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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?

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Re: literary hymns: Probably /any/ religious sonnet would qualify (how would you sing it?); also much of the poetry of George Herbert (well, the bits that DIDN'T become hymns); and stuff like Chaucer's ABC... but now I'm beginning to wonder if I'm still misunderstanding the term.

re: XC. Apologies for not posting on this earlier. That is indeed unexpected! (So was archery...) It probably WON'T surprise you that I was also in various forms of track in HS (no coordination required!); I enjoyed it more, and have kept up with it, though I also was fairly mediocre.
Do you hike?

Because of the Spanish wreck I tackled the hill

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