Category Archives: poetry

Last weekend, two things happened at Cape Canaveral: the final launch of the Space Shuttle Atlantis and the SFWA Nebula Awards meeting. Judging by my f-list, about as many of the assembled fantasy and SF writers as you’d expect went … Continue reading →

The bad jet-lag poem, which I have managed to reconstruct: No one writes poems about jet lag. It’s probably obvious why – that fog in your head, those brain cells, now dead mean wordsmithing skills go bye-bye. No one writes … Continue reading →

I am way beyond “thrilled” and almost into “speechless” (seriously – it took me three days to even figure out how to say this) that I have been nominated for a Rhysling Award for Clotho Visits the Local Yarn Store, … Continue reading →

Perhaps more experienced writers can tell me: when you’ve published a poem or story or whatever on a given topic, and that topic comes up somewhere, how long does it take before it stops being really really hard not to … Continue reading →

One of the worst things about being a stranger in a strange land is being far from everyone who celebrates your holidays as you do (which is, of course, The Only Right Way, whatever it is). That’s less of an … Continue reading →

Notes on critique: Getting: When my poem’s entire stanza is in one meter, please *do not* tell me it would be smoother if I cut a syllable! (Unless of course I’ve screwed up and you’re telling me how to get … Continue reading →

We’ve had that talk, and had that talk, and HAD that talk again. I promise you, it’s not the case that I don’t understand. And really, it won’t help if you just say the same thing loudly. You won’t look … Continue reading →