I am very happy to report that I had six poems accepted this afternoon! Polu Texni accepted my poem “Respect,” which is part of The Sign of the Dragon. It’s one of the bleaker poems in the epic, but I am fond of it. And The Were-Traveler accepted five poems, all reprints, from The Sign of the Dragon for their upcoming speculative poetry issue.

My King Xau poem Recruits is in the Winter 2016 issue of Mirror Dance. The poem takes place relatively late in the story, 14 years into King Xau’s reign.

N.B. I have completed the whole of “The Sign of the Dragon,” and been through 2 revision passes, and am trying to leave it alone for a bit. Which is hard. Last week I went back and added one short new poem into it (one of three cat poems in the sequence). In the meantime, I’ve written my first science fiction poems in a long time, plus some non-Xau fantasy poems, plus some mainstream poems, plus a couple of short-shorts.

My poem Princess Tea Party is online at Songs of Eretz Poetry Review. It’s a poem about taking Lucy to, yes, a princess tea party, back when she was four years old.

My poem Pestilence, is online at Songs of Eretz Poetry Review. It’s a short poem about my battles with punctuation.

My poems “Suburbia 2050” and “Wilderness 2050” have been accepted by Star*Line 🙂 They are both science fiction poems.

I have two recent interviews online: an interview with Terrie Leigh Relf, and an interview with Poetry Nook 🙂

My poem “For My Life,” which is about my daughter (when she was quite a bit younger) is in issue #1.2 of The Violet Hour.

I recorded my poem “Vengeance,” first published in Star*Line, as part of this year’s SFPA Halloween Poetry Reading.

If you will be at World Fantasy Convention next week, please come and say hello. I’ll be on two panels: “A Golden Age of Contemporary Asian Fantasy” and “How Does Who We Are Affect What We Read?” In addition, I will probably participate in Thursday night’s poetry open mic.

In other news, my poem Arrow, part of the King Xau epic, is online at Songs of Eretz Poetry Review.

My poem “Eligible” (a King Xau poem) has been accepted by Ship of Fools 🙂