Continuing the trend of June being the month of All The Things, I now have a new poem in Strange Horizons! They’re running their annual fundraising drive right now, and “The Dream of Jeannie” has been unlocked as part of the special fund drive issue — you can read it online right now!

This poem, I should note, is inspired by a piece of artwork by Pleasure Faith. It’s also of a type my fellow author and poet Mari Ness reminded me can be called a “calligram,” which is a much prettier term than the more usual “concrete poem.” (I also prefer “shaped poem” as a possibility.) This is where the lines of the poem are crafted so the overall layout forms an image; check out “The Dream of Jeannie” to see that at work!