Every month, SFPA members write lots of poetry, do readings, participate in interviews, all kinds of stuff. And every month, I ask them to let me know about it. I put the information onto a Big List, and around about the 5th or 6th of the next month, I share that list with all and sundry.
Starting this month, readers of the SPECPO blog have become a part of the aforementioned all and sundry. So here’s what I know about what various members of SFPA got up to last month.
Mike
David C. Kopaska-Merkel
poem, “The Hungry Void,” Kaleidotrope, Autumn 2020, http://www.kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2020/the-hungry-void-by-david-c-kopaska-merkel/
Ken Poyner
2 poems, non-genre, “God Rests From Creation” & “Hurricane Survival”, Rat’s Ass, Winter 2020, http://www.ratsassreview.net
poem, genre, “The Day When There is No Longer Any Way to Avoid the Apocalypse”, Fear of Monkeys #37, 9/26/2020, twinenterprises.com/the_fear_of_monkeys, #37
poem, genre, “The Sea Serpents of Mars”, Bewildering Stories #876, http://www.bewilderingstories
poem, genre, “The Natural Order”, Sein und Werden, Autumn 2020, http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/sein.html
Jenny Blackford
poem, “Reserves of coping,” shortlisted and Highly Commended, Ipswich Poetry Feast 2020, https://www.ipswichpoetryfeast.com.au/writing-competition/competition-winners/
Akua Lezli Hope
poem, “Serve”, New Verse News, October 16, 2020, https://newversenews.blogspot.com/2020/10/serve.html
5 poems, “The Wall Beyond the Rage”, “Kwansaba for Jayne Cortez”, “Afro Funk”, “Evocateur for Eartha Kitt” and “Building History Lullaby”, The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed, Sundress Publications, October 19-23, 2020, https://sundressblog.com/2020/10/23/the-wardrobes-best-dressed-them-gone-by-akua-lezli-hope-10/, https://sundressblog.com/2020/10/22/the-wardrobes-best-dressed-them-gone-by-akua-lezli-hope-9/, https://sundressblog.com/2020/10/21/the-wardrobes-best-dressed-them-gone-by-akua-lezli-hope-8/, https://sundressblog.com/2020/10/20/the-wardrobes-best-dressed-them-gone-by-akua-lezli-hope-7, https://sundressblog.com/2020/10/20/the-wardrobes-best-dressed-them-gone-by-akua-lezli-hope-6
3 poems, “Don’t use that word,” “Thank you,” and ” I envy you”, About Place Journal, Works of Resistance, Resilience, October 2020, https://aboutplacejournal.org/issues/works-of-resistance-resilience/there-can-be-no-peace/akua-lezli-hope/
3 poems ,”something she ate,” “crooked”, and “I did not plant”, Gnashing Teeth Halloween Special, October 31, 2020, https://gnashingteethpublishing.com/
12 poem chapbook, Otherwheres, ArtFarm Press, October 30, 2020, https://tinyurl.com/otherwheresebook
3 poems ,”something she ate,” “crooked”, and “I did not plant”, Gnashing Teeth Halloween special, October 31, 2020, https://gnashingteethpublishing.com/blog/something-she-ate-2/, https://gnashingteethpublishing.com/blog/crooked-2/ and https://gnashingteethpublishing.com/blog/i-did-not-plant-2/
poem, “i did not plant”, Halloween Haiku (7 of 25), October 31, 2020, https://haikuniverse.com/page/5/
reading, The World Fantasy Convention, October 30, 2020, https://www.wfc2020.org/
reading, Ferguson Interview Project, August 9, 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBhMnXEajIE
reading, Semocon, 9/19/20, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM_qmvvvz3k
reading, HawaiiCon, 9/25/2020, http://www.hawaiicon.com/
panel, “Speculative Poetry: Tips for Writing the Best Verse in the ‘Verse,” https://tinyurl.com/roberconspecpowriting & reading, “Dramatic Journeys to Unknown Realms,” https://tinyurl.com/roberconspecporeading, Robercon, 9/26/2020, https://www.robercon.org/what-to-do/panels/
reading, Poems on Hand Papermaking, NAHP conference, October 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2wsyYoDko8
interview by LindaAnn LoSchiavo, The Poet Magazine, October 2020, https://www.thepoetmagazine.org/interview-with-akua-hope
Peter Roberts
2 poems, print, “within the lines,” “sour sleep,” Illumen Vol. XVII, No. 1, Autumn 2020, Hiraeth Books, https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/illumen-autumn-2020-edited-by-tyree-campbell
Deborah L. Davitt
poem, spec, “The Queen of Heaven’s Children,” Polu Texni, The Magazine of Many Arts, October 25, 2020, http://www.polutexni.com/?p=10731
Colleen Anderson
poem, “Telltale Moon,” Dreams and Nightmares #116, Oct. 2020, http://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com/2020/08/083020.html
poem, “Monster,” Breath and Shadow, Oct. 2020, https://www.abilitymaine.org/bs2020fall/%22monster%22
G. O. Clark
poem, “The Return”, Analog Science Fiction, Nov/Dec. 2020, http://www.analogsf.com
Robin Wyatt Dunn
6 poems, “not any fire I know,” “no many not any,” “what can we number?”(1+2), “I don’t know,” “the ratio cut over the field,” La nécessaire déconstruction de l’éphémère #6, October 15, 2020, https://bit.ly/3lQUGgU
chapbook, Kanata Means Village, Gypsy Daughter, September 23, 2020, https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/robin-wyatt-dunn/kanata-means-village/paperback/product-g9zr96.html
Geoffrey A. Landis
poem, “Softness of the Night”, Purrfect Poems, Dream Well Writing Ltd., UK (2020) https://www.amazon.com/Purrfect-Poems-Various-Authors/dp/1916369588
poem, non-genre, “Not a Literary Poem”, Beat Generation (National Beat Poetry Foundation 2020 anthology), Oct. 2020, https://www.bardconvirtual.com/beat-gen-anthology.html
Michael H. Payne
31 poems, #194 – 224, Plague Year Poems: A Poem a Day for the Duration, October 1 – 31, 2020, http://pandora.xepher.net/images/plague.html
Ann K. Schwader
poem, “Dark Matter Haunts Us,” Abyss & Apex, 4th Quarter 2020, https://www.abyssapexzine.com/2020/09/dark-matter-haunts-us/
Jane Yolen
poem, “Holocaust Museum,” 101 Jewish Poems for the Third Millenium, Ashland Poetry Press, January 2021, https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9780912592848/101-jewish-poems-for-the-third-millennium.aspx
9 poems, “Rituals of Approach,” “The Old Companions,” “Seize the Carp,” “Unintended Beauty,” “In This Winter of Life,” “A Chain of Proteins,” “Plowing Under,” “This Mask,” “Virus,” Meat for Tea Vol 14, Issue 3, October 2020, https://meatfortea.com/buy.htm
poem, “Gretel’s Bone,” Asimov’s, Sept/Oct. 2020, http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?789572
poem, “Mab’s Wedding,” F&SF, May/June 2020, https://www.sfsite.com/fsf/toc2005.htm
Blaize Kelly Strothers
poem, “Dream Weaver,” Apparition Literary Magazine, Issue 12: Satisfaction, October 2020, https://apparitionlit.com/dream-weaver/
Juleigh Howard-Hobson
poem, genre, “Shot Gun Ghost”, The Haunted Doll House’s 31 Poems of Halloween Special, Oct 3 2020, https://kristingarth.com/pink-plastic-house-a-tiny-journal/the-haunted-dollhouse/
poem, genre-ish, “Dream Time” The Dream Journal, Oct 2, 2020, https://ilovedreamjournal.wordpress.com/2020/10/02/dream-time/
poem, genre, “Old Ghosts”, No Contact Mag Issue 12: Tricks and Treats, Oct 22, 2020, https://www.nocontactmag.com/old-ghosts
poem, non-genre “Memory” Resurrection Magazine, Oct 30, 2020, https://notesofadirtyyoungwoman.com/resurrection-mag/
3 poems, genre, “Address to Young Pioneers” ,“Darwin Never Sailed up Here”, “Non Est Creata Natus Est” Utopia Science Fiction Magazine, Vol 2 Issue 2, Oct 30 2020, https://www.utopiasciencefiction.com/product-page/october-2020-vol-2-issue-02
Peter Payack
poem, “soular”, selected by the nationwide “Commonlit” program as part of its High School curriculum, https://www.commonlit.org/en/texts/soular
poem, “protozoan pride”, Asimov’s Nov/Dec 2020, http://www.asimovs.com
Jason O’Toole
poem/collage (block out), “Information Discharge,” The Alien Buddha’s Block Party, The Alien Buddha Press, Oct. 3, 2020, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08KJ6692D
poem, “Summer League,” Boog City, Iss. 137, The Baseball Issue, Oct. 2020, https://wordpress.boogcity.com/boog-city-paper/boog-city-137-the-baseball-issue/summer-league/
reading, Belmont Authors and Beyond Read-Aloud Ep.12, 10/19/20, https://www.belmontmedia.org/watch/belmont-authors-and-beyond-read-aloud-ep12-10192020
2 poems “American League East” & “Traducer,” Madness Muse Press, Oct. 2020, https://madnessmusepresssite.wordpress.com/2020/10/06/jason-otoole/ & https://madnessmusepresssite.wordpress.com/2020/10/24/jason-otoole-3/
Robert Borski
poem, “20,001 (Debitage)”, The House of Zolo’s Journal of Speculative Literature, Vol. 2. https://houseofzolo.com/house-of-zolos-journal-of-speculative-literature-volume-2/
Wendy Van Camp
panelist, “Modern Age of Poetry”, Virtual MileHiCon 52, October 25, 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFBTIFnwOjY
Mary Soon Lee
poem, “How to Commemorate the Big Bang,” Uppagus #42, October 2020, https://uppagus.com/poems/soon-lee-bang/
poem, “The Seven Deadly Sins: A Cat’s Perspective,” Typehouse Literary Magazine, Volume 7, No. 2, Issue 20, https://typehousemagazine.com/
Lori R. Lopez
song, YouTube Video, “The Fairyflies – Against The Knife (Acoustic Version)”, October 13, 2020, https://youtu.be/gJM7-GCF2CQ
poem (genre), “Autumn’s Descent”, Tales from the Moonlit Path, Halloween 2020 Issue, October 29, 2020, http://talesmoonlitpath.com/poetry-2/autumns-descent/
4 poems (genre), “The Imperfect Storm”, “Bitter Sweet”, “Inner Demon”, “Shudderous Qualms”, The Sirens Call Ezine, Issue 51, Halloween/Fall, August 2020, http://www.sirenscallpublications.com/pdfs/SirensCallEZine_October2020.pdf
Gerri Leen
prose poem, “Anything for the Mission,” Erato: Flash Fiction, New Smut Project, October 2020, https://www.amazon.com/Erato-Flash-Fiction-Smut-Project-ebook/dp/B08FF5NLLJ
poem, “Excess Baggage” Not One of Us, Issue 64B, October 2020, https://not-one-of-us.pub/latest-issues/64-2020/
poem, “Neith and Her Women” The Future Fire, Issue 55, October 2020, http://futurefire.net/2020.55/fiction/neith.html
Lisa Timpf
poem, genre, “Planets With Two Moons,” Spaceports and Spidersilk, Hiraeth Publishing, October 2020, https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/spaceports-spidersilk-october-2020-edited-by-marcie-lynn-tentchoff
poems, genre, “For Leonard,” “Ghost Planet,” “History Waits to be Written,” and “Wings of Wax,” Stellar Evolutions, the Best Short Stories and Poems of Polar Borealis Magazine’s First Fifteen Issues, RainWood Press, https://www.amazon.ca/Stellar-Evolutions-Rhea-Rose-ebook/dp/B08KQ3F74G
poem, genre, “ABC’s of Sci-Fi Nightmares,” Polar Borealis, Issue 16, October 2020, http://polarborealis.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/POLAR-BOREALIS-16-Sep-Oct-2020.pdf
poem, genre, “Into the Sea,” Utopia Science Fiction, Vol. 2, Issue 2, October 2020, https://www.utopiasciencefiction.com/product-page/october-2020-vol-2-issue-02
Denise Dumars
3 haiku, “Outstreched hands,” “Spring wind,” Naga serpent”, A Sonic Boom of Stars: 2020 Southern California Haiku Study Group Anthology, https://www.facebook.com/SoCalHaiku, reading, Oct 17, 2020 2:00 pm PST on Zoom
poem, “In the Back Between,” Spectrum 24: Open the Door, https://spectrumpublishing.blogspot.com/?fbclid=IwAR29TTarB922TM94haK3CiyidIG-QPssECLg27nod_bfUzorPJ1C9vDXW20, reading, Saturday, August 29th, 2020, 3-5 pm PST, on Zoom
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