My poem “Yellowstone” has been accepted by litbreak 🙂 I wrote the poem after a family vacation to Yellowstone National Park. As you can see, it features another of my highly creative titles.

My poem Five Arrows has been published online at Songs of Eretz Poetry Review. It’s a poem about King Xau with his children.

Also, Medusa’s Laugh have reprinted Nanotext, the anthology containing my poem “Advice to a Houseplant,” as a free electronic download available from this webpage.

My 4-line poem “The Headlong Year” has been accepted for the Alternate Stories/Alternate Realties issue of Eye to the Telescope 🙂

Two poems from The Sign of the Dragon have been accepted for the forthcoming issue of Rune Literary Journal. The poems are titled “Second Sight” and “Angshan.”

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.