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It’s raining poems! “Core Sample” is out today in DreamForge Anvil.
Another new poem today: “The Virtues of the Throne”, which you can read or listen to at that link!
And right on the heels of yesterday’s news, my poem “Dulle Griet Stages a New Assault” is out in Strange Horizons, with accompanying commentary!
From the Journal
New Worlds: Gardens and Parks
I’ve been trying for some time now to get a landscaper not to ghost me, so we can redo the front and back yards of my house. Am I trying to hire a contractor, or an artist? Yes. Both. Year Nine’s discussion of how we’ve reshaped the land focused entirely on utilitarian aspects: draining wetlands, […]
Books read, January-February 2026
Beastly: An Anthology of Shapeshifting Fairy Tales, ed. Jennifer Pullen. Sent to me for blurbing purposes. This is a cross-section of fourteen largely (though not exclusively) European tales themed around the “beast bride or bridegroom” motif, some of them very well known — “Beauty and the Beast,” of course — and others more obscure. But […]
Two new poems!
I am belated in posting about one of these — but it turns out that’s fine, because another one dropped just a couple of days later! First up is “The Virtues of the Throne,” a piece inspired by the Sanskrit text Siṃhāsana Dvātriṃśikā (rendered in the translation I have as Thirty-Two Tales of the Throne […]
