Member News: October

Thanks to Michael H. Payne for rounding up the news of recent sales and publications by members of the Science Fiction Poetry Association around the world. Michael just finished gathering the October, 2016 successes of our members. We post member achievements on a monthly basis. Congratulations to all of our members, and we wish you continued success!

David C. Kopaska-Merkel periodical, print, “Dreams and Nightmares 105 http://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com/ 2 poems, print, “if there are no aliens,” and “The Woods Look Up,” Outposts of Beyond, Alban Lake Publishing http://albanlake.com Mary Soon Lee poem, “Messengers,” Grievous Angel 10/2/2016 poem, “Keng,” Ligature Works #1   poem, non-genre, “At the Sign of the Dragon,” Uppagus #20 October 2016 poem, “Arrow,” Songs of Eretz Poetry Review 10/21/2016 Karen Bovenmyer micro fiction, “So Normal and Unwritten,” Iron Soap’s 200 CCs October 7, 2016 panelist, “Shirley at 100: Marking the Shirley Jackson Centennial” and “The Fantasy of the American Heartland,” World Fantasy Convention http://worldfantasy2016.org/programming October 27-28, 2016 poem, “Lady of Gold,” Remixt Magazine September 12, 2016 Peter Roberts poem, “arrogance”, Shot Glass Journal, Issue #20 poem (print, non-genre), “at the botanical garden”, Poetry Quarterly, Fall 2016, P. 37 Deborah P Kolodji haiku, “in the fog,” Acorn #37 http://acornhaiku.com Fall 2016 4 haiku, “mare’s tails,” “purple lips,” “midnight sun,” “Whitehorse at midnight,” Haiku Canada Review October 2016 haiku, “the long wait,” ColoradoBoulevard.Net 10/05/16 2 haiku, “soft wind,” “make-up roses”, Hedgerow #93, 10/21/2016 2 haiku, “aloe garden,” “borrowing a friend’s dad,” Hedgerow #94 10/28/2016 Ken Poyner prose poem, “Intelligence”, Unbroken Journal http://www.unbrokenjournal.com poem, “New Planet Landscape 25”, Grievous Angelhttp://grievousangel.org two poems, “The Accommodation” and “The Haunting”, Dark Gothic Resurrected http://bloodtouch.webs.com/darkgothicmagazine.htm, print poem, “New Planet Landscape 3”, Postcards, Poems and Prose http://postcardspoemsandprose.com poetry collection, Victims of a Failed Civics, genre and non-genre, print, Barking Moose Press http://www.barkingmoosepress.com Robert Frazier poem, “Neurologic”, Asimov’s Science Fiction http://www.asimovs.com Sept. 2016, p. 45 Lisa M. Bradley poem, “Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas Lost at Sea, 1527,” Strange Horizons October 3, 2016 also available as podcast poem, “Why My Father Won’t Be At My Wedding,” Polu Texni October 17, 2016 Diane Severson review, “Poetry – Straight Away, the Emptied World, L. Umansky”, Amazing Stories Robert Borski 2 poems, “Roentgen Ape” and “Hook Hand,” Dreams & Nightmares 104 http://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.com/order.htm Sept. 2016, print poem, “Black Box,” Analog November 2016, print poem, reprint, “Instincto,” HWA Poetry Showcase, Vol. 1 print poem, reprint, “Thesaurus (Not A Prehistoric Animal),” The Best of Apex and Abyss 2 eBook only Shannon Connor Winward poem, non-genre, “Cusp”, 50 Haikus October 2016 blog post series, Eye to the Telescope #22, “The Ghosts Issue”, October 2016 Deborah L. Davitt poem, “The Door,” Grievous Angel October 10, 2016   poem, “The Owl,” Electric Haiga October 31, 2016 Andrew Gilstrap poem, “Starfields,” Apex Magazine Issue 89 Jenny Blackford 2 poems, “One small advantage” and “Mostly nameless colours,” Grievous Angel October 10, 2016 poem, (non-genre, print) “The beast in socks and sandals,” Home is the Hunter, Catchfire Press, October 2016 poem, “Houses of the living, houses of the dead,” Ipswich Poetry Feast International Poetry Competition Highly Commended Lawrence Schimel poem translation, “Short Poetic Saga” by Antonio Rivero Taravillo, Strange Horizons 31 October 2016 poem translation, “supernatural tongue” by Elizabeth Espinosa, Strange Horizons 1 November 2016 poem translation, “Microtherapy” by Sofía Rhei, Strange Horizons, 3 November 2016 poetry book translation, I’D ASK YOU TO JOIN ME BY THE RÍO BRAVO AND WEEP BUT YOU SHOULD KNOW NEITHER RIVER NOR TEARS REMAIN by Jorge Humberto Chávez, Shearsman Books, November 2016 Vince Gotera poems (4), “Tiger and Dragon Pine for Each Other,” “Tiger and Dragon: How They Can Love,” “Tiger and Dragon Fight About Nothing,” and “Tiger and Dragon and Nightfire,” published as a group titled Menage à Tiger and Dragon. Altered Reality Magazine Issue #2 (Nov/Dec 2016) 24 October 2016 Herb Kauderer non-genre poem “I Always Thought” Uppagus Oct 2016 four horrorku “[untitled] fast food advances”, “[untitled] she clones brain tissue”, “[untitled] vernal equinox”, “Out of Hades” Stinkwaves Oct 2016   poem “Playing the Reds” Not One of Us #56, October 2016 poem “The Decisions of Robots” Grievous Angel, October 2, 2016 three poems “interplanetary swing”, “cold eclipse”, “mall bones” Outposts of Beyond, http://albanlake.com/guidelines/ October 2016 poem “After” Asimov’s http://www.asimovs.com/ October/November 2016 featured poetry reading at McGrath Library on Hilbert College Campus http://www.hilbert.edu/academics/library October 25