A quick glance backwards to see what the members of SFPA got up to during April, then it’s on into May!
Mike
Betsy Aoki
collection, Breakpoint, Tebot Bach, March 2022, https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9781939678959/breakpoint.aspx
Adele Gardner
poem, genre, electronic, “The Hook,” Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag, April 2k22, vol. v, issue 6, https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/cover.html
poem, genre, electronic, “Time Crime,” Kaleidotrope, Winter 2022, https://kaleidotrope.net/archives-2/winter-2022/
poem, genre, print, “Ariadne Threads the Labyrinth,” Dreams & Nightmares 120, Jan. 2022, https://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com/2021/12/121221b.html
Angela Acosta
poem, “Primer sorbo de zumo de naranja,” Toyon Multilingual Literary Magazine, Humboldt State University, vol. 68, Spring 2022, https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/toyon/vol68/iss1/21/
poem, “Best Seller,” Paper Lanterns: The Teen and Young Adult Literary Journal, Arts Council Ireland, Issue 8, Spring 2022, https://paperlanternslit.com/product/paper-lanterns-issue-8/
2 poems, “Terran Born”, “Visitor”, Altered Reality Magazine: Speculative Fiction and Poetry, April 2022, https://www.alteredrealitymag.com/poets/meet-angela-acosta/
poem, “Her Morphology,” Mien Magazine, Issue 1, April 2022, https://mienmagazine.wixsite.com/mienliterarymagazine/her-morphology
Lorraine Schein
2 poems, “The Violet Fairy Book” and “Rhiannon,” Subterrranean Blue, April 22, https://subterraneanbluepoetry.com/SubterraneanBluePoetry.CurrentIssue.html
Emma J. Gibbon
poem, “Lady Frankenstein,” Northern Frights: The Journal of Horror Writers of Maine 3.3 / End of Winter ’22: woman, ARGH! Press, March 7th, 2022, https://www.amazon.com/Northern-Frights-Journal-Horror-Writers/dp/B09WLZJ94N/
poem, “Bone Key,” Under Her Skin (A Women in Horror Poetry Collection 1), Black Spot Books, April 5th, 2022, https://www.amazon.com/Under-Her-Skin-Toni-Miller/dp/1645480445/
David C. Kopaska-Merkel
editor, print and PDF magazine, Dreams and Nightmares 120, January 2022, https://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com/2021/12/121221b.html
poem, “red giant sun,” (translated into Dutch), Speculatief 1.1, May 2022, https://speculatief.be/
Michael H. Payne
2 poems, #1668 & #1670, Terebinth, http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20220411.html & http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20220425.html
Terry A. Garey
chapbook, The Cat Star and other poems, Crumbfairy Press, Spring 2022, available directly from publisher Ruth Berman, berma005@umn.edu
Roger Dutcher
poem, genre, “Home”, Alba #37, Winter 2022, http://www.ravennapress.com/alba/
Brian Hugenbruch
poem, “She belongs to the city”, Abyss & Apex #82, April 2022, https://www.abyssapexzine.com/2022/03/she-belongs-to-the-city/
Lori R. Lopez
3 poems, genre, “The Creeping Tide”, “Napalm”, and “Undercurrents”, Impspired Magazine, Issue 16, April 2022, https://impspired.com/2022/04/01/lori-r-lopez-4
poem, genre, “Miscreant”, Aphelion Webzine, April 2022, http://www.aphelion-webzine.com/poetry/2022/04/Miscreant.html
2 poems, genre, “The Ballad Of Lizzie Borden” and “Chair”, The Horror Zine, Summer Print Anthology, April 24, 2022, https://www.amazon.com/dp/1736637649, Kindle Edition, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09YQCTZLH
Richard Magahiz
3 poems, genre, “A shard of ice,” “Dance at cosmic end,” “Antikythera issues a statement,” Eccentric Orbits anthology 3, https://dimensionfold.com/catalog/poetry-books/eccentric-orbits/
Katherine Quevedo
poem, reprint, non-genre, “Sea Grass Supplication,” The Hyacinth Review, April 27, 2022, https://hyacinthreview.org/katherine-quevedo-sea-grass-supplication/
Lisa Timpf
poem, non-spec, “First Canoe Trip,” Parks and Points Poetry 2022, https://www.parksandpoints.com/poetry-2022-/first-canoe-trip
Colleen Anderson
poem, “Gargoyles,” Gargoylicon 1.1, Mind’s Eye Publishing, Apr. 2022, https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/frank-coffman/the-gargoylicon/paperback/product-ny4nwv.html?page=1&pageSize=4
Anna Cates
3 haiku, World Haiku #18, 2022, https://www.cyberwit.net/
senryu & haibun, Cattails #221, April 2022, http://cattailsjournal.com/issues/cattails221.pdf
2 senryu & 1 haibun, Failed Haiku 7.77, http://www.haikuhut.com/FailedHaikuIssue77.pdf
stage play, The Poison Tree, a Peace Play, Wipf and Stock Publishers, https://wipfandstock.com/9781666737615/the-poison-tree/
David Jalajel
poem, genre, “13 Snapshots from the Ark (Sea Monsters),” Otoliths 65, Southern Autumn 2022, https://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2022/04/david-jalajel.html
5 poems, non-genre, “5 Qasidas of Loneliness,” Eclectica, Vol. 26, No. 2, April/May 2022, https://www.eclectica.org/v26n2/jalajel.html
Mike McCormick
poem, non-genre, “Mahler’s Last Words,” Loud Coffee, Spring 2022, https://www.loudcoffeepress.com/issue-10
Meg Smith
2 poems, “The Colored Lights on the Waterfall” and “A Discovery of Stars,” ZiN Daily Magazine, April 11, 2022, https://bit.ly/3rg5bQ2
2 poems, “Ragged Angel” and “A Little Girl Runs to the Wolves,” ZiN Daily Magazine, April 13, 2022, https://bit.ly/3MQ2Gw4
3 poems, “Garden of Beltane,” “Perdita” and “Blood Remnant,” Raven Cage Issue 68, https://bit.ly/380Vezn
4 poems, “The Silent Park,” “The Bee Mortuary,” “When We Talked in The Storm,” and “Crow’s Caucus,” The Horror Zine, Summer 2022, https://amzn.to/3FbLgHs
poem, “Baby Dark Sky,” Aphelion, May 2022, https://bit.ly/39BUaCw
signing, The Lowell Review 2022, May 7, 2022, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., lala books, 190 Market St., Lowell, MA, https://bit.ly/3OVPmIf
Marisca Pichette
poem, “I am the thing locked outside at night,” Abyss & Apex, Issue 82, April 2022, https://www.abyssapexzine.com/2022/03/i-am-the-thing-locked-outside-at-night/
poem, “C.U.N.T.,” Pyre Magazine, Spring/Summer 2022 Issue, April 2022, https://www.pyremagazine.com/springsummer-22/marisca-pichette
poem, “While Alice Sleeps in Wonderland,” Apparition Lit, Issue 18, April 2022, https://apparitionlit.com/while-alice-sleeps-in-wonderland/
poem, “Where We Felt With Moss,” On Spec Magazine, Issue 119, April 2022, https://onspecmag.wpcomstaging.com/current-issue/
poem, “Killing whale,” Ligeia Magazine, Issue 11, https://www.ligeiamagazine.com/spring-2022/killing-whale-marisca-pichette/
Lauren McBride
2 poems, “How I Got Rich Selling Lipstick” and “show me, I said”, genre, Dreams & Nightmares, issue 120, https://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com/2021/12/121221b.html
poem, “My Country Retreat”, genre, Kaleidotrope, Spring 2022, https://kaleidotrope.net/spring-2022/my-country-retreat-by-lauren-mcbride/
3 poems, “Ginny Goes to Mars,” “To Mars on MAVEN,” & “Transplanted to Terraformed Mars Too Soon,” genre, Altered Reality Magazine, April 7, 2022, https://www.alteredrealitymag.com/ginny-goes-to-mars-by-lauren-mcbride/, https://www.alteredrealitymag.com/to-mars-on-maven-by-lauren-mcbride/ & https://www.alteredrealitymag.com/transplanted-to-terraformed-mars-too-soon-by-lauren-mcbride/
poem, “To The Makers of Bath Products,” nongenre, Your Daily Poem, April 18, 2022, https://www.yourdailypoem.com/listpoem.jsp?poem_id=4059
Kim Malinowski
poem, “Give me something to sing about,” Down in the Dirt, Scars Publications, April 2022, http://scars.tv/cgi-bin/framesmain.pl?writers
class, “Speculative Fiction”, 4-week course starting May 15, 1-2:30 EST, $50 on Zoom, https://terra-nouveau-lyceum.mn or https://www.eventbrite.com/e/326348365747
Ken Poyner
3 poems, “Purpose,” “Searching,” and “Politics”, Unlikely Stories, 4/11/2022, non-genre, web, https://www.unlikelystories.org/content/purpose-searching-and-politics
poem, “The Journey”, Carcinogenic Poetry, non-genre, web, http://www.carcinogenicpoetry.net
poem, “Inflight Pairing”, Dreams and Nightmares #120, genre, print, https://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com/2021/12/121221b.html
poem, “Work Rules”, Blue Unicorn vol XLIV #2, non-genre, print, blueunicorn.org
2 poems, “The Code” & “Predator”, Blue Collar Review vol 25 #2, non-genre, print, https://www.angelfire.com/va/bcr/
Marsheila Rockwell
poem, “The Bones On Which They Cut Their Teeth,” Resist With Every Inch and Every Breath, Lonely Cryptid Media, May 2022, https://lonelycryptidmedia.com/2022/04/20/a-new-anthology-from-lonely-cryptid-media-resist-with-every-inch-and-every-breath/
poem, “The Honorable Iris C. Thaumantos, Presiding,” Musings of the Muses, Brigid’s Gate Press, April 2022, https://brigidsgatepress.com/product/musings-of-the-muses
poem, “EMDR,” Unnerving Magazine, April 2022, https://www.unnervingbooks.com/
Yilin Wang
essay, “Faded Poems and Intimate Connections: Ten Fragments on Writing and Translation”, League of Canadian Poets’ National Poetry Month 2022 Blog Series, April 2022, https://poets.ca/npm22-blog-yilin-wang/
Jen Sexton-Riley
poem, “Cryptids,” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March/April 2022, http://www.fandsf.com
Akua Lezli Hope
panels and reading, FLIGHTS OF FOUNDRY 2022, “Strange Resonances: Poetry Craft and Technique for Speculative Writing,” Friday April 8, 9pm EDT, Solo Poetry Reading, Saturday April 9, 9 PM EDT, “Black Speculative Poetry: Afrofuturism, Afrofantasy, and More,” Sunday April 10, 10 am EDT, “The State of Speculative Poetry,” Sunday April 10th, 6 pm EDT, https://flights-of-foundry.org
Ian Willey
haiku, “French word for snow,” Asahi Haikuist Network, April 1, 2022, https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14584011
poem, “A Glimpse of the Afterlife,” One Sentence Poems, April 20, 2022, http://www.onesentencepoems.com/osp/?s=ian+willey
poem, “Ghosts,” Unbroken, Issue 33, April, 2022, https://www.theunjournals.com/unbroken-33
Mary Soon Lee
poem, “After Inventing Time Travel,” Apparition Lit #18, April 2022, https://apparitionlit.com/after-inventing-time-travel/
poem, “Ming Dynasty Cats,” Rune 2022, April 2022, https://www.rmu.edu/academics/schools/sihss/rune
poem, “A Reimagining,” Utopia Science Fiction, April/May 2022, https://www.utopiasciencefiction.com/product-page/apr-may-2022-digital
PS Cottier
poem, “The long space between spells” The Space Cadet Science Fiction Review, Issue 1, Spring 2022, https://starshipsloane.com/article/the-space-cadet-science-fiction-review-spring-2022-issue-1/57/#The_Long_Space_between_Spells
scifaiku “razor cut…” AntipodeanSF, Issue 283, April 2022, https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20220420140000/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/10063/20220421-0000/www.antisf.com.au/index.html
Roni Stinger
3 poems, “Molting” “Zombification” “Intimate Communion”, Under Her Skin, Blackspot Books, April 5, 2022, https://www.amazon.com/Under-Her-Skin-Toni-Miller/dp/1645480445
Tony Daly
3 poems, “Devotion”, “To the Sky”, “Washed Away”, The Horror Zine, Summer, April 2022, https://www.amazon.com/Horror-Zine-Magazine-Spring-2022-ebook/dp/B09RHPDTYV
2 poems, “The Tragedy of Photons” and “Digital Screen”, Light: Paddler Press Vol. 4, April 2022, https://paddlerpress.ca/issues-trip-log/
Lynne M. MacLean
speculative poem, print, “What You’re Paying For”, On Spec Magazine, issue #119, v. 32 No. 1, April 2022, https://onspecmag.wpcomstaging.com/current-issue/
Lauren Scharhag
poem, “Ay de Mi,” #BreaktheBias: An Audio Anthology for International Women’s Day 2022, Rancid Idols Production, March 2022, https://rancididols.bandcamp.com/album/breakthebias
poem, “Trypophobia,” The Dope Fiend Daily, January 2022, https://thedopefienddaily.blogspot.com/2022/01/trypophobia-cadralor-by-lauren-scharhag.html?fbclid=IwAR2v16FM4ihVtxVCTRZmIklfnvkc5iuHuO4hnM2QRQpycNI2DAw_Oo8XwNk
Lynne Sargent
poem, “Leave the Myths, Leave Home,” Penumbric Magazine, April 2022. https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/sargentMyths.html
poem, “Lady Circe,” Musings of the Muses, April 2022. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09RQZP572/
Ann K. Schwader
poem, print, “Aricebo No More,” Dreams & Nightmares, Jan. 2022, https://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com/2021/12/121221b.html
haiku, non-genre, “nowhere . . .” , Haiku 2022, Modern Haiku Press, http://modernhaiku.org/mhbooks/Haiku2022.html
Earl Livings
haiku, ‘leaping salmon’, Wales Haiku Journal, Spring 2022, https://www.waleshaikujournal.com/copy-of-spring-2021
3 haiku, ‘beach at night’, ‘old forest path’, ‘village fair’, Haiku Xpressions, April 2022, https://online.fliphtml5.com/leqjf/tzcj/#p=10
poem, ‘Long Haul Flight’, Bluepepper, 26 April 2022, https://bluepepper.blogspot.com/2022/04/new-poetry-by-earl-livings.html
Jane Yolen
poem, “Reimaging the Upright Ape”, Fantasy and Myth in the Anthropocene, Bloomsbury Books, Apr 2022, https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/fantasy-and-myth-in-the-anthropocene-9781350203341/
2 poems, “The Why” & “Silence Will Speak”, Enchanted Living #58: The Fairy Tale Issue, Spring 2022, https://enchantedlivingmag.com/products/enchanted-living-issue-58-spring-2022-print
poem, “Ceremony,” Coming of Age: 13 B’nai Mitzvah Stories, Albert Whitman & Co., April 2022, https://www.albertwhitman.com/book/coming-of-age/
Deborah P Kolodji
3 haiku, “emerging,” “new growth…,” “both of us still shaking,” #FemkuMag #33, April 2022, https://69b046c2-a7e1-4a9a-9a22-1c70986eaa24.filesusr.com/ugd/f4c0ea_40c309dd53ae45b894182979e9fa8534.pdf
haiku, “mimosas,” Brass Bell, May 2022, http://brassbellhaiku.blogspot.com/2022/05/drinkable-haiku.html
2 haiku, “pinyon pine,” “fault gouge,” Wales Haiku Journal, Spring 2022, https://www.waleshaikujournal.com/spring-22
haiku, “utility bills due,” Haiku Dialogue, 4/13/2022, https://thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialogue-finding-peace-and-contemplation-in-leisure-time-playing-board-games/
haiku, “awkwardly alone. . .,” first frost, Spring 2022, print journal, https://www.firstfrostpoetry.com/
haiku, “earth warming. ..,” Haiku 2022, Modern Haiku Press, 2022, http://modernhaiku.org/mhbooks/
haiku, “white blossoms,” Stardust Haiku #64, April 2022, https://drive.google.com/file/d/15qRTcEojTYlEFIIGl0aXtf2EeSCHtBAv/view
2 poems, “The Way She Churned Butter,” “Empty Mug,” Al-Khemia Poetica, 4/12/2022, http://alkhemiapoetica.blogspot.com/2022/04/tuesday-april-12-2022-deborah-p.html
3 poems, ”Memoriam,” “Dust Again,” “The Day I Become an Amazon,” Verse-Virtual, May 2022, https://www.verse-virtual.org/poems-and-articles.html
3 poems, “Divorce of a Voyager,” “Red Rock Homestead,” “Ocean Floor Terror, ” Eccentric Orbits 3, Dimensionfold Publishing, 2022, https://www.amazon.com/Eccentric-Orbits-Anthology-Science-Fiction/dp/1989940447/
Scifaiku Workshop, Poetry Pea, April 6, 2022, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xaOOd6se_w
Deborah P Kolodji & Billie Dee
2 poems, “One Arm of the Spiral,” “What Knockers,” Eccentric Orbits 3, Dimensionfold Publishing, 2022, https://www.amazon.com/Eccentric-Orbits-Anthology-Science-Fiction/dp/1989940447/
rengay, “Omicron,” 2nd Place, Haiku Poets of Northern California Rengay Contest, https://www.hpnc.org/2021
Deborah P Kolodji & Yvette Nicole Kolodji
rengay, “Kyoto Tourists,” Honorable Mention, Haiku Poets of Northern California Rengay Contest, https://www.hpnc.org/2021
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