A lot of times editors don't explain why they picked what they picked. Sometimes it's pretty obvious, and sometimes readers are left wondering if the editor is sleeping with the authors or something similar because no way in hell would this crap get picked up by anyone with any decent sense of literature. Well, that's just not my style. Part of ( Read more... )

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"On Waking" by Marcie Tentchoff

This is one of those "And they lived happily ever after. Then, the next day happened." poems, which is always a fun take on fairy tales, folklore and the like. I ( Read more... )

To anyone looking for poems of mine to nominate, or just looking for a poem to put on their ballot, here is everything I published in 2009 that's Rhysling Eligible. A lot of these are available on-line, so take a look.

LONG POEM (50+ Lines)

• “Snow, Blood, Night,”New Myths, June 2009

SHORT POEM (1-49 Lines)

• Expressions, Feb. 2009
  • "where a planet”
  • “ ( Read more... )

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"Isotope Ballerina" by Cornelius Fortune

There are a few memorable lines in this piece like "her image goes ghost," but for the most part, there is a lot of narrative and summary, and not too ( Read more... )

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"Death and Life on Enceladus" by Kendall Evans & David C. Kopaska-Merkel

In preparing for this entry, I have read and reread this poem, and every time I do I find something else I enjoy. Now, ( Read more... )

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"Oracle" by Malcolm Deeley

This is an interesting poem about a the responsibilities of a prophet to their tribe. It's not a unique trope, but one that Deeley handles well. The language in this ( Read more... )

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"Zombie Bombs" by Mike Allen & Ian Watson

I like the general idea of this poem, that someone in the future or an alternate universe, either us or aliens, will send our reanimated corpses to ( Read more... )

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"The Devourer" by Sonya Taaffe

When Taaffe is on, she's really, really on. This poem explores various mythic consumers, from the more contemporary wolf of Red Riding Hood fame to the Biblical ( Read more... )

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"[eruptions]" by Terrie Leigh Relf

For me, this works as a scifaiku, and here's why. The Scifaiku Manifesto stresses three points: immediacy, minimalism and human insight. Relf's poem touches on ( Read more... )

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"In the Slipstream of the Levee's Overflow" by David C. Kopaska-Merkel & Kendall Evans:

Part of me wants to celebrate the inventive use of language and syntax here, but the other part of me (the ( Read more... )