Ray Cicetti’s second full-length collection, Songs of Love & Longing, published by Blue Jade Press, is a collection of poems that focuses on two of the most salient issues in our life: love and longing, and how they can awaken us to a deeper, more passionate life. Each poem, like a letter from the world of possibilities.  

Ray’s poems have appeared in The Galway Review, Platform Review, Deep Wild Journal, Muse-pie Press, Stillwater Review, Tiferet Poetry Journal and River Heron Review. His first book, A Forest in His Pocket, was published by Finishing Line Press, 2020.

Ray is a practicing psychotherapist and senior teacher at The Empty Bowl Zen Community in Morristown, New Jersey. He lives in northern New Jersey with his wife, Carolyn.