Autumn in February

Autumn Sky Poetry Daily has a daily dose of poetry for you. Today it's my poem "Landlocked" from my new book Mendeleev's Mandala.

Check out this site regularly: host Christine Klocek-Lim curates poetry choices, with a nod to the formal, and comments briefly and insightfully on what elements make each poem unique and memorable.

The Next Best Book

Check out The Next Best Book Blog (TNBBC) where I recommend Cole Swensen's The Book of a Hundred Hands!


TNBBC has a lot of fun and quirky columns, like the one in which writers reveal their bathroom reading, or the one featuring literary tattoos, or the one in which authors design their original drinks and share the recipes with you.

Listen to Alaska

I'm working on a new manuscript that is mainly about an mountain-climbing accident on Mt. McKinley, so I'm often researching Alaska. Recently I found something riveting: a soundscape of Denali National Park.

Here you can click on a map of the park and find out what kind of sound data has been collected at various listening stations. Those marked with large yellow dots include actual recordings of sand hill cranes, howling wolves, bleating sheep, river noise, arctic ground squirrel alerts, and more--even rockfall and an avalanche. You can also listen to mountaineers on the Kahiltna Pass.

Opportunities for Multilinguals

Asymptote has an interesting upcoming feature (copied and pasted below):


Multilingual Writing Special Feature

Our July 2015 issue will include a special feature on multilingual writing. This means we are looking for:

- Original poetry and prose incorporating more than one language: English and Arabic, Spanish and Tagalog, German and Japanese – any combination you can think of. The writing may be predominantly in one language, with a smattering of words in another, or may mix languages so thoroughly as to be intelligible only to bilingual readers.

- Translations of such multilingual originals that incorporate English into their translation. Translators must try to preserve at least an echo of the original text’s multilingualism, whether through using syntax, vocabulary, or accents in new ways, translating into a non-standard variety of English, or even introducing a new language.

- In addition, we are seeking translators willing to volunteer to render non-English multilingual writing into English (we will provide you with the originals). Please indicate your language abilities when applying. 

Deadline: 1 May 2015

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