Steve Castro and I are doing a Zoom reading March 5 at 7pm!

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Poet Steve Castro, author of Blue Whale Phenomena (Otis Books, 2019), and I are giving a Zoom poetry reading on Sunday March 5, 2023 at 7 pm ET. We haven’t seen each other in person for over a decade. He’s in town to read in person with me at Syracuse Stage earlier in the day, but since only folks around here will be able to attend that in-person reading, we thought we’d also read on Zoom later that day! Come join us!

Registration in advance is required. It’s free and simple! All you need is your name and an email address! Use the QR code above or visit the registrations link here:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwrcuitrDwiGta6iaHRL5Q3YZlFXsl3CXJL

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

I’m reading in person at Syracuse Stage March 5!

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Central New York friends! I’m giving an in-person poetry reading this Sunday March 5 @ 12:30 at Syracuse Stage. I’ll be reading my poetry in English and Steve Castro will read his original translations of them in Spanish! Steve will be reading his original poetry in Spanish and English. Plus there are other readers in this jam packed afternoon of poetry in English and Spanish! The reading is free and open to the public.

This event occurs prior to the matinee performance of the play Espejos: Clean, but you do not have to have a ticket to the play right in order to attend the poetry reading. You can come for just the reading…or enjoy the reading and get tickets to the play! Yes yes!

My poems “The Sailors All Dance and Sing As Their Ship Goes Down” & “We Are Different in This Room” accepted at Sprung Formal!

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I’m delighted to receive the news that Sprung Formal: The Kansas City Art Institute’s Literary Arts Journal has accepted my poems “The Sailors All Dance and Sing As Their Ship Goes Down,” and “We Are Different in This Room.” Thank you Kaylea Halstead, Victoria Cairns, and the whole editorial team!

I love you. I want us both to eat well. On Valentine’s Day.

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Wow! I’m so touched that this Valentine’s Day my line, “I love you. I want us both to eat well,” from my poem “Our Beautiful Life When It’s Filled with Shrieks” was quoted in two Valentine’s Day food writing articles.
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Thank you Bettina Makalintal for quoting from my poem in your article “‘Table for Two’ Embraces the Romance of Everyday Cooking Treated with care, even beans on toast can feel special” for Eater Magazine!

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Thank you Sumayyah for quoting from my poem in your article “Relationshipping: How to Do Well with Everyone & Everything” for Hot Off the Press, the Vaughan Public Libraries blog!

Poetry Out Loud!

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Congratulations to all the reciters at tonight’s Semifinals of the NY State Poetry Out Loud Competition. It was an honor to be one of the judges. All those poems, all that passion. Best of luck to the winner and the runner up at next month’s state finals!