Archive for July, 2012
eating alone
140 And Counting contributor news:
Lyrical Press has released L. K. Below‘s contemporary romance novel Beauty in His Bed.
Mike Meginnis and Berit Ellingsen have collaborated to write “Your Very Own Planet,” part of Meginnis’ text adventure EXITS ARE.
Alex Campbell has posted a detailed review of Neil Ellman‘s Convergence & Conversion: Ekphrastic Poems.
Some of Chen-ou Liu‘s senryu have been translated at Akita International Haiku Network. Also, his My Pond Calling Out to Basho’s Frog: Selected Frog Haiku is available at Scribd. It was written in response to Basho’s haiku:
The old pond;
A frog jumps in —
The sound of the water.
Ken Liu‘s “The Caretaker” is being read at Escape Pod.
Maya Malhar‘s story “Marred” was a runner-up in the 1000words inaugural #flashcomp (the five winning stories, but not the runners-up, are posted on the linked site).
An excerpt from Nora Nadjarian‘s micronovel “The Republic of Love” has been posted by Contemporary World Literature.
Kathy Uyen Nguyen and Lucas Stensland have short poems in the July issue of Four and Twenty.
Stella Pierides has been busy! She has haiku in Haiku News (“global warming…” and “did you miss“) and in multiverses (“eating alone“), senryu in Prune Juice (“rice paper“), and haibun in Contemporary Haibun Online (“Feeding the Doves” and “The Haircut“).
Miriam Sagan has two poems about water in the Duke City Fix feature The Sunday Poem.
29 July 2012
Higgs Boson History
140 And Counting contributor news:
Bone Orchard Poetry: An Explorative Blogzine of the Bleak/ Surreal/ the Dark/ Absurd and the Experimental… has published Neil Ellman‘s “Suddenly the Lights.”
Haiku News has Chen-ou Liu on the Higgs Boson—plus, Liu has a haibun in Every Day Poets.
Ken Liu has made his Hugo-nominated novella “The Man Who Ended History” available online (pdf)! His “The Silk Merchant” is in Apex Magazine this month.
And, in other news, Upper Rubber Boot is now on tumblr.
12 July 2012
Dinosaur rodeos
140 And Counting contributor news:
Robert Borski‘s poem “At the Dinosaur Rodeo” is up at Abyss & Apex
Dawn Corrigan‘s “Snakes in the Drains” is at Best Poem: A Poetry Journal.
“Sweet Honesty,” “At a Sushi Bar on Mount Carmel,” “Every Angel Is Terrifying,” “Neither Fire Nor Water” and “Compact” by Peg Duthie are up at Escape Into Life with intriguing illustrations by Karen Miller.
Berit Ellingsen‘s flash fiction piece “Sexual Dimorphism — A Nightmare Transcribed From Sanskrit” is in elimae.
The 7th edition (“Moon Imaginings”) of Poetry Planet is live and downloadable on www.StarShipSofa.com and includes David C. Kopaska-Merkel‘s poetry at 1:02:15.
Ken Liu‘s short story “Real Faces” appears in the July/August Fantasy & Science Fiction.
Nora Nadjarian‘s poem “The Name” is unFold’s 2012 Poetry Garden Show winner:
Marge Simon‘s story “The Skyman’s Daughter” is up at White Cat Publications.
Finally, editor Joanne Merriam‘s poem “Auto Biographies” (from The Glaze from Breaking) is the Winner of the July 2012 Goodreads Poetry Contest—look for it in their July 2012 newsletter.
4 July 2012