POETS, WRITERS & ARTISTS INTO ASTROLOGY
What a shock a while back coming upon The Indianapolis Review's call for poems based on the zodiac. What!? Were they serious, I wondered. I'm a poet and writer, but my interest in astrology--I've had an on and off relationship with it since my teens--has never been something I ever let into my writing. I was definitely curious about a "serious" magazine taking a leap into this nebulous, dubious arena. So I went for it and submitted three poems that toy with the idea of astrology while paying tribute to it. Two were chosen: "Done" and "Conditions," and they are featured in the current special Issue 30 of IR. What a creative and original task the editor set upon herself. The results are visually stunning and intellectually intriguing. Check out Natalie Solmer's gorgeous "Zodiac Collages," for example. (A snapshot of it is below). The issue, which features zodiacal poetry, art and interviews with the "star" poets whose