Youth Encouragement - A call for literary and art submissions ( Read more... )

My poetry fishbowl is open today! Come give me prompts about "military science fiction."

The September issue of Ideomancer Speculative Fiction is up.

Poetry from Liz Bourke, David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Kendall Evans, Jacqueline West, and J.C. Runolfson goes back towards the classics, stops off at Mark Twain, and dips forward, into the whole of the universe.

Year of Miracles by Liz Bourke
The Egg that Exploded by David Kopaska-Merkel ( Read more... )

A few tidbits from around the world of speculative poetry:

Apex Magazine Issue 27 is out! In addition to fiction by Zach Lynott, Rabbit Seagraves and Lavie Tidhar, the issue features Saladin Ahmed's (saladinahmed)'s poem "The Djinn Prince in America: A Micropic in 9 Tracks" and Elizabeth R. McClellan's (popelizbet) "Down CyclesSFPA member, editor and poetry lover ( Read more... )

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Every year I try to at least offer a post to remind SFPA members what I published in Mythic Delirium over the past year and what categories, short or long, the various poems fall into.

A delay in 2009 meant that we had three issues come out last year, so there's a ton to pick from. The procedure for nominating can be found here.There's an ( Read more... )

We are currently discussing prose poetry on SFPA's official forum. Please join us!

http://www.sfpoetry.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=373

In my term as president of the Science Fiction Poetry Association, Mike Allen has sort of been my secret weapon. I could have never done this job without him. He has always been there as a sounding board, with advice on how things were done in previous administrations, etc. And, he has continued to volunteer, often behind the scenes. In additon to ( Read more... )

One of the wonderful things about print publishing is that when mistakes happen, they're permanent.

Unfortunately in this case the mistake involves a book that the Science Fiction Poetry Association is using as a voting tool. It turns out there's an entire page of verses missing from Kendall Evans' and Samantha Henderson's long poem candidate "In ( Read more... )

The Mythic Delirium website now features two poems from the just-released "Goblin Delirium" issue, guest-edited by Ms. El-Mohtar and Ms. Wick of Goblin Fruit fame. The poems are Susan Slaviero's "The Reaper's Wife," with accompanying illustration by Paula Friedlander, and an audio reading by Kate Baker, and Shweta Narayan's "Cave-smell," with audio ( Read more... )