Today I sent off a slew of projects to various markets - a story to Subterranean Magazine, a dark fantasy prose poem to Mythic Delirium, and a shorter sf poem to Abyss & Apex. Yes, I write poetry. Actually, I've been writing prose poetry ever since high school, and it wasn't just an angsty goth/punk teen phase that I eventually outgrew. It's just, I tend to not talk a lot about the poems. I don't know why. Maybe it's because it's so much more difficult to describe them, or for people to crit them. I don't send them out for critiques or comments. My poetry is a lot like my erotica - I know when it's right.

Of course, having said that, I fully expect quick rejections on both poems. The universe has a funny way of making me eat my words. Silly universe! ::shakes fist at universe:: But in the past couple of days, between bouts of writing on the secret project, I've jotted down a few more ideas for prose poems. And then, of course, there's my unfinished poetic masterpiece (which I plan on un-unfinishing sometime this year): "The Alchymical Wedding of Thisbe and Hephaestus". It's a touching surreal story about the great love between a lowly secretary of Jersey City and a massive sentient industrial pile driver. No relation to my life, of course. Or to Killdozer. :D

Labels: poetry, short story submissions