Delighted to share that “The Dragon” appears in the new issue of Strange Horizons.
The poem is inspired by Chen Zhen’s Precipitous Parturition, 1999, which I first saw at the Guggenheim Museum. The work brings together so many of my interests: art, fantasy, cycling, the environment.
I’m grateful to the editors for giving it such a thoughtful home.
Read it now on Strange Horizon.
I’m happy to share the publications that I’ve published in 2022. A special thanks to all the editors who selected my work: Doug Draa, Lis Goryniuk-Ratajczak, Shashi Bhat, and Jordan Hirsh.
Prose:
Poetry:
Thank you to Lis and the team at Vraeyda Literary’s MacroMicroCosm journal for publishing three of my speculative poems: Ansible Dreams, We Small Readers, and Chaos Theory (The Mandlebrot Set). It’s always exciting when my work finds a home!
My poems can be read via purchasing either the print or PDF version of the journal.
About Astral
A mighty shout out to the two prose pieces within Astral, Matthew Buscemi’s To Shape the Future, and Sacha Rosel’s Into Something Rich and Strange (from Chapter 1 of her newly released novel My Heart is The Tempest). We have multiple pieces of poetry from longstanding contributor Adrienne Stevenson, Peter Graarup Westergaard (from his Warning Light Calling collection done in a dissident Soviet style, not dogma), and returning contributor Matthew Fast, who has the prestige to have been in the primordial issue of MacroMicroCosm years ago. Fast’s poetry is based off his song lyrics for the upcoming The Far Lands album, and I am pumped about hearing it via bandcamp when it hits Abram’s Epilogue.
Michael Janairo gives us three poems, while Sapha Burnell closes us off with one we used to end Volume 7 and bring on the stellar theme to Volume 8. Art by Sarah Melgoza & Katelyn Lane surrounds the poetry, while our last contributor is a posthumous submission by the estate of Cotrina Graham Smith. We hope you enjoy seeing 1980’s layouts, we got a kick out of them! So much so we featured the poems ‘as is’.
About MacroMicroCosm
A Quarterly Digital literary & art journal dedicated to speculative fiction, art & literary criticism. A celebration of the weird, strange and perceptibly odd. A review of books, music, film & art. Home of our MacroMicroCosm Book Review Podcast & YouTube channel. Features articles on creative development & philosophy. MacroMicroCosm embraces a broad base of fiction and non-fiction with fantasy, magic realism, science-fiction and futurist elements in poetry, short story, art, photography, and comic.
I’m so happy my new poem “C” is included in the latest edition of the online journal Eye to the Telescope, Issue 43: “Light.”
Click on over to the journal to read the poem and all the others. Thanks to editor Jordan Hirsch for including me.
It’s an honor that my work — “Packing Tips for Time Travelers” — is in the latest edition of the Mithila Review, No. 15!
This is my second poem in this publication, which is out of India. My first work was “Instructions for Astronauts,” which was in Issue 8. The new poem has been selected be a new editorial team, which started with Issue 15. I think Mithila Review does a great job of bringing together interesting writing and writers from around the world.
Thank you to Ishita Singh, the managing editor, and the whole crew at Mithila Review. Check it out.
I’ve been nominated!
More specifically, my poem, “An Offering,” has been nominated for a 2021 Rhysling Award in the category of long poem by the Science Fiction Poetry Association.
The nominations are anonymous, so thank you to whoever nominated my poem.
One thing this means is that the poem is being republished in the 2021 Rhysling Anthology, edited by Alessandro Manzetti. You can pick up a copy, check out all the other great nominees, and support the work of speculative poets on the SFPA website.
Congrats to all the nominees.
The winners will be announced next month.
Hi all,
If you are nominating poetry for this year’s Rhysling awards, here are my eligible poems:
Short poem
“Chaos Theory: The Butterfly Wings Set”
Abridged 0-60: Echoes, Summer 2020, https://www.abridged.zone/echoes-3-chaos-theory-the-butterfly-wings-set
Long poem
“An Offering”
Line of Advance: 2020 Col. Darron L. Wright Memorial Awards, September 2020
