Two of my poems, "The Price" and "Searching", are up at Polu Texni this morning.

As some of you have probably guessed by now, these, along with Decisions and Waterdance, are part of a series, exploring two of my passions: structured poems and fairy tales. "Searching" is very loosely based on one of my favorite fairy tales, "East o' the Sun, West o ( Read more... )

Quickfic.com has just published my poem, Waterdance.A note about the format: "Waterdance" is a terzanelle, a verse form created by the poet Lewis Turco back in the 1960s, who had the maddening idea of combining the villanelle and terza rima forms. I initially found the form restrictive, then found that I actually preferred it to the villanelle; ( Read more... )