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!
Massive congratulations to my darling Sarah whose short story “The Man Stealer” has just been published online today in the new issue of DIAGRAM!!! Before the New Year’s Eve champagne kicks in, give it a read! It’s crammed with sizzling shipwrecks, pirates, mathematical formulae, rum, secret societies, etc. Happy new year!
Read her story HERE.
Huge congratulations to my sweetie whose short story, “The Ailments of Thomas Pepys,” has just been published today in the new online issue of Guesthouse. They also nominated it for a Pushcart Prize! The new issue contains tons of awesome stuff, including poems by my friend Steve Castro! Yes!
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Massive congratulations to my sweetie for being nominated by Guesthouse for a Pushcart Prize for her soon to be published short story, “The Ailments of Thomas Pepys”!!! Your third pushcart nomination, one in poetry, two in fiction. You are so awesome! ❤
My partner Sarah’s awesome short story “Shepherds Take Warning” has just been published online today in the new issue of Waccamaw: A Journal of Contemporary Literature! It’s one of my very favorite stories she’s written. It’s got skywriting, tornadoes, circuses, impending danger, laundry irons, tent revivals, and more! Congratulations darlin’!
Read the story HERE.
My friend and oft poetry collaborator Dustin Nightingale types poems on demand at this year’s gala fundraiser for the Mark Twain House in Hartford Connecticut. (Photos by Sean Patrick Fowler.)
One year ago my partner and I participated in Ander Monson’s June 21 project, where we each wrote a nonfiction essay about what happened to us on June 21, 2018. Monson has now edited a pdf anthology of 25 essays out of the 250 originally published, and Sarah’s “He Wasn’t There The Next Day” was chosen! It’s beautifully designed, published by New Michigan Press, with new introductions and suggestions for teaching! You can download the anthology for free from Essay Daily HERE. Congratulations sweetie!
My clever, creative, amazing partner Sarah’s short story “Open Water” has just been published in the new issue of The Boiler. You’ll want to read it. It’s got a chain smoking mermaid in it. See what I mean? Congratulations sweetie!
Read her story HERE.
My friend (and former student and fellow poetry editor at decomP) Steve Castro has just had his first poetry book published! It’s called Blue Whale Phenomena and it’s been beautifully designed by Otis Books/Seismicity Editions from Otis College of Art and Design. They’ve published tons of great books, including Forrest Gander’s Panic Cure: Poetry from Spain for the 21st Century. With a truly unique poetic voice and excitement and surprises that unsettle and delight on every page, this book is one to take with you into the forest.
You can snag a copy from SPD or Amazon.
