Got this email today about a short fiction of mine that had been accepted a while back: "Please note that the term "gypsy" has been changed to "Romani" for publication since the original word appears on lists of ethnic slurs. We're sorry no one noticed the issue before the story went live to ask you …
Author: Jedediah Smith
Instructor of English Composition and Literature
Quadrille – Sky
While colored rings marry some planets our sky is the shorter, bluer end of the spectrum scattering due to and away from the source a wavelength stronger than the Sun like sounds of spoken language scatter free from us among atoms of terrestrial light. __________________________________________________ for dVerse Poets Pub Quadrille prompt Episode 7 of the PoJo …
PoJo #7 is here
Episode 7 of the PoJo Show — a podcast mixing poetry, spoken word, music, and sound — is ready and will be launched to day on the Sound Files page and on my YouTube channel. This episode is called “Beyond & Back: Punk Poetry featuring Exene Cervenka.” In addition to poems by Exene, the program includes poems, spoken word, …
Where Is Paradise
Chopping wood the short swing works best maul lifted to eye level, aim, quick arc and oak quarter splits to eighths red raw wood breathes out a sweet nutty scent fresh resin. Later, swim off the sweat in cool Santa Ynez river pool cloaked below the surface turtles poke …
Wild Surprise
Lime Ridge Open Space is a lemon-shaped ridge of grassland and chaparral wedged between suburbs. Steep hills drop to live oak and sycamores along Contra Costa Canal and rise to bald summits where red-tails, Cooper’s hawks, and white-tailed kites hover then stoop toward gophers and ground squirrels on the meadows. Yards with swimming pools back …
