"I'm going down / follow if you wanna / or just hang around / like you'll show me where to go"

Arrived this weekend: a contributor's copy of the current Mythic Delirium containing my bilingual English + Japanese poem about this desert, and fairy tales, and stories, and seasons. Plus of course a whole issue of really nifty stuff by a lot of good poets, many of whom have LJs but most I don't know off the top of my head, aside from sovay and rose_lemberg. You don't have to take just my word for it that it's good, either.

I will say, though, I'm impressed this issue not just with the selection but the arrangement -- time_shark is a canny editor indeed. If I had to chose a single favorite, I think it's "Under the Ashpodel" by Erik Amundsen.

And while I'm on the shameless self-promotion track, a roundup of my week of posts, from last month, on translating Japanese poetry.

And to make up for that, a signal boost: stillnotbored's April first line contest is on.

Bonus linky: a blog devoted to long-distance love poems. (I'd REALLY like to know where this was when I was in grad school. "Waiting for the WWW to be invented" is not a valid answer.)

---L.