Craig Kite
Craig Kite is a poet, musician and actor from New York City with a
background in journalism and human rights activism. He led field teams in Iraq
2008-2009 working to expose war crimes against indigenous Kurdish populations,
and earlier in Canada to protect Algonquin territory from uranium mining. He
has also worked in Chiapas, Mexico with the Zapatistas, as well as projects in
New Orleans post-hurricane Katrina, and the Rocky Mountains on wildfire
prevention. He was a co-founder and editor of Mad Gleam Press (2015-2020) and
ran a book shop / event space in Brooklyn during that time. After surviving
multiple surgeries for injuries from construction work, he currently teaches
guitar and works as a doorman at a speakeasy in New York, and performs music,
both solo and with his band Pinko. His darkly comedic and philosophical poems
and songs are social commentaries inspired by these experiences, his struggle
to navigate the bureaucracy of social services, and surviving in the city.
