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Call for subs - LGBT spec poetry
I'm guest editing the next issue of the SFPA's quarterly webzine Eye to the Telescope. Eye to the Telescope publishes speculative (SF/fantasy/horror) poetry and each issue has a different guest editor and a different theme. The theme this issue is speculative poetry with a LGBT theme.
For more details, here is what I have on the submission page of ( Read more... ) -
Writer's Block: And the forecast is…
I love Autumn--wind, clouds, rain, thunderstorms ... (and, although not weather, Halloween!). -
Writer's Block: Desert island
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury/Son of Man by Robert Silverberg/Imajica by Clive Barker
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Doorways' Interview w/Corrine De Winter
This is my final poet's interview from the final issue of Doorways Magazine (#8):
Interview with Corrine De Winter
Corrine De Winter's poetry, fiction, and nonfiction have appeared worldwide in publications such as Poet's Market, The New York Quarterly, Imago, Phoebe, Plainsongs, Yankee, Sacred Journey, Interim, The Chrysalis Reader, The Lucid ( Read more... ) -
American Requiem
I try to think not of twins or towers
Nor of love’s teardrops that cleared my blind eyes
Try to forget my family’s last sighs
Quash my kingdom’s vertiginous powers
So long soporific now it cowers
Because in the end even magic dies
Old Mother Gothel created this bane
Never more to have days of halcyon
O’ cursed be the craving for rampion
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microcosms debut
In honor of National Poetry Month, I debuted my new Twitterzine, microcosms, today. The first poem is by Joanne Merriam.
If you have an interest is haiku-length spec (SF/F/H) poetry please follow. If you don't have a Twitter account, it's both free and easy to sign up. The link to microcosms is: http://twitter.com/microcosms
Enjoy.
Best,
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My interview with Jane Yolen
I usually post these interviews as soon as the next issue of Doorways Magazine is out. This time around, I was blindsided when I found out that I had "squamous cell" cancer in my sinus when I went to the dentist for a tooth ache this Feb.. I have subsequently undergone two major surgeries (the first to remove the cancer where I lost most of my ( Read more... ) -
Doorways poetry contest results ...
The winners of Doorways Magazine’s annual poetry contest have been decided.
First Place:
“Scent & Sensibility”
by Robert Borski of
Stevens Point, WI
Second Place:
“Grave Taster”
by Maura McHugh
from Ireland
Third Place:
“The Magician's Assistant”
by Penny-Anne Beaudoin
from ON, Canada
These will appear in Doorways Magazine #8 along with poetry from the ( Read more... ) -
Doorways Magazine #5 Interview - C.S.E. Cooney
C.S.E. Cooney was born in the Arizona desert. Contrary to popular lore, she was not left out in the waste to be suckled by the saguaros. Her publication credits include: Subterranean Press Online Magazine, Twilight Tales' Book of Dead Things, Annihilation Press' Hell in the Heartland, Goblin Fruit, and Tales from the Dim Unknown (issues 1 & 2). ( Read more... ) -
Dwarf Stars Award anthology - 2008
Deborah P Kolodji and I are now in the process of compiling/editing the third Dwarf Stars Award anthology for the
Science Fiction Poetry Association. I have included the guidelines below. If you have any eligible poetry (10 lines or
less, speculative and first published in 2007) please send them to: dwarfstars@sfpoetry.com by Aug. 29, 2008.
Thank ( Read more... )