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!
Yippee! “Yonder,” the collaborative poem that I wrote with Steve Castro and Dustin Pearson, just got published online at The Cincinnati Review, with accompanying audio of us 3 reading the poem (and some harmonica played by my darling Sarah)! Huge thanks to Kate Jayroe, Rebecca Lindenberg, Lisa Ampleman, and all at CR!
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!
I’m delighted to share the news that a chapbook of collaborative poetry that I wrote with Steve Castro and Dustin Pearson, titled The Box We Put the World in to Keep a Corner From Shattering, has been accepted for publication at University of Toledo’s Aureole Press!
Here’s a video of me, Christopher Citro, and Sarah Ruhlen and Steve Castro doing a living room Zoom reading from Sunday March 5, 2023. Sarah Ruhlen reads her short story “Shepherds Take Warning” first published in Waccamaw. I read poems from my second book, If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun (Elixir Press, 2021), along with newer poems. And Steve Castro reads poems from his book Blue Whale Phenomena (Otis Books, 2019) along with newer poems. Hope you enjoy it!
Howdy! Here’s a video of me and Steve Castro reading our poems for last Sunday’s Poetry + Play event at Syracuse Stage. Steve reads his poems in Spanish and I read his English translations of them. Then I read my poems in English and Steve reads his original translations of them into Spanish. This event was part of an afternoon of poetry in English and Spanish before the final performance of Espejos: Clean, a play by Christine Quintana performed at Syracuse Stage in Syracuse, New York on March 5, 2023.
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:
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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 friend, the poet Steve Castro, is translating some poems from my second book for a dual Spanish/English reading we’re going to be doing together next year at Syracuse Stage (more on that later!), and I find myself very touched, filled with a warm gratitude that several states away a wonderful poet is turning my little poems into another language, one which sadly I have no facility in. And such an awesome poet as Steve Castro! Everyone should get his poetry book Blue Whale Phenomena published in 2019 by Otis Books!