Between the royal wedding, the irreverent Twitter commentary on the royal wedding, the inane and unintentionally hilarious Fox News coverage of the royal wedding, the planned space shuttle launch, the cancellation of the space shuttle launch, and an accident with the coffee maker, I am incredibly out of it ( Read more... )

At one point I must have had some idea of writing a series of poems based on the voices of legendary or historical women. Here's another one, "The Wives." ( Cut for length again. )

This next poem was not a success, which is why I never submitted it anywhere. But what's interesting is why. As I've noted, I have a decided love for - some might almost call it an obsession with - structured poetry. I wanted to master every form, including the various forms of the sonnet, and one form I hadn't played with was the Petrarchan sonnet ( Read more... )

This particular poem holds the record for fastest acceptance ever: It was accepted literally 15 minutes after I finished writing it ( Read more... )

A short poem today, since I'm feeling rather sick ( Read more... )

Today's National Poetry month celebration poem was originally semi-published for a gaming group.

As a few people reading this might remember, I used to run a Vampire Larp (live action role playing game) with coldecho and athenakt. At any given time, we had anywhere from 25 to 55 players showing up; part of the entertainment was wondering who, other than the ( Read more... )