Where do all the June bugs go:
Once July rolls in? On vacation, I assume, where they can relax and read poetry published during their namesake month by members of SFPA. And now you can do the same!
Mike
David C. Kopaska-Merkel
poem, print, “Wake-up Call,” Not One Of Us 75, July 2023, https://legacyliteraryservices.com/not-one-of-us
2 poems, “check inside…” and “all four cookies…,” evening of June 19, ’23, Five Fleas, https://fivefleas.blogspot.com/2023/06/evening-of-june-19-2023.html
Angela Acosta
poem, “Cosmic Enchantment,” Penumbric: Speculative Fiction Mag, vol. vii, issue 1, June 2023, https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/acostaEnchantment.html
Lorraine Schein
poem, “On the Origin of Fairies,” Eternal Haunted Summer, Summer Solstice 2023, https://eternalhauntedsummer.com/issues/summer-solstice-2023/on-the-origin-of-fairies/
Silvatiicus Riddle
poem, spec, “I Just Want To Be a Monster”, Eternal Haunted Summer, Summer Solstice 2023, https://eternalhauntedsummer.com/issues/summer-solstice-2023/i-just-want-to-be-a-monster/
poem, non-spec, “Does It Pain The Flower To Bloom?”, Ghost City Review, June 2023, https://ghostcitypress.com/poetry-80/2023/6/17/silvatiicus-riddle
reading, Pride Month Poetry Reading + Book Launch feat. Ennius Rook Bashe, Interstellar Flight Press, June 5, 2023, https://www.interstellarflightpress.com/
G.E. Woods
poem, “Items Collected from Discarded Planet 5x.73: Terra,” Strange Horizons, June 2023, http://strangehorizons.com/poetry/items-collected-from-discarded-planet-5x-73-terra/
Ken Poyner
2 poems, non-genre, “Half-Way” & “Original Sin”, The Rye Whiskey Review, June 2023, https://ryethewhiskeyreview.blogspot.com
poem, genre, “Word Problem”, Indelible Review #7, https://indeliblelit.com
book, genre/non-genre, Winter’s Last Apple, Barking Moose Press, http://www.barkingmoosepress.com
Ruth Berman
poem, “Dragons Got Wings,” Dreams & Nightmares, May 2023, https://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com/2023/05/051823b.html
Michael H. Payne
4 poems, pages #1728 through 1731, Terebinth, June 5, 12, 19 & 26, 2023, http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20230605.html, http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20230612.html, http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20230619.html & http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20230626.html
Robin Wyatt Dunn
poem, “They’ve been jamming your heart”, Dissident Voice, June 25, 2023, https://dissidentvoice.org/2023/06/theyve-been-jamming-your-heart/
poem, “Gold Star Family”, Dissident Voice, June 11, 2023, https://dissidentvoice.org/2023/06/gold-star-family/
PS Cottier
poem, “Endings” Nightmare Fuel, 26th June 2023, https://nightmarefuelmagazine.com/2023/06/26/endings-by-ps-cottier/
Lauren McBride
poem, “been standing all night”, acrostiku, genre, Spaceports & Spidersilk, June 2023, https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/spaceports-spidersilk-june-2023
poem, “Mindful Moments”, nongenre, Your Daily Poem, 6/28/23, https://www.yourdailypoem.com/listpoem.jsp?poem_id=4496
Anna Cates
haiku, Modern Haiku 54.2, Summer 2023, https://www.modernhaiku.org/issue54-2/index.html
haiku, Frogpond 46.2, Spring-Summer 2023, https://www.hsa-haiku.org/frogpond/2023-issue46-2/index.html
Lauren Scharhag
3 poems, “Light Studies,” “Heaven Spelled Backwards” & “The Pottery Shard Graveyard,” The Black Shamrock, Issue 4, February 2023, https://archive.org/details/the-black-shamrock-4
3 poems, “Curandera,” “Overlook” & “Lambent,” Setu Magazine, Western Voices Edition, March 2023, https://www.setumag.com/2023/02/lauren-scharhag-western-voices-2023.html
poem, “Medusa Browses the Beauty Aisle,” The Cassandra/Chorale Project, Ice Floe Press, March 2023, https://icefloepress.net/medusa-browses-the-beauty-aisle-lauren-scharhag/
5 poems, “Medusa Browses the Beauty Aisle,” “The Ghost Forest,” “Curse of the Spider Woman,” “Snakes and Boxes” & “Root,” Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Volume 20: Masks of Many Colours, March 2023, https://www.lulu.com/shop/strider-marcus-jones/lothlorien-poetry-journal-volume-20/paperback/product-52e7p9.html
poem, “Skinwalker,” Anvil Tongue Presswork, April 2023, https://anviltonguebooks.blogspot.com/2023/04/skinwalker-lauren-scharhag.html
M. C. Aster
poem, non-genre, “Bukhara in Winter,” Painted Bride Quarterly #104, May 2023, https://pbqmag.org/m-c-aster-bukhara-in-winter/
Anthony Bernstein
poem, “The Fall of the King,” Eternal Haunted Summer, summer solstice 2023, https://eternalhauntedsummer.com/issues/summer-solstice-2023/
poem, “Blood Spills Through Time”, The Sirens Call #62, Summer 2023, http://www.sirenscallpublications.com/
Akua Lezli Hope
2 haiga, “Brooklyn tree” & “4:56 am”, Haiku North America NA 2023, Urban Haiga presentation, June 28, 2023, https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-6ZVxn407QuBKSTCsMntAQVjoCRgcrfx
3 poems, “Big Foot Hereabouts,” “Things Glimpsed on Rings” & “Smilodons,” The Sirens Call, Summer Issue #62, Local Legends, http://www.SirensCallPublications.com
4 poems, “Teaching Artist”, “Jaffreys”, “I knew they would undo me” & “In Memoriam for BJ Ashanti”, non-genre, These Black Bodies Are…, June 2023, https://www.romainewashington.com/blacklandia.html
poetry reading, Juneteenth, non-genre, presented by the Southeast Steuben Public Library June 19, 2023, https://ssclibrary.org/
5 panels, “Form poetry: Akua Lezli Hope, Wendy Van Camp, Maria Picone,” “Creating a Chapbook: How To Angela Acosta, Wendy Van Camp, Andrew Najberg, Akua Lezli Hope,” “Reading Akua Lezli Hope,” “Speculative Poetry: The oldest genre you’ve never heard of Akua Lezli HOPE, Cislyn Smith, Ewen Ma” & “Creating For an Audience vs. Making Just For You: Thiago Ambrósio Lage, Akua Lezli HOPE, Suzanne Walker & Joyce Reynolds-Ward”, Flights of Foundry, May 2023, https://flights-of-foundry.org/
E.F. Schraeder
poem, “The Sexton Pill”, Lavender Review, issue 27 June 2023, https://www.lavrev.net/2023/06/e-f-schraeder.html
Melissa Ridley Elmes
poem, “Adventures in the Dark of the Mind,” Penumbric 7.1, June 2023, https://tinyurl.com/453nvkpf
poem, “Sanctuary,” Dreams and Nightmares 124, May 2023, https://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com/2023/05/051823b.html
3 poems, “Dream Visions”, “Three Haiku to Chill the Spine” & “The Quiet Moments,” Eccentric Orbits 4, May 2023, https://dimensionfold.com/catalog/poetry-books/eccentric-orbits/
poem, “Nailbiter,” Cathexis Northwest Press, May/June 2023, https://www.cathexisnorthwestpress.com/may-june-2023
Mary Soon Lee
poem, “I, Universe,” Strange Horizons, 2023 Fund Drive Issue, http://strangehorizons.com/poetry/i-universe/
Katherine Quevedo
poem, genre, “The Universe’s Edge,” Anterior Skies, Vol. 1, Strange Elf Press, June 2, 2023, https://www.amazon.com/Anterior-Skies-Vol-Genre-Bending-Anthology-ebook/dp/B0C5NB8C59/
interview, Into the Looking Glass 2.3: Weaving Memory and Poetry with Katherine Quevedo, June 28, 2023, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/2-3-weaving-memory-and-poetry-with-katherine-quevedo/id1588716523?i=1000618670053
Noah Berlatsky
microchapbook, It’s Fab, Origami Poems Project, June 2023, https://www.origamipoems.com/images/Microchap/2023_Micro/Noah_Berlatsky_-_It_Fab_2023_CVR_by_author.pdf
critical essay, “Cockroach Solidarity: On Elizabeth R. McClellan’s ‘The Later Life of Herr Samsa’s Picture,'” Split Lip, June 14, 2023, https://splitlipthemag.com/reviews/0623/review-of-the-later-life-of-herr-samsas-picture
poem, spec, “The Key,” Blue Unicorn 46:2, Spring 2023, https://blueunicorn.org/product/blue-unicorn-volume-46-number-2-spring-2023/
poem, “The Cow Jumped Over The,” dadakuku, June 8, 2023, https://dadakuku.com/2023/06/08/the-cow-jumped-over-the/
poem, “All The Birds Forever,” Synchronized Chaos, June 1, 2023, https://synchchaos.com/prose-poem-from-noah-berlatsky/
poem, “Beauty Is Where You Find It,” Synchronized Chaos, June 15, 2023, https://synchchaos.com/poetry-from-noah-berlatsky-5/
7 poems, “Death be not proud,” “Ideal Reader,” “Fireworks,” “Poets!” “Stimming,” “Someday,” and “Too Old,” Five Fleas (Itchy Poetry), June 2023, https://fivefleas.blogspot.com/2023/06/
3 poems, “Lady Chatterley’s Free Speech Without Pronouns,” “though held still” and “Elegy for Elegies” D.O.R. #3, July 2023, https://lachlanjmcdougall.wordpress.com/2023/06/03/d-o-r-issue-3-now-available/
LindaAnn LoSchiavo
interview by Anthony Avina, June 5, 2023, https://authoranthonyavinablog.com/2023/06/05/interview-with-author-lindaann-loschiavo/
review of Women Who Were Warned, Review Tales, June 7, 2023, https://jeyranmain.com/2023/06/07/women-who-were-warned-by-lindaann-loschiavo-book-review-1465/
interview, Pretty-Hot Magazine, June 17, 2023, https://pretty-hot.com/lindaann-loschiavo/
review of Apprenticed to the Night, Witty and Sarcastic Book Reviews, June 25, 2023, https://wittyandsarcasticbookclub.home.blog/2023/06/25/apprenticed-to-the-night-by-lindaann-loschiavo/
poem, non-spec, “Sickroom at 138 Degrees Fahrenheit,” Hot Pot Magazine, Issue 5, June 10, 2023, https://hotpotmagazine.com/2023/06/10/issue-five-lindaann-loschiavo/
2 poems, “Decomposing” and “Death Dominos” in Stark Nights, Issue # 1, June 15, 2023, https://starknightslit.wixsite.com/stark-nights/copy-of-marie-louise-mcguinness-1
poem, non-spec, “Haibun: Green Nurse,” Colors Magazine: Green issue, June 19, 2023, https://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/2521370
poem, “Yukio Mishima’s Door to Exile,” Seppuku, Issue Vl, June 27, 2023, https://www.laughingroninpress.com/product-page
poem, “Golden Shovel: Tenbrific”, Backwards Trajectory, June 30, 2023, https://backwardstrajectory.com/2023/06/30/golden-shovel/
Elizabeth R. McClellan
poem, spec, “Rough Trade,” Dracula: Beyond Stoker Issue 2: Renfield, May 2023, https://www.dbspress.com/shop-1/p/dracula-beyond-stoker-issue-2
poem, spec, “Jupiter, Dave, The Turtles and The Tube,” Utopia Science Fiction, February/March 2023, https://www.utopiasciencefiction.com/copy-of-february-2023-archive
poem, spec, “From the Memoirs of Mme. B–,” Corvid Queen, June 31, 2023, https://corvidqueen.com/stories/from-the-memoirs-of-mme-b-elizabeth-r-mcclellan
poem, spec, “Our Lady of Rags and Carbon Steel,” Blood and Jazz Podcast, 3/15/2023, https://www.lastgirlsclub.com/blood-jazz-podcast/our-lady-of-rags-and-carbon-steel
interview & poem, spec, “Mother Takes a Wife,” Blood and Jazz Podcast, 6/18/2023, https://www.lastgirlsclub.com/blood-jazz-podcast/3ialj4umlc6t52zmydzfcc0gxixy6o
Mahaila Smith
poem, non-genre, “sweet,” Nightingale & Sparrow, June 3, 2023, https://www.instagram.com/p/CtB-UgCtje1/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
Richard Magahiz
2 poems, genre, “[your ankles swell],” “[take this mask],” Five Fleas, https://fivefleas.blogspot.com/2023/06/afternoon-of-june-3-2023.html
poem, non-genre, “Conversations with loathsome masses of flesh,” dadakuku, https://dadakuku.com/2023/06/10/conversations-with-loathsome-masses-of-flesh/
poem, genre, “[it wasn’t staring],” Five Fleas, https://fivefleas.blogspot.com/2023/06/afternoon-of-june-23-2023.html
poem, one non-genre, “Field of mustard,” one genre, “Arctic summer,” Sein und Werden: Animal – Vegetable – Mineral, http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/spring-summer23/page6.html
Colleen Anderson
collection, The Lore of Inscrutable Dreams, Jun. 2023, https://www.amazon.com/Lore-Inscrutable-Dreams-Colleen-Anderson/dp/1959048082
poem, “Spell to Raze a Tree,” Haven #9, Jun. 2023, https://ko-fi.com/s/e87fa3a5fb
instructor, Crystal Lake Authors Journey, Jun. 2023, https://www.crystallakepub.com/the-authors-journey-sign-up-today/
Lori R. Lopez
poem, genre, “Had She Lived”, Dreams & Nightmares, Issue 124, May 2023, https://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com/2023/05/051823b.html
poem, genre, “A Matter of Perspective”, Aphelion Webzine, June 2023, http://www.aphelion-webzine.com/poetry/2023/06/AMatterofPerspective.html
4 poems, genre, “A Ticket To Die”, “Scorched”, “The Brainrobber” and “Skeleton Key”, The Sirens Call, Issue 62, Summer 2023, http://www.sirenscallpublications.com/pdfs/SirensCallEZine_Summer2023.pdf
Trisha J. Wooldridge
poem, “Exorcising ADHDemons Requires an Order of Operations,” Wicked Sick, an anthology of the New England Horror Writers, Wicked Creative, May 2023, https://www.amazon.com/Wicked-Sick-Anthology-England-Writers/dp/0998185469
Eva Papasoulioti
poem, “Lunar Maria”, Haven Speculative, Issue Nine, June 2023, https://www.havenspec.com/lunar-maria
poem, “Greenhouse”, Utopia Science Fiction, February/March 2023, https://www.utopiasciencefiction.com/copy-of-february-2023-archive
Goran Lowie
poem, “A Look into the Lives of The Geriatric Life Companions on the Aniara“, Utopia Science Fiction, June 2023, https://www.utopiasciencefiction.com/product-page/june-july-2023-issue
poem, “The Guardian“, Spaceports & Spidersilk, June 2023, https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/spaceports-spidersilk-june-2023
Marisca Pichette
poem, “A Prayer for the Surviving,” Haven Spec, Issue 9, June 2023, https://ko-fi.com/s/e87fa3a5fb
poem, “The Goth Girls’ Gun Gang,” The Dread Machine, June 2023, https://www.thedreadmachine.com/the-goth-girls-gun-gang/
Lisa Timpf
poem, non-genre, “A Squirrel’s To-Do List,” The World Around Us: Canadian Anthology of Verse 2023, The Ontario Poetry Society, June 2023, https://www.theontariopoetrysociety.ca/Contests.html
Ann K. Schwader
poem, print, “Escape Velocity,” Dreams & Nightmares #124, May 2023, https://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com/2023/05/051823b.html
haiku, mainstream, “roadside shrine,” The Heron’s Nest, June 2023, https://theheronsnest.com/June2023/haiku-p1.html
Alan Vincent Michaels
haiku triptych, “critical thought lapse,” Aethereal Engineer — “Extract”: A SciFanSat Microfiction Compilation, June 11, 2023, https://aetherealengineer.com/2023/06/11/sfs157/
haiku triptych, “What is Science Fiction?,” Aethereal Engineer — “Reject”: A SciFanSat Microfiction Compilation, June 25, 2023, hhttps://aetherealengineer.com/2023/06/25/sfs159/
Mariel Herbert
poem, online, genre, “Date Night,” Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag, June 2k22, vol vii issue 1, https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/herbertDate.html
poem, online, genre, “Emily at Midnight,” Eternal Haunted Summer, Summer Solstice 2023, https://eternalhauntedsummer.com/issues/summer-solstice-2023/emily-at-midnight/
poem, print, genre, “Show and Tell,” Dreams and Nightmares 124, May 2023, https://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com/2023/05/051823b.html
4 haiku, print, genre, Scifaikuest, May 2023, https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/scifaikuest-may-2023-edited-by-t-santitoro
aiku, online, non-genre, S6E18 Inner & Outer Weather, Poetry Pea Podcast, 19 June 2023, https://poetrypea.com/s6e18-original-haiku-expressing-inner-outer-weather/
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