[NB: I'm friends with Moriah IRL ( Read more... )

Last year's resolution: move back to Boston. Accomplished! At times it seemed to be a terrifying and/or impossible goal, but I've made it and have been in the greater Boston area since September 2014 ( Read more... )

 My sestina, "Love in Graduate School," is now published in Issue #1 of Liminality Magazine! It's a double-issue chock-full of other amazing poems and some great artwork, so please give it a read!  This entry was originally posted at http://eredien.dreamwidth.org/4351.html. Please comment there using OpenID.

Remember that sestina I finished in January? Well, it's going to be published by a new magazine! More details forthcoming.

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Did you live through the endless summer? Do you remember the sound of a furtive modem connecting at midnight? A voice synthesizer module spurting out unmodulated vowel sounds one after the other until they all blended into a string of soothing white noise? Was your first email address--like mine--iterated by a new number each time you got a free ( Read more... )

I finished a sestina.
It took me about six years but as I realized earlier, "that's one more sestina than most people write in their lives."
I do not know if it is any good or not.
I am looking for people to critique it.
If you are interested please contact me here.

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...and it is, in fact, happy.

Hanging out on the bed this morning with my fuzzybutt little cat Oolong, I took some time to reflect on my 2013 and 2014 so far, which have been truly astoundingly happy.

I've been writing again (yay, keeping resolutions in advance!). Some long-overdue correspondence to people I care about, some WWIA (the fey novel). It ( Read more... )

2014 Resolutions, early this year.

Save Money to Move: Now that I have a job, I can start saving money again. I've got a life I want to live--travel, good food, books, plans for a home with people I love--and I've got to get away from where I am now, which is unacceptable. Goal: move back to Boston in 2015. set up direct deposit to bank accounts and ( Read more... )

Voyager I
to R., R., and L.
Like me,
love
does its work
in silence
and with time.

Pure ellipticals of
shifting bodies
break down
so far out here
into something
new and strange.
We're all past just that now.

What you have engraved
on my heart
is your heart
your voice
your self to share

I owe any future
I may meet
the best I remember
of you
the ones ( Read more... )

Therapy & Mental Health: yesterday, my therapist and I both agreed that I am pretty much done with therapy for right now. I feel happier and way more confident in my life and have mechanisms in place to deal with the bad stuff. It doesn't seem like I was in therapy for more than three years, but it's a different kind of work than I was thinking it ( Read more... )