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

  • "Fat Women" by Sandi Leibowitz, read by Sandi Leibowitz. You can read the full text of the poem and more about Sandi here.
  • "True History" by Liz Bourke, read by Liz Bourke. You can read the full text of the poem and more about Liz here.
  • "The Peal Divers" by Francesca Forrest, read by Ciro Faienza. You can read the full text of the poem and more about Francesca here.
  • "Litany of the Family Bean" by Gemma Files, read by Sonya Taaffe. You can read the full text of the poem and more about Gemma here.



Anaea Lay lives in Madison, Wisconsin, where she sells real estate under a different name, writes, cooks, plays board games, spoils her cat, and plots to take over the world. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Apex, Penumbra, Lightspeed, Shock Totem, and Nightmare. She lives online at anaealay.com.
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the sleeping are so hard to distinguish / from the dead
We'd only lived in Arizona four years—it was our retirement place. But I'd died there, and she'd dumped my ashes out in the desert without fanfare, without any poem or prayer, unless you considered, “Jesus, Marty, don't leave me. Why'd you leave me, you old bastard" to be an elegy.
Nature, desecrated, refused to yield more than bone
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