Howdy! Here’s a video of me and Steve Castro reading our poems for last Sunday’s Poetry + Play event at Syracuse Stage. Steve reads his poems in Spanish and I read his English translations of them. Then I read my poems in English and Steve reads his original translations of them into Spanish. This event was part of an afternoon of poetry in English and Spanish before the final performance of Espejos: Clean, a play by Christine Quintana performed at Syracuse Stage in Syracuse, New York on March 5, 2023.
Category Archives: Publication
“Like a Fist Next to Your Heart” just published in New South!
The new digital issue of New South 14.2 just arrived and it contains “Like a Fist Next to Your Heart” a collaborative prose poem I wrote with Dustin Nightingale! Along with tons of awesome poetry, fiction and nonfiction! Huge thanks to Anna Sandy-Elrod and the whole New South crew!
Print issues will be coming out soon, but right now you can see the whole issue online!
I love you. I want us both to eat well. On Valentine’s Day.
Wow! I’m so touched that this Valentine’s Day my line, “I love you. I want us both to eat well,” from my poem “Our Beautiful Life When It’s Filled with Shrieks” was quoted in two Valentine’s Day food writing articles.
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Thank you Bettina Makalintal for quoting from my poem in your article “‘Table for Two’ Embraces the Romance of Everyday Cooking Treated with care, even beans on toast can feel special” for Eater Magazine!
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Thank you Sumayyah for quoting from my poem in your article “Relationshipping: How to Do Well with Everyone & Everything” for Hot Off the Press, the Vaughan Public Libraries blog!
Thank you New South!
As the snow flurries fall, I’m delighted to be reviewing proofs of my collaborative prose poem, written with Dustin Nightingale, “Like a Fist Next to Your Heart,” soon to appear in the next issue of New South!
Me readin’ a poem on the TV last week!
Turned on the TV and what did I see? Me! Reading my Pushcart Prize-winning poem “It’s Something People in Love Do” broadcast on WPBS Weekly: Inside the Stories last Tuesday. Hope you enjoy!
My poem in The American Poetry Review!
I’m thrilled to received my contributor’s copy of The American Poetry Review with my poem “We Couldn’t Be More Biological.” This is my 2nd appearance in APR and I’m spinning around the house doing a whirly dance just like the 1st time. Thank you Elizabeth Scanlon!
“The Island Designated Yes” published at The Shore!
“The Island Designated Yes,” a prose poem I co-wrote with Dustin Nightingale, has just been published online at The Shore.
It’s very short. It’s a love poem. And it mentions indigo cherry drops which are tomatoes we grow every year and taste like when funk songs mention sunshine. I hope you enjoy it.
Huge thank yous to editors Caroline Chavatel, Emma DePanise, John A. Nieves!
Read the poem HERE.
Reviewing galleys of my 2 poems soon to appear in The Iowa Review!
On this Monday of sunlight glinting across the snowfall from this weekend,, I’m thrilled to be reviewing proofs of my two poems “Air Damp as the Back of the Throat” and “We’ve Come All This Way Got Dressed Up” which will soon appear in The Iowa Review!!!
Reviewing proofs for my upcoming poem in The American Poetry Review!
Thrilled!!! to review proofs of my poem “We Couldn’t Be More Biological” which will appear in the January issue of The American Poetry Review!!! Wow!
I never know what I’m going to write about when I write my poems. I sure didn’t know this love poem would be inspired by a couple creatures peeping out from the middle of a 4 hour NOAA deep sea science expedition video, which is the kind of thing my partner and I like to watch late at night with the lights down low…
My poem Circuitry Suite in the Whitman on Walls Anthology!
Delighted to receive my contributor copy of the Whitman on Walls anthology, which includes my newly commissioned poem “Circuitry Suite,” responding to passages from Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself. It was a delight and an honor to perform this last August at the Everson Museum of Art alongside an awesome group of other poets and performers. Huge thanks to Karin Coonrod and everyone with Compagnia de’ Colombari for making this all happen.
You can view their short film “Infinite Variety,” which my poem was also responding to on their Vimeo page here: https://vimeo.com/507829941
