Rabbit, rabbit! I know it's a short month, but it's astonishing to me how much of February I lost to my health. I feel like I'm weeks behind even on thinking.
1. Please enjoy some poems I have found very powerful lately: Sofia Samatar's "Notes Toward a Theory of Quantum Blackness," Kapka Kassabova's "A House We Can Never Find," and Maja Haderlap's "when speech left me" and "translation." In prose, Christina Pugh discusses the predisposition of poetry toward ghosts.
2. Speaking of poetry, I'm re-boosting the call for submissions for Our Queer Planet: A Summer Celebration from Strange Horizons. Please note that the scope of the guidelines has changed slightly: "We are looking for work by queer authors, especially those from outside North America, the UK, and Australia as well as queer indigenous writers from those regions and migrants to those regions." That should mean several more of you on this friendlist than it did originally, and I hope many more poets I have not yet read. Please spread the word!
3. Still speaking of poetry, Rattle's Ekphrastic Challenge is especially evocative this month.
4. Yesterday I sent out all my final responses as poetry editor on duty for Strange Horizons. If you submitted a poem to the magazine in January and February and have not yet received a reply, please contact the poetry department. It was an incredibly strong reading period. I'm looking forward to sharing the poems I was lucky enough to select with the rest of the SH-reading world.
5. I also voted. That was valuable, despite turning out to entail a surprising quantity of red tape which I would have dealt with in September if I'd known about it.
This afternoon I see the optometrist. Next week I have an MRI and after that I hope to be done with all things medical for a little while. There are so many other things I'd rather be doing.
1. Please enjoy some poems I have found very powerful lately: Sofia Samatar's "Notes Toward a Theory of Quantum Blackness," Kapka Kassabova's "A House We Can Never Find," and Maja Haderlap's "when speech left me" and "translation." In prose, Christina Pugh discusses the predisposition of poetry toward ghosts.
2. Speaking of poetry, I'm re-boosting the call for submissions for Our Queer Planet: A Summer Celebration from Strange Horizons. Please note that the scope of the guidelines has changed slightly: "We are looking for work by queer authors, especially those from outside North America, the UK, and Australia as well as queer indigenous writers from those regions and migrants to those regions." That should mean several more of you on this friendlist than it did originally, and I hope many more poets I have not yet read. Please spread the word!
3. Still speaking of poetry, Rattle's Ekphrastic Challenge is especially evocative this month.
4. Yesterday I sent out all my final responses as poetry editor on duty for Strange Horizons. If you submitted a poem to the magazine in January and February and have not yet received a reply, please contact the poetry department. It was an incredibly strong reading period. I'm looking forward to sharing the poems I was lucky enough to select with the rest of the SH-reading world.
5. I also voted. That was valuable, despite turning out to entail a surprising quantity of red tape which I would have dealt with in September if I'd known about it.
This afternoon I see the optometrist. Next week I have an MRI and after that I hope to be done with all things medical for a little while. There are so many other things I'd rather be doing.
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