You've got until tomorrow (November 15) to send poems to Stone Telling for the current open submissions period.

We focus on fantasy, science fiction, surrealism, and slipstream, but would consider outstanding science poetry and non-speculative poetry that fits the flavor of the magazine.

Friends of the Merril contest for speculative short (5000 words ( Read more... )

My first collection of poetry, The House of Forever, is now available from Amazon and Barnes and Noble!

Many thanks to Karen Romanko of Raven Electrick Ink, who edited the collection and whose photography is featured on the cover.

I'll be participating in a Hallowe'en-themed poetry reading at the Summer Studios in Lomita this Friday, October 26 at ( Read more... )

My poem, “Quince,” is up at issue 20 of New Myths. Check out the issue for fiction, flash and poetry, including my lately-often-TOC-mate Daniel Ausema.

“Quince” was inspired by an outing by a mad poetry posse to Griffith Observatory a few years ago, and I owe W. Gregory Stewart for the first line.

Cross posted to Samantha Henderson's Blog

My first collection of poetry, The House of Forever, to be released by Raven Electrick Ink in late October of this year, is now visible-in-the-wild on the Raven Electrick website.

From C.S.E. Cooney: Here are ruins and rust and wilderness. Here, too, feral children, naked heroes, women rebels, the heirs of volcanoes, confounded astronomers and ( Read more... )

Kendall Evans and I had a sort of poetic conversation about the asteroid Vesta, and the resulting poem, “Vesta Variations: Two Poems” is up at the Summer issue of Astropoetica.

And another collaboration, “Reverse Burn,” which was inspired by the 1910 Edison Studios version of Frankenstein, is live at Jabberwocky, along with poetry by Alexandra ( Read more... )

I’ve finalized issue 4 of inkscrawl, with poems by Billie Dee, Susan Diridoni, Denise Dumars, Kevin Heaton, Deborah Kolodji, Richard Lung, Seretta Martin, and David Sklar. Follow the links for a sample of these poets’ work, and look for the issue some time in July!

Cross-posted to Samantha Henderson's Blog

Recent inkscrawl acceptances include poems by Charles Nelson, Ross Balcom, Francesca Forrest, Brock Marie Moore, Dominik Parisien, David Kopaska-Merkel, Sonya Taaffe, and Richard Magahiz. Follow the links for poetry goodness!

Today is the last day to sub your short (ten lines or less) speculative poems for the upcoming issue. Flex those minimalist ( Read more... )

Dear lovers of fantastical poetry,
Signal boost from mitchell_hart:

I am pleased to announce the unveiling of my new magazine, Through the Gate, a quarterly devoted to fantastical poetry.


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Current inkscrawl acceptances include an ekphrastic poem by Karen Romanko, and poems by Bethany Powell, Adrienne Odasso, Kendall Evans, Larry Hammer and Sofia Samatar.  Follow the links to read some wonderful poems by these writers.

inkscrawl submissions will remain open through the end of May, so there’s some time to send your speculative poetry ( Read more... )

From Stone Telling Press, Here, We Cross, a collection of queer and genderfluid poems from issues 1 to 7 of the online speculative poetry magazine Stone Telling is now available.  The chapbook looks just gorgeous, with a cover by Čiurlionis.  Congratulations and kudos to Jennifer Smith and Rose Lemberg for putting it together!

Here, We Cross will ( Read more... )