Science Fiction Poetry Association 2016 Summer Roundup

A big thanks goes to Michael H. Payne who's taken on the ongoing duty of collecting the news of recent sales and publications by members of the Science Fiction Poetry Association from around the world. That's no small task! Michael just finished gathering the 2016 Summer successes of our members for the summer, posting them here. We'll be posting member achievements on a monthly basis, going forward. Congratulations to all of our members, and we wish you continued success! 

Bruce Boston and Alessandro Manzetti

• poetry novella Sacrificial Nights, Kipple Officina Libraria, June 2016

Bruce Boston

• poem, "For Spacers Snarled in the Hair of Comets" (a previous Rhysling Winner) won the 82nd Weekly Contest at Poetry Nook. June 2016.
• poem, "Two Nightstands Attacking a Cello" won the 89th Weekly Contest at Poetry Nook, July 2016.

David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Kendall Evans

• poem, "Virtual Love", Polu Texni Sep. 26, 2016.

David C. Kopaska-Merkel

• periodical, "Dreams and Nightmares 103"
• periodical, "Dreams and Nightmares 104",
• poems, original poems as blog posts nearly every day at Dreams and Nightmares
• poem, "Back Lot at Ed’s Scrapyard, Roswell," Asimov’s, June, 2016
• poem, "Blood red," Beechwood Review 2
• poem, "released from bed," Beechwood Review 2
• poem, "Social Dinosaurs," Kaleidotrope, summer, 2016
• poem, "Started Small," Not One of Us, 55
• poem, "Too Late We Discovered," The Martian Wave

Shannon Connor Winward

• poem, genre(ish), "Boys and Trains", The Pedestal Magazine, July 2016
• poem, "Float", Rogue Agent, August 2016
• poem, genre(ish), "Eclipse", Thirteen Myna Birds, August 2016
• poem, "Survivor", Spirit's Tincture, August 2016
• poem, "Morning", Thank You For Swallowing, August 2016

Michael H. Payne

• poem, "One About a Badger, Apparently," Write Like You're Alive 2016, Zoetic Press, Sept. 2016

Mary Soon Lee

• poem, reprint, "Why the King Wept," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 7/9/2016
• poem, "Not Like This," Apex Magazine #87, August 2016
• poem, "Further Extracts from the Recollections of Artoch, Senior Advisor to King Xau," Mirror Dance, Summer 2016
• poem, "First Lesson," Silver Blade #30, Spring 2016,
• poem, reprint, pdf + print, "Wolf Moon," Dreams & Nightmares 103, May 2016
• poem, non-genre, print, "School Library," Main Street Rag, Volume 21, Number 3, Summer 2016
• poem, print, "Bowl," Ship of Fools #75, Spring 2016,
• poem, non-genre, print, "On Vacation," Ship of Fools #75, Spring 2016
• poem, reprint, print, "Brighid," Poetry Nook: Popular Contest Winners, 2016,
• poem, reprint, "Night," won the 92nd Weekly Contest at Poetry Nook, August 2016
• poem, reprint, "The Horse Lord," won the 84th Weekly Poetry Contest at Poetry Nook, June 2016

Ken Poyner

• poem, “Decency”, non-genre, Mobius, June 2016
• 3 poems, “Out of Reasoning”, ”The Final Tiger”, “The Kari Fisherrmen”, non-genre, Jellyfish Whispers, June 2016
• poem, “The Juggernaut”, Sein Und Werden, June 2016
• poem, “The Dream of the Dogcatcher”, non-genre, Secrets and Dreams anthology, Kind of a Hurricane Press, June 2016
• poem, “Conquest Cycle”, Gyroscope, June 2016
• prose poem, “Alleging Romance”, non-genre, Unbroken, July 2016
• poem, “The Martian Air Merchants”, Asimov’s Science Fiction, July 2016 (August 2016 cover date)
• poem, “Puppy Love”, The Mithila Review, August 2016
• poem, “Diversity”, Postcards Poems and Prose, August 2016
• poem, “Robot Porngraphy”, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, September 2016
• poem, “What is Best”, Fear of Monkeys, September 2016

Ruth Berman

• poem, “We Are All Dragons Here,” Spillway #24, summer 2016 poem, non-genre, “Steam Engine,” Talking River #40, summer 2016
• co-edited two chapbooks of poems by the late Cassandra O'Malley, "The Freeway of Heaven and other poems" (poems mostly sf, mostly previously published) and "The Well of Changes and other poems" (poems mostly sf, not previously published). Bagperson Press, Minneapolis MN, Summer 2016.

Bryan Thao Worra

• poem, "The Pearl in the Shadows," Cthulhusattva: Tales of the Black Gnosis, Martian Migraine Press, June, 2016
• poem, "Phaya Nak Goes to the West," Uncanny Magazine, July/August 2016
• poem, "Robohaikus" Jewish Mexican Literary Review, July 2016,
• 2 poems, "Chimarine," and "A Distant Sound of War," Dark Discoveries Magazine #35, July 2016
• 2 poems "Arachne's Daughter" and "The New Humenu, 2112," Defenestration, August 2016

Josh Brown

• essay, “Poems and Songs of The Hobbit,” Critical Insights: The Hobbit, Salem Press, September 2016
• poem, “The Defiler,” Devolution Z, June, 2016
• poem, “Apocalypse Later,” Mithila Review, June 2016
• poem, “Milky Way” FrostFire Worlds, Alban Lake, August 2016

Denise Dumars

• poem, "Sutekh From the Throne," HWA Poetry Showcase Vol. III

James S. Dorr

• poem, "Godzilla vs. King Kong," DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES #103, August 2016

Sara Backer, under the pseudonym of Che Sara Sara

• 4 poems that won honorable mentions in Poetry Nook: 24 Jul 2016 25 Jul 2016 3 Sep 2016 16 Sep 2016

Herb Kauderer

• poem, "Devils You Know," Bête Noire #22, June 2016
• non-genre poem, "looking up," Ink, Sweat & Tears, June 2, 2016
• poem, “Soft Collision” collaboration with Scott E. Green, Analog, July/August 2016,
• non-genre fibonacci poem, “taking the cure,” The Fib Review #24, June 2016
• very long poem, “Cobblestone Dragon,” Polu Texni, July 11, 2016
• tanka, “[untitled] Autumn leaves scream out,” Tanka Journal #4, August 7, 2016,
• 4 poems, "too close to the sun" haiku, "xenopologist" fib, "Awaiting permission for re-entry" cinquain, "[untitled] romance not quite gone]" haiku Scifaikuest, print, August 2016
• tanka, "love among the stars," Scifaikuest, online, August 2016
• poem, “Playing the Reds,” Not One of Us #56, October 2016

Deborah Davitt

• poem, (speculative, online), "The Fountain," Three Line Poetry, May 2016, issue 37
• 2 poems, (1 speculative, 1 non-genre, print), “Past Imperfect,” “Connect the Dots,” Poetry Quarterly, Summer 2016
• 2 poems (1 speculative, 1 non-genre, print) “What We Sow,” “Ghost Town,” “Reaping,” Inwood, Indiana, 2016
• 2 poems, (2 non-genre, print) “The Crow,” “The Suit,” The Tanka Journal #4, Summer 2016
• poem, (speculative, online) “Persephone,” Silver Blade 31, Summer 2016
• poem, (speculative, online) “Storm Miners,” Winner of the Blue Monday Review Storytime Challenge for August, 2016
• poem, (speculative, print), “Falling,” Dreams and Nightmares #104, September 2016

Michelle Muenzler

• poem, "Monsters", Devilfish Review, Issue 17, August 2016

Stacey Balkun

• workshop, October 3-31, online: 4 weeks of lectures, readings, prompts, & generative feedback

Andrea Blythe

• 3 poems,"Harley Quinn," "Rogue," and "Ursula," Yellow Chair Review, Issue 8, September 2016
• poem, "Sarah Connor: Our Lady of Self Determination," Literary Orphans, Issue 26, September 2016
• poem, "The Tenth Sister," Write Like You're Alive 2016, Zoetic Press, September 2016
• poem, "A Gathering of Baba Yagas," cowritten with Laura Madeline Wiseman, Strange Horizons, June 2016
• poem, "Because Her Face Fades," cowritten with Laura Madeline Wiseman, Faerie Magazine #36, Autumn 2016

Lisa Bradley

• poem, “A Personal History of the Universal History of the Things of New Spain,” Spelling the Hours: Poetry Celebrating the Forgotten Others of Science and Technology, Stone Bird Press, July 2016
• workshop, “How to Read a Poem,” Sirens Conference, October 21, 2016

AJ Odasso

• "Augur Effect," Spelling the Hours, Stone Bird Press, July, 2016
• "Sargasso Sea," Remixt: Volume 1 / Issue 1, September 2016

Elizabeth Barrette

• 4 Poetry Fishbowls
  "All Creatures Great and Small"
  "Is there a word for that feeling?"
  "Unexpected SCIENCE Ensues!"
  "Pet Peeves,"
• 3 Half-Price Sales
  An Army of One
  Polychrome Heroics
  The Moon Door
• 3 Crowdfunding Creative Jams in the Crowdfunding communities on Dreamwidth and LiveJournal
  http://ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com/4035850.html
  http://ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com/4064249.html
  http://ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com/4094828.html
• Bonus Fishbowl with a theme of "anything goes" in The Wordsmith's Forge. http://ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com/4078526.html

Mark C. Childs

• “Water Draws Man,” The Martian Wave, 2016
• “Entreaty to the Thunderous,” Abyss & Apex, July 2016
• “End of Story,” Spaceports & Spidersilk, July 2016
• “Taste the Salt,” Liminality 8, Summer 2016

Adele Gardner

• poem, (non-genre/print), "The Lake at Evening," Blueline: A Literary Magazine Dedicated to the Spirit of the Adirondacks, Vol. XXXVII, 2016
• poem, (genre/online), "My Superwoman," Devilfish Review, Issue 17, August 2016
• poem, (genre/print), "Starshine," Scifaikuest August 2016 print edition, 14th Anniversary Issue
• poem, (genre/online), "Peelings," Scifaikuest August 2016 online edition, 14th Anniversary Issue

John Philip Johnson

• poem, print, "Chimpans and Humanzees," Asimov's Science Fiction, July 2016,
• poem, print, "Martian Garden," The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July/August 2016
• 2 poems, print, "Broods of Lunar Goslings," "Lunar Geese," Phantom Drift, #6
• poem, "Lesser Lunar Geese,' Silver Blade, #30

Gene Twaronite

• poetry book, mostly non-genre, "Trash Picker on Mars", Aldrich Press, Aug. 2016

Robert Borski

• poem, "Cenotaph Moon," Asimov's, July 2016

Wendy Van Camp

• poem, "He Is Your Brother," Altered Reality Magazine, July 2016,
• poem, "Cassandra," Try. Be. Write. (Science Fiction Poetry), July 2016

Stace Johnson, Deena Larsen, and Robert Lavett Smith

• poem, "Triptych," I0, cream city review, June 2016

Jenny Blackford

• poem, "Turkey neck," Going Down Swinging 37 , non-genre, print, Sept. 2016
• poem, "The smell of rotting seagrass," long-listed for the University of Canberra Vice Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize and included in competition anthology Tremble, non-genre, Sept. 2016

Courtney Bates-Hardy

• book, House of Mystery, Kelp Queen Press/ChiZine Publications, Sept 30, 2016

T.D. Walker

• poem, "The Tea Kettle Awaits the New Widow’s Return," The Stonecoast Review Literary Journal, Summer 2016
• 3 poems, "Canals of Mars," "In Which Miss Emily Bethel Wakes a Hundred Years Later in Every Possible Future," and "New Moon: Naming, Rites," The Cascadia Subduction Zone, Vol. 6 No. 3, July 2016
• poem, "Portrait of the Captain with Small Waiting Objects," Recompose #2: Ritualistic Pompadour, Sept. 2016

Susan Gray

• poem collection, "Energy (or the Art of Keeping it Together)," Burning Eye Books (BX3), June 2016
• poem, "Category Familial" Farther Stars Than These, Sept. 2016

Lori Ann Kusterbeck

• 2 poems, "Flight" and "Yielding", Prachya Review – Literature & Arts Without Borders, July 2016
• poem, "Encore", Delirious – A Poetic Celebration of Prince, NightBallet Press, June 2016

Linda D Addison

• introduction for linked sonnets collection Corona Obscura by Michael R. Collings, CreateSpace, July 2016
• set of 4 poems, Scary Out There, Simon & Schuster, Aug. 2016

Akua Lezli Hope

• poem, "Health Care," First Encounters with One’s Own Femininty, July 9, 2016
• poem, "My PTSD or 558 and still counting," The New Verse News, July 25, 2016
• poem, "Standing Rock Resistance," The New Verse News, September 22, 2016
• poem, “Before Us,” The Crafty Poet II: A Portable Workshop, ed. by Diane Lockward, Terrapin Books, 2016

Neile Graham

• poem, “Selene Dresses The Darkness,” Polu Texni, June 13, 2016
• poem, “Pyrrha,” Eternal Haunted Summer, Summer Solstice 2016
• poem, “The Gods of Enough” Polu Texni, July 4, 2016
• 3 poems, “Cannibal Spirit Dance,” “Helen’s Reverie and Then Some,” “You Put a Spell on Me,” Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, July 2016
• poem, “Feles Alieni Vere Sunt,” Devilfish Review, July 2016
• poem, “The God of This Wind,” Remixt, September 12, 2016
• poem, “Summering Spell,” Through the Gate, September 30, 2016

Lauren McBride

• poem, genre/online, "stationed on a gas giant," Silver Blade Fantasy Magazine, Summer 2016 issue 31
• poem, genre/print, "Engagement: Set in Stone," Dreams & Nightmares #103
• 5 poems, genre/print, 1 online, Scifaikuest, August 2016
• poem, genre/online, "Homesick," Spaceports & Spidersilk, July 2016
• poem, non-genre/online, "faint scent," The Heron's Nest, September 2016
• 9 poems, non-genre/online, Songs of Eretz, Summer, 2016

Alex Harper

• poem, "Thy will be done", Cordite Poetry Review, July 2016
• poem, "The Ritual", Liminality: A Magazine of Speculative Poetry, September 2016
• poem, "A Spell a Day," Kaleidotrope, September 2016

J.P. Rosen

• poem, "A Daughter's Plea" Horror Writers Association Poetry Showcase Volume III, August 2016,

Vince Gotera

• poem, “Rest in Purple” (non-genre, print), A Prince Tribute: ... only wanted one time to see you laughing, Yellow Chair Review, June 2016
• 2 poems, "How to Prepare for Judgment Day" and "How to Survive the Flight" (non-genre), The Muses' Gallery, Highland Park Poetry, June 2016
• 2 poems, “Prince Rules” and “Prince’s Guitar” (non-genre), Delirious: A Poetic Celebration of Prince, NightBallet Press, June 2016
• poem, “I Am” The American Journal Of Poetry, June 2016
• poem, “Summer Nights” (non-genre), Crow Hollow 19, July 2016
• 3 poems, “Dragon-in-Training,” “Superhero,” “Space Opera,” Altered Reality Magazine, July 2016
• poem, “What Matters” (non-genre), Genesis, August 2016,
• poem, “Elegy for Iain Banks,” Altered Reality Magazine, August 2016.
• poem, “Ceremony” (non-genre), Eunoia Review, August 2016
• poem, Untitled [Donald Trump / will surely ...] (non-genre), The Muses' Gallery, Highland Park Poetry, August 2016
• poem, “Aswang Christening: A Family Photo” (print), Dreams and Nightmares, September 2016.

Peg Duthie

• lanturne, "Spacing for Sky," unFold, 9 September 2016
• poem, "O Margaret, Here We Are Again," Folded Word, 12 September 2016,
• 5 micropoems, 7x20, 1 August - 5 August 2016: 8.1: https://twitter.com/7x20/status/760150825704513536, 8.2: https://twitter.com/7x20/status/760513265319440384, 8.3: https://twitter.com/7x20/status/760875686915612672, 8.4: https://twitter.com/7x20/status/761238062806499328, 8.5: https://twitter.com/7x20/status/761600454434365440

Deborah P Kolodji

• book, Highway of Sleeping Towns, Shabda Press, July 2016
• haiku, “snow tops,” Jiyu-Katari, ITO EN New Haiku Contest Booklet, Japan, September 2016
• haiku, “what’s left of us,” Haiku 2016 , Modern Haiku Press, Summer 2016
• haiku, “munitions depot,” bottle rockets #35, August 2016
• 4 haiku, Rattle #52, Tribute to Angelenos, Summer 2016

Deborah P. Kolodji and Michael Dylan Welch

• rengay, “Going Places,” Kokako 25, New Zealand, September 2016

An international literary organization, the Science Fiction Poetry Association was founded in 1978 to bring together poets and readers interested in science fiction, fantasy, horror, science, and surrealistic poetry. You can visit the website at www.sfpoetry.com