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!
Overjoyed to learn that the mighty Sixth Finch has accepted my poems “Warm to Warm” and “Stone I Control Nothing” for their fall issue. I’m so delighted! This will be my 3rd time having my poems in this journal, which is one of my very favorites! I never miss an issue. Thank you Editor Rob MacDonald!
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!
What a thrill to receive my contributor copy of the new Post Road, containing my poems “Meanwhile Everything Else Is Gone” and “Kicking the Mud Free” and much more literary goodness! HUGE thanks to the wonderful editors of PR!
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!
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.
Here’s a short interview with me published in the literary magazine of Uskudar American Academy in Istanbul, Türkiye. A 12th grader there found my poem “Our Beautiful Life When It’s Filled with Shrieks” and reached out to me from across the many waters. It’s amazing what poetry can do. Thank you to Efe Oğuz Aktaş for these lovely questions. My poem and I are humming with gratitude.
