I’m trying to think of:
Some amusing little thing to say at the beginning here, but all I’m coming up with is: “We put the ape in April!” So let’s just forget all that and get right to the list of stuff various members of SFPA had available for reading during this last month.
Mike
Lisa Wood
collection, Imitation of Life, Falstaff Books, April 2024, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CYQLSQMX
David C. Kopaska-Merkel
poem, “blind date,” Otoroshi Journal v. 3 n. 2, Autumn/Winter 2023/2024, https://otoroshijournal.wixsite.com/home/issues
4 poems, “Earth on a,” “footsteps,” “my hands,” and “pavement,” Five Fleas, 16-Apr., 2024, https://fivefleas.blogspot.com/2024/04/afternoon-of-april-16-2024.html
Michael H. Payne
poem, “Beach Seen,” Our California 2024, California Arts Council, April 2024, https://capoetlaureate.org/orange-county
5 poems, #1772-1776, Terebinth, April 1, 8, 15, 22 & 29, 2024, http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20240401.html, http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20240408.html, http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20240415.html, http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20240422.html & http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20240429.html
poem, “Crown Moldering #1,” Daily Grind, April 29, 2024, http://pandora.xepher.net/daily/20240429.html
Robert Frazier
2 poems, “Fibonacci Rules the Household” & “Life During the Lazarus Age,” Asimov’s SF, May/June 2024, https://www.asimovs.com
Pixie Bruner
poem, “Joni and I Unstuck,” miniMAG, Issue #91: wither, March 28, 2024, https://minimag.substack.com/p/wither
collection, The Body As Haunted, Authortunities Press, April 4, 2024, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CTHPQPPH
reading, “The Body As Haunted”, Exercise Your Writes- Angela Yuriko Smith, YouTube, April 1, 2024, https://youtu.be/1xAfZ-2Xkfs?si=ozmMboYqOlS1Quea
interview and cat-ruined poetry reading, “Trigger Warnings” and “Finger Foods for Failed Apoptosis”, Exercise Your Writes- Angela Yuriko Smith,April 4, 2024, https://www.youtube.com/live/_AYjM6NBdlQ?si=vrBIyX-cbAfzm7F5
prose poem, “In the Order of the Continous Interim” miniMAG #93: modern monastic, April, 11, 2024, https://minimag.substack.com/p/modern-monastic
interview by A.F. Stewart, “Talking Poetry With Pixie Bruner”, April 14, 2024, YouTube, https://youtu.be/4HA9Jv2EiCc?si=v3DMYJeYaMy2IW4Q
prose poem, “Crypsters in Charteuse”, miniMAG #94: libations, April 18, 2024, https://minimag.substack.com/p/libations
Wendy Van Camp
featured, “The poet laureate on Medium”, The Edition: Medium’s Weekly Newsletter, April 5, 2024, http://medium.com
reading, Author Chats and Readings, The BookFest, April 6, 2024, https://www.thebookfest.com/
workshop, “Chapbook Craft: Your Words, Your Way”, Anaheim Central Library, April 10th, 2024, https://anaheim.net/Calendar.aspx?EID=36374&month=4&year=2024&day=10&calType=0
reading, “Proclamation of National Poetry Month”, Anaheim City Council Chambers, April 16th, 2024, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StjC3fPnRGk
podcast panelist, “A Star Trek Rogues Gallery: with Wendy Van Camp, Rachel E. Carr, Gini Koch, Kristin Jackson, David R. Slayon, and host James P. Nettles”, ConTinual: Fandom, April 2024, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCnYWnF1AcA
editor, Anaheim Poetry Review 2, April 20th, 2024, http://anaheimpoetry.com/journal
coordinator, “Anaheim Poetry Review Launch Party at Central”, Physical APR2 Book Release, Anaheim Central Library, April 24, 2024, https://anaheim.net/Calendar.aspx?EID=36375&month=4&year=2024&day=24&calType=0
reader, “OC Poetry Slam”, The Den Cafe, Santa Ana, CA, April 27, 2024, https://www.dencafeoc.com/
G. O. Clark
2 poems, “Continuum” & “Miles To Go Before We Rest”, Heartbeat of the Universe: Poems From Asimov’s Science fiction and Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2012 – 2022, Interstellar Flight Press, 4/2024, https://www.interstellarflightpress.com/heartbeatuniverse.html
John Philip Johnson
poem, “Imagine Crowd Noise,” Southern Poetry Review, Volume 61, issue 2, https://www.southernpoetryreview.org/product/volume-61-issue-2
Angela Liu
poem, “If I Had a Time Machine,” Small Wonders Issue 10, April 2023, https://smallwondersmag.com/piece/if-i-had-a-time-machine/
poem, “Wall of Keyholes,” Worlds of Possibility, February 2023, https://www.juliarios.com/introducing-the-february-2024-issue-of-worlds-of-possibility/
TS S. Fulk
5 poems, “The Fractured Ceremony,” “Mirror Mine,” “A Father’s Song,” “After the Fall,” and “Song of the Hunt,” Lovecraftiana, Vol. 9, Issue 1, Rogue Planet Press, Walpurgisnacht 2024, https://www.schlock.co.uk
Ken Poyner
poem, non-genre, web, “Entanglement”, Mad Swirl, 4/16/2024, https://madswirl.com/poetry/2024/04/entanglement/
Anna Cates
featured poet, The Haibun Gallery, Part 1: https://www.trivenihaikai.in/post/the-haibun-gallery-04-april-2024-dr-anna-cates-featured-poet, Part 2: https://www.trivenihaikai.in/post/the-haibun-gallery-11-april-2024-dr-anna-cates-featured-poet & Part 3: https://www.trivenihaikai.in/post/the-haibun-gallery-18-april-2024-dr-anna-cates-featured-poet
poem, The Haibun Gallery, April 12, 2024, https://www.trivenihaikai.in/post/the-haibun-gallery-11-april-2024-dr-anna-cates-featured-poet
poem, The Haibun Gallery, April 19, 2024, https://www.trivenihaikai.in/post/the-haibun-gallery-18-april-2024-dr-anna-cates-featured-poet
Frank Coffman
collection, “The Battle of the Bards,” Forgotten Ground Regained: A Journal of Alliterative Verse, Issue 2, Spring 2024, https://alliteration.net/poetry/battle-of-the-bards/
Felicia Martínez
poem, “This is What I Am (I Sing of Revolution),” Space and Time Magazine, Spring/Summer #146, https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0D2PDB5KC
Jean-Paul L. Garnier
3 scifaiku, Eldritch Science, April 2024, https://tnfff.org/eldritch-science/
Lynne Sargent
3 poems, spec & non-spec “Not Luminous in Darkness, but Darkness in Illumination,” “Cultured Varieties,” and “Mid-Life Crisis,” Samjoko, Spring Issue 2024, https://www.samjokomagazine.com/not-luminous-in-darkness-but-darkness-in-illumination
prose poem, “Your Body as a Haunted House, or When the Ghost Moves In”, The Cosmic Background, April 20 2024, https://www.thecosmicbackground.com/stories/lynne-sargent-your-body-as-a-haunted-house-or-when-the-ghost-moves-in
S T Eleu
poem, “Spectrum Note 83, #Rumination,” New Feathers Anthology, Spring 2024, https://www.newfeathersanthology.com/spectrum-note-83-rumination.html#/
Casey Aimer
poem, “Solar System Real Estate”, Space & Time #146, 24 April 2024, https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1959048171
Mary Soon Lee
2 poems, reprint, “Packing for the Afterlife” + “How to Go Twelfth,” The Heartbeat Of The Universe, 4/2024, https://www.interstellarflightpress.com/heartbeatuniverse.html
poem, mainstream, “Basil,” yawp, Issue 7, April 2024, https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CYY271KD/
poem, mainstream, “Catachreses,” Rune, Spring 2024, https://www.rmu.edu/system/files/user_files/RUNE%202024.pdf
Marisca Pichette
3 poems, “Old Men Collect Old Things,” “What stars are made of,” and “Looking-glass, half-full,” Coffin Bell, Volume 7, Issue 2, April 2024,https://coffinbell.com/volume-7-issue-no-2-multiverses/
poem, “casket,” Dusty Attic, Volume 3, April 2024, https://dustyatticpublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/01.04.24-issue.pdf
poem, “Picturesque,” Heroica, April 2024, https://www.heroica.co/poetry-2023/picturesque
Katherine Quevedo
2 panels, “Fear Becomes Words Becomes Poetry” and ” Ancestry as Source: Writing with Deep Authenticity,” StokerCon 2024, May 30-June 2, 2024, https://www.stokercon2024.com/
event, Beaverton City Library Local Author Fair, Beaverton, OR, May 18, 2024, https://www.beavertonlibrary.org/calendar.aspx?eid=22493
poem, reprint, genre, “The Devil with the Golden Hairs Earns His Sleep,” The Hyacinth Review: Night theme, https://hyacinthreview.org/katherine-quevedo-the-devil-with-the-golden-hairs-earns-his-sleep/
Lori R. Lopez
5 poems, “The Heebie-Jeebies”, “Taking Names”, “the fear of wide-open spaces”, “Underneath The Rug”, and “From The Grave Reborn”, The Sirens Call, Issue 65, Spring, April 2024, http://www.sirenscallpublications.com/pdfs/SirensCallEZine_Spring2024.pdf
Roger Dutcher
poem, genre, “More Than Distance”, Strange Horizons, 8 April 2024, http://strangehorizons.com/poetry/more-than-distance/
Richard Magahiz
poem, genre, “Something Something Nothing”, dadakuku 2 April 2024, https://dadakuku.com/2024/04/02/something-something-nothing/
5 poems, genre, “for you darling,” “Fearsome predators,” “312th floor,” “the bodies hang out tin cups,” and “jewelled knees”, Five Fleas 16 April 2024, https://fivefleas.blogspot.com/2024/04/afternoon-of-april-16-2024.html
3 poems, genre, “the palps”, “we couldn’t sleep”, and “Syrtis was breached,” Heliosparrow Poetry Journal, April 15 2024, https://heliosparrow.com/2024/04/14-19/, https://heliosparrow.com/2024/04/15-20/ and https://heliosparrow.com/2024/04/13-21/
poem, non-genre, “For moderate to severe agita,” dadakuku 18 April 2024, https://dadakuku.com/2024/04/18/for-moderate-to-severe-agita/
Carolyn Clink
poem, “Cats and Dogs in Space”, Polar Starlight Issue #14, April 2024, https://polarborealis.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/POLAR-STARLIGHT-14-April-2024.pdf
Lisa Timpf
poem, non-spec, “Leaving Home,” Savor: Poems for the Tongue, Friendly City Books, April 2024, https://www.friendlycitybooks.com/savor
poem, spec, “Mother Nature’s Farewell Tour,” Utopia Science Fiction, April/May 2024, https://www.utopiasciencefiction.com/product-page/april-may-2024
poem, spec, “With Neither a Bang Nor a Whimper,” Polar Starlight, Issue 14, April 2024, https://polarborealis.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/POLAR-STARLIGHT-14-April-2024.pdf
review of anOther Mythology by Maxwell I. Gold, The Future Fire, April 9, 2024, http://reviews.futurefire.net/2024/04/gold-another-mythology.html
review of The Poetry Game: Frog Pond Review Issue 4 edited by Misha Solomon, The Miramichi Reader, April 13, 2024, https://miramichireader.ca/2024/04/the-poetry-gafrog-pond-review-edited-by-misha-solomon/
Ann K. Schwader
poem, “Noctalgic,” Abyss & Apex, April 2024, https://www.abyssapexzine.com/2024/03/noctalgic/
LindaAnn LoSchiavo and Angela Yuriko Smith
reading, “Walpurgis Night Poetry”, April 30, 2024, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DocdOLvO1-U
LindaAnn LoSchiavo
guest post, “Unusual Ways to Promote a Poetry Book”, 411 on Books, Authors, and Publishing, April 30, 2024, https://booksauthorsandpublishing411.com/2024/04/30/unusual-ways-to-promote-a-book/
guest post, “Dancing with Dracula: Writing Horror Poetry Based on Bram”, 411 on Books, Authors, and Publishing, May 2nd, 2024, https://booksauthorsandpublishing411.com/2024/05/02/guest-post-dancing-with-dracula-writing-horror-poetry-based-on-bram/
poem, “Lucy Westenra, Somnambulist”, It Always Finds Me, Querencia Press, March 12, 2024, https://www.querenciapress.com/it-always-finds-me
poem, non-genre, “Fibonacci Poem: Solar Eclipse”, Conquest Publishing, https://www.conquest-publishing.com/post/don-t-stare-directly-at-the-sun-flash-fiction-poems-for-the-solar-eclipse
poem, non-genre, “Acts of Light”, Where Meadows Reside Issue 1.3, April 15, 2024, https://www.wheremeadows.com/lindaann-loschiavo
poem, non-genre, “Flaco, the Eurasian Eagle-Owl,” In Parentheses Literary Magazine, Spring 2024, Volume 8, Issue 3, April 15, 2024, https://inparentheses.art/2024/04/13/in-parentheses-literary-magazine-spring-2024-volume-8-issue-3-contributor-proof/
prose poem, “Another April Fool”, The Sirens Call, Issue 65, Spring 2024, April 27, 2024, http://www.sirenscallpublications.com/pdfs/SirensCallEZine_Spring2024.pdf
poem, non-genre, “Acapulco by Night”, Orenaug Mountain Poetry, April 30, 2024, https://www.orenaugmountainpublishing.com/2024/04/acapulco-by-night.html
poem, non-genre, “Safety in Sin”, Bare Back Magazine, April 30, 2024, https://www.barebackmag.com/post/safety-in-sin
Colleen Anderson
poem, “Night’s Disease,” Weird Tales #368, May 2024, https://www.weirdtales.com/
poem, “Picture This,” Literary Hatchet #37, Apr. 2024, https://lizzieandrewborden.com/HatchetOnline/LiteraryHatchet/
poem, “Homesteading,” Dread Machine 3.4, Jan. 2024, https://www.thedreadmachine.com/product/issue-3-4/
Neile Graham
poem, “The Goddess of Bedtime Stories,” Polar Starlight 14, April 2024, https://polarborealis.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/POLAR-STARLIGHT-14-April-2024.pdf
poem, “The Goddess of Sabotage,” The Best of Mad Swirl: v2023, Mad Swirl Press, Feb. 2024, https://www.amazon.com/Best-Mad-Swirl-v2023/dp/1733788999
Jeana Jorgensen
poem, “Bluebeard,” The Orange & Bee, issue one, March 2024, https://theorangebee.substack.com/p/bluebeard
M. C. Aster
poem, non-genre, “Octopoidal Elegy,” Three Hearts: A Cephalopod Poetry Anthology, April 2024, World Enough Writers Publications, http://worldenoughwriters.com/Publications.htm
Mahaila Smith
poem, “Manipulating the Light,” The Future Fire Issue 2024.69, April 2024, https://futurefire.net/2024.69/fiction/manipulating.html
poem, “Our Time and Space,” Polar Starlight Issue 14, April 2024, https://polarborealis.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/POLAR-STARLIGHT-14-April-2024.pdf
poem, “Our honeymoon to the stars,” Room 47.1, Spring 2024, https://roommagazine.com/shop/utopia-47-1/
poem, “Objectified,” Not Ghosts, But Spirits IV, Spring 2024, https://www.querenciapress.com/not-ghosts-but-spirits-volume-4
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