My poem The Horse Lord won the 84th weekly contest at poetrynook.com 🙂 I note that this seems an excellent place to send previously-published poems. They charge no entry fee and award a $100 weekly prize. However, all entries are posted online (and therefore published), so this is NOT a place to send work for which you are still hoping to sell first rights. (“The Horse Lord” is a King Xau poem that first appeared in Ideomancer.)

Thinking of the dead, the injured, their friends and families in Orlando:

Incomprehensible

In ruin’s wake,
we search for signs,
a meaning writ
where there is nothing
but grief.

I am delighted to report that my poem “Kingship” has been accepted by Fantasy & Science Fiction. Back when I was writing short stories, I had several published in Fantasy & Science Fiction, but this is the first time I’ve sold them a poem. “Kingship” is, unsurprisingly, about King Xau.

It was a good day: I also had a mainstream poem accepted. “Legacy” will appear in After Happy Hour Review 🙂 And in addition I had a King Xau poem, Homecoming, published in Songs of Eretz Poetry Review 🙂

My poems “Solstice” and “Eighty” have both been accepted by Songs of Eretz Poetry Review. The former is from the King Xau epic, but is about his sister Mei; the latter is about my father.

My poem Polar Bears is in Songs of Eretz Poetry Review; “Polar Bears” is a poem about visiting the zoo with Lucy, back when she was only two years old…. In non-poetry news, two huge old trees fell down in our back yard earlier this week. I am particularly sad about the loss of the oak tree.

My poem Further Extracts from the Recollections of Artoch, Senior Advisor to King Xau is online in Mirror Dance 🙂

My poem First Lesson has been published online at Silver Blade 🙂 “First Lesson” is a poem in play format featuring the dragon and Prince Keng (King Xau’s oldest child).

My poem Another Week is in Songs of Eretz Poetry Review; “Another Week” is a poem about King Xau and his son Keng. I also noticed that another King Xau poem, Fault, had been published there in April…. In other news, I think I will have a first draft of the entire epic by early June 🙂

My poem Brighid, first published in first published in Apex Magazine, and subsequently the winner of a Poetry Nook weekly contest, will be reprinted in a Poetry Nook anthology.

My poem “Blaze” is in the latest issue of the Concho River Review 🙂 It’s a poem about my father.