“Thy shaft flew thrice; and thrice my peace was slain;/ And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had fill’d her horn.” From “Night” 1st. line 212. (The author is unknown to me.)
Etching of a crowned skeleton with three arrows, 1806
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Hiraeth Books will publish three of my poems!
Great news! The good folks over at Hiraeth Books will publish three of my poems in the coming months. “Not of Byzantium” and “All Our Faults Are Fallen Leaves” will appear in the Winter Issue of Illumen magazine, which will be released in January. “Industrial Revolution” will appear in the September Issue of The Fifth Di magazine.
If you follow this blog, then you know that Illumen is a favorite magazine of mine because of its excellent speculative poetry, but The Fifth Di is a magazine with which I’m not yet acquainted. It sounds like a terrific science fiction periodical, and I’ll be looking forward to reading my first copy when the September issue is published.
Thanks once again to Managing Editor Tyree Campbell for allowing me to share my voice with such outstanding indie lit publications!
“East Wind Over Weehawken,” Edward Hopper, 1934
Oil on canvas.
Bell Telephone advertisement, 1918
I’ll be sitting down with my copy of Outside the Box tonight —
— it’s the latest poetry collection from Down in the Dirt magazine and it just arrived in the mail. It’s a surprisingly large tome, it’s got an awesome cover, and it looks great!
Cover to “Grendel: The Devil Inside” paperback, Matt Wagner, 2004
Dark Horse Comics.
Throwback Thursday: “The Odd Couple” (1970-1974)!
Does anyone else remember “The Odd Couple” (1970-1974) growing up? I was too young to remember its original run, but it played endlessly in reruns in the early 1980’s. For a lot of us, it was a show our parents watched. It was based on an eponymous 1965 Neil Simon play, and Tony Randall was absolutely a household name.
Hearing that theme song — and seeing those priceless shots of early-70’s New York in its opener — absolutely takes me back to my gradeschool years. I can practically smell dinner cooking in the kitchen.
Turns out it didn’t have a lot of cultural staying power — with my generation, at least. When was the last time you heard someone make a pop-culture reference to “The Odd Couple?” Yet people still fondly remember things like “The Partridge Family” (1970-1974), “The Six Million Dollar Man” (1973-1978) and “Voltron” (1983-1985).
“The Justice,” Jean-Baptiste Alliette, 1785
Manière de se Récréer Avec le Jeu de Cartes Nommées Tarots, Amsterdam.
