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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
New Worlds: Suburban Sprawl
Suburbs are such a characteristic feature of the twentieth century, especially here in the United States, that you’d be forgiven for assuming they’re a wholly modern phenomenon. In fact, the general concept of “not quite in the city, but very much associated with it” is very old; it’s just the scale and to some extent […]
5 Years, 100 Poems
When I sold my twentieth poem recently, I found myself wondering: how many poems have I written? Several other questions instantly followed in its wake. How far back am I counting? (All the way to that poetry book we did in second or third grade, that I only remember because my parents found it when […]
New Worlds: At the Public Baths
It may seem something of a non sequitur to swerve from talking about friendship to public baths, especially when that latter topic has come up before. But Year Four‘s essay focused on such baths as a place one goes to get clean, devoting only half a sentence to the notion that they might also be […]
