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Strangeness is where you find it. Well, I finally made it. This past Monday, we stood in the shadow of the Moon for the first time, sans clouds (that was the case in 2017, another story). Turns out, instead of traveling, I simply could’ve stayed in my hometown of Mapleton, Maine to see a total […]
There’s nothing: Subjunctive about it. Here’s the Big List of SFPA Stuff for May! Mike Brian U. Garrison poem, “Organic Scramble,” Radon Journal issue 4, https://www.radonjournal.com/issue-4 David C. Kopaska-Merkel editor, Dreams and Nightmares 124, May, 2023, https://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com/2023/05/051823b.html poem, print, “Horizon,” Analog, May/June 2023, http://www.analogsf.com poem, “signal drops,” Five Fleas, 13 April 2023, https://fivefleas.blogspot.com/2023/04/afternoon-of-april-13-2023.html Ruth Berman […]
Showers turn to flowers this time of year, I’ve been told. So here’s a little of both with regard to what various members of the organization have been up to lately. Mike David C. Kopaska-Merkel 4 poems, “can’t talk my teen self,” “Cinderella,” “Ice Age wanes,” “Mom and Dad’s,” Synchronized Chaos, mid-April, 2023, synchchaos.com poem, […]
Some Disassembly Required. David C. Kopaska-Merkel. (Diminuendo Press, Cyberwizard Productions) 97 pp. $10.00, trade paperback. Review by Sandra J. Lindow SFPA Grand Master, David Kopaska-Merkel’s most recent collection, Some Disassembly Required, is an unsettling visit to various fantastic worlds, replete with serious scientists, Lovecraftian monsters, small town hicks, and characters from folklore. There are 85 […]
Speculative poetry is something we grow up with, something that is in our hearts and our bones and in the very air we breathe. Akua Lezli Hope shows us how.
The Cat Star and Other Poems. Terry A. Garey. (2022) ed. by Ruth Berman, Crumbfairy Press, 2809 Drew Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN 55416. 48 pp. stapled softcover, $6.00. Review by Sandra J. Lindow The Cat Star and Other Poems consists of forty-two poems, most previously published in genre magazines such as Asimov’s, Star*line, MSP, and […]
Naming the Ghost. Emily Hockaday, (Cornerstone Press, 2022) 60 pp. softcover $18.99. Preorder with a 20% discount at cornerstone.press@uwsp.edu Review by Sandra J. Lindow Emily Hockaday’s latest poetry collection, Naming the Ghost, consists of fifty-seven short speculative poems. Written in present tense, Naming explores a young woman’s ghostly estrangement, a divided reality experienced after the […]
There are many forms of madness, one of them is love.
Think of all those times you found yourself talking back to whatever you were reading. Maybe you yelled at a character. Maybe you offered sympathy. Maybe you had a simple conversation. You know you’ve done this at least once. Put it to good use. Write a letter poem to a character who’s haunted you, made […]
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