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I learned tonight, to my delight, that Fantastique Unfettered is also accepting my poem “Binary.” This is a surreal, dark magic- and dark relationship-themed piece, another of the “Claire-dare” poems, inspired by this painting shown to me by Claire Cooney.

Dan Campbell, poetry editor for Durham, N.C. magazine Bull Spec informed me this morning that he’s accepting my poem “Sad Wisps of Empty Smoke.” The title comes from John Hall Wheelock’s “Sunday Evening in the Common,” but the topic is quasi-personal — with all the

I’m pleased to announce the sale of my poem “Sisyphus Crawls” to the new speculative fiction/poetry market Fantastique Unfettered. And congratulations to fellow poet Alexandra Seidel, who was appointed Poetry Editor there just days ago. “Sisyphus Crawls” is a part of what I call the

When I saw that T.J. McIntyre decided to resurrect his zine Southern Fried Weirdness as a Kindle anthology with all proceeds to go to tornado relief, I realized I might have something that would fit in with that project right well. And as it turns

Through Mordor to the Unreal City: A National Poetry Month Post

Kat Howard interviews writer and dancer Megan Kurashige.

The Spring issue of Goblin Fruit just sprouted up. See for yourself: I note: subscribers to Mythic Delirium are eligible for prizes in their 5th Anniversary Prize Drawing. If you’re not a subscriber, click here for some reasons why maybe you ought to be.

Abby Kerstetter interviews multimedia artist Mores McWreath.