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.
“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!
Steve Castro and I are doing a Zoom reading March 5 at 7pm!
Poet Steve Castro, author of Blue Whale Phenomena (Otis Books, 2019), and I are giving a Zoom poetry reading on Sunday March 5, 2023 at 7 pm ET. We haven’t seen each other in person for over a decade. He’s in town to read in person with me at Syracuse Stage earlier in the day, but since only folks around here will be able to attend that in-person reading, we thought we’d also read on Zoom later that day! Come join us!
Registration in advance is required. It’s free and simple! All you need is your name and an email address! Use the QR code above or visit the registrations link here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwrcuitrDwiGta6iaHRL5Q3YZlFXsl3CXJL
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
I’m reading in person at Syracuse Stage March 5!
Central New York friends! I’m giving an in-person poetry reading this Sunday March 5 @ 12:30 at Syracuse Stage. I’ll be reading my poetry in English and Steve Castro will read his original translations of them in Spanish! Steve will be reading his original poetry in Spanish and English. Plus there are other readers in this jam packed afternoon of poetry in English and Spanish! The reading is free and open to the public.
This event occurs prior to the matinee performance of the play Espejos: Clean, but you do not have to have a ticket to the play right in order to attend the poetry reading. You can come for just the reading…or enjoy the reading and get tickets to the play! Yes yes!
My poems “The Sailors All Dance and Sing As Their Ship Goes Down” & “We Are Different in This Room” accepted at Sprung Formal!
I’m delighted to receive the news that Sprung Formal: The Kansas City Art Institute’s Literary Arts Journal has accepted my poems “The Sailors All Dance and Sing As Their Ship Goes Down,” and “We Are Different in This Room.” Thank you Kaylea Halstead, Victoria Cairns, and the whole editorial team!
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!
Poetry Out Loud!
Congratulations to all the reciters at tonight’s Semifinals of the NY State Poetry Out Loud Competition. It was an honor to be one of the judges. All those poems, all that passion. Best of luck to the winner and the runner up at next month’s state finals!
“Don’t Fall” accepted at the Idaho Review!
Deeeelighted to receive the news that The Idaho Review has accepted “Don’t Fall,” a collaborative prose poem that I wrote with Dustin Nightingale. Thank you Desmond Fuller and the whole IR crew!
Judging the Poetry Out Loud semifinals here in town!
I’m delighted to receive an invitation to be a judge for the Poetry Out Loud semifinals at Onondaga Community College next week. I was a judge for the finals in Indiana years ago, and it was such a fun, inspiring event!
Thrilled to be nominated again for a Pushcart Prize!
What a thrill to be nominated by a contributing editor (thank you!) for this year’s Pushcart Prize. Winning a Pushcart in 2018 was such an honor. Fingers crossed for another chance!