Huge thanks to the Laurel Review for nominating “Three Deaths Near a Body of Water,” a poem I wrote collaboratively with Steve Castro and Dustin Pearson, for Black Lawrence Press’ Best Small Fiction Anthology! What a delightful surprise!
Hey! Dustin Nightingale and I are doing a Zoom reading for the release of our collaborative poetry chapbook that just came out from Ghost City Press! Monday Sept 15 at 7 pm ET. Join us!
Here’s the link to register for the event:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/sHImUEhHSZmRaL0cokIeNw
Here’s the link to get a free copy of the micro e-chapbook:
https://ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-series/i-wear-a-top-hat-when-i-go-into-the-forest
Jumping jelly beans! Ghost City Press accepted my chapbook “I Wear a Top Hat When I Go Into the Forest,” composed of collaborative prose poems written with Dustin Nightingale! It will appear in Ghost City’s 2025 Summer Micro-Chapbook Series. Huge thank you to judges Tom Snarsky and Gabrielle Hogan!
Wow! Never before have I been able to watch a book of mine actually get made!?! Enjoy this footage of poet Timothy Geiger, founder and proprietor of Aureole Press (at the University of Toledo), hand letterpressing the title page of The Box We Put the World in to Keep a Corner from Shattering, the forthcoming collaborative chapbook I wrote with Steve Castro and Dustin Pearson. Thank you for sharing this Dustin! And thank you Timothy for being such an artist! 🙌
Thrilled to receive the news that Cream City Review has accepted “On a Planet of Gas and Dust and Smoky Mountains, Bird Calls” a collaborative prose poem that Dustin Pearson, Steve Castro, and I wrote together! Thank you CCR!
Yippee! Heavy Feather Review just published “Placatory Congregation,” a collaborative prose poem that Steve Castro, Dustin Pearson, and I wrote together. Huge thanks to Editors Bill Lessard, Jason Teal, and everyone who makes HFR so awesome!
Read the poem here:
https://heavyfeatherreview.org/2025/02/05/placatory-congregation/
Diode has just published two collaborative poems that Steve Castro, Dustin Pearson, and I wrote together. Please visit http://diodepoetry.com/castro_pearson_citro/ to read them! Huge thanks to Patty Paine and the whole Diode crew!
Yippee! My collaborative poems “Avalon at the End of the Alley” and “Earthly Imagination” — written with Dustin Pearson and Steve Castro — have just been accepted at Diode! Massive thank you to Patty Paine!
Huge thanks to The Inflectionist Review editors A. Molotkov & John Sibley Williams for accepting “Forgotten Village” and “Bright Sides & Glass” — two of the collaborative poems I’ve written with Dustin Pearson and Steve Castro!
Yippee! The Cincinnati Review just accepted “Yonder” a collaborative prose poem that I wrote with Steve Castro and Dustin Pearson. It’ll be published soon in their online miCRo series. Huge thanks to Kate Jayroe and all at CR!