We'll live in Paris when we're not in Rome

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Last night's Canada Day celebration was fantastic. There was vodka-melon and Book Lover's Trivial Pursuit, at which everybody at the table was embarrasingly bad. And good conversation, which is always high on my list of necessary components for a party. Now back to the southern climes of . . . oh, God, insert conservative-religious joke of your choice here. I can't.

The website for Not One of Us has been updated, with an all-new selection of stories and poems: Patricia Russo's grittily folkloric "Earth Dogs" and Patricia Esposito's "His Wounds," about blood and stories and love; Karen R. Porter's "She" and my own "In Sight of the Seasons," both nominees for the Rhysling Award. It's good stuff. Go forth and feel alienated.

In other news, I am pleased to report that my poem "Ogygia" has found a home in the next issue of Not One of Us; and as greygirlbeast has announced, my story "The Depth Oracle" will appear this month in Sirenia Digest #8. (Go on, subscribe. A platypus in need . . .) All of which puts the month off to a good start. And now, I need to write more.

It's a little past one in the afternoon. Why can I hear three different police sirens?

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It's a little past one in the afternoon. Why can I hear three different police sirens?

Because They are indeed out to get you. Or me. Or somebody out there somewhere doing something. ;)


"In Sight Of Seasons" is breathtaking and hands down some of the best modern poetry I've come across, and congratulations on the nomination. I've thought(rather foolishly) that poetry in the 21st century was dead, and I'm beyond happy to find it not so. I'm looking forward to reading "The Depth Oracle" this month, and "Constellations, Conjunctions" was a very nice surprise in this month's digest. I'll be picking up Singing Innocence and Experience after my summer class is over, and I have more time to actually read for me, instead of a grade.

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"In Sight Of Seasons" is breathtaking and hands down some of the best modern poetry I've come across, and congratulations on the nomination.

Thank you! I am very glad that you liked it. And I can assure you that poetry in this century is not dead, because I know too many people who write it well: look up time_shark, yuki_onna, papersky, tim_pratt, watermelonpoet, erzebet, and amphibiouswords, just for starters.

I also love Seamus Heaney, but I doubt he has a livejournal. : P