Podcast: January Poetry

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Anaea Lay
April Grant
Ciro Faienza
Dennis M. Lane
Julia Rios
Mari Ness
Sharon Kretz
Stacie Taylor

Issue: 27 January 2014

Direct link: January poetry (MP3)

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

“The Restoration of Youth" by Mari Ness, read by Julia Rios. You can read the full text of the poem and more about Mari here.
“Dermatoglyphics" by Stacie Taylor, read by Anaea Lay. You can read the full text of the poem and more about Stacie here.
“Architect" by Sharon Kretz, read by Ciro Faienza. You can read the full text of the poem and more about Sharon here.
“Roman Shade" by April Grant, read by Dennis M. Lane. You can read the full text of the poem and more about April here.

About Anaea Lay

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.

About April Grant

April Grant lives in Boston. Her backstory includes time as a sidewalk musician, real estate agent, public historian, dishwasher, and librarian. Among her hobbies are biking and ruin appreciation.

About Ciro Faienza

Ciro Faienza (pronounced CHEE-roh) is an American/Italian national. He has acted on stages and screens throughout Texas and Massachusetts, and his work as a filmmaker has shown at the Dallas Museum of Art, the Dallas Hub Theater, and the National Gallery, London. His fiction is featured in numerous publications, including Daily Science Fiction and Futuristica, Vol 1. His short story "J'ae's Solution" was a top finalist in PRI's 3-Minute Futures Contest. You can see his visual artwork at his web gallery, Postmedium.

About Dennis M. Lane

Dennis M. Lane is a reader.

About Julia Rios

Julia Rios is a queer, Latinx writer, editor, podcaster, and narrator whose writing has appeared in Latin American Literature Today, Lightspeed, and Goblin Fruit, among other places. Formerly a fiction editor for Strange Horizons, their editing work has won multiple awards, including the Hugo Award. Julia is a co-host of This is Why We're Like This, a podcast about how the movies we watch in childhood shape our lives, for better or for worse. They've narrated stories for Escape Pod, Podcastle, Pseudopod, and Cast of Wonders. Find them on Twitter as @omgjulia.

About Mari Ness

Mari Ness is a poet, writer, and scholar of fairy tales, whose work has previously appeared in multiple zines, including here in Strange Horizons. Her poetry novella, Through Immortal Shadows Singing, is available from Papaveria Press. For more, check out her occasionally updated webpage at marikness.wordpress.com, or follow her on Twitter at mari_ness.

About Sharon Kretz

According to family, Sharon began singing and telling stories before she could write them down. If it were possible to subsist on tea, music, and language—she would.

About Stacie Taylor

Stacie lives in Mobile, Alabama with her dog. She has a BA in English and will begin a master's in library sciences this fall. This is her first publication.

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