Along with poets Ed Tato and Devon Moore, I’ll be reading my poems tomorrow, Saturday March 4, 2017 at 4pm at Rust Belt Books in Buffalo (415 Grant St, Buffalo, NY 14213-1140). Admission is free, refreshments will be provided, and the poems will help melt all this March snow. If you’re in the area, swing (or cross-country ski) on by!
Friends! I’m thoroughly jazzed to announce that I’ve been invited to read at Kent State University on October 5.
This event is a reading and discussion of the flash fiction/prose poem/flash nonfiction linked sequence. I’ll be reading/discussing along with Nin Andrews, F. Daniel Rzicznek, Kathleen McGookey, Lucas Southworth and Molly Fuller, some of my fellow contributors to Nothing to Declare: A Guide to the Flash Sequence (White Pines Press, 2016). It’s open to the public and should be a gas. If you’re in the area, swing on by!
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Reading by and discussion from contributors to Nothing to Declare: Flash Fiction Sequences:
Nin Andrews, F. Daniel Rzicznek, Kathleen McGookey, Lucas Southworth, Molly Fuller, and Christopher Citro
Nothing to Declare: Flash Fiction Sequences (White Pine Press/Marie Alexander Series, 2016) is the first anthology of this emerging hybrid form. Part prose poetry, micro fiction, or flash fiction, and often a collage of more than one, the flash fiction sequences laces together various stand alone pieces of writing into related larger works.
Reading and discussion will take place at Kent State University; room to be announced.
Co-sponsored by the NEOMFA and the Wick Poetry Center.
I just spent a delightful lunch hour being interviewed about contemporary American poetry, prose poetry, and my book The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy by Grant Reeher, Director of the Campbell Public Affairs Institute at Syracuse University. My 24-minute interview is scheduled to air this Sunday at 6pm on The Campbell Conversations on the NPR station WRVO Public Media.
You can stream the show HERE when it airs or download a podcast of the episode shortly after.
Hi Central New York friends. I’m giving a poetry reading Saturday, February 6 at 11 a.m. as part of the 11th Annual LiterarY Dinner series of The Arts Branch of the Syracuse YMCA to support their After School Arts Programs, serving over 850 children in Syracuse’s inner city. The cost is a tax-deductable donation of $40, and you get a great brunch at the home of Judy Carr, fine company, and me reading poems! Please RSVP before the brunch by email to jcarr96@twcny.rr.com or by phone 560-3484. Please share with anyone who may be interested. Hope to see you there!
On Friday, October 23, 2015 at 7 PM I’ll be reading poetry along with Jeffrey Harrison at the Downtown Writer’s Center in Syracuse, NY as part of their Fall 2015 Visiting Author Reading Series. The event is free and open to the public. Please come!
A huge, massive, thundering thank you to Phil Memmer, Georgia Popoff, and to my students and my fellow instructors at The Downtown Writer’s Center August Occasion Writing Retreat last month at the Harding Farm in Clinton, NY. That was an amazing and inspiring day.
This was also the first time I read aloud from my new book, The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy. An experience I won’t ever forget.
I am pleased to announce that I will be reading my poetry February 9, 2013 as part of the Deep Fried Reading Series in Rochester, NY. The series is curated by Albert Abonado, editor of The Bakery. My fellow readers that evening will be Donora Hillard, and Tony Leuzzi.
You can find further information about the reading via the Readings link at the top of this page.