Steve Castro

Steve Castro has been a member of Linktree for 5 years and joined in March 2021. The social media accounts linked to from Steve Castro are: • Instagram Besides social media accounts, ThePoetryEngineer has populated their site with: • Conejo y Gallo is the winner of the 42 Miles Press Poetry Award (2025) • "They grow up so fast" by Steve Castro | Packingtown Review - A journal of literature and the arts • “As a child” – The National Poetry Review • Steve Castro | 32 Poems Magazine - Defenestration • Conejo y Gallo was finalist for National Poetry Series Competition (2024) Congrats to 5 winners • Conejo y Gallo was a finalist for the Poetic Institute Editors Prize for a BIPOC Writer, (2024-2025) Congrats to winner • Conejo y Gallo was a finalist for the Black Lawrence Immigrant Writing Series (2025 reading period) • "Pâtisserie" by Steve Castro | Packingtown Review - A journal of literature and the arts • “Most likely an imperative from a Confederate soldier’s descendant” via Water~Stone Review • A collaborative chapbook I wrote with Christopher Citro & Dustin Pearson, The Box We Put the World in to Keep a Corner from Shattering, is forthcoming from Aureole Press, (2025). • Zoom Reading by Sarah Ruhlen, Christopher Citro and Steve Castro - March 5, 2023 • Zoom reading by Jose Hernandez Diaz and Steve Castro - June 21, 2024 • Laura Villareal / Steve Castro Zoom poetry reading (October 6, 2024) • DonCarlos Price aka STS & Steve Castro Zoom Poetry Reading - Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025 • D.M. Aderibigbe & Steve Castro Zoom Poetry Reading Aug. 13, 2025 • The Inflectionist Review - Steve Castro, Christopher Citro & Dustin Pearson, Forgotten Village • Steve Castro - "A man condemned" — Action, Spectacle • Heavy Feather Review “Placatory Congregation”: A New Haunted Passage by Steve Castro, Christopher Citro, & Dustin Pearson • Pork & Cigarettes (circa 1987) - Image Journal • Your Impossible Voice - Damn! • Issue 31 / Steve Castro • miCRo: “Yonder” by Steve Castro, Christopher Citro, and Dustin Pearson - The Cincinnati Review • The Inflectionist Review - Steve Castro, Christopher Citro, Dustin Pearson - Bright Sides and Glass • The Spectacle - Poem by Steve Castro • Welter at University of Baltimore – Protector • Steve Castro, Christopher Citro, Dustin Pearson - diode - 2 Poems • 32 Classrooms: University of Southern Indiana 2024 | 32 Poems Magazine • Catching My Eye | 32 Poems Magazine • YouTube link of me reading my poem "March 04, 2..." at La-Ti-Do (Washington, D.C.) • DIAGRAM - Ashbery Erasures (Featuring erasures by John Ashbery, Rosebud Ben-Oni, Tara Betts, Bruce Bond, Steve Castro, Jason Koo, Chad Parmenter, D A Powell, Mary Ruefle, Sean Singer, Maggie Smith, Dara Wier, etc.) • The Madison Review & Berkeley Fiction Review Distance Zine collaboration -"Mesopotamia." • The Indianapolis Review (Poets are Funny themed issue) 2 poems • Strange Horizons- "The Suck-up." • Steve Castro - "Poohbear" (An Original Poem) • Guesthouse - Three Poems • Somos en escrito: The Latino Literary Online Magazine - Four poems • Plume - Three Poems • Steve Castro — Prose Online • Phantom Kangaroo- "The Blue Whale Phenomenon" • at Length - The Poem That Won't Leave You Alone, Volume 2 (featuring Jay Deshpande, Ricky Varghese, Deanna Dikeman, Craig Santos Perez, Chad Davidson, Steve Castro, Jonathan Farmer, with an introduction by Chad Palmenter) • Steve Castro - "To Infinity And Beyond" (An Original Poem) • Splendid Wake-up: a blog (Gelman Library, The George Washington University) - 1 Poem - "A Mathematical Sonnet" originally appeared in ASKEW • 7x7 - An exquisite corpse collaborative short story w/ visual artist Josh Dorman - "Map and Legend" • The Indianapolis Review - 1 poem • Poem: Friendly fire, by Steve Castro • Steve Castro - "Sodium Free" (An Original Poem) • Steve Castro for Speculative Fiction for Dreamers • [PANK] - Two Poems - Latinx / Latinidad issue • "Dark violet" - The Coachella Review. Co-written w/ Daniel Romo • HeartWood Literary Magazine - Two Prose Poems (w/ Daniel Romo) • I was interviewed by Water~Stone Review • I was interviewed by Neon Pajamas • decomP MagazinE - Two Poems • Penduline - Flash Fiction "Repaying a Debt" • Okay Donkey - 1 prose poem (co-written with Daniel Romo) • Everyday Genius - Two Poems • 100 Word Story - 1 Prose Poem • Steve Castro reads "2 Full Moons and 1 Empty Moon Ago" • Steve Castro - "Interwoven Realities Through Time And Space" (An Original Poem) • The Caterpillar Chronicles - "His Ubiquitous Light" • Numinous: Spiritual Poetry - 1 Poem • Underground Voices - 1 Poem - "The Burden That I Am" originally appeared in Chiricú Journal • Landfill Journal - 1 Poem • [PANK] DAILY - 1 Poem • DIAGRAM - 1 Poem • [PANK] - Two Poems • Pouch - 1 Prose Poem • 1 poem in Verse Daily ("Scrapers of the sky" originally appeared in Green Mountains Review) • A Longhouse Birdhouse: Daydreaming w/ Bob Arnold - 1 Poem - "Polar Opposites" originally appeared in Zymbol • YouTube link of me reading my poem "Letter to Royalty" at La-Ti-Do (Washington, D.C.)