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More Appalling Limericks - 2009-07-01

As of July 1, we're taking submissions for a new volume of genre-related limericks. Check out the
guidelines here.

Spring 2009 Illumen is here - 2009-05-20

I just got my copy of the Spring 2009 issue of Illumen, which has a bunch of my work: 3 poems, a literary analysis article, and the cover design.

"Pier one" appears - 2009-03-10

My mainstream poem "pier one" was a runner-up at an online poetry contest. You can see it
HERE

TeenAge - for the dogs - 2009-02-24

My poem "for the dogs" is now up & running at
TeenAge Magazine

New poem at Amaze - 2009-01-25

My cinquain (poem) "sunrise blues" is now online at Amaze journal.

Blake goes to Illumen - 2009-01-21

I sold a new article - A Look at Blake's "Book of Thel" - to Illumen, for their Spring 2009 issue.

More poems find homes - 2008-11-30

A few more of my poems have been accepted recently:

"entropy layer" in Illumen (Spr 2009)
"dream engine" in Cover of Darkness (2009)
"DNA Latte" in Shelter of Daylight (2009)
"the endgame sky" in Aiofe's Kiss (Mar 2009)
"only a drop" in Infradead (2009)
"message in a bottle" in Fifth Di... (Dec 2008)
"the contraption" in Fifth Di... (Mar 2009)

And Improbable Jane is finally in my hands!

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Poems coming soon ...
  1.  "Cougar Village"  accepted by SamsDot (2007)
  2.  "clawfoot tub"  accepted by Tapestry (2006)(never)
  3.  "only a drop"  accepted by Infradead (2009)
Poems on this site ...
  1.  "Drowning"  in Dark Windows #1 (8/07); Dreams & NM #9 (10/86)
  2.  "Helium Planet"  in Alternative Fic #6 ?
  3.  "My Creator"  in Dark Windows #7 (11/07); Starsong #2 (12/87)
  4.  "Pacing Myself"  in Midnight Wine (folded)
  5.  "Standing at your Door"  in Poetry Break (9/90)
  6.  "The Art of Acting"  in Pink Chameleon #4 ?
  7.  "The First Flame"  in Golden Isis (spr 87)
  8.  "The Force of Writing"  in Creative Urge (2/87)
Poems on other sites ...
  1.  "2+2=9.4"  in Dark Windows #5 (10/07); Fennel Stalk #3 (1987)
  2.  "Absolute drifter"  in AuthorsDen.com (9/03); Syndicated Weekly (6/95)
  3.  "All those toys"  in WritersCafe (2/08); Dark Windows #4 (10/07); Aoife's Kiss #2 (09/02)
  4.  "Another Revolution"  in Dark Windows #4 (10/07); Senior Citizen Reporter v11#9 (9/87)
  5.  "At the Lake"  in Dark Windows #8 (12/07); Expressions NL (10/01); Starsong #6 (1/89)
  6.  "Attention Span"  in Sidewalk's End (9/01)
  7.  "Baggage Claim"  in Dark Windows #8 (12/07); Scavenger's #50 (4/88); Eotu (6/01); my Year of the Twist (6/01)
  8.  "Baumann's Hands"  in writing.com (12/01)
  9.  "Believing Everything"  in Dark Windows #11 (1/08); Peripheral Visions (2007); Stellanova (10/89)
  10.  "Broken afternoon"  in my Unfuture blog (11/05)
  11.  "Dream Speak"  in Dark Windows #1 (8/07)
  12.  "Eternity by Paradox"  in Vacancy #2 (audio) (11/01); Stellanova (10/89)
  13.  "Faded Chains"  in AuthorsDen.com (9/03); Syndicated Weekly (6/95)
  14.  "Floating Tree"  in Dark Windows #8 (12/07)
  15.  "Forgiveness"  in Dark Windows #7 (11/07)
  16.  "High Jump Willie"  in Planet (3/06)
  17.  "Hints of Beyond"  in Dark Windows #6 (11/07)
  18.  "Hold the People"  in authorsDen(12/02); Senior Citizen Reporter v15#12 (12/89)
  19.  "In Days of Trance"  in Dark Windows #12 (2/08)
  20.  "In the Blackout"  in WritersCafe (2/08); Dark Windows #5 (10/07); New Word #2 (10/86)
  21.  "Maze Curtains"  in Dark Windows #6 (11/07)
  22.  "My Town"  in Dark Windows #7 (11/07)
  23.  "My-Tosis of Sorts"  in Dark Windows #10 (1/08); In Transit v1#1 (3/88)
  24.  "Night Wind"  in AuthorsDen (12/02); Earth Realms Antho (2001, never)
  25.  "Not One of Us"  in Dark Windows #12 (2/08)
  26.  "Nowhere Near Dallas"  in Ascent (spring 2001)
  27.  "Our Chessboard"  in Sidewalk's End (May 01)
  28.  "Reading the soup"  in Unfuture blog (1/06)
  29.  "Serengeti snack"  in Eotu (2/02)
  30.  "Silbury Plain"  in Planet #33 (3/02)
  31.  "Simple Torment"  in Dark Windows #1 (8/07); Glossolalia #9 (12/96)
  32.  "Skirmishes"  in Atmospherics #6 (Fall 95)
  33.  "Sometimes (for Julie W.)"  in Museweek (10/96)
  34.  "Song for Lost Karen"  in Museweek (10/96)
  35.  "Staring"  in Dark Windows #12 (2/08); EGAD! #4 (11/87)
  36.  "The Network"  in Unfuture (12/05); Midnight Wine (folded); Starsong #7 (3/89)
  37.  "The Fire Witch"  in Dark Windows #10 (1/08); Peripheral Visions (2007)
  38.  "The Maze Revisited"  in Dark Windows #6 (11/07); Maelina's poetry page (6/98)
  39.  "The Network, Act II"  in Dark Windows #9 (1/08)
  40.  "The Night Unbending"  in Planet #8 (12/95)
  41.  "The Scent of Flesh"  in Atmospherics #6 (Fall 95)
  42.  "The Shape of Things to Come"  in PoetryCafe (2/08); Dark Windows #5 (10/07); Dreams & NM #19/20
  43.  "Under my Bed"  in Dark Windows #11 (1/08)
  44.  "Visitors"  in Dark Windows #11 (1/08); Lil Demon Review #2 (1/88)
  45.  "Watchmaker"  in Dark Windows #11 (1/08); SPWAO Newsletter (12/88)
  46.  "a final rain"  in AuthorsDen.com (9/03);Expressions (1/03)
  47.  "almost a way out"  in AuthorsDen (9/03);Expressions (01/03)
  48.  "art of fishing"  in Amaze (Sum 07)
  49.  "beyond key"  in Between Kisses (2/07)
  50.  "book of years"  in FireWeed (12/05)
  51.  "bridges"  in AuthorsDen.com (11/02)
  52.  "celestial highway"  in Astropoetica (fall 05)
  53.  "chop chop"  in Unfuture blog (12/05); Scavenger's #218 (4/02)
  54.  "dark salvage"  in Sundown Lounge podcast #97 (5/07)
  55.  "drawing the strings"  in Writing Tree (web) (2/01), writing.com (12/01)
  56.  "eon one"  in authorsDen (12/05); writing.com (9/03);Thorns of Nature (antho,2001)
  57.  "fairytale lovers lose their way"  in Moonlit Path (Fall 05)
  58.  "for the dogs"  in TeenAge (2/09); Beyond Centauri (7/06)
  59.  "funeral for a car"  in Dark Windows #10 (1/08)
  60.  "future memories"  in Planet #29 (3/01)
  61.  "gallium"  in Periodic Table of Haiku (2/01)
  62.  "going through channels"  in AuthorsDen (12/05); Gotta Write Midnight Selections 4/02
  63.  "if it only had a clue"  in iScifiStory.com NL (7/01)
  64.  "instant replay"  in Ascent (spring 2001); Panda #7 (UK)(July 01)
  65.  "knowing the poet"  in AuthorsDen (12/05)
  66.  "midnight, route 78"  in AuthorsDen.com (11/02)
  67.  "myths wearing thin"  in Unfuture (12/05); Absinthe (2002)
  68.  "overshadowed"  in SciFiKuest (Aug 2006 print); AuthorsDen audio (8/06)
  69.  "phonebook freaks"  in Unfuture blog (12/05); San Diego Writers Monthly (8/02)
  70.  "phosphorus"  in Periodic Table of Haiku (2/01)
  71.  "pier one"  in PoetsContestCorner (contest runner-up, 3/09)
  72.  "pill for almost anything"  in The Verb (9/07)
  73.  "puppet hour"  in Unfuture blog (11/05)
  74.  "rolling out"  in AuthorsDen.com (9/03)
  75.  "shipment to nowhere"  in Sundown Lounge podcast #100 (6/07); Planet #31 (9/01)
  76.  "sketchbook"  in Sidewalk's End (1/03)
  77.  "skyfall"  in Sundown Lounge podcast #96 (5/07); Rogue Worlds (4/02)
  78.  "stick things"  in Unfutureblog (11/05); Expressions (01/03)
  79.  "stonescape"  in Amaze (v4n2, Spr 06)
  80.  "stream dream"  in AuthorsDen (12/02)
  81.  "stress diet"  in Unfutures blog (12/05); KatBox #8: Setting Worlds (4/02)
  82.  "sunrise blues"  in Amaze #16 (Jan 2009)
  83.  "technetium"  in Periodic Table of Haiku (2/01)
  84.  "the Striving"  in Other Dimension (7/02)
  85.  "the egg thing"  in iScifiStory.com NL (7/01)
  86.  "the gardener waits"  in AuthorsDen.com (11/02); Panda #7 (UK) (July 01)
  87.  "the spirit of looking back"  in Writing Tree (web) (2/01), writing.com (12/01)
  88.  "wishful style"  in AuthorsDen (9/03);Expressions (01/03)
Poems in print recently ...
  1.  "A Crystal Sea"  in Stellanova v1#6 (8/88)
  2.  "Alone on Kalimai (w Cathy Buburuz)"  in Fifth Di... (April 2002)
  3.  "At Ripley's"  in Helix #6 (Sep 07)
  4.  "Avalla"  in Illumen (10/08)
  5.  "Bridge of Death"  in Absinthe (2002)
  6.  "CPU"  in Expressions NL (7/01)
  7.  "Compound, I"  in The Fifth Di... (8/01)
  8.  "Constellation"  in The Martian Wave (9/01)
  9.  "DNA Latté"  in Shelter of Daylight (Apr 09)
  10.  "Dictionary wars"  in Expressions NL (9/07)
  11.  "Haunted feeling"  in The Fifth Di... (10/01)
  12.  "Heads, We Win"  in Champagne Shivers (2006)
  13.  "In a Locked Place"  in Expressions NL (3/01)
  14.  "Info_Nowhere"  in Afterlife 9 (2006)
  15.  "J.K.Void"  in Peripheral Visions (2007)
  16.  "Kara's jungle"  in Abyss & Apex (4/06)
  17.  "Kim 4-B"  in Mirrors in Flame (antho, 2003)
  18.  "Lowgrav litter"  in Illumen (Autumn 2006)
  19.  "Mary Driver"  in Champagne Shivers (2006)
  20.  "NYSE blue"  in Peripheral Visions (2007)
  21.  "Nemveti evening"  in Dreams & Nightmares #58 (1/01)
  22.  "Old mr. cyberpunk"  in Illumen (10/08)
  23.  "Phantoms"  in The Ultimate Hallucination (7/01)
  24.  "Satisfaction"  in Poetry Break (9/90)
  25.  "Scratch Pad"  in The Ultimate Hallucination (7/01)
  26.  "Sulfur trails"  in Martian Wave (Jan 2004), Wondrous Web Worlds 5 (2005)
  27.  "Tangled up in true"  in Space & Time #104 (2009)
  28.  "The Inside Story"  in Poet's Corner (web, 2/01)
  29.  "The contraption"  in Fifth Di... (3/09)
  30.  "Upon Reflection"  in Expressions NL (3/01)
  31.  "While the Biologist Slept"  in my Year of the Twist (6/01)
  32.  "Workaway"  in Peripheral Visions (2007)
  33.  "absinthe: invocation"  in Absinthe (2002)
  34.  "adam inquisitive"  in Ideomancer (2006)
  35.  "alien minister"  in Appalling Limericks (2006)
  36.  "any meaning at all"  in Peripheral Visions (2007)
  37.  "bases are loaded"  in KatBox #8: Setting Worlds (4/02)
  38.  "beyond houdini"  in Champagne Shivers #1 (2/02)
  39.  "black box blues"  in Illumen (Autumn 2006)
  40.  "blown away"  in KatBox #8: Setting Worlds (4/02)
  41.  "boundaries"  in TeenAge (12/08)
  42.  "broken beginnings"  in Dark Windows #1 (8/07)
  43.  "cold methane mornings"  in Scifaikuest (Aug 08 print)
  44.  "crushed and corroded"  in Scifaikuest (Aug 08 web)
  45.  "damn the night before"  in Peripheral Visions (2007)
  46.  "distant cumulus"  in KatBox #8: Setting Worlds (4/02)
  47.  "dream engine"  in Cover of Darkness (May 2009)
  48.  "dreams for sale"  in Peripheral Visions (2007)
  49.  "drunk with life (w Terrie Relf)"  in Bondage antho (Samsdot) (2/06)
  50.  "entropy layer"  in Illumen (Spr 09)
  51.  "evening chains (w Aurealia Nelson)"  in Absinthe (2002)
  52.  "face like an old Dylan song"  in writers hood (7/02)
  53.  "futurecar"  in Sword Review (12/07)
  54.  "guarding cross"  in KatBox #8: Setting Worlds (4/02)
  55.  "how to tie the tie?"  in Hahaku (Aug 2007)
  56.  "ice queen"  in Appalling Limericks (2006)
  57.  "imaginings at midnight (w Cathy Buburuz)"  in Beyond Centauri #1 (July 2003)
  58.  "incidental guy"  in Not One of Us #27 (4/02)
  59.  "iron sun"  in KatBox #8: Setting Worlds (4/02)
  60.  "koosh bird blues"  in KatBox #8: Setting Worlds (4/02)
  61.  "message from a bottle"  in Fifth Di... (12/08)
  62.  "metabirds"  in E-genre Weekly (8/24/01)
  63.  "nightbeat"  in ShadowPoetry Quill (Spr 2008)
  64.  "plague"  in E-genre Weekly (8/24/01)
  65.  "re-entry"  in Expressions NL (7/01)
  66.  "setting worlds"  in KatBox #8: Setting Worlds (4/02)
  67.  "smiling sands"  in Absinthe (2002)
  68.  "speechless"  in Absinthe (2002)
  69.  "steal a day"  in Panda #7 (UK) (July 01)
  70.  "string theory"  in Star*Line 24.6 (Dec 2001)
  71.  "surgery for dummies"  in Black Ink (4/08)
  72.  "swirling eyes"  in Not one of Us (1/08)
  73.  "tampering with time"  in SciFiKuest (Aug 2006 print)
  74.  "the 10th life"  in Spellbound (Fall 2001)
  75.  "the bump"  in Peripheral Visions (2007)
  76.  "the endgame sky"  in Aiofe's Kiss (3/09)
  77.  "the hole"  in Expressions NL (10/01)
  78.  "the modern miser"  in Beyond Centauri (10/05), Spellbound (sum 03 - nope, never)
  79.  "trails in the mud"  in Dreams & Nightmares #60 (9/01)
  80.  "turn up the heat"  in Star*Line (July 2005)
  81.  "untrusting eye"  in Star*Line 24.3 (5/01)
  82.  "up and up"  in ShadowPoetry Quill (Spr 2008)
  83.  "upside downer"  in Peripheral Visions (2007)
  84.  "victim: Tony K-----"  in Forgot where!
  85.  "voicebreaking"  in Afterlife 9 (2006)
  86.  "what the spirits taught us"  in Tales of the Talisman (6/08)

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