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For your dining and dancing pleasure, here’s this month’s Round-Up. So much going on!
Mike
David C. Kopaska-Merkel
poem, print, “A Vision of Carcosa,” Spectral Realms 20, Winter, 2024, https://www.hippocampuspress.com/journals/spectral-realms/spectral-realms-no.-20
4 poems, “all frequencies silent,” “somebody’s dearest,” “the human conditioner,” and “slow dance,” Five Fleas, 18-Mar., 2024, https://fivefleas.blogspot.com/2024/03/morning-of-march-18-2024.html
2 poems, “cold dreams” and “hat trick,” Horror Senryu Journal, March 25, 2024, https://horrorkujournal.blogspot.com/2024/03/david-c-kopaska-merkel_0810731503.html
poem, “circle me,” Horror Senryu Journal, March 13, 2024, https://horrorkujournal.blogspot.com/2024/03/david-c-kopaska-merkel.html
Lynne Sargent
poem, “A Priestess’ Carvings,” Ache: The Body’s Experience of Religion, Flipped Mitten Press, March 2024, https://www.amazon.com/dp/0999570021
Pixie Bruner
10 poems, “Petit Mals,” miniMAG, Issue90, March 21, 2024, https://minimag.space
poem, “Bone Blood Bird Heart,” miniMAG, Issue88, March 7, 2024, https://minimag.space
reading, “Danse Macabre”, YouTube, March 6, 2024, https://youtu.be/z-ILT-huow8?si=ggnj5bTgnyni6CRj
Wendy Van Camp
poem, “I Am The MoonFace”, San Diego Poetry Annual, San Diego Entertainment & Arts Guild, March 2024, https://sandiegopoetryannual.com/
essay, “Unlocking the Power of Podcast Appearances for Authors”, Indie Author Magazine, Athenia Creative Services, March 2024, https://indieauthormagazine.com
podcast panelist, “Disney Wizards and Sorcerers: with Layla Dorine, Gini Koch, Wendy Van Camp, Mark West, and Gail Martin”, ConTinual: Fandom, March 2024, https://www.facebook.com/GailZMartin/videos/393881866687981/
podcast panelist, “Form Poetry, with Wendy Van Camp, Akua Lezli HOPE, Meg Kuyatt, Maria S. Picone”, Flights of Foundry, March 2024, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3uPANkcSdo
interview, “Poets Cafe”, Featuring Poet Laureate Wendy Van Camp, KPFK 90.7 FM – Los Angeles, March 20th 2024, https://soundcloud.com/poetscafe/wendy-van-campanaheim-poet-laureate-poets-cafe-kpfk-022124
featured reader, “Reads Across America”, Adelaide Price Elementary, Anaheim, CA, March 4th 2024, https://www.nea.org/professional-excellence/student-engagement/read-across-america
presentation, “Every Word Matters: Using Poetry Concepts To Enrich Your Prose”, Women in Publishing Summit, March 6th 2024, https://womeninpublishingsummit.com
featured reader, Eagle Rock Open-Mic, Eagle Rock Library, Eagle Rock, CA, March 23rd 2024, https://www.lapl.org/branches/eagle-rock
Michael H. Payne
4 poems, #1767-1770, Terebinth, March 4, 11, 18, & 25, 2024, http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20240304.html, http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20240311.html, http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20240318.html & http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20240325.html
poem, “Multiversal,” Journ-E vol.3 no.1, March 2024, https://www.amazon.com./Journ-Imaginative-Literature-Frank-Coffman/dp/B0CZPP3Z58
Colleen Anderson
poem, reprint, “The Reapers,” Blood Orange, Feb. 2024, http://bloodorange.krobrien.com/hanged-one-reversed.html
poem, “Dying of the Light,” OnSpec #127, vol. 34 no. 1, Mar. 2024, https://onspec.ca/current-issue/
poem, “First Women,” Polar Borealis #29, Mar. 2024, https://polarborealis.ca/currentback-issues/
interview, Women in Horror Month, HWA, Mar. 2024, https://horror.org/women-in-horror-month-2024-an-interview-with-colleen-anderson/
Tom Guldin
poem, “Did You Say Something?,” parABnormal, March 2024, https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/parabnormal-magazine-march-2024
J. D. Harlock
poem, “Caught in the Crossfire of a Madding Crowd,” Writers Resist, March 2024, https://www.writersresist.com/2024/03/27/caught-in-the-crossfire-of-a-madding-crowd/
Mary Soon Lee
poem, “Escher’s Cat,” Uppagus #61, March 2024, https://uppagus.com/poems/soon-lee-escher/
Katherine Quevedo
mini-chapbook, genre, The Inca Weaver’s Tales, Sword & Kettle Press, January 2024, https://www.swordandkettlepress.com/shop/p/the-inca-weavers-tales-by-katherine-quevedo
reading and interview with Akua Lezli Hope, Speculative Sundays Presents StarBurst, March 3, 2024, https://www.facebook.com/specpo/posts/787565106739898
poem, reprint, genre, “The Bowsprit Mermaid and the Stemhead Dragon,” The Hyacinth Review: Nautical theme, https://hyacinthreview.org/katherine-quevedo-the-bowsprit-mermaid-and-the-stemhead-dragon/
poem, non-genre, “Ode to Hot Chocolate,” Still Point Arts Quarterly, Issue 53: Coffee, Tea, Cocoa, Shanti Arts LLC, March 1, 2024, https://www.shantiarts.co/SPAQ/SPAQ53/files/quevedo.pdf
FJ Doucet
poem, “Render unto Caesar,” Bonemilk III, Gutslut Press, 2024, https://gutslutpress.com/product/pre-order-the-b-o-n-e-m-i-l-k-collective-volume-iii-print-copy/
Rhea Rose
poem, speculative, “Earthrise 2121,” Polar Borealis #29, March 2024, https://polarborealis.ca/currentback-issues/
H. Russell Smith
3 poems, print, “Cowboy Songs,” “Bison Song,” and “Arizona Storm Clouds,” Southwestern American Literature–Spring 2021, Texas State University, https://www.txst.edu/cssw/publications/sal.html
Jack Cooper
poem, “Fractal”, a winner of the Poetry Society Members’ Poems competition, Poetry News, Spring 2024, https://poetrysociety.org.uk/publications-section/poetry-news/
AJ Wentz
poem, “Neon Lights Overpower the Stars,” Quarter(ly) Vol. IX: In the Dark, Quarter Press, Spring 2024, https://quarterpress.com/shop-qp/p/preorder-the-quarterly-vol-ix-in-the-dark
William Shaw
poem, “Swan Point Cemetery,” Daikaijuzine #017, 21 March 2024, https://daikaijuzine.org/williamshaw/swanpointcemetery
Richard Magahiz
poem, genre, “[it is not],” Heliosparrow Poetry Review, Jan 2024, https://heliosparrow.com/2024/01/12-22/
poem, genre, “Offspring of Obsidian,” Uppagus #61, https://uppagus.com/poems/magahiz-offspring/
poem, genre, “ARE.YOU.READY!!?,” dadakuku, Mar 2024, , https://dadakuku.com/2024/03/04/are-you-ready/
poem, non-genre, “Little neutral one”, Delaware Bards 2024, Mar 2024, https://www.localgemspoetrypress.com/delaware-bards-poetry-review-preorders.html
live reading, Delaware Bards Poetry Review 2024 book launch, Dover, Delaware, 8 March 2024
4 poems, genre, “[lecterns],” “[live show],” “[the pop star’s],” and “[ancient litter box]”, Five Fleas, 13 March 2024, https://fivefleas.blogspot.com/2024/03/morning-of-march-13-2024.html
David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Kendall Evans
poem, “The Face In the Attic, the Voices In the Walls,” Kaleidotrope, Spring 2024, https://kaleidotrope.net/spring-2024/the-face-in-the-attic-the-voices-in-the-walls-by-david-c-kopaska-merkel-kendall-evans/
Ken Poyner
poem, genre, “Negotiation”, View From Atlantis #92, viewfromatlantis.wordpress.com, 3/27/2024
Jean-Paul L. Garnier
interview, Radon Journal, Spring 2024, https://www.radonjournal.com/interviews/chatting-with-jean-paul-l.-garnier
Anna Cates
guest editor, Drifting Sands 26, March 2024, https://drifting-sands-haibun.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Issue-26.pdf
2 poems, “Remembering You” and “Vampire: A Found Poem, CHO 20.1, April 2024, https://contemporaryhaibunonline.com/cho-20-1-table-of-contents/
3 poems, “Plastic Apocalypse,” “Ode to the Dragon Rider” & “To Each Their Own,” Abstractaphy, March 2024, https://abstractaphy.org/category/community-voices/anna-cates/
poem, Presence 78, 2024, https://haikupresence.org/recent/presence-74/
Anna & Ed Cates
poem, “The Iconoclasm of Artifice,” Abstractaphy, March 2024, https://abstractaphy.org/category/community-voices/anna-cates/
poem, “Shelter,” Drifting Sands 26, March 2024, https://drifting-sands-haibun.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Issue-26.pdf
poem, “The Voice from the Garden,” Disabled Tales, Feb. 29, 2024, https://www.disabledtales.co.uk/poetry/the-voice-from-the-garden-by-edward-cates-and-anna-cates
poem, “Resurrecting Ravens,” Disabled Tales, March 14, 2024, https://www.disabledtales.co.uk/poetry/resurrecting-ravens-by-edward-cates-and-anna-cates
poem, “Chimney Sweep,” Disabled Tales, March 21, 2024, https://www.disabledtales.co.uk/poetry/chimney-sweep-by-edward-cates-and-anna-cates
G. O. Clark
poem, “Photographic Proof”, Aphelion, March 2024, https://www.aphelion-webzine.com/
Alicia Hilton
3 poems, “Neptune’s Gnarly Hide,” “San Francisco 2093,” and “Into the Aether,” Twenty-two Twenty-eight, March 2024, https://www.twentytwotwentyeight.com/single-post/selected-poetry-by-alicia-hilton.
poem, “Eco-warriors,” The Sprawl Mag Volume 2.1, February 2024, https://www.thesprawlmag.ca/vol-2-1
poem, “Conspiring with a Ghost,” Timber Ghost Press, February 2024, https://www.timberghostpress.com/blog/conspiring-with-a-ghost-by-alicia-hilton
Lyri Ahnam
poem, “Inanna Eclipsed,” Silver Blade Magazine, Issue 57, March 2024, https://www.silverblade.net/2024/03/inanna-eclipsed/
Earl Livings
3 haiku, non-genre, ‘middle of the forest’, ‘half-moon dusk’, ’spreading cheer’, ComPress, 28 March 2024, https://tinyurl.com/yc3d8npy/
haiku, non-genre, ‘young girls’, Scarlet Dragonfly Journal, March 2024, https://scarletdragonflyjournal.wordpress.com/2024/03/30/11179/
Bryant O’Hara
poem, “ChopShop,” FIYAH: Literary Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction #30, Spring 2024, https://fiyahlitmag.com/shop/issues/2024-issues/fiyah-30/
reading, Kirkwood Library, Atlanta, GA, April 13, 2024, 1PM EST, https://www.fulcolibrary.org/locations/kirkwd
Casey Aimer
poem, “The Milky Way Comforts Its Humans,” Heartlines Spec #4, 31 March 2024, https://www.heartlines-spec.com/issue-4/
Kathryn Burkett
2 poems, “Sawing a Woman in Half” and “She Sails Beyond the Stars”, Thirteen Myna Birds, March/April 2024, https://13myna.blogspot.com/
Ann K. Schwader
haiku, non-genre, “equinox,” The Heron’s Nest, March 2024, https://www.theheronsnest.com/March2024/haiku-p24.html
haiku, non-genre, “gathering,” Haiku Dialogue, March 20, 2024, https://thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialogue-migration-flora-and-fauna-commentary/
poem, print, “Primal Night,” Spectral Realms #20, Winter 2024, https://tinyurl.com/35ve4vbb
LindaAnn LoSchiavo
review of Vampire Ventures by Mackenzie Grazetti, March 12, 2024, https://litlemonbooks.com/2024/03/12/review-vampire-venture-poems-by-lindaann-loschiavo/
4 poems, “Cemetery Walk in Winter,” “Cyber-Toothed,” “Footprints in the Snow,” and “Wished Away”, Querencia Press Winter 2024 Anthology, January 31, 2024, https://www.amazon.com/Querencia-Winter-2024-Emily-Perkovich/dp/1959118919/
poem, non-genre, “Orchid Boats”, Bareback Magazine, February 29, 2024, https://www.barebackmag.com/post/orchid-boats
poem, non-genre, “Aftermath”, Discretionary Love, February 29, 2024, https://www.discretionarylove.com/aftermath/
poem, “Haibun: Green Nursemaid”, The Cackling Kettle Issue V, March 10, 2024, https://ladybookwitchpress.com/the-cackling-kettle/
poem, “Dracula Considers Writing a Memoir”, Dissections: The Journal of Contemporary Horror, 19th edition, March 15, 2024, http://dissections.co.uk/Dissections%202024/dissections_page_07.html
poem, non-genre, “Insatiable”, engine idling Issue #2 – The Slant, March 25, 2024, https://www.engineidling.net/issue-2/la-loschiavo-insatiable
poem, non-genre, “Acapulco by Night”, The Taborian, April 1, 2024, https://thetaborian.com/issue-2024-04-acapulco-by-night/
Carina Bissett
poem, “The Ephemera of Dreams,” Weird Tales #368 – The Occult Detective issue, April 2024, https://www.weirdtales.com/store/p/17fhkm01fwp9enm06zt88x1aloxpqf
Lori R. Lopez
poems, “Anathema” and “Ravensong”, Spectral Realms #20, February 2024, https://www.hippocampuspress.com/journals/spectral-realms/spectral-realms-no.-20
poem, “The Dwarf”, Aphelion Webzine, February 2024, http://www.aphelion-webzine.com/poetry/2024/02/TheDwarf.html
interview, HWA Blog for Women In Horror Month, March 18, 2024: https://horror.org/women-in-horror-month-2024-an-interview-with-lori-r-lopez
Lisa Timpf
poem, spec, “Dawn, on Dorva,” Spaceports and Spidersilk, February 2024, https://www.hiraethsffh.com/spaceports-spidersilk-1
poem, non-spec, “Matryoshka,” Third Wednesday web site, March 14, 2024, https://thirdwednesdaymagazine.org/2024/03/14/matryoshka-lisa-timpf/
poem, spec, “Why Do I Dream?” NewMyths Volume 18, Issue 66, March 2024, https://sites.google.com/newmyths.com/newmyths-com-issue-66/issue-66-stories/why-do-i-dream
review, non-spec, of Hazard, Home by Christine Lowther, The Miramichi Reader, March 7, 2024, https://miramichireader.ca/2024/03/hazard-home/
Marisca Pichette
2 poems, “bitches,” and “WRITE THIS DOWN,” Audacious Women: An Anthology, February 2024, https://www.amazon.com/Audacious-Women-Anthology-Reine-Dugas/dp/1734305290/
poem, “Once,” Enchanted Living: Book Lover’s Issue, March 2024, https://enchantedlivingmag.com/collections/magazine/products/enchanted-living-issue-66-spring-2024-print
2 poems, “A Letter on the Obvious,” and “Remember being in the car when you were six,” Door is a Jar, Issue 30, March 2024, https://www.doorisajarmagazine.net/issues/spring-2024
3 poems, “coyotes run faster than wolves,” “(Little) Red,” and “A seal is born with two skins, and keeps only one,” Dissections Horror E-Zine, March 2024, http://dissections.co.uk/Dissections%202024/dissections_page_03.html
poem, “spirits like snowflakes,” Haunted Words Press, Issue 7: Frozen Mirrors, March 2024, https://issuu.com/hauntedwordspress/docs/issue_seven_frozen_mirrors?fr=xKAE9_zU1NQ
Carol Edwards
poem, “Reality (Un)Resolved,” About Time, Red Penguin Books, February 2024, https://redpenguinbooks.com/about-time-edited-by-jill-ocone/
7 poems, “#heartofdarkness,” “Beauty Knows No Pain,” “Dinner Conversation” (reprint), “Lethe’s Song,” “Neon Pink Umbrella,” “The Old Forest” & “Wolf,” Frisson, The Ravens Quoth Press, February 2024, https://www.theravensquoth.press/frisson-first-edition/
poem, “Still”, Poem of the Month contest, Lit Shark Magazine, February 2024, https://litshark.com/lit-shark-mag-feb-poem-month/
2 poems, “Driftwood Dryad” (reprint), “Tell Me the Story of the Sleeping Beauties Waked by Torrents of Tears”, Lit Shark Magazine: The Best of 2023 Anthology, March 2024, https://litshark.com/lit-shark-best-2023-anthology-out-now/
Mahaila Smith
digital chapbook, “Water-Kin,” Metatron Press, March 2024, https://metatron.press/digipub/water-kin/
poem, reprint, “Chemical Rebalance for Young Cyborg Housewives,” Decapitate, March 3, 2024, https://www.thirdestateart.org/decap-volume-one/chemical-rebalance-for-young-cyborg-housewives-by-mahaila-smith-lp6mx
Sultana Raza
poem, “Crystalline Drops”, Remembering Rainer Marie Rilke Anthology, Moonstone Arts Centre, December 2023, https://moonstone-arts-center.square.site/product/remembering-rainer-rilke/456?cs=true&cst=custom
poem, “Inter-galactic Rights”, Bewildering Stories Issue 1024, December 2023, http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue1024/intergalactic_rights.html
poem, “Choreia”, Literary Heist, December 2023, https://www.literaryheist.com/poetry/choreia/
poem, “Oblterate Nocturnal Hours”, Poetica #15, December 2023, https://www.amazon.com/Poetica-15-Circle-Writers-Anthology/dp/B0CQLMFFF2/
poem, “Netting Scents”, Apex & Abyss, January 2024, https://www.abyssapexzine.com/2024/01/netting-scents/
poem, “Outsider Art Museum”, Inner Circle Magazine #61, February 2024, https://www.clarendonhousebooks.com/magazine
poem & artwork, “Colaescing Philosophy” Aothen Magazine Issue 6; Winter 2023-2024, https://aothenmagazine.com/#issue6pdf
poem, “Paper Weighted”, Poetica #16, February 2024, https://www.amazon.com/Poetica-16-Circle-Writers-Anthology/dp/B0CVNCSMLG
poem, “Green Currency”, Verse Virtual, March 2024, https://www.verse-virtual.org/2024/March/raza-sultana-2024-march.html
2 poems, “The Bagginses” and “Bilbo’s Farewell”, Beyond Bree, March 2024, https://beyondbree.org/
review of poetry book On Balance by John Harvey, London Grip, April 2024, http://londongrip.co.uk/2024/04/london-grip-poetry-review-john-harvey-2/
Jasmine Arch
poem, “little fish”, Small Wonders Magazine issue 9, March 20th 2024, https://smallwondersmag.com/piece/little-fish/
Kate Boyes
poem, “Grandmother Frets at Each Full Moon,” Lycanthropicon, Mind’s Eye Publications, February 2024, https://www.amazon.com./dp/B0CY7WJ81C/
Alan Vincent Michaels
2 haiku triptychs, “Shedding My Humanity” and “Three Ruins in Haiku,” SciFanSat Issue 8: Ruin, March 30, 2024, https://scifansat.com/archive.html
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