My poem Tatakai, and interview about poem and such, are up on Strange Horizons! (And psst SH still has a fund drive going*floppy wave yes ( Read more... )

not spec, all too real
hi
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fine thanksI learned too well to say I'm ( Read more... )

My poem Yajñāḥ / Offering is up at SH ( Read more... )

Hallo!

First thing: if anyone who read my previous (poem) post didn't see this awesome response poem from nipernaadiagain, you want to :)

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Other than that... well.  I've been able to do one or two things a day, of late, which leaves me feeling a mixture of ashamed of how little I can do & resentful of anything that uses up those resources.  Sooo my response to ( Read more... )

Pome, anyway.  I've been sitting on it for a few days because I know my first drafts are never quite right, but y'know, looking at it again today I think this one is.  So.

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How to be a model minority

1. Measure words out in drops
through tight teeth --
reasonable, unthreatening,
blood-specked.
2. If you must explain, be grateful.
Bow. Even in writing ( Read more... )

Sooo there's a reason besides health for why I haven't been posting updates on the Jahanara pic. Namely that I've been working on writing out the Arabic text to the poem that goes with the picture, which tithenai's awesome father translated for me!

(Oh and speaking of tithenai, you guys all know that there's a sumptious summer banquet of Goblin Fruit to steal ( Read more... )

Sorry for the radio silence! Keyboard's fixed but I've been borked -- messed up my meds on Saturday and have had Consequences. Whups.

One consequence is that I've had to utterly tune out anything that even might be stressy. (On which note, I haven't even looked at lj for a week or so, so if there's something I shouldn't have missed, please let me ( Read more... )

This is just to say that rose_lemberg's amazing Jewish magic realist poem, Thirteen Principles of Faith, is up at Apex.

I've wanted to share this one with everyone for ages, and am so happy it's up!

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Not much else here. We're at shweta zero, virus eleventy billion at the moment.

My pomelet Tonight I Know is up at SH! Squee!

This is my first SH poem! But it shall not be the last, for lo, they have accepted my pomelet Homebound too. And I shall be sending them MOAR YES I WILL! Once I write something.

Thanks to sovay for letting me know; I lost track of it m'self ( Read more... )

Bidding hit $150!!

So here! For yoou! is an English translation of the Padishah Begum's poem to the ruler of Syria, the Arabic translation of which is on that diplomatic missive I keep talking about :)

And remember, if it hits 200 we get to MAKE AMAL WRITE A POME!

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Because our brothers1 warred, I stood against Roshanara2
spoke walls4 against the ( Read more... )