Dark Mountain journal update: we're releasing two issues this year thanks to the unbelievable quantity of strong submissions we received. The first should be out within the next couple of months (I will, of course, announce it), and the second will appear sometime in the winter. Between that three-month haul and my current on-desk reading at ( Read more... )

...that I'm Poetry-Editor-on-duty for the June / July reading period.

(So, send me things to consider between now and until July 31st.)

"Fallout" will be appearing in Issue 6 of inkscrawl.

"Cold Covers / Uncovered" will be appearing in a near-future issue of Niteblade, although I don't yet know which one. "Cold Covers" is a slightly older poem, which some of you might recognize, and "Uncovered" is a previously unpublished addendum written only just in February this year that completes the piece ( Read more... )

We received so many excellent subs and have decided to accept so many of said excellent subs that we've decided it will be necessary to split this year's Dark Mountain anthology into two volumes: Book 4 will be published in early summer, and Book 5 will come out sometime in the autumn. You should be hearing from me or one of the other three ( Read more... )

* Here are some extremely vital discussions on editorial address and gaze from Stone Telling editors shweta_narayan and rose_lemberg. Nota bene would be putting it too mildly.

* Rhysling nominations are out; I have two poems in the mix, one in the Short Poem category and one in the Long Poem category. To me, based on past precedent, this is rather unexpected. Thank you ( Read more... )

"Watershed" will be appearing in Dreams & Nightmares 95.

...and the announcement of such made me realize I hadn't drawn up a list of my eligible pieces (nomination instructions can be found here: http://sfpoetry.com/ra/rhysnom.html). Here they are, with very handy links so that you can easily look at all of them ( Read more... )

Unlike my first month on duty, which was September 2012, this month's exercise was, to say the least, manic. Last time, I saw just under 200 submissions; this time, I saw at least 300. Given that we're still facing a backlog of accepted poems, our next thinning tactic, rather than a month's closure (as we did for December 2012), will be to break ( Read more... )

erzebet of Papaveria Press has released a hand-bound miniature limited edition of my poem, "Journeying," which originally appeared in Mythic Delirium #20 (the one that was its Tenth Anniversary Issue and had a poem by Neil Gaiman in it). If you'd like to read the text of the poem in order to refresh your memory, it's also archived hereThis little book ( Read more... )