Then I heard a mermaid singing and that's how I saved my life

[sovay]

Now live at Strange Horizons: the speculative poetry special issue. Featuring the work of Natalia Theodoridou, Alicia Cole, Jude Alford, Jenn Grunigen, Mike Allen, Jessy Randall, Lisa M. Bradley, Anne Carly Abad, Rose Lemberg, and Danielle Higgins; reviews by Liz Bourke, Sally Deskins, and Sofia Samatar; and a roundtable manifesto trade-off between the poetry editors of Strange Horizons, namely Romie Stott, Adrienne J. Odasso, and myself. Go, read, think, discuss, disagree, take inspiration, take sides, make your own poems and add to the conversation. I am extremely proud of my colleagues and this issue and extraordinarily curious to see what it provokes. What else is art for?

("The Trinitite Golem" may be turning out a story. So these things go.)

Comments

[phi]

That is awesome and I am downloading it now to read on the plane, as my reward for clearing the rest of the Apex slush this afternoon.

[sovay]

That is awesome and I am downloading it now to read on the plane, as my reward for clearing the rest of the Apex slush this afternoon.

Enjoy! (Safe travels!)

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Whoa, very cool. I'll go visit later this evening. Congratulations to you and your colleagues for putting this together.

[sovay]

Congratulations to you and your colleagues for putting this together.

Thank you! I hope you enjoy.

[rose-lemberg.livejournal.com]

Hurray! Very happy to be featured. I also really like your roundtable/manifesto.

[sovay]

Very happy to be featured.

It's an honor. Just send us more poems!

I also really like your roundtable/manifesto.

Thank you! I like how it came out.

[ericmarin.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed the manifesto trio very much, as well as Rose and Lisa's poems.

[sovay]

I enjoyed the manifesto trio very much, as well as Rose and Lisa's poems.

Thank you! Feedback is good for poets—tell them.

[ericmarin.livejournal.com]

You're welcome! And I agree completely. I have told them.

[sovay]

I have told them.

You rock.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Most excellent!

Nine

[sovay]

Most excellent!

We've been putting it together for a while. I'm sorry there isn't more nonfiction (interviews with one or more non-Strange Horizons editors, history and/or overview of the field etc.), but I think it came out well.

[rose-lemberg.livejournal.com]

It's never too late to do more, fwiw :)

[rinue.livejournal.com]

That's probably true; maybe we should talk about making it a goal to do a poetry-related article (combination of op-eds and interviews?) every two months (or every three months)? I'm betting Niall's up for that if we are.

Rose, if you're interested in doing some kind of manifesto/roundtable response (or something else entirely), I can say with some confidence we are interested, and I'd be happy to pitch it to the nonfiction editors. Pay rates here:

http://strangehorizons.com/guidelines/non-fiction.shtml

[sovay]

maybe we should talk about making it a goal to do a poetry-related article (combination of op-eds and interviews?) every two months (or every three months)? I'm betting Niall's up for that if we are.

I'd champion that. More reviews, too. There's never been a stable review site for speculative poetry: the closest anyone got was Versification and they lasted just over a year. Even a quarterly overview of whatever new issues are out at the time would be better than nothing.

[selidor]

A call for people to sign up to the stable of reviewers, like the one SH had to recruit podcast readers?

[gwynnega]

I really enjoyed the roundtable/manifestos, and I look forward to reading and listening to the poetry.

[sovay]

I really enjoyed the roundtable/manifestos, and I look forward to reading and listening to the poetry.

I'm very glad! I think it worked.

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

Amazing achievement. Content and execution are both A-plus--the sheer range of stuff is really incredible.

[sovay]

mazing achievement. Content and execution are both A-plus--the sheer range of stuff is really incredible.

Thank you. I really am pleased it worked out. Tell the poets if you can find them! (Tell coalescent so he lets us do more poetry stuff.)

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

W00t! I'll read this later. Congratulations to everyone involved.

(Also, I want to read "The Trinitite Golem". That's just an awesome title.)

[sovay]

W00t! I'll read this later. Congratulations to everyone involved.

Enjoy! We are, in fact, hoping to do this again sometime.

(Also, I want to read "The Trinitite Golem". That's just an awesome title.)

(I'm trying to write it! The last several days have gone to dealing with my books!)

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

I'm delighted for the special issue, and looking forward to reading it now that I am finally able to read things that aren't to do with the paper I presented on Saturday and am also conscious enough to be doing so.

("The Trinitite Golem" may be turning out a story. So these things go.)

I'd enjoy reading this, an it does turn out a story.