After a week full of rejections for both new poems and new stories — so it goes — I finished up with a nice poetry sale, to Strange Horizons. The poem is called “La Donna del Lago,” and it’s dedicated to Claire Cooney. It was the final poem in what I call the “Claire-dare” series, a bunch of poems written last October in response to a bunch of prompts rustled up by Claire.

It’s cool to be back at Strange Horizons — you could say that’s where I’ve made my biggest mark poetry-wise, with 18 poems published there, most solo, some in collaboration, many of them Rhysling Award nominees, two of them Rhysling runner-ups, two of them Rhysling winners. And yet my last appearance there was in November ’09. My thanks to Sonya Taaffe for bringing me back on board.

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