Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
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Poetry for a Wednesday night.

I've been writing structured poetry for most of my life. For the past several years, I've participated in a writing exercise I call "Iron Poet," wherein I request three words and a poetic form, and then write a poem to match the suggestion. (I don't have a round going right now, because I am out of hours in the day. I miss it. But I'm not quite that insane.)

I am honored and delighted to have a vilanelle in the latest issue of Goblin Fruit, an online magazine of speculative poetry. It's titled "Ever After Variations," and you can read it for free by following the link above.

Cabinet des Fees is an online journal of fairy tales. They publish fiction and poetry, essays and interviews, and I am totally over the moon to be interviewed in the latest issue. Another of my poems is reproduced alongside the article, titled "Baba Yaga Said." It's free verse, rather than a strict structure, and I'm quite fond of it. The interview was a joy, and the article is fantastic. Plus, check out this awesome description of me:

"A folklore maven and woman of the beautiful weird, Seanan burst onto the urban fantasy scene last year with Rosemary and Rue, the first book in her October Daye series. As her first series proliferates (Rosemary and Rue was recently joined by A Local Habitation, with An Artificial Night forthcoming in September), Seanan is also writing a year-long American folkpunk piece entitled Sparrow Hill Road at The Edge of Propinquity and has just published Feed, the first part of a zombie politico-thriller trilogy, under the pseudonym Mira Grant. Most of us are quite sure that Seanan never actually sleeps."

I'm folkpunk! Also a woman of the beautiful weird!

Halloweentown princess is go.
Tags: fairy tale remix, folklore is awesome, good things, interviews, poetry, so the marilyn
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I agree with you on the Persephone theory. And I love pomegranates, plant seeds so that ideas can grow.
Oh, I love your icon!
That is a wonderful interview! <3
Thank you!
"You get so busy searching the sky for a phoenix that you forget to count the crows."

That is a superb example of your imagery, if I just saw that somewhere without any attribution I would immediately think of you. That's the imagery I love in your writing, not just formal ("for publication") writing but all the way through in your blogs, the contrasts between fantastic and everyday which you see and then condense for the rest of us. It's what urban fantasy does in books, but you seem to live like that. Go you!
Awwww. Thanks, sweetie.
Mira Grant

I almost didnt buy Feed yesterday, because its one of those freakin "Prestige" paperbacks. Short of purchasing an ebook reader and getting it that way, I could see no other way of buying it.
Unfortunately, this is feedback that needs to go to my publisher, not to me. I have zero input on format of titles, or the way in which books are released.
I know that the author doesnt have control over the packaging of the book. I bought it anyway, but that size of book is just frustrating. I dont know anyone who "appreciates" it.
I love both of those poems, a little especially on "Ever After Variation" just because I find the villanelle difficult (well, most of the structured poems, I like free verse). I also completely agree about the phoenix and crows line.

These three things are a great to end my day, which otherwise was going to end on kind of a sucky note. I shall read them again, and -then- go to sleep. XD

~Sabrina
Awesome. I am very glad to have improved your otherwise sucky end-of day. :)
*whimpers* And here I finally thought I knew what a Villanelle was. This form confuses me.

It's a beautiful poem regardless.

--Ember--
Many of them are designed to be confusing.
That is an *awesome* way to be described!
I'm totally jazzed.
omg congratulations! I love both those magazines, i am so excited to see you in them :)
Thank you!
...and I wanted to comment on the way people look so hard for magic that they miss the magic that’s already there. You get so busy searching the sky for a phoenix that you forget to count the crows.

I wish to have this framed upon my wall.

AngelVixen :-)
Hee.

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Free verse is also awesome.

As is your Glee icon.

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Thank you!

I'm amused by all the Red Riding Hood werewolf stories now coming to the party. I've been handling the refreshments for a while now.