Strange Horizons and Snow in Seattle

I just saw that my poem, “Jin-Roh: Wolves in Human Armor,” was up at the highly respected journal of sci-fi/fantasy/speculative writing, Strange Horizons:
http://www.strangehorizons.com/2010/20101122/gailey-p.shtml
You can even comment in the forums on each poem, a kind of feedback loop we don’t usually see in literary magazines. Maybe it would be too scary! We poets can be a frightening group! The poem was inspired by a beautiful anime movie called Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade that is about a terrorism group and a frightening shadow police group, a re-telling of Perrault’s Red Riding Hood, and doomed love against a post-apocalyptic Japanese backdrop. See it if you get a chance.

I woke up early this morning to a snowstorm outside in the treetops outside of my window, and the snow kept coming down and kept coming down…and it’s still snowing! Seattle does not usually get a lot of snow, and certainly not this early in the season, but it is lovely in post-card kind of way. As long as I don’t have to drive in it. (Northwesterners don’t have experience driving on snow or ice, so there are always a ton of accidents…) A surreal aspect of this is that Glenn and I haven’t worn even as much as a coat in the two years we lived in California. Maybe Seattle wanted us to get in the Christmas spirit! We did turn on some Ella Fitzgerald Christmas carols and made a gluten-free dutch apple pancake (which was an okay experience, although Glenn said the recipe needed more eggs.)

Found out I’ll be writing an article for next year’s Poet’s Market on “How to Know When to Target a Smaller Press” on micro/small publishers of poetry. I’m excited! And my first day of classes for the winter quarter was today. An odd timing since this is a holiday week, but oh well! So, off to work I go!