And so ends another nourishing, inspiring week teaching at Paul Smith’s College, with the celebration readings at the Forestry Cabin. Kettle Pond Writers’ Conference!?! Ya’ did it again! Thank you everyone for making that week so magical!
A perfect day with Chen Chen, Michael Seidlinger, Andy Tran, my sweetie, and me… Going for a writer’s walk in the woods at Paul Smith’s College: the butterfly tent, the floating bridge, wild orchids, not getting lost or dying of blood loss to mosquitos! More from the Kettle Pond Writers’ Conference at Paul Smith’s College of the Adirondacks!
More from the Kettle Pond Writers’ Conference at Paul Smith’s College of the Adirondacks! Late night socializing on the deck over Lower St. Regis Lake, floating in on said lake, the book table and Ghost City Press, and watching geese do their geese thing!
Kettle Pond Writers’ Conference! Hanging with friends (fellow writers and teachers) on the shore of Lower St. Regis Lake at Paul Smith’s College of the Adirondacks!
Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing 2025: what an AMAZING group of attendees last week!!! I never take enough photos myself, but here are a few which people kindly shared. What an inspirational, engaged, energized, exciting, supportive group of writers! Wowsers!
Two weeks after teaching in Kefalonia, Greece, I taught at the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, my 13th year! What a joy and a delight to teach alongside awesome faculty and friends Hannah Bae, Donald Quist, Vogue Robinson, and Alexander Weinstein! The week went by too quickly!
HUGE congratulations to my darling Sarah for her short story “Where the Mile-Long Blazers Fly” just published online in the new issue of Tupelo Quarterly!!! This story is so awesome. I’m so proud of you Sarah!
Read this story online in TQ’s new issue #35!
HUGE congratulations to my sweetie Sarah for having her short story “Where the Mile-Long Blazers Fly” accepted at Tupelo Quarterly! I’m so proud of you! 👏👏👏👏
My nephew Brian Citro has just had released an album of solo jazz guitar (5 of his original compositions 2 Thelonious Monk tunes, and a jazz standard) from Chicago’s ears&eyes Records. It’s called “Acoustic Pastime – Solo Guitar,” and it’s a dreamy, meditative, beautiful album and I highly recommend it. Also, I wrote the liner notes to it! You can purchase the album (for any price you wish) HERE.And you can read my liner notes there too!
My awesome partner’s awesome short story just got nominated for Best of the Net by Guesthouse! Congratulations sweetie!