1. Late yesterday brought my contributor's copy of Niteblade #19, containing a reprint of my poem "The Coast Guard." The full content becomes available online once the magazine reaches its hard-costs goal, so I shall point you in the direction of the PDF and simply tell you this is one of the poems I am proudest of. It was written in the late fall of 2008 after ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fleurdelis28 and I drove out to Cape Cod to look for the wreck of a nineteenth-century schooner in the sand of Newcomb Hollow Beach. If you would also like to pick up the poem in its original setting of Sirenia Digest #41 or the shell-bound Chanteys for the Fisherangels, I will not protest.
2. This is my public service announcement of the day: Bryher's poetry. Read it. She is even less well known as a writer nowadays than H.D., who is one of my favorite poets and unwarranted secret history; I have decent luck with H.D. in used book stores, but in the fall of 2010 I ran into a copy of Bryher's Visa for Avalon (1965) and I still count myself blessed, because I have never seen anything by her in stores before or since. I discovered the Emory cache yesterday. "Horses of Tros" is one of the poems I want everyone to read on principle of language; I think "From Helix" and "Amazon" are not far behind. Her two semi-auto-romans à clef Development (1920) and Two Selves (1923) are also amazing and I will be tracking them down in print as soon as I can. She could write the sea. None of these people should be obscure.
(And then I found that H.D.'s daughter Perdita worked for Bletchley Park and the OSS and her son wrote that book about the cat at the Algonquin Hotel and everything became synchronous.)
3. Do not read this article if you do not like very large insects. If you don't mind twelve-centimeter tree lobsters, however, it is a lovely story of the rediscovery of the Lord Howe stick insect (Dryocelus australis) and how it did not go extinct in 1920 after all, no thanks to us.
4. Caitlín R. Kiernan's Confessions of a Five-Chambered Heart is now taking preorders. I wrote the afterword. You want to read the stories.
5.derspatchel's recipe for hot buttered rum is really good, especially with Kraken. (I am not drinking it right now. I am not the person with the bottle in their kitchen. I kind of wish I were.)
I should go shovel the front steps again.
fleurdelis28 and I drove out to Cape Cod to look for the wreck of a nineteenth-century schooner in the sand of Newcomb Hollow Beach. If you would also like to pick up the poem in its original setting of Sirenia Digest #41 or the shell-bound Chanteys for the Fisherangels, I will not protest.2. This is my public service announcement of the day: Bryher's poetry. Read it. She is even less well known as a writer nowadays than H.D., who is one of my favorite poets and unwarranted secret history; I have decent luck with H.D. in used book stores, but in the fall of 2010 I ran into a copy of Bryher's Visa for Avalon (1965) and I still count myself blessed, because I have never seen anything by her in stores before or since. I discovered the Emory cache yesterday. "Horses of Tros" is one of the poems I want everyone to read on principle of language; I think "From Helix" and "Amazon" are not far behind. Her two semi-auto-romans à clef Development (1920) and Two Selves (1923) are also amazing and I will be tracking them down in print as soon as I can. She could write the sea. None of these people should be obscure.
(And then I found that H.D.'s daughter Perdita worked for Bletchley Park and the OSS and her son wrote that book about the cat at the Algonquin Hotel and everything became synchronous.)
3. Do not read this article if you do not like very large insects. If you don't mind twelve-centimeter tree lobsters, however, it is a lovely story of the rediscovery of the Lord Howe stick insect (Dryocelus australis) and how it did not go extinct in 1920 after all, no thanks to us.
4. Caitlín R. Kiernan's Confessions of a Five-Chambered Heart is now taking preorders. I wrote the afterword. You want to read the stories.
5.
derspatchel's recipe for hot buttered rum is really good, especially with Kraken. (I am not drinking it right now. I am not the person with the bottle in their kitchen. I kind of wish I were.)I should go shovel the front steps again.
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