I was startled, but delighted, by a one-day reply from Mithila Review: they would like to publish all three of the poems that I sent them 🙂

My poem “Portraits” has been accepted by Songs of Eretz Poetry Review. “Portraits” is a poem about Xau relaxing with his guards and Tian, the woman who cleans his rooms at the palace.

My poem “Yayoi Kusama” has been accepted by Songs of Eretz Poetry Review 🙂

My poem “Mortal” has been accepted by Spillway. I wrote the first draft of the poem nearly a year ago, and it belongs to The Sign of the Dragon. It’s a short poem, but I’m fond of it, and I am very glad it will be appearing in Spillway.

My poem The Cat Vet is online in Uppagus, my twelfth appearance there. It’s a poem in honor of the vet, Dr. Bebko.

My sister’s first child, a boy, was born earlier this week 🙂

On the writing front, my poems “Sheep” and “Traveling” are in the latest issue (#76) of Ship of Fools. They are both part of King Xau’s story, but are quieter interstitial poems, taking place between the main events. N.B. I have now had some 27 poems published in Ship of Fools, of which four are part of The Sign of the Dragon.

My poem Hero has won the 118th weekly contest at poetrynook.com 🙂 “Hero” is a poem from the perspective not of the hero, but rather their wife. It first appeared in Star*Line and is part of The Sign of the Dragon.

To my great delight, I’ve had a very short story/oddity accepted by Analog 🙂 This will be my second story in Analog, the first having appeared back in 2003.

Also, my poem Stay appeared at Songs of Eretz Poetry Review. “Stay” takes place eleven years into The Sign of the Dragon, and is one of the sadder installments in King Xau’s story.

My poem “Advice to a Houseplant,” written last month, has already appeared in Nano Text #1 , a Medusa’s Laugh anthology.

My poem Seventeenth Lesson is up at Heroic Fantasy Quarterly 🙂 It’s a poem about a lesson — the seventeenth lesson! — that the dragon gives to King Xau’s eldest son, Keng. N.B. The first such lesson, titled just as imaginatively, appeared online last year in Silver Blade.