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Seeking people with genre fiction review experience
My friend Bart Leib is looking for people who have experience writing reviews for genre fiction. Continue reading
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Tagged Crossed Genres
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“Anchorage Oil Town Villanelle” published in Cirque
Cirque is a literary journal for the North Pacific Rim edited by Anchorage poet Mike Burwell. My poem “Anchorage Oil Town Villanelle” is published in the Summer Solstice 2010 issue, which came out yesterday.
Posted in Poems
Tagged Cirque (literary journal), Melz published work, poem, villanelle
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Metsän henki
“She stands outside & in me, / a flicker beckoning / at the inmost limit of vision / where the blind spot is insufficiency / of self-knowing.” A poem in celebration of National Poetry Month.
Posted in Mistress of Woodland, No Way Way, Poems
Tagged household gods, Mielikki, National Poetry Month, poem, writing
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Integrity, violation, healing
This excerpt from Rachel Meikäläinen’s Whole Numbers delves into the meaning of the word integrity.
Posted in Cold, Long Dark, Mistress of Woodland, No Way Way
Tagged integrity, Rachel Meikäläinen, Whole Numbers
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Jane Doe, Finnish style
How the main character of Mistress of Woodland became a philosophical forebear of my fictional Consensus society in Long Dark and Cold.
Posted in Long Dark, Mistress of Woodland
Tagged Long Dark notes, Rachel Meikäläinen, writing
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The Daily Tweets, 2010-04-15: Writing life
Today was Third Thursday: which means an evening write-in with my NaNoWriMo peeps, who continue to meet every third Thursday of the month for just such a purpose even when its not NaNovember.
Posted in About writing, NaNoWriMo, The Daily Tweets
Tagged Asura (Long Dark), Third Thursday (NaNoWriMo), walking, writing
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You are old, Father William: Two renditions
“You are old, Father William”, the young man said, / And your hair has become very white; / And yet you incessantly stand on your head — Do you think, at your age, it is right?” In celebration of National Poetry Month.
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Tagged National Poetry Month, poem
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“Disabled” by Wilfred Owen
‘He sat in a wheeled chair, waiting for dark, / And shivered in his ghastly suit of grey, / Legless, sewn short at elbow….” In celebration of National Poetry Month.
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Tagged National Poetry Month, poem
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“Emergency Haying” by Hayden Carruth
‘And I stand up high / on the wagon tongue in my whole bones to say // woe to you, watch out / you sons of bitches who would drive men and women / to the fields where they can only die.’ In celebration of National Poetry Month.
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Tagged National Poetry Month, poem
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Mass Extinctions
‘A rip in the sky, a roar: / impact of a meteor — / shroud of iridium dust / on the dusk of Dinosaur.’ Two dinosaur poems in celebration of National Poetry Month.