sovay: (Lord Peter Wimsey: passion)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2018-09-18 06:15 pm

You talk to me as if from a distance and I reply with impressions chosen from another time

My poems "Ariadne in Queens" and "A Vixen When She Went to School" have been accepted by The Cascadia Subduction Zone. The first was written shortly after seeing The Big Combo (1955), inspired by a comment of [personal profile] asakiyume's and influenced by a fifth-century vase painting; the second is not the story I thought of writing after the Boston Lyric Opera's A Midsummer Night's Dream in 2011, but it is Hermia/Puck and I regret nothing. Both should appear in the next issue. Another good way to start the year.

[edit] And the mail brought me Carolyn Turgeon's The Mermaid Handbook (2018), courtesy of [personal profile] yhlee! It's full of photographs, folktales, and seaweed recipes. It's gorgeous.
asakiyume: (good time)

[personal profile] asakiyume 2018-09-18 10:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Yessss.

I eagerly await the day when I can read them in situ at The Cascadia Subduction Zone
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[personal profile] isis 2018-09-18 11:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Hermia/Puck! ♥ Never thought of that but now I am intrigued. Congratulations!
yhlee: Alto clef and whole note (middle C). (hxx Cheris Jedao)

[personal profile] yhlee 2018-09-18 11:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Congrats on the poetry!
yhlee: sand dollar against a blue sky and seas (sand dollar)

[personal profile] yhlee 2018-09-19 12:19 am (UTC)(link)
I'm glad it arrived safely! I hope it amuses you. :) When I saw it in the Met's museum store I knew I couldn't leave without it, because it was Clearly Written For You.
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[personal profile] selkie 2018-09-19 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
Shehecheyanu, v'kiyimanu, v'higiyanu la'z'man ha'zeh!

This is your year. (May you have exceptionally many more; I'm just saying.)
gwynnega: (books poisoninjest)

[personal profile] gwynnega 2018-09-19 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
Congratulations on the poetry sales!
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[personal profile] brigdh 2018-09-19 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
Congratulations! :D
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[personal profile] nineweaving 2018-09-19 05:33 am (UTC)(link)
Congratulations! Can't wait to read these.

Vixen. O my.

Nine
Edited 2018-09-19 05:34 (UTC)
ashlyme: Picture of me wearing a carnival fox mask (Default)

[personal profile] ashlyme 2018-09-20 08:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Aw, congratulations. Really intrigued by those titles.

A belated good new year to you. May it bring many blessings.