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.
Thank you to the Artisan Gallery in Binghamton New York for hanging the text pf my poem “Birds and Stars Suite” as part of their April gallery show. What a delight to be asked to be a part of this. The show is not longer up, but if you want you can read the poem online at Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts:
https://blackbird.vcu.edu/birds-stars-suite/
Friends! My nephew Brian Citro’s deeply beautiful new jazz album “Keep Moving (Home)” is released today on Chicago’s Calligram Records, as a digital download, CD, & vinyl! I wrote a poem for the liner notes; on the vinyl it’s on a full-size insert. The album is his original compositions performed with his quartet. You can hear a sample and order the album in all formats here: https://briancitro.bandcamp.com/album/keep-moving-home
Here’s a video of me reading my poem “In a Kingdom of Little Gusts and I Want Out” from Fugue issue 64.
Hot golly! Advance copies of my nephew Brian’s new jazz album, Keep Moving (Home), on Chicago’s Calligram Records, have arrived. He asked me to write a poem to be the liner notes, and it’s there in the CD and as a pullout insert for the vinyl album! The album’s not up on the label’s website yet, but it’ll be available as digital, CD, and vinyl when it’s released this May.
Howdy! Here’s a video of me reading my poem “When Our Grasses Seem Humming” which was published recently in the Bennington Review.
Hot golly! My contributor copies of the new Bennington Review arrived with my poem “When Our Grasses Seem Humming,” as well as so much amazing work by so many poets and writers I adore. Thank you Bennington Review for this bright flame in March’s deep freeze!
Hot golly! Allium, A Journal of Poetry & Prose has just accepted my poems: “To Find the Ridge to Watch the Sun Drop” and “Fireflies Meadow Highway Ramp”!!! Huge thank you to Marc Meierkort, Tony Trigilio, and everyone who cultivates the Allium at Columbia College Chicago!
Howdy! Here’s a video of me reading my poem “Hawk Shadow Here to Help” which was published recently in The Kenyon Review.
Huge thank you to Water~Stone Review for interviewing me and posting it to their blog today! It was a joy to respond to these thoughtful and generous questions! I hope you all enjoy reading it. It even includes the cover of the first photocopied book of my poetry i made waaaaay back in undergraduate days.