A couple of weeks ago, I learned that Elizabeth McClellan, a poet from Middle Tennessee who's over in Memphis going to law school, has been nominated for the
Science Fiction Poetry Association's Rhysling Awardfor her poem, “
Anything So Utterly Destroyed."
I was delighted to learn that there was such a thing as science fiction poetry, and even more delighted to learn that there's a poet in Tennessee who's good enough at it that she is up for an award. So I emailed her some questions I was dying to have answered, and she graciously emailed me back.
Join us after the jump for a long, entertaining, free-ranging discussion of everything from Walt Whitman to Adrienne Rich, from whether Hart Crane could be a science fiction poet to whether Dr. Frankenstein is a bit of a sexist pig.
And if you are a member of the Science Fiction Poetry Association (or are thinking of becoming one), vote for the local gal!
