Featured Reader at Poetry at The Pub - at Dougan's Pub, with life-long friend, Charlie Dougan. | Photo: Harold Jenkins

Czury in the mid-80's, at work in an old rooming house on Main Street, with Baudelaire looking over his shoulder. | Photo: John Cardoni

Reading at the Tartu International Poetry Festival in Estonia. | Photo: Jevgenia Parv

Craig's brain. | Photo: Craig Czury

Writing the final pieces of "Fifteen Stones" at EnoBar by the canal | Photo: Kimberly Crafton

Dissecting the science of soul breathing with students. | Photo: Craig Czury

Czury at a public reading at The GoggleWorks Center for the Arts. | Photo: GoggleWorks

Poet blowing the blues. | Photo: Hiram Uarlo

Czury preaching his poem, "Bread Not Bombs" from the rooftops of Reading during the Hip Hop Summit. | Photo: Heather Thomas

Czury with the Archbishop of Romania. | Photo: Brenda Walker

Czury with Reading's hip hop luminaries at Chill & Grill's Hip Hop Night. | Photo: Heather Thomas

On the road, hitchhiking and taking down "Thumb Notes" for a book of docu-poems about natural gas drilling (fracking) in Pennsylvania. | Photo: Kimberly Crafton

Czury on an official visit to Vilnius, offering a cigar (chocolate) to the President of Lithuania, Valdas Adamkus. | Photo: Dzoja Barysalte

Czury plays the blues in a subterranean chamber of Soncino's ancient castle. | Photo: Kimberly Crafton

Poem Fusion Demonstration at the University of Tirana. | Photo: Kimberly Crafton

Leading students of Olean High School in a multi-voice "Poem Fusion" experience at St. Bonaventure University. | Photo: Kimberly Crafton

Czury receives Laureate honors at the 15th Annual International Poetry Festival "Ditet E Naimit", 2011. | Photo: Lindida Emerlllahu

With long-time friend and publisher, Michael Czarnecki of FootHills Publishing. Standing in front of Craig's writing studio wall - with work on Thumb Notes Almanac underway.

Making music with Haitian master drummer, Bonga Jean-Baptiste. Djinn Czury rises out of the djembe. At The Springville Schoolhouse Art Studios. | Photo: James Penedos

Czury reading from his book, "American Know-How: Patent Pending". | Photo: Daniel Grad

Avanza! Riding the Ghost Train through the desert of mines past. | Photo: Hernàn Gonzalo Pereira Palomo

Czury inspiring high school students at the Tetova Cultural Center. | Photo: Richard Berengarten

Reading from American Know-How. | Photo: Heather Thomas

Czury on stage at Albright College's Faculty Arts Show, reading from his recent book, "Thumb Notes Almanac: Hitchhiking the Marcellus Shale". | Photo: John Pankratz

Czury hits the road after giving a harmonica "concert" in the ancient ampitheater in Ephesus. | Photo: Heather Thomas

Walking and talking poetry. | Photo: Kerry Shawn Keys.

With friend and artist, Barbara Remington, at The Springville Schoolhouse Art Studios. | Photo: Maureen Duffy

At work with students, encouraging them to let the magic of words fly - at the Tower Hill School, Delaware.

Listening to lines "talk" to one another on the "Thumb Notes" book wall - and connecting the lines of conversation. | Photo: Kimberly Crafton

Czury at an old railroad bridge along the Wyalusing Creek, near his beloved Susquehanna River. | Photo: Kimberly Crafton