One of the benefits of membership with the SFPA is the opportunity to share one’s poetic work with the community. Member Mike Payne compiles this list each month after a call for submissions.
Lisa Lepovetsky
poem, “Witch’s Hands”, Bête Noire, issue #23
Steven B. Katz
8 poems, “After Reading Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (A Pantoum)”; “The Clone Comes to Consciousness”; “Neuronic”; “Mimesis Mine”; “Pinball Goes Subatomic “; “Anyon There?”; “Virtual Gloves”; and “Avatar of Love, _Pre/Text_ (special issue on “Games and Rhetorics”)
Deborah Davitt
poem, (spec, online) “Knitting Souls,” Visual Verse: An Anthology of Art and Words, January 2017
poem, (non-spec, print/online) “Piano Tuning,” Three Line Poetry #41, January 16, 2017
poem, (non-spec, online) “Candle in a cup,” Stardust Haiku, Vol. 1, January 17, 2017
3 poems, (non-spec, online), “Summer in Memory’s Glass,” “Penn’s Woods,” and “Motion and Music,” Peacock Journal, January 25, 2017
Kenny A. Chaffin
2 prose poems, “The Preservation of Life” and “Oxygen,” Speculative 66, Issue 4, January 2017
Frederick Turner
poetry book, Apocalypse: An Epic Poem, Ilium Press, Sept. 2016
M.C. Childs
poem, “Building Soil (Hexagram 35) ,” Rose Red Review, Winter 2016
Colleen Anderson
poem “Garuda’s Gamble,” Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #30, Nov. 2016
poem, “A Good Catch,” Tailfins and Sealskins, Three Drops from a Cauldron Press, UK, Oct. 2016
poem, “Mermaid (villanelle),” Spirits Tincture #2, Nov. 2016
Akua Lezli Hope
poem, “Warning,” winner, PhotoFinish Prize, Iron Horse Literary Review, 12.31.16
3 poems, “ Smell of Firemen”, “we have no earlids”, “Routine”, Dozen: The Best of Breath and Shadow, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 12.23.16
Ken Poyner
poem, “Letter From The Great Grandchildren”, Panoply Magazine, January 2017, Issue 5, non-genre, web
2 poems, “To Seal The Deal”, “Freedom of Thought”, Wordland 7, theEXAGGERATEDpress UK, non-genre, print
poem, “Maintenance Call”, Abyss and Apex, Issue 61, genre, web and print
Shannon Connor Winward
poem, (non-genre), “After Judith”, The Ekphrastic Review, January 2017
2 poems, (non-genre), “Getting Wet” and “To Do List”, The Monarch Review, January 2017
2 poems, (genre), “Beansidhe” and “Moon Song”, Tales to Terrify podcast, December 2016
Jenny Blackford
poem, “South Steyne,” Australian Poetry Collaboration #24, January 2017
Magdalena Ball
poetry book, Unmaking Atoms, Ginninderra Press, Jan 2017
Robert Frazier
2 poems, “William Carlos Williams Variation #3” & “William Carlos Williams Variation #4,” Asimov’s Science Fiction, Jan./Feb. 2017
poem, “The Pale of Chernobyl”, Dark Matter #10, Winter 2016/17
2 poems, “Past Closing Time at the Endtime Saloon” & “Here Is What You Must Do,” Altered Reality Magazine #3, Jan./Feb. 2017
Christina M. Rau
poem excerpt, “Overnight Rain,” Intersections–Poetry With Mathematics, January 2017
poem excerpts, Liberating The Astronauts, Tea & Fiction, Oct 2016 – Jan 2017
Michael H. Payne
poem, “Attack of the Fifty Foot Doughnut,” honorable mention, 115th Weekly Poetry Contest, Jan. 16-23, 2017, PoetryNook.com
David C. Kopaska-Merkel
poem, “Chicken Tracks,” Illumen, Winter 2017
poem, “Portrait of the Mad Scientist’s Wife,” Outposts of Beyond, Jan. 2017
David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Kendall Evans
poem, “What People Were They Here,” Outposts of Beyond, Jan. 2017
Herb Kauderer
2 poems, “Extremist” & “Fly Movie Rationalization,” Disturbed Digest #15, December 2016
2 poems, “The Ways of Murphy” & “Darwin’s Nightmare,” Grievous Angel, Jan 23 2017
poem, “Old Tom Bedloe,” Care, a Not One of Us special, January 2017
Robin Wyatt Dunn
poem, “Stream With Blood,” In Between Hangovers, 1/26/17
poem, “Each light makes a spark,” Duane’s PoeTree Blog, 1/25/17
poem, “There is no end to it,” 1947 Journal, 1/20/17
assorted poems, Scarlet Leaf Review anniversary issue, 1/15/17
2 poems, “Burn me” and “Tear my hair,” Viral Cat Issue XVI, January 2017
poetry chapbook, Burning Los Angeles, Fowlpox Press, 1/9/17
poem, “Grief Run,” Cacti Fur,1/8/17
poem, “No Death Comes Sweeter for Me Than in Los Angeles,” In Between Hangovers, January 6, 2017
poem, “Jakarta Kid,” 1947 Journal, January 5, 2017
Mary Soon Lee
poem, “Respect,” Polu Texni, 1/23/2017
poem, “The Imperial War,” Grievous Angel, 1/23/2017
poem, non-genre, “Undecorating,” Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, 1/19/2017
F.J. Bergmann
3 poems, “Blight,” “Concealed Carry,” & “The Woman Who Could Not Imagine,” Lupine Lunes, Popcorn Press, 2016
Non-spec poem, “dead leaves,” haikuniverse.com, 11 December 2016
poem, “UFOlogy,” Analog, January-February 2017
chapbook manuscript, A Catalogue of the Further Suns, won Gold Line Press chapbook contest
Ashley Dioses
poem, “I. Nadia,” Devolution Z: The Horror Magazine, Winter 2017
poem, “Celestial Mysteries,” Outposts of Beyond, Alban Lake, Winter 2017
Peg Duthie
poem (non-genre), “Epiphany: Rudolph Doing the Camel,” Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, 4 January 2017
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