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As if to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of my first novel hitting the shelves, I have three publications and a roundtable today! “All Under Heaven,” “Gorgoneia,” “In the salt-drowned lands,”, and “Closer to the Heart: A Poetry Roundtable” are all out now!
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!
From the Journal
Today’s question for the nerds
When writing a poem in (my best English approximation of) a classical Latin meter, upon an ancient Roman topic, do I treat the proper names: 1) according to how we tend to pronounce them in English and where the stress falls, or 2) according to the Latin scansion rules of which syllables are short vs. […]
“Drawing Strength”
The “Wildwood” issue of Fairy Tale Magazine is out today, containing a poem from me! (Yes, I have had rather a lot of poems published since the beginning of this year.) As the name suggests, this issue is themed around Green Men and Green Women, dryads, tree spirits, and other things in that vein. My […]
New Worlds: Queen Bees
So far we’ve been talking about friendship in a one-to-one sense, as a relationship between only two people at a time. But of course, we all exist in a much larger social world — even during periods when that existence is best defined by a position firmly outside the circle. What does friendship look like […]
