At long last, A WHEEL OF RAVENS is up for pre-order: the first-ever collection of original poems written in the traditional Old English form. Fans of Norse mythology (but with a Beowulfian twist) will certainly enjoy this one. @DanSauerDesign https://t.co/eNPcaFEiqM

Here's some vintage Halloween for you: my grandparents dressed up in each other's clothes. This is in the late 1940s. My mother looks concerned.

This year's neep jack-o'-lantern is especially creepy!

This is a good read, and it even gives a shout-out to @adambolivar 's book of alliterative verse, WHEEL OF RAVENS.

Think Halloween ends on Oct. 31st? Think again! This Saturday, keep the sugar high going at STILL HAUNTING: the YOU CAN’T ESCAPE HALLOWEEN show... Eldritch poetry and a macabre marionette show at the Rose City Book Pub @RoseCityBookPub in Portland, on Sat. Nov. 2nd at 9 p.m.

Neep procured to carve into a jack-o'-lantern! I can already discern an eldritch visage. I think this year's one will be particularly gruesome...

"Grim King of Ghosts" comes from the first line of the ballad "The Lunatic Lover":

"Grim King of Ghosts" was a popular tune to accompany macabre ballads--very appropriate for Halloween!

The exciting conclusion to my three-part series, "Troubles in SF Poetry," for THE NEW POETS OF RUM RAM RUF: @postTolkien @PaulDean @adambolivar @sfpoetry @SFRAReview https://t.co/ADYdH0SOKy

The latest entry in THE NEW POETS OF RUM RAM RUF! This is Part II of "Troubles in SF Poetry." @postTolkien @PaulDeane3 @adambolivar @sfpoetry @SFRAReview https://t.co/y65hFbwXiD

Some snaps from the marionette show I performed today at the Beaverton Library for the Young Willamette Writers group. Thanks to @frances_pai for inviting me and hosting and thanks to Niyyah Ruscher Haqq for assisting! (Pictures by Frances.)

For you geeks who love talking about #alliterative poetry, my next three hilarious entries for @postTolkien talk about the issues that SF poets face specifically when reviving the alliterative meter. @PaulDeane3 @adambolivar @sfpoetry https://t.co/4PU9rYCMXI

An extremely kind and generous review of my anthology, SPECULATIVE POETRY AND THE MODERN ALLITERATIVE REVIVAL, by Daniel Rabuzzi over at @strangehorizons Please share! https://t.co/iBfZRJLh8H

If you wish to read about this sordid affair, go here and click 'View Entire Text': https://t.co/i7eja0vEgE (A whipster is a whipmaker's wife.)

THE VVhipſter of VVoodſtreet, A True Account of the Barbarous and Horrid Murther committed on the Body of Mary Cox, late Servant in Woodſtreet LONDON. Tune of, Grim King of the Ghosts. (c. 1690)

I have completed composing a new verse-play for marionettes: JACK AND THE GREEN ETTIN, a retelling of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Now I need to make a Green Ettin marionette with a detachable head...

Two more photos of the @NecronomiConPVD puppet show surface. @LCvonHessen

I am happy to learn that my alliterative poem “Géac of the Lantern" will appear in ILLUMINATIONS OF THE FANTASTIC magazine! The editor said that the poem was a "bright spot in my dark week."

I finally saw the Green Knight movie that came out a few years ago. I liked it at first, but it annoyed me that the ending was changed. Perhaps I should write a Sir Gawain and the Green Knight marionette play! It could be written in a combination of rhyming & alliterative verse.

Here is the poetry reading at NecronomiCon Providence: myself, Billy Martin, Brandon O'Brien Brandon, Sumiko Saulson, Bryan Thao Worra and Meg Smith, hosted by the delightful Starry Wizdom.

Scene from the marionette show we performed at @NecronomiConPVD last Saturday. (With Anita Allen, Derrick Hussey and @LCvonHessen.)