Friends! I’m thrilled to have 2 poems in the just released fall issue of Sixth Finch, “Warm to Warm” and “Stone I Control Nothing,” alongside a ton of other awesome poetry and art. My 3rd time in this journal! Thank you Rob MacDonald and Jaime Zuckerman for making Sixth Finch so completely great all the time! Head over and check out the whole issue!
Wow! The great poet David Kirby wrote an essay that features my poem “Our Beautiful Life When It’s Filled with Shrieks” and Plume Poetry just published it online today. I’m so honored. I have to go sit in the backyard and try to calm down.
Read the whole essay online at Plume Poetry HERE.
Huge thanks to the Laurel Review for nominating “Three Deaths Near a Body of Water,” a poem I wrote collaboratively with Steve Castro and Dustin Pearson, for Black Lawrence Press’ Best Small Fiction Anthology! What a delightful surprise!
I recently began a new writing project–maybe it’ll be a book?– and today Cold Mountain Review accepted two of the prose poems from this brand new project. What a joy to have my work coming up this wonderful journal, and what an encouragement that I might not be on the totally wrong track with this new project!
My little prose poem “A Bee Lands a Yellow Violet Sags” has just been published online in the gorgeous new issue of -ette. Thank you Beth Hahn, Nora Maynard, and Melanie Hoopes!
The new issue of The Boiler just appeared and it contains “Smoke Moving Out of the Way as It Rises” a collaborative prose poem I wrote with Steve Castro and Dustin Pearson!…alongside a ton of literary and art goodness! In between trips to the beach and ice cream sundaes, check it out!
Thanks so much to everyone at The Boiler!
Read the poem HERE.
Here’s a video of me reading my poem “Keep Moving (Home)” at the Kettle Pond Writers Conference June 23, 2026. This poem was first published as the liner notes to the album “Keep Moving (Home)” by my nephew Brian Citro (Calligram Records, 2026). You can stream and purchase the album (as digital, CD, and limited edition vinyl) from the label HERE. The CD includes the text of the poem in the 6-panel, full-spread digipack and the vinyl includes it as a full-size insert.
Hot golly! Barrow Street has accepted my poem “Rock Back They Close Rock Forward They Open” for their upcoming issue. A sonnet about, among other things, migraine headaches, Raggedy Andy, a paper shredder, and a creepy Victorian doll my mom kept on a tiny rocking chair in the living room.
This will be my second time having poetry in Barrow Street and I’m so thrilled. Thank you so much Charles Kell and everyone at BR!
Here’s a video of me reading my poem “We Couldn’t Be More Biological” from the American Poetry Review.
Hot golly! My poem “Set Before a Feast We Lift a Fork” has just been published in Bellingham Review’s Issue 92 online! Thank you so much to Jane Wong, Sam X Wong, Cassidy Spencer, Miriam Milena, Luke Chavez and everyone who makes BR such a joy.