Flutterings

In the August 2023 Shousetsou Bang*Bang (dba Greta Cabrel): To Hone High and Low - f/f, oboist/science teacher, more self-indulgent than my usual style. I ended up cutting the trash talk about Carmina Burana but there's a bit of Handel.


Previous publications as Greta include poems in Dead Mule, 13 Myna Birds, Ripple Effect (a fundraiser for the New Orleans Public Library), and Clean Sheets.

The Spring 2007 issue of flashquake is up, with two of my poems: "She says, follow the graves" is an Editor's Pick, and there's also "Hosiery running deep."

The titles for both pieces come from poems by Reb Livingston in Wanton Textiles, a chapbook she co-wrote with Ravi Shankar (whose poem Simpatico remains one of my very favorites from the Motel).

In addition to writing poem-prompting poems, Reb also has good taste: one of my poems was included in the first NoTell Motel anthology she compiled, and another will appear in the new one currently in press. Isn't it a fabulous cover? Sexy times ahead! :-)

Via matociquala: Light (click) a candle to benefit AIDS research.

Back from New Orleans, where Saz and Erac hosted Thanksgiving dinner -- roast turkey, mashed potatoes (with a half pound of cream cheese blended in), green bean salad with a mushroom-based dressing, cranberry-orange sauce, a sweet potato/green pepper/andouille/cheese casserole, more sweet potatoes with marshmallows, a fennel-orange salad, cremes brulees, and a lot of wine. The following morning, another couple hosted brunch, which included ginger-and-cilantro-seasoned scrambled eggs and many mimosas. And brunch this morning was at a restaurant in the French Quarter called "Eat" (the crawfish pie wasn't fabulous, but the shrimp grits are recommended).

Around the eating, there were some nice walks (including a trip out to Barataria Preserve, as well as a stroll by the river) and good talks, as well as much sleeping on my part (because I am boring and still Not Well. One of these years I will again have the stamina to go see a show when I'm down there -- or just to stay awake past 10 p.m. without obscene quantities of napping -- but it definitely wasn't an option this trip).

Also, three days without the laptop or cell phone = a good break.

Also, my copy of Dwarf Stars was in the mail stack when I got home. ("The Stepsister" is reprinted therein.)

Good to see people. Good to be home. And so to bed. *rueful smile*

On Our Way to Battle: Poetry from the Trenches is a limited edition chapbook that will accompany the first 100 copies sold of From the Trenches, an anthology of speculative war fiction. The collection will officially go on sale at World Fantasy Con, but it can be preordered from Shocklines or Carnifex.

(samhenderson posted the TOC last night, and it's a seriously impressive roster. Finding myself sandwiched between Joe Haldeman and Michael Livingston is not a bad way to wake up. *wicked grin*)

The new issue of Boxcar Poetry Review is up, and it's a good one -- and not only because it includes poems by me ("The Party Dress of Pomegranate Seeds") and my friend Mary... I especially like that the editors asked us to recommend other poets (listed on the master contributors' page).

( mechaieh )

( laments for makaris )

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( Peter Viereck )

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My reality includes the fact that being underproductive makes me cross and mopey, and it's been that kind of day (and week, for that matter). That said, I did manage a number of chores and errands, which did include a stop at the bookstore, where I caught sight of this week's Economist cover and burst out laughing (no, not nice of me at all. Alas). Also, Green Man Review gave the The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature a rave review, and my copies of Becoming Fire: Spiritual Writings from Rising Generations arrived today (the anthlogy includes my poems “Rosh Hashanah,” “A Prayer,” and “A Whisper").

Sparing not your faculties... sing anyhow. Onwards.

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ETA: oh, right, this started with a meme a couple of screens ago... Tagging (but only if they want to be...) ... busaikko, musigneus, xanthophyllippa, qrssama, athenakt, qe2, suedejesus, and retrobabble. (With some of you, I've my guesses, but I don't actually know...)

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature is now in print!

(I wrote several dozen entries for it. It feels good to see several years' of work finally on its way to library shelves.)

Also (mentioned here a couple of months ago before the site went live), a number of my poems are now available for use on e-cards at BlueGreenPlanet, an e-card and eco-education site. The site is run by artist Janet Chui, whose own paintings are gorgeous.