My poem Inside Infinity: Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Dots Mirrored Room, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh has just been published in Thimble Literary Magazine, edited by Nadia Wolnisty.
Check it out here.
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Tag: poetry
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Publication: ‘Inside Infinity’ in Thimble Literary Magazine
Posted at 11:15 am , on March 25, 2019
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Now reading: Life on Mars
Posted at 10:29 am , on January 21, 2019
Best lines so far, from “My God, It’s Full of Stars”:
We saw to the edge of all there is—
So brutal and alive it seemed to comprehend us back.
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New poem: ‘A Shooting Star’ in Eye to the Telescope
Posted at 9:38 am , on October 31, 2018
Thank you to editor Colleen Anderson and Eye to the Telescope for publishing my haiku in Eye to the Telescope Issue 29: The Dark. If you click on the link, you can scroll to the end to read it. The poem is much shorter than even this blog post.The poem, by the way, was written during my stay at an artist residency in Cadaqués, Spain. So thank you to Catherine and Sergio for making the new poem possible!
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SFPA announces 2018 Rhysling Awards
Posted at 3:19 pm , on July 4, 2018
Congratulations to the 2018 Rhysling Award winners!
These are the best speculative poems of 2017, as voted on by members of the Science Fiction Poetry Association (I am a voting member). This was my first time voting for the awards (and my first time being nominated, for the long poem “Instructions for Astronauts.” I enjoyed all these winning poems, and think it’s great that Mary Soon Lee won in both categories, including for a poem published in the same new journal I was published in, Mithila Review.but I still think Brandon O’Brien’s “Birth, Place” from Uncanny Magazine 18 deserves more recognition. You can read it here.
It is especially poignant that the Sara Cleto’s poem was published in the long-time fan favorite journal Mythic Delirium which, after twenty years, closed up shop with its April 2018 issue. The win is a testament to Mike Allen’s vision and talent and hard work.
Out of 83 short poems, and 63 long poems, only three won in each category. Click on the titles for links to the poems to read them. Enjoy!
Short Poem Category
First Place
“Advice to a Six-Year-Old”
Mary Soon Lee • Star*Line 40.2Second Place
“How to Grieve: A Primer for Witches”
Sara Cleto • Mythic Delirium, MayThird Place
“Gramarye”
F. J. Bergmann • Polu Texni 12/26/17Long Poem Category
First Place
“The Mushroom Hunters”
Neil Gaiman • Brainpickings 4/26/17Second Place
“For Preserves”
Cassandra Rose Clarke • Star*Line 40.4Third Place
“Alternate Genders”
Mary Soon Lee • Mithila Review 9 -
Thank you, SFPA, for the Rhysling nomination!
Posted at 9:29 am , on April 3, 2018
My poem “Instructions for Astronauts” has been nominated for a Rhysling Award by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA)!
The poem was originally published in the Mithila Review along with a video produced by Salik Shah that includes my voice reading the poem. The Rhysling nomination means the poem will be published again, this time in The 2018 Rhysling Anthology of all nominated poems.
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National Book Critics Circle Announces Finalists for 2017 Awards
Posted at 11:29 am , on January 22, 2018
The National Book Critics Circle has announced today winners of three prestigious prizes and nominees in nonfiction, biography, autobiography, poetry, criticism and fiction. The awards will be announced on March 15.- Carmen Maria Machado’s debut story collection, Her Body and Other Parties (Graywolf), is being honored with the John Leonard Prize, which recognizes an outstanding first book in any genre. It is named in honor of founding NBCC member John Leonard.
- Charles Finch is being awarded the 2017 Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing.
- The Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award will go to John McPhee.
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2018 Rhysling Awards eligibility
Posted at 9:24 am , on January 8, 2018
I had two poems published in 2017 that are eligible for the 2018 Rhysling Awards, which are awards for speculative poetry. These awards must be nominated by a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association (I’m a member, but people can’t nominated their own poems).
Eligible in long-poem category:
- “Instructions for Astronauts,” Mithila Review Issue 8, Spring 2017, published April 2017, http://mithilareview.com/janairo_04_17/
Eligible in short-poem category:
- “Firefly,” L’Éphémère Review: Issue VII: Crepúsculo, October 2017, http://www.ephemerereview.com/michael-janairo
Thanks for checking them out!
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2017 in Review in Publishing
Posted at 11:48 am , on December 27, 2017
Thank you goes out to all the readers out there who’ve read my stuff, and to the editors and publisher who put my poetry and fiction out there for the world to read. Continue reading
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2017 Year in Review in Reading
Posted at 8:19 am , on December 26, 2017
I always feel like I’ve never read enough.
These are the covers of the 30 books I completed reading in 2017, though some I may have started the year before. Some of the books are important. Some of them are fun. Some are both. Continue reading
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