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piteous recognition in fixed eyes

30 November 201122 May 2015 joannemerriam

My cento “Whose Tongue is the Wind’s Tongue?” just appeared in the Electronica issue of Cordite Poetry Review.

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We went to Gatlinburg for the weekend.

24 October 201124 December 2022 joannemerriam

View from our cabin. Blue heron posing for the paparazzi. We went to the aquarium. Jellyfish. What up. Penguins! We will be going back to

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Poetry Writing

Settler’s Song

21 October 201122 May 2015 joannemerriam

Podcast journal StarShipSofa 208 contains my poem “Settler’s Song” at 1:19:25.

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the point where a charged particle caught in a magnetic field reverses its direction

26 September 201122 May 2015 joannemerriam

Strange Horizons is having a funding drive. I first ran across Strange Horizons in July 2002, sitting in my brother-in-law’s office in Edmonton, Alberta while

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“That’s 400 years on the breasts. Think how boring that would be. At some point. 15 or 20 years in.”

17 September 201124 December 2022 joannemerriam

Today was the second half of Vanderbilt’s Saturday University class with Billy Collins, “Under the Hood: The Mechanics of Poetry.” (I wrote about the first

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No such things as distractions.

11 September 201122 May 2015 joannemerriam

I attended the first half of Vanderbilt’s Saturday University class with Billy Collins, “Under the Hood: The Mechanics of Poetry,” yesterday. He started with the

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Poetry Writing

the angle to tip an oar and tear through it

8 September 201122 May 2015 joannemerriam

Riddle Fence just accepted my poem “Getting Wet from Head to Toe” for their November issue! They published “The Hotel” awhile ago, and do a

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Poetry Writing

long I stayed alone with the corpse

6 September 201122 May 2015 joannemerriam

My poem “Whose Tongue is the Wind’s Tongue?” will be in the December issue—36: Electronic(a)—of Cordite Poetry Review. Cordite pushes the boundaries in ways that

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Kickstarter is totally awesome.

19 August 201122 May 2015 joannemerriam

I’ve posted a fundraising appeal for the Seven by Twenty anthology, 140 And Counting over at Kickstarter. Go check it out, and delight in the

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Poetry Writing

loon cries

16 August 201124 December 2022 joannemerriam

The August issue of Four and Twenty is up, with one of my short poems in it. Edited in 2022: this site seems to have

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Aether and Ego Aether and Ego

How to Live on Other Planets: A Handbook for Aspiring Aliens How to Live on Other Planets: A Handbook for Aspiring Aliens

The Museum of All Things Awesome and that Go Boom The Museum of All Things Awesome and that Go Boom

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