Joel Allegretti is one of the best poets I’ve had the privilege of publishing (twice, in Liebamour), so when he solicited my work for an invitation-only anthology of poems about television, I was honored. I find the concept behind this anthology to be very post-modern, and I can’t wait to read it. Joel accepted an [...]

Sonnet Mondal has to be the hardest-working  poet of his age. The 21-year-old Bengali poet, writing almost exclusively in English, has already invented his own 21-line form of the caudate sonnet,which he calls the fusion sonnet: A fusion sonnet is a 21-line caudate sonnet form invented by Sonnet Mondal, and introduced in his book 21 [...]

That’s right. New poems up at the one-two combo of Red Fez and The Enchanting Verses Literary Review, two excellent online magazines. You’ll notice the poem at Red Fez is Web 2.0-enabled. I’m in great company with tags like these. Snazzy guys. Nonetheless it’s a great issue–make sure to read the other contributors! (Update) The [...]

Gargoyle #57 is finally out, with symbolic and crushingly nostalgic cover art by Marilyn Stablein. It’s nearly as heavy as the Plena Ilustrita Vortaro (unabridged Esperanto dictionary; like the OED)–so given their <5% acceptance ratio on Duotrope as of last Summer, I can only conclude at least half the world tried to get into this mammoth of [...]