So over the summer:

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I've had a sonnet published:

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It's been:

I have four part-time jobs:

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Technically:

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I had an insect poem:

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So I got:

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There must be:

A real shortage of light verse out there in the world. 'Cause I just picked up another $9.41 "honorable mention" over at Poetry Nook for a piece that I will reprint here in its entirety:

The Stars, Like Penguins

The stars,
Like penguins in the daylight,
Waddle gassy, spotted, unwieldy.

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Over at Poetry Nook:

I picked up an "honorable mention" during their 111th weekly contest, the one that ran the week before Christmas, with a seasonal piece called "Not a Creature is Stirring." Because even mice have to celebrate sometime, right?

Mike

I haven't:

Updated the poetry collection here in almost a year, but I'm still writing poetry! In fact, I just won the 106th Weekly Poetry Contest at the website Poetry Nook with an odd little pantoum about trying not to have an out-of-body experience. I'll have more Pony poetry to go up here, I'm hoping, before the year's out, too!

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In an insect mood a couple weeks ago:

I wrote a sonnet called "The Butterfly Effect" and submitted it to the website Adjective Species for their 2nd annual poetry collection. And it got chosen for inclusion!

Mike

My big poetry collection:

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It occurred to me:

That the middle of November is usually when the annual volume of the Sword and Sorceress anthology appears. I haven't gotten my contributor copy yet, but volume 29 is indeed now available for those who have perhaps been following my stories about Cluny, the Sorceress Squirrel.

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First:

The most recent poem I've just added to "Ponyville & Other Poems" has pushed it just over the 10,000 word mark. And second, DuncanR has just posted a new story titled "Nothing to Say." I'm only halfway through the first chapter, and I'm already putting up this recommendation. Read all his other stuff, too, while you're at it.

Mike