For the world has begun with the birth of the sun and its death the very same day

My poems "Sudden Death," "The Anniversary," and "'Лондонский маленький призрак'" are now online at Through the Gate. The first of these takes its inspiration (and title) from the character played by Elliott Nugent in The Last Flight (1931), the second is a poem I dreamed of translating during a nightmare in January, and the third is a ghost poem for Aleksei Kruchonykh. Velimir Khlebnikov wrote the definitive ghost poem about him in 1921, a year before the poet died and nearly fifty years before his subject did, so I've quoted it in the title: "Little London ghost." The rest of the issue is imagistic and stellar. I was especially struck by the pieces by Iori Kusano, Ryu Ando, and Fade Manley. Poets should take note that the magazine's format is changing after this issue. If it's the last of its kind, it's a good one.

In the words of the dead you were never among

Can anyone advise me on the process of going through past entries on DW/LJ and tagging them? I've avoided the use of tags for years because I didn't see any use for it, but now that I've built up a backlog of reviews to which I wish to be able to refer, I'm beginning to think it might be useful to the reader. I didn't start crossposting from Dreamwidth until November 2013, so I'm guessing I won't be able to link a lot of my older writing about film, but at least the Patreon stuff should be covered. In other social media news, LJ Support has not gotten back to me at all about the HTML issues with my current journal style; I am going to have to make myself change it for something newer and I am sad about that. It's been more than two weeks. I miss my icons.

I meant to post this last week and lost it in the insomnia: astronomy applied to Sappho fr. Adesp. 976. I have translated that fragment myself; it's famous. I like the idea of knowing what time of year it was written.