I'm still anxiously awaiting the release of my sonnet project book, Risk a Verse: A Year in Daily Sonnets, which Burrito Books will be releasing soon, but am happily distracting myself with loads of music! One particularly fun experience was performing a whole concert of new arrangements of Carole King's music with SACRA/PROFANA, including a performance of … Continue reading A Musical Interlude
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For Better, For Verse
Happy New Year, One and All! I have so much exciting stuff to report, but I should probably lead with this: a book containing all the sonnets I posted here during my year-long sonnet-writing project will be released in April! The pieces have been gently edited and lovingly annotated, so there's quite a bit of … Continue reading For Better, For Verse
Singing one’s heart out
Greetings, Folks! It has been a while since my last update, and while I don't have much new fiction news (I'm working on a couple of short stories with an eye towards a to-be-announced anthology and hope to have the book o' sonnets out next year), I do have some nifty things to share from … Continue reading Singing one’s heart out
Two new stories in IMMANENCE, plus bonus sonnet
It's been a fabulously busy start to 2016, but I am delighted to share that two of my short stories have been published in IMMANENCE, an anthology about gods, godesses, and demons! Now available on Amazon (Kindle, paperback), Kobo, Nook, and iTunes! I'm pleased as punch to have two stories included in this wonderful collection of … Continue reading Two new stories in IMMANENCE, plus bonus sonnet
Lost Time
It's both strange and wonderful, after a year of writing daily sonnets, not be be writing daily sonnets. One would think that my post-sonnet-project schedule would feel less daunting, and yet anybody who knows me well knows that I'm happiest when I'm busy doing things that I love. So I've been no less busy this … Continue reading Lost Time
A Bribe For My Kind Editor, or Pony Up
Your shaggy, winsome countenance belies A strength borne out of harsh austerity Unparalleled, comparative to size, A product of your insularity. Your humble, compact form inspires delight, Small children are entrusted to your back-- Beloved pets, devoted guides, despite Strong will, which manifests in training's lack. And yet I cannot look into your faces Without … Continue reading A Bribe For My Kind Editor, or Pony Up
January 6 (2015!): This Gull is on Fire
A common gull that flew toward the dawn Was suddenly with pinkish orange aflame, As lead by alchemy had undergone Its transformation, baseness overcame. I knew it was a trick of light, and yet Its unexpected beauty gave me pause, I fixed it in my mind, not to forget The transient perfection that it was- … Continue reading January 6 (2015!): This Gull is on Fire
December 31: Last, Not Least
This is the last time I will write my life Into a daily sonnet, those things great, Exciting, middling, sad, and sometimes strife, Through stubbornness one cannot understate. Tonight, I'll sing to thousands and the sky To fete a civic gem's centenary Then dinner, where we'll bid the year goodbye And sonnet cycle done successfully. … Continue reading December 31: Last, Not Least
December 30: Penultimate
Wan winter sun, the second to the last Of this, the year I chose to sonnet daily, Your rise announced all starts of poems past And now, upon the end you shine so palely Upon this concept that I'm now outlining, Which has already set my scansion spinning I know what words may yet survive … Continue reading December 30: Penultimate
December 29: Pelican
I soar above the waves with little clearance, As if an unseen cloak fashioned of breeze From choppy waters wanting interference Protects me over other devotees. I rise in joyful arc into the sky, Then turn my shoulder to the sea below To dive upon what fodder I espy And fill my bill, and through … Continue reading December 29: Pelican
Libby Weber 