The Stars and the Cookie Jar

And it's thatsovay person's fault again. 

...All right, technically it may have been me. 

But I'm not going to cop to it. 

I'm not sure if I'm posting this to pique the general curiosity, or send the reading public away shrieking...  (Fair do's: the image is from Costume of Nashua. I don't know anything about their business, but gingham AND birds AND ribbon falls, it's perfect.)

http://feministing.com/2010/11/11/new-study-lesbian-households-produce-a-child-abuse-rate-of-0/

Since my workplace can see some of my Facebook, I did not post there what I am going to post here, which is as follows, and I quote.

Hey, Santorum, suck my electric-lavender silicone dick. 

It is amusing to me how much my current Large Writing Projects  are written to Mumford and Sons and Cherry Ghost. This music is not in period by a factor of two hundred and about four hundred years, respectively. 

Also, this holiday thing is exhausting. 

Also also, I will write something tonight! I have fallen down on the job. 

Happy new year. 

"You may note," she added, "I also thinned those eyebrows."
Kynd Kit Marloe was way too busy intelligencin' to pluck. Also, do you know how hard it was to get a good magnifying mirror in Elizabethan London?

No holiday rush -- it en't done -- just register your interest if you have it. It may have started as a complete lark, but I want this to be good when it's done.

Ability to spot when I've gone from well-researched to cod-Elyfabethan a plus. You do not need to look at pictures of depressed orbital frontal-lobe brain trauma such as comes from being stabbed above the eye in a bar fight. I done done that.

-- Mgmt

For nineweaving by way of sovay 's crack pipe:

( Cut for Crackery. )

Presenting A Mayse-Bikhl, Jewish-themed mostly-speculative poetry by Sonya Taaffe (sovay), in her first collection in some time; with a brilliant introduction by Me, and conjured into chapbook form by Erzebet YellowBoy Carr of the exquisite Papaveria Press. If you've never owned one of Papaveria's amazing editions, please consider this one! They are masterpieces of papercraft in the old style, lovely to look at and hold.

I will paste my introduction which was written by me here, so as to give you a better idea of the particular golden peacock you will be purchasing:

“Here are almost a decade’s worth of poems, curated by the author and Rose Lemberg. They tap an abiding cultural well; they are folk tales, mermaid-mayses, they are the richly hued wares of those who have traded in small, bright, enduring objects for a thousand years. Ms. Taaffe knows how to please the reading eye and linger in the senses, to charm by a sound, to sketch an inheritance with ash and fire and with sweetness. By turns intimate, elegiac, singing, and seeking, these poems are full of truth. They are deeply and completely Jewish poems, though to say that is to reach above one’s height for the emet written in the clay. Perhaps all Jewish texts look backward, inward, into dreams and the dark: better the wolf you know. These are poems for those who have known the wolf. Memory, wire-sharp and gallows-cold, is here, and the last notes of songs the whole world has forgotten. Orpheus is here too, Amazons, tzaddikim, dybbukim, small gods, and tummlers; the weighted grey of the diaspora; the warm golden stones of Jerusalem. It is all yours for the taking.”

– Selkie

The title is available for purchase next week on Papaveria Press' website. I am very pleased.

NOW WITH LESBIANS.

Go! Buy! Read! The paperback is ready for pre-order, but if you like e-books, then you--yes, you!--could be reading this book right the hell now.


It's brilliant, with stories by Patty Templeton, E.P. Birdsall, Jaymee Goh, Zen Cho, A.M. Tuomala (I have to say I really, really particularly liked A.M.'s story), Rebecca Fraimow, and lots more. It's 120,000 words of steampunk. With lesbians. COME ON NOW.

Look at all these cool people! Eeeee! ("Starring everybody -- and me!")



Rose Lemberg, Introduction.

POETRY:

Ursula K. Le Guin, Werewomen
Nicole Kornher-Stace, Harvest Season
Eliza Victoria, Prayer
Shweta Narayan, Cave-smell
Theodora Goss, The Witch
Amal El-Mohtar, On the Division of Labour
J.C. Runolfson, The Birth of Science Fiction
Kristine Ong Muslim, Resurrection of a Pin Doll
Lawrence Schimel, Kristallnacht
Cassandra Phillips-Sears, The Last Yangtze River Dolphin
Peg Duthie, The Stepsister
Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl with Two Skins
Theodora Goss, Binnorie
Nandini Dhar, Learning to Locate Colors in Grey: Kiran Talks About Her Brothers
Rachel Manija Brown, River of Silk
JoSelle Vanderhooft, The King’s Daughters
Lisa Bradley, The Haunted Girl
Mary Alexandra Agner, Tertiary
Sara Amis, Owling
Athena Andreadis, Spacetime Geodesics
Lisa Bradley, In Defiance Of Sleek-Armed androids
Sofía Rhei, Cinderella
Alex Dally MacFarlane, Beautifully Mutilated, Instantly Antiquated
Shweta Narayan, Epiphyte
Elizabeth R. McClellan, Down Cycles
H.E.L Gurney, She Was
Kelly Pflug-Back, My Bones’ Cracked Abacus
Kat Dixon, Nucleometry
N. A’Yara Stein, It’s All In The Translation
Sally Rosen Kindred, Sabrina, Borne
Adrienne J. Odasso, The Hyacinth Girl
Delia Sherman, Snow White to the Prince
Phyllis Gotlieb, The Robot’s Daughter
Vandana Singh, Syllables of Old Lore
Greer Gilman, She Undoes
Emily Jiang, Self-Portrait
Ki Russel, The Antlered Woman Responds
Catherynne M. Valente, The Oracle at Miami
Athena Andreadis, Night Patrol
Koel Mukherjee, Sita Reflects
Lorraine Schoen, Hypatia/Divided
Sharon Mock, Machine Dancer
C.W. Johnson, Towards a Feminist Algebra
Jo Walton, Blood Poem IV
Meena Kandasamy, Six Hours of Chastity
Samantha Henderson, Berry Cobbler
Sofía Rhei, Bluebeard Possibilities
Sheree Renee Thomas, Old Scratch poem featuring River
Elizabeth R. McClellan, The Sea Witch Talks Show Business
Ranjani Murali, Chants for Type: Skull-Cap Donner at Center-One Mall
Sonya Taaffe, Madonna of the Cave
Jeannelle Ferreira, Anniversaries
Rebecca Korvo, Handwork
Patricia Monaghan, Journey To The Mountains Of The Hag
Ari Berk, Pazerik Burial on the Ukok Plateau
Neile Graham, Dsonoqua Daughters
Sonya Taaffe, Matlacihuatl’s Gift
Ellen Wehle, Once I No Longer Lived Here
Yoon Ha Lee, Art Lessons
JT Stewart, Say My Name
Amal El-Mohtar, Pieces
Sofia Samatar, The Year of Disasters
Claire S. Cooney, The Last Crone on the Moon
Minal Hajratwala, Archaeology of the Present
Jennifer McGowan, Mara Speaks
JT Stewart, Ceremony
April Grant, Trenchcoat
Tara Barnett, Star Reservation
Mary Alexandra Agner, Old Enough
Nisi Shawl, Transbluency: An Antiprojection Chant