Podcast: September Poetry

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Podcast: September Poetry

Ahimaz Rajessh
Charlotte Geater
Ciro Faienza
Gillian Daniels
Romie Stott
Sara Norja

Issue: 26 September 2016

Direct link: September poetry (MP3)

In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Ciro Faienza presents poetry from the September issues.

“Taboo" by Sara Norja, read by Romie Stott. You can read the full text of the poem and more about Sara here.
“Sharing Bites" by Ahimaz Rajessh, read by Ciro Faienza. You can read the full text of the poem and more about Ahimaz here.
“Athena and Yeshua" by Gillian Daniels, read by Ciro Faienza. You can read the full text of the poem and more about Gillian here.
“little stomach" by Charlotte Geater, read by Ciro Faienza. You can read the full text of the poem and more about Charlotte here.

About Ahimaz Rajessh

Ahimaz Rajessh has been published in Birkensnake, Nether, Apocrypha and Abstractions, Apparent Magnitude, The Fractured Nuance, 7x20, Cuento, unFold, Flapperhouse, theEEEL, Pidgeonholes, and 200 CCs. His writing is forthcoming in Milkfist.

About Charlotte Geater

Charlotte Geater is an editor at the Emma Press. Her poetry has previously been published at Queen Mob’s Teahouse and Strange Horizons. She lives in London. She is on twitter at @tambourine.

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 Gillian Daniels

Gillian Daniels attended the 2011 Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing Workshop and afterward moved to Boston, MA. Her work appears in Apex Magazine, PodCastle, Flash Fiction Online, and Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet among others. She writes reviews for Fantastic Stories of the Imagination.

About Romie Stott

Romie Stott is the administrative editor and a poetry editor of Strange Horizons, and author of the horror novel Nothing in the Basement (Dybbuk Press, 2025). Romie's poems have appeared in inkscrawl, Dreams & Nightmares, Polu Texni, On Spec, The Deadlands, and Liminality, and elsewhere. You can find her fairly complete bibliography here. Outside of poetry, she is best known for her essays in The Toast and Atlas Obscura, and short stories in Analog and Tractor Beam. As a filmmaker, she has been a guest artist of the National Gallery (London), the Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston), and the Dallas Museum of Art. She is half of the electronica duo Stopwalk, and is the playwright behind the musicals "First, Contact" and The Lady Takes the Mic.

About Sara Norja

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.

By: Dhiyanah Hassan

If only Serthe'P had been able to fit in, maybe she could have protected —. No. This thought was dangerous. Mnth’R had helped her understand that their isolation had more to do with the Raja’s exploitation of their cast’s fears than any shortcomings of theirs, his Manifest Sight propaganda curdling climate anxieties into prejudice against community members. Serthe’P needed to remember that their lives mattered too much to be reduced by a tyrant’s ideology. Separated from the cast, they were still finding ways to take care of each other.

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