BREAKING NEWS Break: My poetry is now available to read in Sixfold's 2023 Summer Poetry issue (online + print)!!!🔮🖋🌿🎉
While I continue to work (very, VERY slowly) on my next big post, here's some REALLY GREAT NEWS!
Greetings and good fortunes my dear readers! I needed to take a moment in between getting home from work and making my dinner to announce that the literary journal Sixfold has FINALLY released their Summer 2023 Poetry issue…and with it, my poetry!! You can read it online HERE or order a print copy HERE.
I honestly can’t tell you how strange it is to see my name among a list of other immensely talented writers in a book description on Amazon. I feel elated and incredibly proud of this small but significant step I’ve taken in my writing journey, and I’m so excited to be able to share it with you all. Again, I want to thank everyone who has supported me throughout this journey that feels like it’s only just begun
Your poem “medusa with the head of perseus” sent me looking for my battered old copy of Edith Hamilton’s classic Mythology just to be sure: yep, its cover illustration by Steele Savage shows Perseus with the head of Medusa, presumably drawn from Cellini’s statue that I’m guessing you’re referencing.
I like the last two stanzas where the speaker simply walks around to the back of the statue. Often in ekphrastic poems the speaker is static; good to see some movement.
Your poem is also, I think, very much in the tradition of poems like Rilke’s famous sonnet “Archaic Torso of Apollo.”
Keep up the good work.
https://poemsintranslation.blogspot.com/2016/04/rilke-archaic-torso-of-apollo-from.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Hamilton
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steele_Savage (who does he remind you of?)
Congratulations!!