First Round-Up of the New Year! So if you’d like to see what the membership’s been getting up to lately, this is the place!
Mike
Lorraine Schein
poem, “Persephone,” Eternal Haunted Summer, Winter 2020, https://eternalhauntedsummer.com/issues/winter-solstice-2020/persephone/
poem, “The Fairy Pyre, ” The Periodical, Forlorn Vol 1 Issue 1, https://www.periodicalforlorn.com/artifacts-of-the-forest
David C. Kopaska-Merkel
poem, “The Successful Suitor Will…”, Mirror Dance, Autumn 2020, http://www.mirrordancefantasy.com/2021/01/the-successful-suitor-will.html
editor, Dreams and Nightmares 117, January 2021, jopnquog@gmail.com, http://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com/2020/12/122720c.html
Robert Frazier
poem, “Within You And Without You,” Asimov’s SF, Jan./Feb. 2021, https://www.asimovs.com/current-issue/poetry/
poem, “The Rains on Venus,” Dreams & Nightmares #117, Jan. 2021, http://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com/2020/12/122720c.html
Michael H. Payne
31 poems, #286 – 316, Plague Year Poems: A Poem A Day for the Duration, January 1 – 31, 2021, http://pandora.xepher.net/images/plague.html
Colleen Anderson
poem, “What Goldilocks Learned,” American Diversity Report, Jan. 2021, https://adrpoetry.com/winter2021/january2021/what-goldilocks-learned-by-colleen-anderson/?fbclid=IwAR0C9w_3Fl-wg3vLv88_yyaeYYCbH63Z-gzk3JmdGVdPlf_Pm5vkR7NWulI
2 poems, “In Feline Grace,” “Offering,” Illumen, Winter 2021, https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/illumen-winter-2021-edited-by-tyree-campbell
Beatriz F. Fernandez
poem and poetry podcast, “The Time Tourist/El Turista del Tiempo,” Strange Horizons, January 25, 2021, http://strangehorizons.com/poetry/the-time-tourist-el-turista-del-tiempo/ and http://strangehorizons.com/podcasts/podcast-the-time-tourist-el-turista-del-tiempo/
poem reading, “Emily Brontë Addresses Her Creation,” Palm Beach Poetry Festival, January 18-23, 2021, https://youtu.be/E6LgyWrz8Ek
Jane Yolen
poem, “Shoes, Holocaust Museum,” 101 Jewish Poems for the Third Millemium, Ashland Poetry Press, Jan 2021, https://www.ashlandpoetrypress.com/online-catalog/other-books/101-jewish-poems-for-the-third-millennium
Lauren McBride
poem, “from the ground,” Dreams and Nightmares Issue 116, Oct 2020, http://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com/2020/08/083020.html
poem, “Explorer’s Regrets, Silver Blade, Issue 48, Winter 2020, https://www.silverblade.net/2020/11/explorers-regrets/
K. Ceres Wright
poem, “Erstwhile Ramelon,” FIYAH Literary Magazine, Winter 2021, https://www.fiyahlitmag.com/issues/issue-17/
Anna Cates
poem, “The Skunk Ape,” The Other Bunny, Jan. 18, 2021, https://theotherbunny.blog/2021/01/18/the-skunk-ape/
poem, “Oktoberfest,” The Other Bunny, Jan. 25, 2021, https://theotherbunny.blog/2021/01/25/oktoberfest/
2 poems, “The Cure” and “Long Drive Home,” Femku 28, Jan 2021, https://69b046c2-a7e1-4a9a-9a22-1c70986eaa24.filesusr.com/ugd/f4c0ea_19e4023afcf9400a8a0631bd6118ac1a.pdf
poem, “Love in the Time of Covid,” Open: Journal of Arts & Letters, Jan 5, 2021, https://ojalart.com/mixed-forms-haibunanna-cateslove-in-the-time-of-covid/
Gene Twaronite
poem, “A Street Named Wherever,” Burningword Literary Journal, Jan. 2021, https://burningword.com/2021/01/a-street-named-wherever/
poem, “Be Safe,” Open: A Journal of Arts & Letters, Jan. 2021, https://ojalart.com/poetry-all-forms-stylesfeatured-series-prose-poetry2020-theme-a-lovers-complaintgene-twaronitebe-safe/
Jake Tringali
ongoing podcast, “Outskirts Poetry Podcast”, all major podcast platforms, started Jan 2021, outskirtspoetry.com
Akua Lezli Hope
poem, “people are the source”, Haikuniverse, January 24, 2021 https://haikuniverse.com/haiku-by-akua-lezli-hope-2/
2 poems, “Paradigm Shift” & “Faced the Final Curtain”, SoFi Zine #8, December 29, 2020 https://sofizine.com/latest-edition/
Cindy O’Quinn
poem, “When She Visits”, Gothic Blue Book VI: A Krampus Carol, Burial Day Books, Oct 2020, https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1735693626/
poem, “Bitten”, Space & Time Magazine Issue 139, https://www.amazon.com/Space-Winter-Angela-Yuriko-Smith/dp/B08RL67X9S
6 poems “Mountain” “Popping Thoughts” “Wake” “Mountain Tic” “The Lamenter” & “A Dreadful Grin”, Shelved: Appalachian Resilience Amid Covid-19, Mountain Gap Books, Dec 2020, https://www.amazon.com/Shelved-Appalachian-Resilience-Amid-COVID-19/dp/1732972028/
Brian Hugenbruch
poem, “On brutal wing,” Apparition Literary Magazine, Issue #13 (“Justice”), January 2021, https://apparitionlit.com/issues/
`
Deborah L. Davitt
poem, spec, “Feeding the Dead,” Polu Texni: A Magazine of Many Arts, January 10, 2021, http://www.polutexni.com/?p=10747
M. C. Aster
poem, genre/print, “The Minotaur’s Dilemma”, Phantom Drift Issue #10, 2020, https://www.phantomdrift.org/copy-of-preorder-pd9
Gerri Leen
poem, “Fetch,” Departure Mirror, Issue 2, 2021, http://departuremirror.com/issue-2/
2 poems, non-speculative, “The Pretty Way” and “What Did I Tell You?”, Childhood Anthology, Volume 1: USA, January 2021, https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B08SPKR4CJ/
John Reinhart
poem. “Cardboard Universe,” Aethlon, Winter 2021 #37.1, Sports Literature Association, https://tmorris.utasites.cloud/sla/aethlon.html
Elizabeth R. McClellan
poem, “Field Notes, Found Later,” Chrome Baby, January 31, 2021, https://www.robindunn.com/bairn98.html
poem, “Alecto Chats on Her Smoke Break,” Apparition Lit, Issue 13: Justice, January 2021, https://apparitionlit.com/alecto-chats-on-her-smoke-break/
Juleigh Howard-Hobson
2 poems (1 genre, one not), “Garden Ghost” and “The Funeral”, The Orchards, Winter 2020, January 11, 2021, https://orchardspoetrycom.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/orchards-winter-2020-jan-11b-online-version.docx-2.pdf
poem, genre, “The Delicate Art of Cursing with Poppets”, Wretched Creations Magazine Issue 1, January 1, 2021, https://wretchedcreationsm.wixsite.com/wcmagazine/post/the-delicate-art-of-cursing-with-poppets
Richard Magahiz and John W Sexton
poem, “darwin cyclone”, Dreams and Nightmares 117, January 2021, http://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com/2020/12/122720c.html
Mary Soon Lee
poem, “The Middle Kingdom,” Polu Texni, 1/2021, http://www.polutexni.com/?p=10750
poem, “How to Colonise Venus,” Andromeda Spaceways #81, December 2020, https://andromedaspaceways.com/product/asm-81/
poem, “The Reaper’s Cat,” Mirror Dance, Autumn 2020, http://www.mirrordancefantasy.com/2021/01/the-reapers-cat.html
poem, “Brighton,” mainstream, Constellations, Volume 10: Synthesis, Fall 2020, http://www.constellations-lit.com/issues/vol10.html
Lynne Sargent
poem, “The Risk of Embarking,” The Future Fire, January 2021, http://futurefire.net/2021.56/fiction/risk.html
poem, “Lessons from Mother,” Climbing Lightly Through Forests, Aqueduct Press, January 29th 2021, http://www.aqueductpress.com/books/978-1-61976-197-1.php
Sara Backer
one-hour workshop on empathy in writing, Sat. Feb 20, 2021, 11:00 AM PST/2:00 PM EST during the “Let’s Write” virtual event with Judith Arcana, Lisa Baldwin, Kaci Elder, and Jason Graham, $35 to $55 for the whole day, $20 student rate, https://southernoregonguild.org/news-events/event-calendar/educational-inspiration/123-let-s-write-this-time-it-s-virtual.html
poem, “Things in a Cup, Things on a Spoon,” Mojo Issue 18, January 2021, http://mikrokosmosjournal.com/2021/01/things-in-a-cup-things-on-a-spoon-sara-backer/
poem, “History,” The Pedestal Magazine, Issue #87. https://www.thepedestalmagazine.com/sara-backer-history/
Lisa Timpf
poem, genre, [snowstorm on Titan], Frozen Wavelets, Issue 5, December, 2020, https://frozenwavelets.com/issue-5/
Lori R. Lopez
song, video, “The Fairyflies – Children Without Innocence”, YouTube, January 18, 2021, https://youtu.be/KyPOU4gz1ZE
2 poems, genre, “Smile” and “Delivery”, Illumen Magazine, Winter Issue, January 2021, https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/illumen-winter-2021-edited-by-tyree-campbell
2 poems, genre, print, “Infectious” and “The Whistle Stop”, Impspired Magazine, Volume Four, January 2021, https://www.amazon.com/dp/1914130049
Barun Saha
poem, [sickle moon], Horror Senryu Journal, January 27, 2021, https://twitter.com/horrorsenryu/status/1354376828295782407
Geoffrey A. Landis
poem, “The Forest, in the Full of the Moon”, New Myths, No. 53, Dec. 2020, https://sites.google.com/a/newmyths.com/nmwebsite/past-issues/2020/issue-53
Lela E. Buis
poem, “Starman Drives,” 2nd place in the January 2021 Poetry Society of Tennessee ghazal contest, https://www.poetrytennessee.org/uploads/1/2/4/7/124779620/january_news_pst_.pdf
Alan Vincent Michaels
poem, “Our wild race to mars,” Comfort: A SciFanSat Microfiction Compilation, Aethereal Engineer, January 31, 2021, https://aetherealengineer.com/2021/01/31/sfs40/
poem, “I am your vessel,” Arrange: A SciFanSat Microfiction Compilation, Aethereal Engineer, January 16, 2021, https://aetherealengineer.com/2021/01/16/sfs37/
10 poems, “foggy”, “swept”, “fragments”, “entanglements”, “becoming”, “cautiously”, “jailbird”, “seafarer”, “hostage”, “glisten”, Poetry in 13: Volume Three, December 28, 2020, https://www.amazon.com/Poetry-13-Scott-Christopher-Beebe/dp/B08RGVSTLD/
Morgan L. Ventura
poem, “Extinction No. 6,” Augur Magazine 3.2, December 2020, http://www.augurmag.com/augur-issue-3-2/
SPECPO 