Well, hello there.

The liminal - a place between, of stasis and transformation. Of being a little bit of one thing on the way to being a lot of another. The resetting part of the ritual, the quiet in the center of the hurricane.

Shira Lipkin and Matt Joiner are editing Liminality, a new magazine for speculative poetry that "shifts shape, refuses ( Read more... )

I’m very pleased that Nancy Ellis Taylor’s “Sarcophagus,” from inkscrawl 3, has placed 3rd in this year’s Dwarf Stars Award. Congratulations to Debbie Kolodji, whose “Basho after Cinderella” is this year’s winner.

Other poems from inkscrawl nominated for the Dwarf Star were Ann K. Schwader’s “Desert Protocol;” Melissa Frederick’s “endless weeks ( Read more... )

inkscrawl 6 - the journey, is here! Please pack your bags, put on your magic boots, summon your carriage, buy your train ticket, board the train, unfurl your sails, and come with us ( Read more... )

For the last couple years, although I was not an officer of the Science Fiction Poetry Association, I volunteered informally assisting the current treasurer.

This is an FYI that I have resigned from that position and also from SFPA membership. Any questions about membership payments/purchasing SFPA materials should be directed toward Deborah ( Read more... )

On the Amazing Stories Blog, Paul Cook’s posted an entry titled Why Science Fiction Poetry is Embarrassingly Bad, which (predictably, given the title) fairly critical of Science Fiction poetry as a genre. There’s lot to be critical about much SF poetry*, certs, but what’s problematic about his essay is that, as he says, he’s looking at SF poetry in ( Read more... )

This Friday, February 1, submissions will open for issue 6 of the short-form speculative poetry magazine, inkscrawl.  I invite any and all to submit speculative (i.e.: having some fantastic, science fictional, or mythic flavor) poetry 10 lines and under.

Please note that is issue has the theme of Journeys. I’m looking for journeys outward and inward ( Read more... )

Rose Lemberg, editor of Stone Telling and owner of Stone Bird Press, has been collecting various speculative poetry editors’ recommendations of poetry published in 2012 (not poems they had edited, written or published). So far she’s posted the selection of Adrienne Odasso, Amal El-Mohtar, and Alexa Seidel, and today I weigh in.

Sandra Lindow (an awesome poet herself) reviews The House of Forever at the Science Fiction Poetry Association’s website, saying: Rhysling-award-winning poet Samantha Henderson is comfortable with the incomplete, the hidden, the broken and the layered. That’s what makes her poems so compelling.
A somewhat more mixed review by William Howell of ( Read more... )

Issue 5 of the very-short speculative poetry magazine, inkscrawl, is here! This issue, guest edited by inkscrawl’s founder (and editor of the magic realist poetry ‘zine Through the Gate) Mitchell Hart, is an exquisite set of nine tiny poems that are bigger than they seem, with work by Adrienne J. Odasso, Michele Bannister, Sonya Taaffe and others.  ( Read more... )

"Nightfall" will appear in the Fall 2013 issue of Goblin Fruit.