Thank you to Rita Marie Recine for appearing as a guest on the latest episode of Songs of Selah. She joined the show to discuss her work and to speak about the path life has led her along as a poet. She also read selections from her collection, Open Book: Where the Road to Serendipity Ends.

Episode #133 can be listened to at the link below…
https://www.blogtalkradio.com/17numaradio/2021/02/09/songs-of-selah-with-scott-thomas-outlar

Thank you, as well, to everyone who supports the show by subscribing to the channel, spreading the word, and sharing episode links with your friends. Your support is always greatly appreciated!

Thank you to Steve Cawte for including three of my poems in issue 9 of Imspired Magazine published out of the UK.

“Warning Labels,” “Phase Shift,” and “Masquerade” can be read here…
https://impspired.com/2021/02/01/scott-thomas-outlar-3/

Reading poems from Of Sand and Sugar and Abstract Visions of Light at The Velvet Note’s Velvet Voices event in Alpharetta, Georgia…

I’m stoked that my poem “Of Gasping and Grasping” has been published out of Singapore by Eunoia Review. Thank you to Ian Chung for including my work at his site. The piece can be read here…

https://eunoiareview.wordpress.com/2021/02/03/of-gasping-and-grasping/

This week’s two-hour special of the program features an interview with poet, Elisabeth Horan. She joined the show to speak about and read selections from her new book, Just to the Right of the Stove.

Thank you for listening at the link below, subscribing to the 17Numa Radio channel, and helping to spread the word about Songs of Selah…

https://www.blogtalkradio.com/17numaradio/2021/02/02/songs-of-selah-with-scott-thomas-outlar

It was a pleasure reading through and being inspired by the submissions that were sent in for the Hope anthology of poetry from CultureCult Press. Huge thank you to Jay Chakravarti for spearheading the project and allowing me to serve as guest editor, and thank you to all the contributors whose work fills these pages. I hope you, the readers, enjoy their poetry as much as I have.

Pick up a copy now on Lulu at the link below…

https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/scott-thomas-outlar/hope-an-anthology-of-poetry/paperback/product-ejrzee.html

A belief that there is some sense of order at the heart of the swirling chaos, that some regulator of fairness is on the job behind the scenes, that some scale of justness is weighing out an ultimately righteous verdict.

What would my guardian angels say? What would Jesus Christ & Buddha & Brahman & Yahweh & Allah & Lao Tzu & Elohim & Isis & Artemis & Abraham & Horus & Bacchus & Mother Mary & Tetragrammaton & Matthew & Mark & John & Luke & Loki & Persephone & Sophia & Selene & Shiva & Apollo & Calliope & Aphrodite & Magdalena & Quetzalcoatl & Numa Pompilius & Marcus Aurelius & Hermes Trismegistus & Moses & Ozymandias & Nefertiti & Akhenaten & Cleopatra & Odin & Oberon & all the other high-and-mighty holy spirits have to say?

Honestly, I don’t know.

And I can live with that. 

Links to all past episodes of Songs of Selah can be accessed here in the 17Numa Radio archive:
https://17numa.com/songs-of-selah/

I’m stoked that three of my poems were published recently out of the UK by Lothlorien Poetry Journal. Big thank you to Strider Marcus Jones for including my work in his new venue.

“Masquerade,” “Of Frequencies Resplendent,” and “Apples & Owls at Midnight (Space Wave Version)” can be read at the link below…

https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/2021/01/three-poems-by-scott-thomas-outlar.html

I just happened to stumble across this interview Z.M. Wise conducted with me back in late 2018 for his YouTube channel and thought now is as good a time as any to share…

From the viral fun of the Wuhan Age straight into the fevered depths of Orwell’s wet dream, welcome to round two of the Roaring Twenties.

My first essay of the new year was published today at Dissident Voice. “En Garde 2021” can be read here in its entirety…

https://dissidentvoice.org/2021/01/en-garde-2021/