Hi there, Mike Allen here (time_shark), editor of Clockwork Phoenix, three-time Rhysling Award-winning poet, fiction writer and various other things ( Read more... )

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I will write a poem on your choice of subject, in your choice of form.  I have written and sold  free verse, blank verse, haiku, tanka, cinquains, sonnets (three types), villanelles, terza rima, rondeau, triolet, ottava rima, ballades, rubaiyat, and various forms of norse and old english alliterative verse, etc.   I'm quite willing to attempt a ( Read more... )

There are only a few copies left of my first poetry book, "underfoot ," which was published in 1991 by Bob Grumman of Runaway Spoon Press.  I will inscribe a copy any way you like and I'll pay the postage to send it wherever you want.  The book retails for five dollars.  I'll start the bidding at $4.  If I haven't done this correctly, I hope ( Read more... )

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One signed copy of my illustrated poetry book, Through the Window: A Journey to the Borderlands of Faerie. This is an 8 1/2 by 8 1/2 inch square soft cover book, with 35 poems about the creatures of the faerie borderlands, each facing a full color illustration by Michelle J. A. McIntyre.

I'll send it anywhere in North America.

Through the Window: A ( Read more... )

I will write for you twelve poems based on a short prompt that you give me, sending each one to on a card or letter to be postmarked by the 13th of each month in 2009. Poems may be as short as a haiku or long as...well, whatever it takes for it to be a good first version. Willing to mail to international as well as domestic US addresses ( Read more... )

I will write a poem just for you, on the topic of your choosing. I will type or write it on something nice, and I will sign the poem as well. I reserve copyright, but if it gets published, I will note that it is dedicated to you. I tend toward speculative poetry, but will consider any topic. Examples of my poems are here (text) and here (mp3). I ( Read more... )

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I am offering the following lot of books:

A signed copy of Heaven's Bones.

A signed copy of the anthology From the Trenches, co-edited by myself, together with On Our Way to Battle, a companion poetry chapbook.  Many of these stories and poems received honorable mentions in Year's Best Fantasy and Horror.

A copy of the Lone Star Stories Reader ( Read more... )

One poem on a subject of your choice, hand written on special paper and delivered directly to you (will also send a typed copy for convenience ( Read more... )