At the end of October, my poem “Stellar Cartography” was featured in Verandah #39, the Literary & Arts Journal of Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. One contract stipulation was that they would maintain copyright for the first year, after which it would revert to me. So, while I can’t post the entire poem here until November 2025, there are a couple things I can post.
[edited 22 August 2025] I had hoped to include the quotation below as an epigram with the poem, but had not researched permissions at the time and Verandah opted to not go forward with it. I have since contacted Mr. Turchi and obtained permission to use the epigram in future publications of the poem. (Thank you, sir!!!)
To ask for a map is to say,
“Tell me a story.”
—Peter Turchi
The quotation comes from Turchi’s book Maps of the Imagination. It’s one of those books that when I find a copy at a used bookstore, I buy it to pass along to a friend who hasn’t read it yet. It’s a wonderful book.
Also, on their Facebook page, Verandah is posting medallions with excerpts from the works appearing in Issue 39. This is mine:
