The eclectic interview site Van Gogh's Ear has published the first new creative work of mine to appear in 2015, my poem "Sad Wisps of Empty Smoke." It certainly nestles well with the dark work I've had published of late. For all its baroque imagery, it's a pretty personal poem.


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My poem “The Vigil,” dedicated to Nicole Kornher-Stace - and also one of my “ Claire-dare” series of poems from late 2010 - has just appeared in the newest issue of Goblin Fruit.

Making this appearance extra special, the audio reading is by Claire Suzanne Elizabeth Cooney herself. And making it extra, extra special, artist Elisabeth “Liz” Heller ( Read more... )

I'd planned to wait till (heh) next year to do this, saw others putting theirs up and decided to go ahead and do mine; I'm going to leave IRL stuff out of it other than to say it was at times sorrowful and stressful, yet at least right now, for now, things feel pretty much okay.

I finished my first novel, Silver City, Shadow Beast, this year (or ( Read more... )

Earlier this week I was contacted out of the blue by Denmark denizen Knud Larn, the editor of an old school sf fanzine called Fandom Forever, distributed by the Fantasy Amateur Press Association. "There is too little poetry in fanzines nowadays," he said, made a nice offer and asked if I would contribute a new poem and four reprints. And so, I'm ( Read more... )

I spent a fair chunk of last week (when I wasn't fine tuning the new Kindle edition of Clockwork Phoenix or stuffing envelopes with the new issue of Mythic Delirium) proofing my portion of the new issue of the gorgeous print zine Fantastique Unfettered, due out in the very, very, very near future ( Read more... )

Today ends up being a double-poem day.


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I received word this morning that my poem "The Vigil," dedicated to Nicole Kornher-Stace (and one of the last unsold poems in the "Claire-dare" series) has sold to Amal El-Mohtar and Jessica Wick at Goblin Fruit, and will appear in their Fall 2012 issue. Most excellent.


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Yesterday Alexa Seidel with Fantastique Unfettered informed me she'll be adding my poem "Seed the Earth, Burn the Sky" to the pair ("Sisyphus Crawls," "Binary") she already has lined up for the Nov./Dec. issue, making it a triptych. I also understand the issue's cover will be based on one of the poems. How cool ( Read more... )

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My brain is scrambled by the opposing forces of a virus invasion and the drugs that fight them, but I'm just coherent enough to make mention that I've sold another of the "Claire-dare" poems, "Heart's Delight," to Not One of Us. This poem in particular was prompted by Nicole Kornher-Stace, who offered me this delightful image to work with:


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