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The Witching Hour Finds You in Bed…

24 Friday Oct 2014

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31 Days of Halloween, Abyss&Apex, Ada Hoffman, Alex Carrigan, All My Love to the Monster Devouring Me, Amazing Stories, At That Age When We Girls Become Fairies, Betwixt, Brooke Wonders, Carol Holland March, Carolee Sherwood, Clarkesworld, creepy poetry, David Kopaska Merkel, Day of the Dead, Devilfish Review, E. Kirstin Anderson, Edgar A. Poe, Eleonara, Erik Amundsen, Fish Boy Hits the Teen Years, Ghostweight, Goblin Fruit, Gorgon Girls, Graveyard Rock, halloween, Hand Me Down Halloween, Harvey's Dream, Headmistress Press, Helen Kitson, Henry Wouk Is Still Alive, Here Be Toothsome Wolves, Hilary Joubert, Inkscrawl, Judith Barrington, Kelly Link, Lilla Ashley, Liz Henry, Liz Kay, Luna Station Quarterly, Made of Lines blog, Maria Dahvana Headley, Menacing Hedge, Michael J. DeLuca, Mother Frankenstein, Natalie Diaz, NightBlade, Nightmare Magazine, Pat Cadigan, Poetry Society of America, Quail Bell Magazine, Real Witches Don't Wear Hats, Rose Red Review, Sabotage Reviews, Saira Ali, Samhain, Sestina at the Maldron Hotel Ireland, Shannon Hozinac, Small Beer Press, Soul Harvest, Stephen King, Stone Telling, Taxidermist in the Underworld, The Axe-Eaters, The Faery Handbag, The Gingerbread Dress, The Girl Who Couldn't Fly, The Golden Key, The Mermaid at SeaWorld, The Stone Horse of Flores, The Witch Has a Purpose, Unfair Exchange, Wake Up Poetry, When the Wife Brings Love Back From the Dead, Witch's Primer, Women Destroy Horror, Yoon Ha Lee

halloweenpinup6 Or perhaps you are atop a broomstick or pumpkin.  Wherever you find yourself this Halloween, don’t let the hour arrive without first indulging in some of these SPOOKTACULAR finds:

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STORIES

D. Long’s (Lushly illustrated)
version of E.A. Poe’s Eleonara—from Amazing Stories
 
Here Be Toothsome Wolves
Brooke Wonders—at Rose Red Review
 
Henry Wouk Is Still Alive
Stephen King—at The Atlantic
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Harvey’s Dream
Stephen King—at The New Yorker
 
The Faery Handbag
Kelly Link–at Small Beer Press
 
Ghostweight
Yoon Ha Lee–at Clarkesworld
 
Taxidermist in the Underworld
Maria Dahvana Headley–at Clarkeworld
 

The Stone Horse of Flores by Michael J. DeLuca–at Betwixt

 

Unfair Exchange by Pat Cadigan–at Nightmare Magazine: Women Destroy Horror! Special Issue
 

The Girl Who Couldn’t Fly by Carol Holland March–at Luna Station Quarterly

 

POEMS

Gorgon Girls by Saira Ali–at Strange Horizons

Mother Frankenstein by Liz Henry–at Stone Telling

The Gingerbread Dress byanime_sexyCreatureGif_Medusa

Lilla Ashley–at Rose Red Review

Sestina at the Maldron Hotel, Ireland
Judith Barrington–at Rose Red Review

When the Wife Brings Love Back From the Dead, She Creates a Monster by

Carolee Sherwood–at Goblin Fruit

The Mermaid at SeaWorld by Ada Hoffman–at NightBlade

The Axe-Eaters by Shannon Hozinac–at Menacing Hedge

Soul Harvest by

Hillary Joubert–at The Golden Key

Hunger—The Witch has a Purpose

by Liz Kay–at The Golden Key

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Day of the Dead by Helen Kitson–at Sabotage Reviews

Samhain by John Montague–at Wake Up Poetry

At That Age When We Girls Become Fairies by E. Kristin Anderson--at Abyss&Apex

Witch’s Primer, Lesson 4 Erik Amundsen –at Inkscrawl

Fish Boy Hits the Teen Years

by David Kopaska-Merkel–at Devilfish Review

All My Love to the Monster Devouring Me by Alex Carrigan–at Quail Bell Magazine

Hand-Me-Down Halloween by Natalie Diaz–at Poetry Society of America

 

ART

31 Monsters of Halloween at Made of Lines blog

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Real Witches Don’t Wear Hats

 

FUN

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Welcome to the Land of Fairy Tales

16 Monday Dec 2013

Posted by BoneSpark Blog in C.A. Explains It All, Thoughts on Poetry

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Deathless Press, Enchanted Conversations, fairy tale genre, Fairy Tale Papers, fairy tale poetry, Goblin Fruit, Journal of Mythic Arts, New Fairy Tales, Papaveria, Red Rose Review, SurLaLune, Terri Windling, The Crafty Poet, The Fairy Tale Review, Tolkien, Unsettling Wonder, Women's Poetry List-Serv

fairytalecastleThere’s an old Jewish folk saying that counsels one not to ask questions of fairy tales. Tolkien was of a similar opinion.

On the other hand, Terri Windling, in the introduction to Snow White, Blood Red, tells us that “the fairy tale journey may look like an outward trek across plains and mountains, through castles and forests, but the actual movement is inward, into the lands of the soul.”

It is perhaps a bit of both questioning and not questioning that makes the genre so enchanting and durable.  Modern writers continue to add to the pool of story. And poets, in specific, seem to favor the form.

jomaFor a sampling of such fairy tale-themed poetry, visit The Journal of Mythic Arts.  Besides poems by such names as Neil Gaiman and Margaret Atwood, they have a helpful reading list (with links to the actual collections) in the right sidebar.

snowwhiteAnd for some beauties from Anne Sexton’s Transformations collection go to AllPoetry [you have to click through to the others in the bottom right sidebar]. Also check out her often-taught Snow White poem.

Then read Plath’s Cinderella, and Fairy Tale Logic by A.E. Stallings. You might like Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill’s The Mermaid in the Hospital as well.

goblinfruitheaderThen there is the MUST-READ, always lovely, Goblin Fruit, an online magazine with much to offer. [I gave you a few of the more “wicked” poems from their archives in the Halloween post].

roseredYou’ll also want to visit Rose Red Review (the sideways girl for is their logo). Some of the ladies from the Women’s Poetry List-Serv have been published here, including Diane Lockward, who just came out with The Crafty Poet, which you absolutely want a copy of. Buy a few, give as a gift.

Other magazines with fairy tale poetry include: The Fairy Tale Review, Unsettling Wonder, Enchanted Conversation, and New Fairy Tales.

For fairy tale chapbooks, check out Papaveria and Deathless Press.  And if you’re on twitter, be sure to follow @SurLaLuneHeidi and @FairytalePapers for good feeds about the genre.

 

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Not Your Mama’s Poetry: Fright Night Delights!!

25 Friday Oct 2013

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creepy poetry, Fright Night Poems, Goblin Fruit, Halloween poetry, Menacing Hedge, Strange Horizons, The Harrow

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You’ve seen the classics: Poe and Rossetti and Herrick. You may have even dipped a toe into the work of Sexton or Plath. Points for that if you’ve perused!

For those in the mood for something more contemporary and definitively creepy, I give you the smorgasbord below. Enjoy, my little pretties. wizwitch

AH HA HA HA HA HA….

From Goblin Fruitspring-titlegoblinfruit

Why the Jack O’ Lantern Grins  (Fall ’06)
No Trespassing (Spring ’07)
Old House (Fall ’07)
Hag-Rid (Winter ’08)
Doppelgangers (Fall ’08)
Blood Waltz (Fall ’09)
The Haunted Girl (Fall ’10)

From Menacing Hedgegraves-360

Halloween Barn Party (Winter’02)

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From The Harrowtheharrow
Unwrapping the Knight (’07)blackcat

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From Strange Horizons

Making Monsters (July ’04)
Angel Bites (Oct ’03)
Wolfways (Feb ’03)
Mr. Hyde’s Daughter (Sept ’02)

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