I read my poetry in a Greek cave! I read my poetry in a Greek cave! Watch the video on my YouTube: youtube.com/shorts/WuHcyBF… The poem: "Hawk Shadow Here to Help," temporarily retitled "κότσυφας Here to Help" in honor of the blackbirds The cave: Zervati Cave on Kefalonia Island

HUGE congratulations to my darling Sarah for her short story "Where the Mile-Long Blazers Fly" just published online in the new issue of Tupelo Quarterly!!! This story is so awesome. I'm so proud of you Sarah! Read this story online in TQ's new issue #35! TupeloQuarterly

Day 7 Poetry Teaching Trip to Kefalonia Greece continued: in addition to reading my poetry atop Mt. Aenos, teaching a poetry workshop in a marble amphitheater, beachside lunch at Avithos Preview Taverna, Kefalonia beehives, the mountains, magical writers in a magical place!

RIP giant. RIP Sly Stone. Thank you for the music, the incalculably powerful music.

Just got back from a week teaching at the Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, my 13th year! What a joy and a delight to teach alongside awesome faculty and friends Hannah Bae, Donald Quist, Vogue Robinson, and Alexander Weinstein! The week went by too quickly!

Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing 2025 post #2: what an AMAZING group of attendees last week!!! I never take enough photos, but here are a few which people kindly shared. What an inspirational, engaged, energized, exciting, supportive group of writers! Wowsers!

And now it's....Kettle Pond Writers Conference! In Paul Smith's College of the Adirondacks! What a joy to be teaching here for my 6th year, the 6th year of this conference! The awesome faculty, the awesome staff, the awesome participants! Loons singing at night! Kettle Pond Writers' Conference

Kettle Pond Writers' Conference! Hanging with friends (fellow writers and teachers) on the shore of Lower St. Regis Lake at Paul Smith's College of the Adirondacks! Kettle Pond Writers' Conference #kpwc25

More from the Kettle Pond Writers' Conference at Paul Smith's College of the Adirondacks! Late night socializing on the deck over Lower St. Regis Lake, floating in on said lake, the book table and Ghost City Press, and watching geese do their geese thing! Kettle Pond Writers' Conference #kpwc25

A perfect day with Chen Chen, Michael Seidlinger, Andy Tran, my sweetie, & me... A writer's hike at Paul Smith's College: the butterfly tent, the floating bridge, wild orchids, not getting lost or dying of blood loss to mosquitos! Kettle Pond Writers' Conference #kpwc25

And so ends another nourishing, inspiring week teaching at Paul Smith's College, with the celebration readings at the Forestry Cabin. Kettle Pond Writers' Conference!?! Ya' did it again! Thank you everyone for making that week so magical! Kettle Pond Writers' Conference #kpwc25

Catching up with some recent literary mail: lovely lovely postcards from Donald Quist and Michael Martone, and brand chapbook of 10 unpublished James Tate poems (Press Brake, 2025)!

I'm reading for the Seneca Review tomorrow, Wednesday July 9, alongside a ton of awesome writers! Come join us!

Last night's Seneca Review reading, for contributors, editors, and staff, was AMAZING! So much awesome writing and wonderful readers! Just a joy and an inspiration to be a part of it! And the venue, Two Goats Brewing on the picturesque shores of Seneca Lake, was breathtaking.

Another helpful new blog post from my sweetie's employee-side labor and employment law firm here in Syracuse, NY! ---- Don't face a hostile work environment alone. satterlaw.com/831-2/ #attorneynearme #EmploymentLaw #HostileWorkEnvironment #LaborAndEmployment

Fabulous poetry book release reading for Cassandra Whitaker's awesome new book, Wolf Devouring a Wolf Devouring a Wolf, published by Jackleg Press. Buy a copy today! So great to also hear Cassandra's fabulous fellow readers, Tara A. O'Brien Elliott, John A Nieves, & Katie Kemple!

Another awesome backyard reading today in the “Seemingly Mature” series run by Tim Carter and Liz Bowen! This evening’s awesomeness came from poets and fictioneers John Colasacco, Kofi Antwi, Gina Nutt, Misha Tentser, Tracy Dimond, and Jesse Nissim!

In anticipation of the upcoming release from Ghost City Press of "I Wear a Top Hat When I Go Into the Forest," a micro-chapbook of collaborative prose poetry I wrote with Dustin Nightingale, here's a short film we made of another of our poems! youtube.com/watch?v=dVFXpB…

Friends!! Today I WEAR A TOP HAT WHEN I GO INTO THE FOREST, a micro e-chapbook of collaborative prose poetry I wrote with Dustin Nightingale, has been released by Ghost City Press!!! It's free or you can pay whatever you want! Huge thanks to Kevin Bertolero and Ghost City Press .

My micro e-chapbook of collaborative prose poetry, I WEAR A TOP HAT WHEN I GO INTO THE FOREST, written with Dustin Nightingale, has just been released by Ghost City Press!!! It's free or you can pay whatever you want! ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-se…