We interrupt this regularly scheduled poetry update to ask you to pause whatever you were planning to do after checking this blog post and go read my friend Maggie Slater’s new story, “Catching College,” in Metaphorosis.  You’re welcome.  I had the honor of reading an earlier draft, right around the time one of my relatives was going through the college application process, and let me tell you, there is so much truth underlying Maggie’s inventive story. 

Moving on from truth to lies, this is what I was originally planning to post today:  I have a new poem in the anthology Anterior Skies, Vol 1: A Genre-Bending Anthology of the Weird and Cosmic.  That part’s not a lie, by the way.  I wrote “The Universe’s Edge” during an online poetry workshop, based on the prompt to write about a lie you were told.  The prompts tended to be aimed at producing autobiographical poetry, but I took them each in a speculative direction.