Calaveras Cownty

Calaveras Cownty

low over moon river
she may have cheated but
Bossie wins her bet

assu

science-fiction tanka

another message
writes itself on your eyeballs
“50% off”
need to update cortexware
again this morning

assu

rate this blog

http://www.poetryblogrankings.com/Default.aspx

I am "DavidKM"

Scifaiku

distant suns
wan light and milky shadows
leave me cold

assu

review of "night ship to never"

http://clevelandpoetics.blogspot.com/2009/01/blog-post.html

This review is by Joshua Gage. He has what I thought were some interesting things to say.

review

http://doylebooks.blogspot.com/

of "Night Ship to Never"

warning: animal puns!

I singe the body electric

wire ewe here
Atlas! Don't touch that ground
our relationship
surges to new levels
ewe make my wool straight

assu

new poetry chapbook

http://www.cyberwizardproductions.com/diminuendo/nightship.html

This is the second collection of my collaborations with Kendall Evans. He and I together have achieved far more success than I have done on my own. So if you like my solo work the chances are you will like this even more.

new story online

http://www.dailycabal.com/2009/01/riding_free_at_the_bear_lite_bulb.html

DN 82 in layout

Maybe in mail in a couple of weeks

Nursery Rhyme Noir online

http://www.dailycabal.com/series/nursery_rhyme_noir/

3 flash stories that are in the book from samsdotpublishing.com

speculative poetry award

http://sfpoetry.com/news.html

Dwarf Stars winners, the year's best very short sf/f/h poetry, announced.

answering subs today

All esubs > a week old. Now 2 th paper ones!

to write about writing about poetry

A new essay about speculative poetry, written by Richard Fay, may be found here:

http://www.cyberwizardproductions.com/AbandonedTowers/nonfiction/specpoetry.html

It traces, concisely, the history of speculative poetry, from the epic of Gilgamesh to the present day. I think if you don't know where the heck speculative poetry comes from or you haven't read ancient fantastic poetical works, this essay will be a good introduction. It refers to many of the important ancient poems (and has references). However, I would like to see more information about recent (the last 50 years) speculative poetry. It is not that Richard ignores the recent past, it's just that so much has been written it would be nice if he drew attention to more of it. Steve Sneyd has already done this, but his publications are not available on the web. In any case, this essay will allow the readers new to speculative poetry to learn a little bit about where it is coming from.

3 poems online

http://www.slothjockey.com/

new myth

http://www.dailycabal.com/2009/01/shiny_sky_spirit.html

fundraiser

Final result of my fundraiser last month was modest. Two people bought copies of "nursery rhyme noir" and one person donated his payment for a poem I bought for dreams and nightmares. this adds up to $18 for the East Tuscaloosa community soup Bowl. thank you to those who helped!

dreams and nightmares PDFs

I have PDFs of issue 79 and 80 for members of the science fiction poetry Association who would like to consider poems in them for Rhysling nominations. I don't yet have a PDF of issue 81, but its contents are also eligible and I can send those as a plain text file.

yup dates

Been playing Mad Gab, as if my natural inclinations weren't sufficiently linguistically deviant. Wrote another flash story for an upcoming book; also wrote one for the Daily Cabal. Sold poem to Star*Line. Almost cleaned my desk. Dealt with most Dreams & Nightmares subs on hand.