I have a review of the poetry in Holly Black and Ellen Kushner's Welcome to Bordertown up over at the excellent poetry review site Versification today - most of the review is reworked from my earlier published review on Cabinet des Fées, covering the entire TOC of Welcome to Bordertown. However, since poetry in anthologies is so often uncomfortably ( Read more... )

I wasn't at StrowlerCon this weekend: it sounds fabulous, but I don't regret having to miss it. You see, I was in Las Vegas, standing as the Matron of Honor in my best friend's wedding. She had the most gorgeous ceremony I've yet had the privilege of attending, and I wouldn't have missed it for the world ( Read more... )

From erzebet (lovely editrix of Cabinet des Fées*):

Speaking of sentences**, the mythic/fairy tale anthology In The Telling (in which we find a title by an author whose work I happen to love) might not see the light of day due to low pre-sales. Times are hard and selling poetry is always hard, but I know that the people who read this blog are huge ( Read more... )

Anyone with a snatch of time, who's not adverse to poetry and can listen to something on the computer should do this:

Queue up S.J. Tucker's The Train Suite I, Ambient Mix (which you can listen to for free or purchase at that link). Then open up "In Nunhead Cemetery" by Charlotte Mew in a new tab. Start the music and begin to read ( Read more... )

Speaking of giving work away for free, cadhla has been doing it for years, both in the form of Iron Poet and her awesome poetry tutorials. Because I am mad like a mad thing and also enjoy learning shiny new skills, I have also been known to engage in a round of Iron Poet or two and also to use cadhla's tutorials to practice new poetry styles. (I even composed ( Read more... )

I have a poem in the 50th issue of The Pedestal Magazine"Ireland, A Sapphic Poem." A poem about lovers, about the love between poet and place, about the evocation of place in succinct lines ( Read more... )

As of September 1st, 2008, a lovely new issue of Cabinet des Fées' online journal has gone live!

My poem "My Small Army of Souls" appears in this issue of Scheherezade's Bequest (the online treasure trove of Cabinet des Fées), along with a host of other quite intriguing and wonderful fairy tale poems and flash fiction ( Read more... )

Sometimes, this project is difficult. This is most often the case when I have eleventy-billion things to do and yet refuse to drop any commitments, especially this one. Sometimes, this project is difficult because the ideas that occur don't want to be limited to such a short form. They entice me, whisper how much more they could be. That was the ( Read more... )

As many have, ever since I saw the Wordle application on nineweaving's journal, I have been playing with various texts. Below, you can see one representing my short story, "The Trees of Trellan":


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I meant to debut my website tonight, yet it seems that my provider has gone down. Alas. Tomorrow, my dear friends.

Yet all is not lost! Please, enjoy this short poem that I wrote the other day:

Southern Scribes
by Deborah J. BrannonIt is summer and magnolia blossoms ( Read more... )