My nephew Brian Citro has just had released an album of solo jazz guitar (5 of his original compositions 2 Thelonious Monk tunes, and a jazz standard) from Chicago’s ears&eyes Records. It’s called “Acoustic Pastime – Solo Guitar,” and it’s a dreamy, meditative, beautiful album and I highly recommend it. Also, I wrote the liner notes to it! You can purchase the album (for any price you wish) HERE.And you can read my liner notes there too!
My poem “Like a River Stood on End,” first published in Cherry Tree, has just been republished online at The Talbot Spy. And there’s a short video of me reading the poem. Thank you, James Dissette!
Read/watch the poem HERE!
I’m thrilled to announce that I’ll be teaching at this summer’s virtual Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing June 6-13! LOOK at this list of my fellow instructors: Alexander Weinstein, Adrian Matejka, Tia Clark, Britton Shurley, Amelia Martens, Wendy Rawlings, Joshunda Sanders, Elizabeth Schmuhl, Keith Taylor, Matthew Gavin Frank, Phong Nguyen, and John T Howard. Register now and join us!!!
https://www.mvicw.com/
Welcoming us writers, poets, dancers, artists, choreographers, documentarians to this special place. ❤️
http://ragdale.org/
Unpacking in the “Top of the Stairs,” my room in Ragdale, an arts & crafts house designed by Howard Van Doren Shaw, built in 1897 and home to the Ragdale Foundation, an artists’ retreat and haven for creating.
Salivating over the window seat in my room and the private “treehouse” sleeping porch….
…and the private “treehouse” sleeping porch.
Thrilled to have received the news that my poems “Dear Diary Where Is Everybody,” “Waves Frozen Like Wrinkles on Dog Skin,” and “Light at the Beach a Thousand Doctors” have been accepted at Raleigh Review!
Hugely excited to share the news that Blackbird has accepted my poem “Anyway and Try to Stay Alive on What It Gives Us.” Thank you to Blackbird’s editors and readers, and thank you to the awful Dollar Store post-it notes and mustard that inspired the poem.
Today I celebrate beginning my 100th writing journal. Nearly every poem I’ve ever written began as a first draft in these journals, starting with journal #1 way back in my sophomore year in high school. Which was some time ago now. 🙂
It’s a pleasure to announce that my book The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy (Steel Toe Books, 2015) was selected as one of four finalists for the Eugene Paul Nassar Poetry Prize, a post-publication prize from Utica College. Thank you to judge Juliana Gray and to Gary Leising, the prize coordinator. And congratulations to Laura Donnelly, this year’s winner for her book Watershed.
You can purchase a copy from Amazon, Barnes & Noble Online, or direct from the publisher.
Book reviewers may email me directly to request a review copy.
I’m proud as punch to announce that after being the Assistant Poetry Editor at the online literary magazine decomP for a couple years or so, I’ve been promoted to Poetry Editor. Thanks Jason Jordan!
My poem “The Secret Lives of Little Girls” has just been published in Issue 18 of Subtropics.
The issue also contains work by Christina Nichol, Matthew Lippman, Jon Loomis, C. Dylan Bassett, Bernard Quiriny, Circe Maia, Edward Mayes, Angie Hogan, Sheila Kohler, Charles Wyatt, Katherine Bode-Lang, Geri Doran, Mark Jude Poirier, Bruce Beasley, Cally Conan-Davies, Jehanne Dubrow, Mel Kenne, Chinelo Okparanta, Analicia Sotelo, Jennifer Atkinson, Okla Elliott, Lisa Hartz, Brandon Kershner, Patricio Pron, John Weir, and Amy Hempel.
You can snag a copy for $12.95 HERE.
Thanks Subtropics!