Stone Canoe / HIV Here & Now

A couple of recent poetry pubs. Two poems — "Soldier's Son" and "Battalions of Earth" — appeared in Stone Canoe's 10th issue (2016), from The Downtown Writers Center in Syracuse, New York. Many thanks to editor Phil Memmer for this publication and also for inviting me a couple of weeks ago to read in the Downtown Writers Center's Visiting Author Series. On 13 March, I had the distinction of having my poem "Letter to Islas from San Antonio" appear as poem 285 in the HIV Here & Now project's one-year-long Poem-a-Day countdown to 35 years of AIDS on 5 June 2016. My gratitude for this honor goes to Michael H. Broder, curator of this project and publisher of Indolent Books. Friends, won't you comment, please? Love to know what you're thinking. To comment, look for a red line below that starts Posted by, then click once on the word comments in that line. If you don't find the word "comments" in that line, then look for a blue link below that says Post a comment and click it once. Thanks! Ingat, everyone.  ヅ

Syzygy 2 → Rhysling

The last time I blogged in August 2015, I announced that several of my poems had come out in the brand-new Syzygy Poetry Journal. A couple months later, I had the privilege and pleasure of having two more poems appear — "How Eternal Night Was Created" and "Letter to Zelazny from Olympus Mons" — in the second Syzygy issue. The cool thing that's happened since then is that in February 2016, those two poems were nominated for Rhysling Awards in the Science Fiction Poetry Association (SFPA). "How Eternal Night Was Created" was nominated as a short poem (less than 50 lines), and "Letter to Zelazny from Olympus Mons" was nominated as a long poem (as a prose poem of 500+ words). Both poems will soon come out in the 2016 Rhysling Anthology, in preparation for the SFPA voting process. If you are a member of the SFPA, I hope you will consider voting for my poems. Thanks! Friends, won't you comment, please? Love to know what you're thinking. To comment, look for a red line below that starts Posted by, then click once on the word comments in that line. If you don't find the word "comments" in that line, then look for a blue link below that says Post a comment and click it once. Thanks! Ingat, everyone.  ヅ