Westfarer and Worm, Alliterative Agreement Received, Returned

Sorry about that headline — but who could resist? That said, time marches on and one may recall that two poems of mine from about a fifth and a quarter century back had been tagged for reprinting (see February 5). Today the contract came from Editor Dennis Wilson Wise for “The Worm in the Wood” and “The Westfarer” to be included in SPECULATIVE POETRY AND THE MODERN ALLITERATIVE REVIVAL and, with one minor change (which I only discovered after already signing a first time — oops!) has been signed (and, yes, re-signed) and sent back this afternoon.

The poems themselves were originally published in STAR*LINE, May/June 2001, and DARK DESTINY: PROPRIETORS OF FATE (White Wolf, 1995), respectively, while their new home will be in a scholarly volume from Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, co-published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, with a tentative publication date of July 2022.