Ah, I need to start finding out about these special days in advance! Today is World Poetry Day. Yay for poetry! I have all sorts of things I’d love to post (with translations, of course)– Erik Gustav Geijer‘s “Vikingen” (= The Viking), Egill Skallagrímsson‘s “Sonatorrek“, and others– but I’m short on sleep and behind on [...]
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Runic Love Poetry for World Poetry Day
Posted in Book Reviews and Recommendations, Old Norse Philology, Philology, Poetry, Scandinavian Studies, Teaching on March 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Sappy Poetry for the Month of Love
Posted in Poetry on February 8, 2012 | 1 Comment »
My poem “The Waves on Lake Vättern” is up at Every Day Poets. Yes, it is a sappy, depressing poem for the month of February. This is the sort of poem you get when your girlfriend breaks up with you and then you go and spend the summer in Sweden writing poetry and getting ready [...]
Upcoming Poems plus Bonus Picture
Posted in Comics and Drawings, Poetry on November 27, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Normally I would announce these as soon as they come out, but since I will be in Estonia at the start of the month for the first meeting of the Old Norse Folklorists Network (yeah, pretty obscure), I thought I would send out a heads-up now. Two poems coming out this December: 1) “The Cabin [...]
Poem Up at Everyday Poets: “Amateur Astronomy”
Posted in Poetry, Recent Work on November 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Hey folks, I’ve had four poems accepted for publication recently (1 at Ideomancer, 3 at Everyday Poets), and the first is up now at Everyday Poets. The poem is a sonnet called “Amateur Astronomy” which I wrote several years ago–maybe way back in 2005, I can’t really remember any more. In any case, it was [...]
