My poem Trees won first place in the 150th weekly contest at poetrynook.com 🙂 🙂 “Trees” is a short poem, just 5 lines long, and first appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

In a second piece of good news for the day, my science fiction poem The Secret Life of a Toaster has appeared in Polu Texni 🙂

My poem “Lotus Moon,” a King Xau poem, has appeared in issue 4.2 of Mythic Delirium 🙂 The Kindle edition is on sale now, and I believe that my poem will appear online (free) in December.

Doubly-good news from Songs of Eretz Poetry Review: they accepted my poem “What He Told Me,” and published another poem of mine, Air Show Maneuvers.

I have three poems in the new issue of Mithila Review: Alternate Genders, Chronology of Items Found on the Moon, and Boatman 🙂 🙂 🙂 The last of these, Boatman, is a King Xau poem. The other two are stand-alone poems.

My poem What War Is Like has been published at Songs of Eretz Poetry Review. It’s my most-recently-written poem to be published, dating from May 2017. Even in the happy event where a poem is quickly accepted, there is often a significant lag between acceptance and actual publication.

In a second piece of good news, my poem “The Ark’s Daughters” has been accepted for the Evolving Gender issue of Eye to the Telescope 🙂

My poem Imperial History won first place (and $150) in the 148th weekly contest at poetrynook.com 🙂 🙂 “Imperial History” is a poem with a biology slant, and first appeared in Axe Factory Review.

My poem “Favorite Place,” about visiting Dublin with my children, has been accepted by Songs of Eretz Poetry Review.

Two pieces of good news today. Firstly, my poem Necromancer has won the 147th weekly contest at poetrynook.com 🙂 “Necromancer” is part of The Sign of the Dragon, and first appeared in the HWA Poetry Showcase, Volume II.

Secondly, my poem “Air Show Maneuvers” has been accepted by Songs of Eretz Poetry Review. I note that they are currently holding their annual fundraising contest. On the downside, there’s a hefty entry fee of twenty dollars. On the plus side, the editor will send comments on all entries.

Today I received $100 payment for my poem “Dear Creator,” accepted just under a week ago by Fantasy & Science Fiction. F&SF is at the very top of my list of places to submit, due to their happy combination of speed, friendliness, generous pay-rates, and the quality of their magazine 🙂

I have also had two more poems published, both online. Unsaid is my fifteenth poem to appear in Uppagus; it’s a King Xau poem that I am fond of. Yellowstone appeared in Litbreak Magazine, and is about a week’s vacation we spent in Yellowstone back in 2011.

My poem “Mortal” is in the new issue of Spillway. It’s a short poem from close to the end of The Sign of the Dragon.