author of The Beginning of Leaving and We Are No Longer Babaylan, as reviewed in RHINO
Before poems, music was my first love. Every moment of my life features a song playing in my head. I love to curate playlists, so long before this book came to life, I started a playlist for the possibility of this collection. Listen to it while you read or during a long walk or drive. Listen to soothe a broken heart or to appreciate a love in your life.
Bio
Christina D. Rodriguez is a Latinx poet and the author of Knees in the Garden (Querencia Press, 2023), her first collection of poems. Her poems have appeared in various journals and anthologies, including Thread Litmag, Moonlove Press and Tupelo Quarterly. Christina has received awards for the Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Winter Tangerine’s Catalyze Self-Revolutions workshop. She has performed at the Chicago Public Library, The New York Poetry Festival, and Columbia College Chicago. She is a Chicago Writers Association board member and works as the organization’s social media manager and poetry editor for CWA's The Write City Magazine. Originally from Queens, New York, Christina now makes her home in Chicago, Illinois. To learn more about Christina, visit her at crodonline.info or @poemlust on Instagram.
Book Christina
Christina is available for poetry readings, features, commissioned pieces, panels and more.
contact
Contact Christina on inquiries about services and career opportunities. You can also send inquires for booking Christina for poetry readings, features, commissioned pieces, panels and more.Stop by to say a hello or to connect through social media.
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Books
Knees in the Garden
Querencia Press
February 10, 2023Knees in the Garden is a moody caress of a collection. Rodriguez exemplifies a clear-cut devotion for the intricacies words can convey. These pieces traverse crescendos of melancholic and passionate loves to dance through the kindling of a righteous feminine rage. This work is a testament to self-respect and control and the ability to surrender without losing either.Buy your copy from Bookshop, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Blackwell's and Waterstones. Also available through select online book retailers and local bookstores.Paperback: $12.00 | Hardcover: $18 | Ebook: $2-2.99
Digital Chapbooks
Find digital chapbooks, prints, digital broadsides and other goods by Christina for sale.
Cognitive Constructs: Digital Chapbook
A digital chapbook, a part of a series to preview Sweltering Sugar, a book of short poems.You will receive a PDF file of the ebook. Not for distribution, for personal use only. You will not receive a physical product after your purchase.
Heart's a Twitter: Digital Chapbook
A digital chapbook, a part of a series to preview Sweltering Sugar, a book of short poems.You will receive a PDF file of the ebook. Not for distribution, for personal use only. You will not receive a physical product after your purchase.
Print & Digital Broadsides
Validation isn't Worth the Decline: Digital Broadside (5x7)
Poetry broadside available as a 5x7 inch digital print in three colors.You will receive a PDF file of the print and you may print for your personal use at home or your local printer. Best printed on cardstock. You will not receive a physical product after your purchase.
Love or Lose: Collage (4x6, 6x9)
Collage print available as a 4x6 print or a 6x9 inch digital print. First published in Scavengers Issue 1.1.Print
Collage print available as a 4x6 print. Comes in plastic card display holder.Allow a week for order fulfillment before shipping. Shipping and tax are not included in price.Shipping within the U.S., Puerto Rico, and Canada. Email me if you are an international customer.
Digital
You will receive a PDF file of the 6x9 print and you may print for your personal use at home or your local printer. Best printed on cardstock. You will not receive a physical product after your purchase.
Praise: Collage (4x6)
Collage print available as a 4x6 inch print or digital print. First published in Scavengers Issue 1.1.Print
Collage print available as a 4x6 print. Comes in plastic card display holder.Allow a week for order fulfillment before shipping. Shipping and tax are not included in price.Shipping within the U.S., Puerto Rico, and Canada. Email me if you are an international customer.
Digital
You will receive a PDF file of the 4x6 print and you may print for your personal use at home or your local printer. Best printed on cardstock. You will not receive a physical product after your purchase.
Identity: Collage (4x6, 8.5x11)
Collage print available as a 4x6 inch print or 8.5x11 digital print.Print
Collage print available as a 4x6 print. Comes in plastic card display holder.Allow a week for order fulfillment before shipping. Shipping and tax are not included in price.Shipping within the U.S., Puerto Rico, and Canada. Email me if you are an international customer.
Digital
You will receive a PDF file of the 8.5x11 print and you may print for your personal use at home or your local printer. Best printed on cardstock. You will not receive a physical product after your purchase.
Audacity: Poem Broadside (4x6, 5x7)
Poetry broadside available as a 4x6 print or a 5x7 inch digital print.Print
Poetry broadside available as a 4x6 print. Comes in plastic card display holder.
Digital
You will receive a PDF file of the 5x7 print and you may print for your personal use at home or your local printer. Best printed on cardstock. You will not receive a physical product after your purchase.
Stain of Sienna: Digital Broadside (5.5 x 4.25)
Poetry broadside available as a 5.5 x 4.25 inch digital print.You will receive a PDF file of the print and you may print for your personal use at home or your local printer. Best printed on cardstock. You will not receive a physical product after your purchase.
Heartcode (Uncensored): Digital Broadside (5.5 x 4.25)
Poetry broadside available as a 5.5 x 4.25 inch digital print.You will receive a PDF file of the print and you may print for your personal use at home or your local printer. Best printed on cardstock. You will not receive a physical product after your purchase.
Dot: Poem Saint Series Print and Digital Broadside (5x7)
Double-sided 5x7 inch poetry broadside available as a physical or digital print. 10% of each sale will be donated to Planned Parenthood.Print
Double-sided 5x7 inch print on premium paper with a matte finish. Comes in plastic card display holder.Allow a week for order fulfillment before shipping. Shipping and tax are not included in price. Ships within the U.S., Puerto Rico, and Canada. Email me if you are an international customer.
Digital
You will receive a PDF file of the print and you may print for your personal use at home or your local printer. Best printed on cardstock. You will not receive a physical product after your purchase.
In Between: Poem Saint Series Print and Digital Broadside (5x7)
Double-sided 5x7 inch poetry broadside available as a physical or digital print.Print
Double-sided 5x7 inch print on premium paper with a matte finish. Comes in plastic card display holder.Allow a week for order fulfillment before shipping. Shipping and tax are not included in price. Ships within the U.S., Puerto Rico, and Canada. Email me if you are an international customer.
Digital
You will receive a PDF file of the print and you may print for your personal use at home or your local printer. Best printed on cardstock. You will not receive a physical product after your purchase.
Print & Digital Journals/Notebooks
The Book Life Journal: A Book Lover's Journal for Keeping Track of Their Book LifeKeep track of your book life with lists, journal pages, and logs for:- Favorite Books List
- Favorite and Recommended Bookstores List
- 12-month Daily Reading Challenge Log
- Book Review Template
- Reading Journal
- Social Media Planning...and so much more!This 120-page, available in A4 or 6x9, book reading journal is the perfect gift for avid readers who are looking to keep track of their book life and TBR lists.Print starting at $23.99
Paperback or Hardcover. Available for purchase on Amazon.
Direct Shop Purchase
Allow a week for order fulfillment before shipping. Shipping and tax are not included in price.Shipping within the U.S., Puerto Rico, and Canada. Email me if you are an international customer.
Digital
You will receive a PDF file of the journal and you may print for your personal use at home or use for digital planning or notetaking on devices such as an iPad/tablet. You will not receive a physical product after your purchase.
Validation isn't Worth the Decline Blank Lined Art Journal Diary Notebook, 6x9, 120 pages | Inspirational JournalA blank lined 120-page inspirational art journal diary notebook. Great for creative writing, journaling, taking notes. A gift for students, artists, and creatives.Print
Paperback. Available for purchase on Amazon.
Direct Shop Purchase
Allow a week for order fulfillment before shipping. Shipping and tax are not included in price.Shipping within the U.S., Puerto Rico, and Canada. Email me if you are an international customer.
Wild Gardens Blank Lined Journal Diary Notebook, 6" x 9", 50 pages | Distressed Garden JournalA 50-page Blank Wide Ruled, Lined Journal Diary Notebook. Great for writing notes, journaling, creative writing and more.Print
Paperback. Available for purchase on Amazon.
Digital Bundles
Digital Broadsides Bundle
Purchase all digital broadsides for one low price.You will receive PDF files of the prints and you may print for your personal use at home or your local printer. Best printed on cardstock. You will not receive a physical product after your purchase.
Digital Chapbooks Bundle
Purchase all digital chapbooks for one low price.You will receive PDF files of the ebooks. Not for distribution, for personal use only. You will not receive a physical product after your purchase.
Digital Store Bundle
Purchase all digital products for one low price.You will receive PDF files of the ebooks, prints and journal. You may print for your personal use at home or your local printer. Prints are best printed on cardstock. Digital use for digital planning or notetaking on devices such as an iPad/tablet. Not for distribution, for personal use only. You will not receive a physical product after your purchase.
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