Category: poetry

  • Poetry + a few other publication updates

    I haven’t updated in a while – this semester has been really rough. Meanwhile, a few publication news: My poems “Divinatory” and “The Fear Tree” appeared in the inaugural issue of The Sycorax Journal. My poem “archival testimony fragments/minersong” will be reprinted in Best of Uncanny Magazine from Subterranean Press. My poem “The little mouse elder” was…

  • Update on the FORESTS anthology

    I have received many wonderful submissions for CLIMBING LIGHTLY THROUGH FORESTS, the Ursula K. Le Guin tribute anthology, during the open period. I would like to get some more poems to read! Therefore, I am EXTENDING the deadline till December 15th, 2018, 11:59PM Central. Please look at the guidelines and send me your work!  Regarding submissions…

  • Call for Submissions: Ursula K. Le Guin tribute poetry anthology

    Update, OCTOBER 15th: I am EXTENDING the deadline till December 15th, 2018, 11:59PM Central. Please send me your work!  I am seeking submissions for an anthology of poetry in tribute to the life and works of Ursula K. Le Guin. The anthology is tentatively titled CLIMBING LIGHTLY THROUGH FORESTS, and it will be published by…

  • Story and Poem sale

    My science fiction short story “These Are The Attributes By Which You Shall Know God” (about aliens and Spinoza and architecture) will appear in Glittership: An LGBTQ Science Fiction & Fantasy podcast, edited by Keffy M. Kehrli. My poem “core/debris/core” will appear in Disabled People Destroy SF (via Uncanny Magazine). Poetry for DPDSF is edited by S. Qiouyi Lu. I’m…

  • Ursula K. Le Guin tribute anthology

    It is official – I will be editing an anthology of speculative poetry in tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin’s life and work, for Aqueduct Press. I will also be contributing a retrospective essay on Le Guin’s poetry; she was a prolific and wonderful poet, and I feel her poetic work is not celebrated enough…

  • Poetry news

    My poem “Pollen,” about pollen cosmonauts and my childhood years in Vorkuta, is out in Mithila Review. This issue of Mithila is fantastic, with so many wonderful voices – I hope you check it out. My poem “The Repository” has been accepted for publication in the Cascadia Subduction Zone. I have fallen behind on updates,…

  • Work in Uncanny and Daily Science Fiction

    While I was moving house and waiting for my internet to be reconnected, multiple works of mine came out! I’m trying to catch up now. First, my short poem “Domovoi” came out in Uncanny Magazine Issue 17, with a wonderful podcast by Amal El-Mohtar (hurray!!) My poem is in wonderful company: this issue features work…

  • Poem sale

    I’m very pleased to announce that my short poem “Domovoi” will appear in a future issue of Uncanny Magazine.

  • Journeymaker to Keddar (II)

    Today I am making  “Journeymaker to Keddar (II)”, the final poem from Marginalia to Stone Bird, publicly available: in part as defiance against the world’s darkness, in part to mark its Rhysling nomination, and in part to celebrate our fourth anniversary as a couple – I read this poem during our wedding last year. I hope you…

  • GlitterShip podcast, and a poem sale

    My Queers Destroy SF! story, “How to Remember to Forget to Remember the Old War,” has been podcast by the fabulous GlittershipSF and narrated by Rose Fox! Glittership also reprinted the story – the first time it appears online for free. Hope you give it a read, a listen, or both! My short poem “Pollen” will appear…