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Interviews, Articles, Conversations, and Poems

In Audio, Video, & Digital Print

A SELECTION OF AUDIO INTERVIEWS

Listen to Con-versations

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WVIA's Erika Funke with Craig after their conversation on ArtScene, August 28, 2025

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WVIA ArtScene - with Erika Funke

Erika and Craig discuss "And If You Saw Me" - Craig's latest book, a new and selected work covering over 40 years of writing around the world - and their shared history in Northeastern PA's art scene

Troubadours & Raconteurs - with E.W. Conundrum Demure

E.W. and Craig exchange thoughts on Being Stone Sober, The Gate of Heaven Parking Lot, Baseball Bats on Asphalt, Being the Only Protestant in the Neighborhood, Handwriting on the Wall, & more

Poetry Spoken Here - with Charlie Rossiter 

Charlie and Craig chat about "Thumb Notes Almanac: Hitchhiking the Marcellus Shale" which chronicles Craig's hitchhiking through Northeastern Pennsylvania's fracking country during its peak

WVIA ArtScene - with Erika Funke

Erika, Craig, and Dr. Phil Yevics cover the Creative Letter-Writing Workshops offered via Peer 2 Peer and the Lackawanna County Reentry Task Force, at St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Scranton

Troubadours & Raconteurs - with E.W. Conundrum Demure

E.W. and Craig exchange thoughts on Walking Around, Wounds & Triumphs, Catching a Breath, Defeating Fear, Oddballs & Eccentrics and so much more

WVIA ArtScene - with Erika Funke

Erika and Craig talk about his poetry collection, "Fifteen Stones," poems written from Italy, Chile, and Northeastern PA in anticipation of a reading and signing at the Springville Schoolhouse Art Studios

VIDEOS - POEMS & INTERVIEWS

A Few Things to Watch

Italian filmmaker Girolamo Macina Geroni

With Italian Filmmaker Girolamo Macina, Soncino Italy
Photo: Aldo Villagrossi Crotti

A SELECTION OF PRINT ARTICLES

Articles & Poems in Print
in PA, the US, & Internationally

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With Elvana Zaimi (translator), Entela Kasi (poet & writer of PEN Albania), and Kimberly Crafton (writer & cultural worker) in Tirana, Albania
Photo:  Edward Ni

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With Thomas Chepaitis (writer & minister of foreign affairs for The Republic of Užupis) in Tartu, Estonia
Photo:  Edward Ni

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At St. Mary's College in Maryland for a Gallery Talk about fracking, "Notes from The Marcellus Shale.  
Photo:  St. Mary's College

诗只是两个人的中美关系    (at Tartu Poetry Festival with Edward Ni)

October 2018 - Tartu Int'l Poetry Fest. (Tartu, Estonia)

Craig Czury

September 2018 - Literatura Menas  (Vilnius, Lithuania)

Amerikietis Rašytojas C.Czury: „Iki Devyniolikos Nemokėjęs Skaityti, Tapau Rašytoju“

September 2018 - Kultūra (Vilnius, Lithuania)

Un Poeta Americano a Soncino

May 2018 - ValleDell'Oglio Magazine (Palazzolo Sull'Oglio, Italy)

Poem Fusion - La Potente Artedi Communicare con Se Stessi

December 2017 - Crema Online​

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Road Dog for Poetry

Sept 2016 - Poets & Writers​​

Thought and Language: Poetry and Words. Il festival
internazionale di poesia Virgilio di Mantova

July 2016 - Versante Ripido

PA Poet Swaps Out Coal Mines for Gas Lines
June 2016 - Press Republican, Plattsburg NY​

From Czury to Yevtushenko - Da Czury a Evtusenko: Quattro Giorni con la Grande Poesia
May 2016 - Gazzetta di Mantova, Italy ​

Poetry of Witness

February 2016 - Misericordia University, PA​

Craig Czury Returns to Soncino - Il Grande Ritorno di Craig Czury
March 2015 - PrimaPagina, Italy

 

A Poet's Journey - Interview with Craig Czury

January 2015 - Berks Encore News

 

Craig Czury Visita Soncino - Il Grande Poeta Americano Stregato dal Borgo

December 2014 - PrimaPagina, Italy

 

Gallery Talk - Fracking PA: Documentary Practice and Environmental Activism
November 2014 - St. Mary's College of Maryland

 

50 Years of Awards - The F. Lammot Belin Arts Scholarship 50th Anniversary Program

October 2014 - The Scranton Times Tribune

 

Presentan libro sobre escritores de Tarapacá y Pennsylvania

June 2014 - Universidad Arturo Prat del Estado de Chile

"Notes from The Marcellus Shale"
Poems of Craig Czury with the Photos of Bill Crandall
online catalog from the exhibit at St. Mary's College, MD

Fracking PA: Documentary Practice & Environmental Justice

Fall 2014, St. Mary's College, MD 

Interview by WHYY's Susan Phillips for State Impact
Article and NPR Radio Interview - October 2012

 

Berks County Poet Laureate Explores Gas Drilling in the Marcellus Shale

September 2012,  Reading Eagle

 

Hitchhiking Poet Chronicles Life in the Marcellus Shale

September 2012,  Marcellus Drilling News

Berks County Introduces Its Fourth Poet Laureate

November 2010 - News Not Blues​

 

Students in Argentina Study Poetry of Czury

April 2012,  Poesia en la Escuela Escribe

 

UNA Plaque in Shamokin Inspires Coal Region Poet   (pg. 3)
January 1984,  The Ukrainian Weekly

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