My King Xau poem Why the King Wept is in today’s edition of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 🙂 Yay 🙂 The poem was first published earlier this year in Uppagus.

My poem “Arrow” has been accepted by Songs of Eretz Poetry Review. “Arrow” is a King Xau poem that introduces a new character into the epic, and I am rather fond of it.

I am happy to report that my poem “Stepmother” has been accepted by Eye to the Telescope. I wrote the poem as part of the King Xau epic, but am unsure whether I’ll keep it there. (It has a different tone than most of the poems.)

Today I received $75 payment and the contract from Fantasy & Science Fiction for my poem “Kingship” 🙂 For those of you who are not poets, $75 is a very good payment for a poem. I think I’ve only twice received more (one of those two happy occasions being last week when I won the Poetry Nook contest).

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 🙂