{"id":943,"date":"2003-03-04T00:45:35","date_gmt":"2003-03-04T08:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2003\/03\/04\/943.html"},"modified":"2003-03-04T00:45:35","modified_gmt":"2003-03-04T08:45:35","slug":"99-poems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2003\/03\/04\/99-poems\/","title":{"rendered":"99 poems"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I'm embarrassed to admit that I've fallen rather far behind on reading various online publications, including most of the other departments at <cite>SH.<\/cite>  But our reader poll is providing me with impetus to go do some catching up.  Among other things, I noticed that we've now published 99 poems over the magazine's lifetime, so next week's poem will be our 100th.  Cool.  I'm afraid I'm often not fond of the speculative poetry I see, but I'm pleased to continue to find that I like <cite>SH<\/cite>'s rather more than most.  (I can say that 'cause I have absolutely no say in choosing our poetry.  Our departments are pretty autonomous.)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, if you want to vote in the poetry category and you haven't been reading our poetry, you probably ought to read through the entire 2002 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangehorizons.com\/Archive.alt.pl?Dept=p&Stng=&Sort=chron\">poetry archives<\/a>; about 45 poems, most of which shouldn't take more than a couple minutes apiece to read.  An hour or two to get through the whole set, I imagine.<\/p>\n<p>But if you want some specific suggestions for starting points, here are some of the ones I particularly liked, complete with pull quotes:<\/p>\n<dt><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangehorizons.com\/2002\/20020107\/slouching.shtml\">Slouching Towards Entropy<\/a>, by Ann K. Schwader (1\/7\/02)<\/strong><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"pullquote\">Not clean light, after all: not sweet atomic<br>absolution of our myriad sins<br>in one swift Lenten smear of ash, faint thumbprint<br>shadow on a shattered concrete sky.<\/dd>\n<dt><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangehorizons.com\/2002\/20020318\/carnaval.shtml\">Carnaval Perpetuel<\/a>, by Sandra Kasturi (3\/18\/02)<\/strong><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"pullquote\">While wanting a ball is not wanting a prince<br>the two seem to go hand in hand,<br>a kind of logarithmic function of desire and fulfillment.<\/dd>\n<dt><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangehorizons.com\/2002\/20020527\/mathematics.shtml\">Mathematics<\/a>, by Jennifer Crow (5\/27\/02)<\/strong><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"pullquote\">In a weak moment, the boy counts--<br>one body, two, a dozen<br>and he wonders if their ghosts<br>remember him.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.<\/dd>\n<dt><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangehorizons.com\/2002\/20020708\/long_voyage.shtml\">Long Voyage<\/a>, by David C. Kopaska-Merkel (7\/8\/02)<\/strong><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"pullquote\">I visit your tube each watch that I'm off work<br>And there are many such; the years like leaves behind us swirling<br>In our plasma trail. Have I aged well, you think?<br>I like to believe you do under your frost.<\/dd>\n<dt><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangehorizons.com\/2002\/20021007\/engulfer.shtml\">A Bestiary: Engulfer<\/a>, by Tim Pratt (10\/7\/02)<\/strong><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"pullquote\">Funny thing, I thought I heard the water<br>in the bottles crying, like kids snatched<br>away from their mother, like lost kittens<br>grabbed by the scruff and stolen away.<\/dd>\n<dt><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangehorizons.com\/2002\/20021014\/seventh_coming.shtml\">Seventh Coming<\/a>, by Mike Allen and Ian Watson (10\/14\/02)<\/strong><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"pullquote\">One Messiah in particular became rather famous.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p>Finally, my favorite poem we published last year is ineligible for the reader poll because it's a reprint:<\/p>\n<dl>\n<dt><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangehorizons.com\/2002\/20020429\/troy.shtml\">Troy: The Movie<\/a>, by John M. Ford (4\/29\/02)<\/strong><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"pullquote\">The motion for the Trojan's<br>From the goddess with the bodice,<br>The Greek who's got the grief<br>Is in the stew from the blue,<br>As they'll say in the talkie remake<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m embarrassed to admit that I&#8217;ve fallen rather far behind on reading various online publications, including most of the other&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}