Hot golly! What a pleasure to be signing the colophon pages for our new collaborative chapbook, “The Box We Put the World in to Keep a Corner from Shattering,” which I wrote with the awesome poets Dustin Pearson and Steve Castro! Thank you Timothy Geiger and Aureole Press for letterpress printing this beautiful object!
Wow! Never before have I been able to watch a book of mine actually get made!?! Enjoy this footage of poet Timothy Geiger, founder and proprietor of Aureole Press (at the University of Toledo), hand letterpressing the title page of The Box We Put the World in to Keep a Corner from Shattering, the forthcoming collaborative chapbook I wrote with Steve Castro and Dustin Pearson. Thank you for sharing this Dustin! And thank you Timothy for being such an artist! 🙌
Thrilled to receive the news that Cream City Review has accepted “On a Planet of Gas and Dust and Smoky Mountains, Bird Calls” a collaborative prose poem that Dustin Pearson, Steve Castro, and I wrote together! Thank you CCR!
Yippee! Heavy Feather Review just published “Placatory Congregation,” a collaborative prose poem that Steve Castro, Dustin Pearson, and I wrote together. Huge thanks to Editors Bill Lessard, Jason Teal, and everyone who makes HFR so awesome!
Read the poem here:
https://heavyfeatherreview.org/2025/02/05/placatory-congregation/
Wow! The Laurel Review has accepted 3 of the collaborative poems that Dustin Pearson, Steve Castro, and I have written together: “We End and the World Begins, Where?” “A Change of Occupation” and “Three Deaths near a Body of Water.” Xmas came early this year! HUGE thank you to Editor John Gallaher!
The Inflectionist Review just published two collaborative prose poems that Steve Castro, Dustin Pearson, and I wrote together, “Forgotten Village” and “Bright Sides and Glass.” Please visit https://www.inflectionism.com/ to read them along with all the amazing writing in this new issue! Huge thanks to Editors Anatoly Molotkov & John Sibley Williams!
2 journal acceptances yesterday! If you write collaboratively with the likes of Steve Castro and Dustin Pearson, I suppose it shouldn’t come as a shock but really…Holy moly!! Heavy Feather Review has accepted “Placatory Congregation” (thank you Bill Lessard!) and The Boiler has accepted “Smoke Moving Out of the Way as It Rises” (thank you Diana Cao & Todd Dillard)!
Diode has just published two collaborative poems that Steve Castro, Dustin Pearson, and I wrote together. Please visit http://diodepoetry.com/castro_pearson_citro/ to read them! Huge thanks to Patty Paine and the whole Diode crew!
Yippee! My collaborative poems “Avalon at the End of the Alley” and “Earthly Imagination” — written with Dustin Pearson and Steve Castro — have just been accepted at Diode! Massive thank you to Patty Paine!
Yippee! “Yonder,” the collaborative poem that I wrote with Steve Castro and Dustin Pearson, just got published online at The Cincinnati Review, with accompanying audio of us 3 reading the poem (and some harmonica played by my darling Sarah)! Huge thanks to Kate Jayroe, Rebecca Lindenberg, Lisa Ampleman, and all at CR!