it's so nice that no matter how long you wait for something to be published, it feels unbearable more than ever, but in retrospect it's all exactly the same...

The first issue of Through The Gate has gone up! It looks great so far.

And the poem I am proud to have in it is "Things you would pack when taken hostage."

Let me know what you think of it!

Over the weekend, two pieces were released into the wild.

First, "Kami" in Strong Verse
which is my first published poem about my Japanese hometown, which makes it extra special.*

Next, hfqezine has released their July issue.
"Advent of the Apocalypse" is one of the last hurrahs of writing poetry treatments on a theme, for me, and it took a major rewrite to ( Read more... )

A bitty poem you should read, for the love of language:

N.E. Taylor, Sarcophagus

Longer, but still brief-sounding poems like watercolor postcards capturing stories from a new angle:

Ken Liu's Seven Haiku's from Ye Xian & Mother I Always Knew It Was You

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I am so stoked to tell you that I am going to publish a poem in inkscrawl, the magazine that " ( Read more... )

I knew Heroic Fantasy Quarterly was a nice magazine, but I hadn't realized--it's the sort to get people reviewing its issues.

And someone reviewed my poem, in particular, along with the stories in the issue!

I...have never had anyone review anything of mine without a critique request before. This is amazingly exciting!

Heroic Fantasy Quarterly Scores ( Read more... )

This month's issue of Heroic Fantasy Quarterly includes a poem by yours truly!

Burying the Ploughshare

This poem, uh, borrowed *deeply* from the Oklahoman landscape as I'm familiar with it, and since Heroic Fantasy Quarterly has two editors from OK, my theory is that they recognized it, too.

Eggs Under the Moon by Elizabeth Barette
a light poem that borrows recognizable Earth-imagery for a fantasy concept, to bring home the importance of that same seed.

This poem is on the YA podcast my story is going to appear in, "Cast of Wonders". So yay!

The True Poem by Serena Fusek

This is a story of when I read this poem, I immediately thought of ( Read more... )

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My poem has gone up on Polu Texni!

I hardly recognized it--sometimes it's so long before it actually goes up, and it's been even longer since you really reviewed it instead of just sending it out to another magazine...

Do you like it? I'm not sure what I think of it now. X)

It's a curious love, coming upon something that you wanted to write in a poem that you never could.

In Search of a North Countrie by Amal El-Mohtar or tithenai is one of these.
I think this one comes from a more personal place than the one I've written with a...well, a similar note.

This is the kind of poem I want to eat and steal its power...but also write ( Read more... )

My poem's up!

This week's Chizine update includes Bethany Powell's "My Skull, The Garage" and happily, I'm not the only one with a lighter tone in this segment.

Chizine's putting together this rolling super-issue as a promotion and I donated my poem as an "alumni" [chuckles at the idea], so if you can throw some change in the tip jar, that'd be great ( Read more... )