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CRAIG CZURY
Biography
Craig
Czury, a former resident of Pottsville, grew up in the Wilkes-Barre and
Shamokin areas of the coal region. He spent 15 years hitchhiking North
America, working in carnivals, warehouses, cannaries, construction crews,
restaurant kitchens, and organizing community poetry readings. Author of
15 collections of poetry, most recently, In My Silence To Justify,
FootHills Publishing, and editor of two anthologies, Fine Line That
Screams from his N.E. Pa. Prison Poetry Project, And UN SEGUNDO EN
EL TIEMPO/ONE SECOND At A Time, poets of the Reading Hispanic
community, Czury now works as a poet in schools, homeless shelters,
prisons, mental hospitals and community centers throughout the world. His
books have been translated into Spanish, Russian, Lithuanian, Portuguese
and Italian, and he has been awarded many national and international
fellowships to continue his collaborative poem fusion performance and
poetry mural projects, including a residency at The Playhouse in Derry,
Northern Ireland (www.poet-in-education.com).
An avid blues harp and bocce player, Czury
lives in Reading and has been a featured poet at the International Poetry
Festivals in Argentina, Ireland. Colombia, Lithuania, Macedonia and
Croatia.
A revised and expanded edition of his book,
God’s Shiny Glass Eye,
poems from the coal region with photos, will be out this fall from
FootHills Publishing (www.foothillspublishing.com).
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