That's where you rise from

My poem "Phersipnai" is now online at ChiZine. The title is the Etruscan name for Persephone; she is depicted as described in the Tomb of Orcus. It was written last April, when I was thinking more than usually about underworlds.

I cannot adequately express why it so made my night to discover that Benjamin Britten set Tennyson's "The Kraken" for Peter Pears to sing, but it really, really did.

I should probably save the fake news for a post with no actual content. Though the bit about Google and the Library of Alexandria . . .