He has also published 6 poetry books (A School for Fishermen, Counting Sheep till Doomsday, Big Bad Asterisk*, It's Best not to Interrupt Her Experiments, We Prefer the Damned, and Book of Tongues: The Dead Letters of Pedro & Inês, which is slated to be released next year from FlowerSong Press.)
Other works include his novella The Secret Correspondence of Loon & Fiasco and an anthology of Portuguese-American and Portuguese-Canadian writing he edited with Luis Gonçalves, titled, Writers of the Portuguese Diaspora in the United States and Canada.
In 2012, Millicent Borges Accardi started the Kale Soup for the Soul reading series featuring Portuguese-American writers.
In 2013, there were Kale Soup for the Soul readings at the Mass Poetry Festival in Salem, the Valente Library in Cambridge, and the Portuguese Consulate in Boston.
There was also a conference in Lisbon which featured a panel about Portuguese-American Literature as well as a round table with many of the writers who have participated in Kale Soup for the Soul over the years.