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.
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.
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.
A few weeks ago I received an email out of the blue from the Head Librarian at the Uskudar American Academy in Istanbul, Türkiye, letting me know that 12th graders there were reading and excited about my poem “Our Beautiful Life When It’s Filled with Shrieks” which has a line in it about people who bicycled across Turkey in the late 1800s. They are going to translate my poem into Turkish for their school magazine alongside an interview with me. I am sending them this signed copy of my second book for their library. My little dedication doesn’t come close to expressing the deep deep joy this connection across the seas has brought to my heart.
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
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!