Tell us about yourself and what inspired you to start writing.
I started writing when I was in elementary school. I made a little New York Yankees yearbook with cut-out pictures based on the 1978 season.
Describe your writing process? Is there anything unique about it?
I write across genres. I write poetry, fiction, nonfiction and plays/screenplays. I would say what’s unique is that I am a “working writer.” I work full-time as a marketing video producer at a private university in upstate New York. I rise at 4 a.m. and write before work every day.
Have you published any books or do you have a desire to do so?
I have numerous collections of poetry, including:
The Truth I Must Invent (Poets’ Choice, 2023)
Outward Arrangements: Poems (independently published, 2021)
Dreaming of Lemon Trees: Selected Poems (Finishing Line Press, 2019)
Sidewalk Stories (Kelsay Books, 2017)
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Dreaming of Lemon Trees: Selected Poems by Francis DiClemente
Do you have any favorite poets or authors?
Thomas Wolfe, Langston Hughes, Jack Kerouac, Herman Hesse, Ernest Hemingway, Joyce Carol Oates, Mary Karr, John Steinbeck, George Saunders, Richard Russo, Michael Connelly, Dennis Lehane
Do you have a favorite book of poetry or poems?
I like to read everything. I usually have one novel and one nonfiction book going at the same time.
What are you reading now?
Arthur Rimbaud: Complete Works
Tomboyland: Essays by Melissa Faliveno
Grief Is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
What do you like to do when you’re not writing? Full-time job, pets, hobbies?
I work full-time and write in my spare time. My wife, Pamela, and I care for our seven-year-old son, Colin, who is autistic. So with work, writing, and family time, my days are pretty packed. But I enjoy walking, running, lifting light weights, reading, and watching movies.
Are you working on a current project?
I am currently working on a coming-of-age memoir, a couple of poetry book projects and a stage play.
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