Because of the Spanish wreck I tackled the hill

[sovay]

A draft of the program for this year's ICFA is now online. I am left praying that the conference will produce an annual publication of all its papers, because who schedules things like "The Hidden Mystical Sublime: The Poetry of Algernon Swinburne Dramatized in Aleister Crowley's Rite of Venus," "Uh Oh, They're Learning: The New Dangers and Heroes of the Zombie Apocalypse," and "Insects and Automatism: Angela Carter, ETA Hoffmann, and Guillermo del Toro" all across from one another? I am personally in competition with papers on slipstream, humor and the sublime, David Bowie, and Grindhouse. I need the ability either to time-travel or to duplicate myself. Possibly both.

On that line, today's mail brought my contributor's copy of Home and Away, the annual not-Not One of Us publication. Within its black-and-white pages can be found my poems "January" and "The Second Ghost" (for kijjohnson), as well as handful_ofdust's "The Dream of the Astronaut," Brad C. Hodson's "The Perfect Jackson," Patricia Russo's "Why," and other stories neither here nor there. As soon as I have a link for purchase, I'll put it up.

How is it I am just now discovering George Mackay Brown?

Comments

[gwynnega]

I am left praying that the conference will produce an annual publication of all its papers

Me too! All those papers you mention sound fascinating, and I'm on the wrong coast to hear 'em!!

[sovay]

All those papers you mention sound fascinating, and I'm on the wrong coast to hear 'em!!

Come to Florida! Invent any excuse!

(Seriously, I am taking home as many notes and abstracts as I can. This conference is shaping up to be seriously awesome.)