Views from Medina Road

The 2006 Locus Poll and Survey ballot is now online. Who will be the first to vote? In past years it hasn't taken long; there are usually a handful of votes the first evening, several dozen the first week.

Also this year, at the suggestion of Greg Beatty some months back, there's a special online-only poll for best poem of 2005, and of all-time. Don't count on this becoming an annual Locus Poll/Awards category. It will be interesting to see how many votes it gets.

Update 7:23 p.m.: John Klima is the first to submit a Locus Poll/Survey ballot; simultaneously, Helena Bell submitted a Poetry Poll ballot.