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Direct link: December poetry (MP3)

In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Anaea Lay presents poetry from the December issues.

  • “Rust" by Kythryne Aisling, read by Kythryne Aisling. You can read the full text of the poem and more about Kythryne here.
  • “Raw Honey" by Sara Norja, read by Sara Norja. You can read the full text of the poem and more about Sara here.
  • “Warriors" by Thato Angela Chuma, read by Thato Angela Chuma. You can read the full text of the poem and more about Thato here.
  • “Letters to S. From Poet-Build Beta-3" by A.E. Ash, read by A.E. Ash. You can read the full text of the poem and more about A.E. here.



Once upon a time, there was a nerd who wrote about magic, mayhem, pew-pew, and space. In the real world, A.E. Ash is an editor for a mortuary science publications index and spends daylight hours categorizing the clinical, work-a-day business of death. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop but the most valuable lessons she's learned about writing she begged/borrowed/stole from the incredible weirdness of everyday life. You can find her work in Five Magazine and Luna Station Quarterly, and you can contact her on Twitter at @dogmycatzindeed or email her at dogmycatzindeed@gmail.com
Anaea Lay lives in Chicago, Illinois where she writes, cooks, plays board games, reads too much, and questions the benevolence of the universe. Her work has appeared in many places including Apex, Penumbra, Lightspeed, Daily Science Fiction, and Nightmare. She lives online at anaealay.com.
Kythryne Aisling is a jewelry artist, performance poet, musician, parent, weightlifter, and brain tumor survivor; her poetry has previously appeared in Stone Telling and Interfictions. Forgetting things is her superpower, and she is inordinately fond of glitter. Her jewelry can be found at wyrdingstudios.com and she tweets about anything that crosses her mind at @wyrdingstudios
Sara Norja dreams in two languages. Her poetry has appeared in publications such as Goblin Fruit, Strange Horizons, inkscraw, and Interfictions. Her short fiction has appeared in various publications and is forthcoming in Flash Fiction Online and An Alphabet of Embers (ed. Rose Lemberg). She is @suchwanderings on Twitter.
Thato Angela Chuma is a Motswana singer, poet and writer. Her poetry has featured in literary magazines such as Words Dance Publishing, Saraba Magazine, Brittle Paper, The Kalahari Review and The Machinery India.
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