I was supposed to write daily about poetry books. The soul is willing, but the flesh is lazy. I was swamped with dayjob things that I had allowed to accumulate due to procrastination. In this blog post for early April, I will do a pictorial representation of what I can manage to remember that’s relevant to the writing experience. My writing experience... I cringe as I type “writing experience” -- it sounds tacky, like the dreaded high school writing composition entitled “My Ideal Vacation.” Speaking of high school, I remembered earning money -- it was lot of money for me back then -- selling book reports to my classmates. I even dumbed down some of them depending on the customer. We are once again off track... This is our first picture for this itinerant blog post. Upper Rubber Boot Books Couplets: a multi-author poetry blog tour is still underway. I made a guest post on Peg Duthie's blog. There, I blabbed about an Arlene Ang poem that I loved, loved, loved. My stories and poems recently found home in these gorgeous publications. Dadaoism (An Anthology) edited by Justin Isis and Quentin S. Crisp Chômu Press, May 2012 order from Amazon story title: "Nowhere Room" "Nowhere Room" is a short tale about a kid who grows up while being perpetually wedged in the floor of his room. Yup, he can't get out because his mother wants to keep him safe. "Nowhere Room" appears in ta da! We Bury the Landscape. Here is the Contents page of Dadaoism (An Anthology). Three of the writers here are my early "role models." To be included in this lineup means a lot to me. 1 ‘Portrait of a Chair’, by Reggie Oliver 2 ‘Autumn Jewel’, by Katherine Khorey 3 ‘Visiting Maze’, by Michael Cisco 4 ‘The Houses Among the Trees’, by Colin Insole 5 ‘Affection 45′, by Brendan Connell 6 ‘M-Funk Vs. Tha Futuregions of Inverse Funkativity’, by Justin Isis 7 ‘Spirit and Corpus‘, by Yarrow Paisley 8 ‘Timelines’, by Nina Allan 9 ‘Jimmy Breaks up with His Imaginary Girlfriend’, by Jimmy Grist 10 ‘Body Poem’, by Peter Gilbert 11 ‘Testing Spark’, by Daniel Mills 12 ‘Noises’, by Joe Simpson Walker 13 ‘Romance, with Mice’, by Sonia Orin Lyris 14 ‘Grief (The Autobiography of a Tarantula)’, by Jesse Kennedy 15 ‘Orange Cuts’, by Paul Jessup 16 ‘Instance’, by John Cairns 17 ‘Kago Ai’, by Ralph Doege 18 ‘Fighting Back’, by Rhys Hughes 19 ‘Nowhere Room’, by Kristine Ong Muslim 20 ‘Koda Kumi’, a Justin Isis re-mix of ‘Italiannetto’ by Quentin S. Crisp 21 ‘The Lobster Kaleidoscope’, by Julie Sokolow 22 ‘The Eaten Boy’, by Nick Jackson 23 ‘Poppies’, by Megan Lee Beals 24 ‘Abra Raven’, by D.F. Lewis 25 ‘Pissing in Barbican Lake’, by Jeremy Reed 26 ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicides’, by Jeremy Reed The Moment of Change An Anthology of Feminist Speculative Poetry edited by Rose Lemberg cover art by Terri Windling Aqueduct Press, May 2012 poem title: "Resurrection of a Pin Doll" CONTENTS Rose Lemberg. Introduction. Ursula K. Le Guin, Werewomen Nicole Kornher-Stace, Harvest Season Eliza Victoria, Prayer Shweta Narayan, Cave-smell Theodora Goss, The Witch Amal El-Mohtar, On the Division of Labour J.C. Runolfson, The Birth of Science Fiction Kristine Ong Muslim, Resurrection of a Pin Doll Lawrence Schimel, Kristallnacht Cassandra Phillips-Sears, The Last Yangtze River Dolphin Peg Duthie, The Stepsister Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl with Two Skins Theodora Goss, Binnorie Nandini Dhar, Learning to Locate Colors in Grey: Kiran Talks About Her Brothers Rachel Manija Brown, River of Silk JoSelle Vanderhooft, The King’s Daughters Lisa Bradley, The Haunted Girl Mary Alexandra Agner, Tertiary Sara Amis, Owling Athena Andreadis, Spacetime Geodesics Lisa Bradley, In Defiance Of Sleek-Armed androids Sofía Rhei, Cinderella Alex Dally MacFarlane, Beautifully Mutilated, Instantly Antiquated Shweta Narayan, Epiphyte Elizabeth R. McClellan, Down Cycles H.E.L Gurney, She Was Kelly Pflug-Back, My Bones’ Cracked Abacus Kat Dixon, Nucleometry N. A’Yara Stein, It’s All In The Translation Sally Rosen Kindred, Sabrina, Borne Adrienne J. Odasso, The Hyacinth Girl Delia Sherman, Snow White to the Prince Phyllis Gotlieb, The Robot’s Daughter Vandana Singh, Syllables of Old Lore Greer Gilman, She Undoes Emily Jiang, Self-Portrait Ki Russel, The Antlered Woman Responds Catherynne M. Valente, The Oracle at Miami Athena Andreadis, Night Patrol Koel Mukherjee, Sita Reflects Lorraine Schoen, Hypatia/Divided Sharon Mock, Machine Dancer C.W. Johnson, Towards a Feminist Algebra Jo Walton, Blood Poem IV Meena Kandasamy, Six Hours of Chastity Samantha Henderson, Berry Cobbler Sofía Rhei, Bluebeard Possibilities Sheree Renee Thomas, Old Scratch poem featuring River Elizabeth R. McClellan, The Sea Witch Talks Show Business Ranjani Murali, Chants for Type: Skull-Cap Donner at Center-One Mall Sonya Taaffe, Madonna of the Cave Jeannelle Ferreira, Anniversaries Rebecca Korvo, Handwork Patricia Monaghan, Journey To The Mountains Of The Hag Ari Berk, Pazerik Burial on the Ukok Plateau Neile Graham, Dsonoqua Daughters Sonya Taaffe, Matlacihuatl’s Gift Ellen Wehle, Once I No Longer Lived Here Yoon Ha Lee, Art Lessons JT Stewart, Say My Name Amal El-Mohtar, Pieces Sofia Samatar, The Year of Disasters C. S. E. Cooney, The Last Crone on the Moon Minal Hajratwala, Archaeology of the Present Jennifer McGowan, Mara Speaks JT Stewart, Ceremony April Grant, Trenchcoat Tara Barnett, Star Reservation Mary Alexandra Agner, Old Enough Nisi Shawl, Transbluency: An Antiprojection Chant Now, this loveliness is the 48th volume of Ellipsis, the annual literary journal published by the students of Westminster College. My ultra-short tale called "Artificial Life" appears here. "Artificial Life" is one of my favorites. The pithy, nonnegotiable story is about a girl who attempts again and again to resuscitate a doll, a doll that is, by all means, dead dead dead. So yes, I believe in the impossible. I believe in waiting. I believe in hard work. I am old-fashioned. I plant tomatoes, and one of them died today! Coherence is not a virtue. Oh god, I'm so sleepy right now. And this beautiful anthology is called Lauriat. Lauriat: A Filipino-Chinese Speculative Fiction Anthology edited by Charles Tan Lethe Press, August 2012 order from Amazon story title: "The Chinese Zodiac" CONTENTS
Introduction, Charles Tan Two Women Worth Watching, Andrew Drilon Ho-We, Erin Chupeco The Chinese Zodiac, Kristine Ong Muslim Pure, Isabel Yap Dimsum, Christine V. Lao August Moon, Gabriela Lee The Captain’s Nephew, Paolo Chikiamco The Stranger at my Grandmother’s Wake, Fidelis Tan Chopsticks, Marc Gregory Yu Fold Up Boy, Yvette Tan The Tiger Lady, Margaret Kawsek The Perpetual Day, Crystal Koo Cricket, Kenneth Yu The Way of Those Who Stayed Behind, Douglas Candano I also have a poem on Inkscrawl. This wonderful issue is edited by Samantha Henderson. Another poem at Thunderclap Press' Poem of the Day. And my good friend, Jack, mentioned my book in Jack's Hideout! Our final pictures have nothing to do with writing. I had a fun day on April 4, my niece's birthday. I handed out balloons, goodies, inflatable dolphins. That's me with all the balloons. The girl who holds a white balloon is my sister. This carnage of trampled plants and kiddie chaos happened in our garage.
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