September 25-27 in Frostburg: Western Maryland Independent Literature Festival

I'm thrilled to be taking part in the 19th annual Western Maryland Independent Literature Festival, presented by the Frostburg State University Center for Literary Arts this weekend in downtown Frostburg.

Thursday 9/25: Savage Mountain Punk Arts' Fall Poetry Slam featuring Lori Jakiela (7 p.m. at Clatter).

Friday 9/26: Indie Lit Kickoff Reading featuring Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh (7 p.m. at Main Street Books), followed by a punk show by the Downstrokes with Controlled Chaos (8 p.m. at The Deep End).

Saturday 9/27: Indie Lit Bookfair Panels and Workshops (11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at City Place, Mountain City Traditional Arts and the Frostburg Public Library). I'll be representing Crisis Chronicles Press in the bookfair all day as well as reading at 1 p.m. at City Place (more details below). And finally, there will be an Indie Lit Open Mic hosted by Chuck Joy (6 p.m. at Clatter). 

October 6th in Fairview, PA: Screening of the Spoon River Anthology Film I Appear In

On Sunday, 19 January 2020, I was part of a diverse cast performing a staged reading of Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology, Selected Poems, presented by Erie County (Pennsylvania) Poet Laureate Chuck Joy at the Erie County Public Library. My part was "Theodore the Poet."

Fast forward to now and at long last, on 6 October 2025 at 6 p.m., CAM-Erie will present a screening of the film from that event at the Lincoln Community Center Library, 1255 Manchester Road, in Fairview, Pennsylvania. 

For more info, visit facebook.com/events/1068924485091970.

Crisis Chronicles Press This Fall

We may not have published a new title in two years, but we've remained busy behind the scenes with a couple of highly anticipated and long-awaited projects still in the works (more on those later). But Crisis Chronicles Press is delighted to be coming out of the closet, literally, to take part in three wonderful book fairs this fall and we'd love to see you at all of them.

September 19-20: The Writers Association of Northern Appalachia (WANA) Annual Conference at the Scottish Rite Cathedral in Wheeling, West Virginia.

September 27: The annual Western Maryland Independent Literature Festival, hosted by the Frostburg State University Center for Literary Arts at City Place and other venues in Frostburg, Maryland. (I'll be reading there at 1 p.m. as well.)

October 17-19: The annual Fall Literary Festival hosted by Lit Youngstown in Youngstown, Ohio.

September 10 in Erie, PA: Chuck Joy presents John Burroughs at Werner Books

Looking forward to returning to Erie, Pennsylvania, this Wednesday at 6 p.m. to be the featured poet for Chuck Joy's new series at Werner Books & Coffee (3608 Liberty Street).

My "Allen Ginsberg Wants You" appears in Cum Punk

Happy that my poem "Allen Ginsberg Wants You" (which I began writing in 1997 and finished, first published in 2008) is finding a new audience. Fair warning: this publication, as you might have guessed from its title, is "not safe for work" and not to everyone's taste, but I'm grateful to Kum V. for including my work alongside that of such luminaries as Jennifer Browne, Dylan Krieger, and Gina Tron. Dig into it at cumpunk.me.

Word on the streets is that a launch reading will be scheduled soon. Stay tuned.