Audio/Video

My YouTube page

Some Interviews

The Campbell Conversations with Grant Reeher on WRVO Public Media (2019)

The Missouri Review Soundbooth Podcast with Traci Cox (2017)

Flour City Yawp with Albert Abonado on WAYO 104.3 FM (2017)

The Campbell Conversations with Grant Reeher on WRVO Public Media (2016)

Where It’s At with Bob Early – Episode 2 (2016)

Some Readings

Here I am reading my poem “Our Beautiful Life When It’s Filled with Shrieks” which I read on WPBS Weekly: Inside the Stories Tuesday October 10, 2023.

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Here’s a video of Sarah Ruhlen, Steve Castro, and me doing a zoom reading on March 5, 2023. Sarah Ruhlen reads her short story “Shepherds Take Warning” first published in Waccamaw. I read poems from my second book, If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun (Elixir Press, 2021), along with newer poems. And Steve Castro reads poems from his book Blue Whale Phenomena (Otis Books, 2019) along with newer poems.

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March 5, 2023. Here’s a video of Steve Castro and me reading our poems in Spanish & English for Syracuse Stage’s Poetry + Play.

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January 2023. Here I am reading my Pushcart Prize-winning poem “It’s Something People in Love Do” for WPBS Weekly: Inside the Stories.

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March 2022. Here’s the first installment of a video project I’m doing with my nephew Brian Citro. In this short video I’m reading a sonnet and Brian’s preforming an original composition of his on guitar. Hope you enjoy it!

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Here I am reading my poetry in late Dec 2021 along with Ae Hee Lee and Chaya Bhuvaneswar for the Sundress Reading Series!

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Here I am reading in mid Dec 2021 along with Mary Biddinger, Noah Falck, Jessica Q. Stark, and Issam Zineh for the David Has Zoom Pro For a Few Months Reading Series!

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My short poem “Like a River Stood on End” recorded in summertime oh summertime 2021.

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Enjoy this video of “Hybrid Forms Collaborations — Reading and Discussion” event from May 1, 2021. Dustin Nightingale and I read some of our collaborative prose poems (for the first time ever live!), along with awesome readings by Aimee Parkison & Carol Guess and (hosts) Meg Pokrass & Jeff Friedman. Plus there’s an inspiring Q & A. Yay collaborative writing! 😀😀

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It was a delight to have my prompt, “Traveling Toward a Poem,” and my poem “One Light in a Field of Other Lights” used as part of the Syracuse Airport’s POETRY IN FLIGHT poem contest for April. The contest is now closed. On April 16, 2021 they posted on twitter this cool gif/video they made from my poem.

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Reading my poem, “The New Avenues the Only Avenues We Have,” for the launch of the Fall/Winter 2020 online issue of Witness. It meant a great deal to me to make this video. This poem about old and new friendships is very close to my heart and I made the recording shortly after the death of a very dear old friend.

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Reading my poems “It’s Something People in Love Do” and “Our Beautiful Life When It’s Filled with Shrieks” for the Living Room Readings series from The Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing.

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Reading my three poems published in Smartish Pace Issue 27 May, 2020 — “The Sky Always Blue Above the Clouds Useless To Us,” “Please Let There Be an Ice Storm This Afternoon” and “Our Breaths Are Weather.”

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Reading the first six minutes of my lyric essay, “Go Away and Stay Right Here,” on the May 2, 2020 episode of WRVO’s The Campbell Conversations.

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Reading my story “The Horses Are Ready and They Need to Go” published in Best Microfiction 2020 as part of the virtual book launch festivities on the Book of Face April 17, 2020.

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LiterarY Dinner Reading for the Arts Branch of the Syracuse YMCA (2018)

Reading at Rust Belt Books in Buffalo, NY (2017)

Faculty Reading for The Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing (Week 1 2016)

Downtown Writer’s Center Reading in Syracuse, NY on Talk About Poetry (2015)

Faculty Reading for the August Occasion at Harding Farm in Clinton, NY (2015)

MFA Reading at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN (2009)

The Poets Weave with Jenny Kander on WFIU Public Radio Bloomington, IN (2008-2009)

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Poems

The Horses Are Ready and They Need to Go” in The Cincinnati Review

Our Beautiful Life When It’s Filled with Shrieks”  and “The Mutual Building” in Rattle

“A Sea Voyage and the Attendant Perspective,” “For We, the Wide Awake,” “Plenty of Room Here Under the Big Top,” and “Homeschooling Is Really Taking Off” in Superstition Review

They Must Bake an Awful Lot of Cakes,” “Lifestyle of the Non-Quarterback and the Non-Cheerleader,” “Those Daring Old Men,” “One Woman Show” & “Have It Your Way” in PANK

Collaborations

9 Lives and 8 Legs” and “In My Dreams I’m in a Small Capsule Spinning Free” in Powder Keg

I Haven’t Seen You in 13 Years and You Show Up Blind and So Do I” in Barnstorm

In This Version a Suspension Bridge in Every Shot” in Ghost Ocean