[1] Centolella has published four books of poetry: Terra Firma, Lights & Mysteries, Views from along the Middle Way, and Almost Human.

[5] His poem "View #45", was read at the United Nations as a part of Poets Against the War.

[6] "In the evening we shall be examined on love" and "Lines of Force" were featured on Garrison Keillor's Writers' Almanac on NPR.

Mr. Centolella served as a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.

[2] He currently lives in San Francisco[2] and teaches at College of Marin and in private workshops.