440 Books of Speculative Poetry (2012-2024)

As we get ready to wind down the 30th National Poetry Month, I thought it might be a good idea to post a list of known books of speculative poetry the SFPA has identified over the years since the 2013 introduction of the Elgin Award to recognize books of involving speculative verse(full-length and chapbooks) With the international membership of 19+ nations, there have been at least 440 distinct titles nominated by the members for consideration. 

Many of these remain in print, although I have not had the time here to track down links or summaries for all of these. Some publishers have since gone defunct or had other issues that make acquiring copies difficult in some regions, so it's unlikely any one library has a complete set of all of these but I'm arranging this here as a breadcrumb for future researchers to work with so that you can see where the field has expanded considerably over the last decade or so in particular. My appreciation to all of you who kept an eye out for these volumes, and if you feel there are books that weren't nominated in the past but that should be in this list I strongly encourage you to list them in the comments here.

[...] • Ava Hoffman (Astrophil Press, 2021)

39 Triolets • Anna Cates • (Cyberwit Press, 2023)

5 Spirits in My Mouth • Pan Morigan (Querencia Press, 2023)

500 Apocalypses • Phantom Williams (2016)

A Belief in Cosmic Dailiness • Angela Acosta • (Red Ogre Review, 2023)

A Collection of Dreamscapes • Christina Sng (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2020)

A Collection of Nightmares • Christina Sng (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2017)

A Complex Accident of Life • Jessica McHugh (Apokrupha Books, 2020)

A History of the Cetacean American Diaspora • Jenna Le (Anchor & Plume, 2016)

A Predisposition for Madness • Aurelio Rico Lopez III (Hybrid Sequence Media, 2021)

A Refuge of Tales • Lynne Sargent (Renaissance Press, 2020)

A Registry of Omens • Kendra P. Leonard • (Red Ogre Review, 2024)

A Ride Through Faerie and Other Poems • Clay Franklin Johnson (Gothic Keats Press, 2021)

A Route Obscure and Lonely • LindaAnn LoSchiavo (The Wapshott Press, 2019)

A Wheel of Ravens • Adam Bolivar • (Jackanapes Press, 2023)

Absolute Zero • David Lunde (Mayapple Press, 2018)

Age of Glass • Anna Marie Hong (CSU Poetry Center, 2018)

Alchemy of Dreams • Michael Fantina (Hippocampus Press, 2017)

Algorithmic Shapeshifting • Bogi Takács (Aqueduct Press, 2019)

Altars & Oubliettes • Angela Yuriko Smith (2020)

Always Haunted: Hallowe'en Poems • LindaAnn LoSchiavo • (Wild Ink Publishing, 2024)

Ambush at Still Lake • Caroline Bird • (Carcanet, 2024)

america, MINE • Sasha Bank (co-im-press, 2020)

Amnita: The Legend of Amnita of the Amazon • Eleanor Arnason • (Crumb Fairy Press, 2022)

An Exorcism of Angels • Stephanie Wytovich (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2015)

An Inheritance of Stone • Leslie J. Anderson (Alliteration Ink, 2014)

Android Girl and Other Sentient Speculations • Michael H. Hanson (Three Ravens Publishing, 2020)

Angels & Insects are Creatures with Wings • Amy Jannotti (Kith Books, 2023)

Animal Gnosis • Denise Dumars • (Alien Buddha Press, 2024)

Annabel Lee, in Shadow • John Urbancik • (Dark Fluidity, 2023)

Annotated Daniel • James Rome and James Knight • (Steel Incisors, 2023)

anOther Mythology • Maxwell I. Gold (Interstellar Flight Press, 2023)

Apocalypse • Frederick Turner (Ilium Press, 2016)

Arthurian Things • Melissa Ridley Elmes (Dark Myth Publications, 2020)

Artifacts • Bruce Boston (Independent Legions, 2018)

As The Seas Turn Red • Morgan Sylvia (2019)

At Summer's Wistful End • K. A. Opperman • (Jackanapes Press, 2024)

Baby Cerberus • Natasha Ramoutar • (Wolsak and Wynn, 2024)

Bad Jamie • Jessica Fordham Kidd (Anhinga Press, 2020)

Bad Omens • Jessica Drake-Thomas (Querencia Press, 2022)

Bear, Coyote, Raven • Jason Grundstrom-Whitney (Resolute Bear Press, 2019)

Beautiful Malady • Ennis Rook Bashe • (Interstellar Flight Press, 2023)

Before We Remember We Dream • Bryan Thao Worra (Sahtu Press, 2020)

Bestial Mouths • Brenda S. Tolian• (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2024)

Beyond the Moones Sphere • Ruth Berman • (Crumbfairy Press, 2024)

Black Flames & Gleaming Shadows • Frank Coffman (Bold Venture Press, 2020)

Black Observatory: Poems • Christopher Brean Murray (Milkweed Editions, 2023)

Black Widow • Louise Worthington • (Red Escape Publishing, 2022)

Bleeding Rainbows and Other Broken Spectrums • Maxwell I. Gold • (Hex Publishers, 2023)

Bleeding Saffron • David E. Cowen (Weasel Press, 2018)

Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head • Warsan Shire • (Penguin Random House, 2022)

blips on a screen • Joshua Gage (Cuttlefish Books, 2021)

body in motion • Gretchen Rockwell • (Perhappened Press, 2021)

Bone Confetti • Muriel Leung (Noemi Press, 2016)

Bounded by Eternity • Deborah L. Davitt • (Edda Earth, 2022)

Bramah and the Beggar Boy • Renée Sarojini Saklikar (Harbour Publishing, 2021)

Bramah's Quest • Renée Sarojini Saklikar (Harbour Publishing, 2023)

Brief Encounters with My Third Eye: Selected Short Poems 1975–2016 • Bruce Boston (Crystal Lake Publishing, 2016)

broken bottle of time • John Reinhart (Alban Lake, 2017)

Burials • Jessica Drake-Thomas (CLASH Books, 2020)

But the sun, and the ships, and the fish, and the waves • Conyer Clayton (Anvil Press, 2022)

Cacophony • Josh Medsker (Alien Buddha Press, 2019)

Cajuns in Space • Denise Dumars (self-published, 2022)

Call Me Spes • Sara Cahill Marron • (MadHat Press, 2022)

Calypso • Oliver K. Langmead • (Titan Press, 2024)

Can You Sign My Tentacle? • Brandon O’Brien (Interstellar Flight Press, 2021)

Candles & Pins • Jacqueline West (Alban Lake, 2018)

Carpe Noctem • Robert Borski (Weird House Press, 2020)

Cast From Darkness • Marge Simon and Mary Turzillo • (Mind's Eye Publications, 2023)

Chapel of Celluloid/Capela de Celulóide • Wade German • (Raphus Press, 2023)

Charm for Catching a Train • Milena Williamson • (Green Bottle Press, 2022)

Chasing Wild Grief • Sandra J. Lindow • (Kelsay Books, 2021)

Chemical Letters • Octavia Cade (Popcorn Press, 2015)

Choking Back the Devil • Donna Lynch (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2019)

Cleave • Tiana Nobile (Hub City Press, 2021)

Clock Star Rose Spine • Fran Wilde • (Lanternfish Press, 2021)

Come Late to the Love of Birds • Sandra Kasturi (Tightrope Books)

Conjoining • Heidi Czerwiec (Sable Books, 2017)

Corona Obscura • Michael R. Collings (CreateSpace, 2016)

Cosmovore • Kristi Carter (Aqueduct Press, 2017)

Cradleland of Parasites • Sara Tantlinger (Strangehouse Books, 2020)

Creature Features • Noel Sloboda (Main Street Rag, 2022)

Cries to Kill the Corpse Flower • Ronald J. Murray (Bizarro Pulp Press, 2020)

Crime Scene • Cynthia Pelayo • (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2022)

Crouching Yak, Hidden Emu • David Clink ( The Battered Silicon Dispatch Box)

Crowned: The Sign Of The Dragon Book 1 • Mary Soon Lee (Dark Renaissance Books, 2015)

Crushed Velvet • Mark McLaughlin • (self-published, 2022)

Curses and Recurses: Poems of Writing and Damnation • Herb Kauderer • (Written Image Press, 2021)

Daddies, Demons and the Dawn • ayana walker • (Bookleaf Publishing, 2024)

Dame Evergreen: And Other Poems of Myth, Magic & Madness • Rebecca Buchanan (Sycorax Press, 2018)

Dancing with Maria’s Ghost • Alessandro Manzetti (Independent Legions Publishing, 2021)

Dangerous Dreams • Marge Simon and Sandy DeLuca (Elektrik Milk Bath Press, 2013)

Dark Energies • Ann K. Schwader (P’rea Press, 2015)

Dark Parchments • Michael H. Hanson (MoonDream Press, 2015)

Dark Roads: Selected Long Poems 1971-2012 • Bruce Boston (Dark Renaissance Books, 2013)

Dark Woods Rising • A J Dalton • (Starship Sloane Publishing, 2024)

Darkest Days and Haunted Ways • Ashley Dioses • (Jackanapes Press, 2023)

Darkverse: The Shadow Hours • Lori R. Lopez (Fairyfly Entertainment, 2017)

Dawn of the Algorithm • Yann Rousselot (Inkshares, 2015)

Dead Girls • Francesca Lia Block (A Midsummer Night’s Press, 2019)

Dead Starships • Wendy Rathbone (Eye Scry Publications, 2016)

Deaf Republic • Ilya Kaminsky (Graywolf Press, 2019)

Death Styles • Joyelle McSweeney • (Nightboat Books, 2024)

Debudaderrah • Robin Wyatt Dunn (John Ott, 2018)

Demonstra • Bryan Thao Worra (Innsmouth Free Press, 2013)

Denmark: Variations • James Tadd Adcox • (Hem Press Books, 2023)

Diary of a Sorceress • Ashley Dioses (Hippocampus Press, 2017)

Dionysia • Kim Deyn (Verve Poetry, 2023)

Distilled From Water: Speculative Poetry About Water • Herb Kauderer • (Written Image Press, 2024)

DMMTHL • C.C Hannett (Spuyten Duyvil, 2019)

Doubt & Circuitry • T.D. Walker (Southern Arizona Press, 2023)

Dragonfly and Other Songs of Mourning • Michelle Scalise (Lycan Valley Press, 2019)

Dragons & Rayguns • Vince Gotera • (Final Thursday Press, 2024)

Dream Rooms • River Halen (Book*hug Press, 2022)

Dreams from a Black Nebula • Wade German (Hippocampus Press, 2014)

Dreamscapes and Dark Corners • Melissa Ridley Elmes • (Alien Buddha Press, 2023)

Dub • Alexis Pauline Gumbs (Duke University Press, 2020)

Easy Travel to the Stars • G.O Clark (Alban Lake Publishing, 2020)

Echoes From an Expired Earth • Allen Ashley (Demain Books, 2020)

Eclipse of the Moon • Frank Coffman (Mind's Eye Publications, 2021)

Eden Underground • Alessandro Manzetti (Crystal Lake Publishing, 2015)

Electric Cat City: A poesy • Anna Cates (Red Moon Press, 2023)

Elegies of Rotting Stars • Tiffany Morris • (Nictitating Books, 2022)

Elemental Haiku • Mary Soon Lee (Ten Speed Press, 2019)

Entanglement • David C. Kopaska-Merkel & Kendall Evans (Diminuendo Press, 2018)

Ephemeral Village • Daniel Ausema • (Island of Wak-Wak, 2024)

Escaping the Body • Chloe N. Clark (Interstellar Flight Press, 2022)

Exposed Nerves • Lucy A. Snyder (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2021)

Fearworms • Robert Payne Cabeen (fanboy comics, 2014)

Field Guide to the End of the World • Jeannine Hall Gailey (Moon City Press, 2016)

Flare, Corona • Jeannine Hall Gailey (BOA Editions, 2022)

Flux Lines • John C. Mannone (Linnet’s Wings Press, 2022)

Flying Solo: The Lana Invasion • Herb Kauderer (The Poet’s Haven, 2017)

For the Ride • Alice Notley (Penguin Books, 2020)

Foundlings • Cindy O’Quinn & Stephanie Ellis • (2022)

Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud • Lee Murray • (The Cuba Press, 2024)

From Voyages Unreturning • Deborah L. Davitt • (Aqueduct Press, 2023)

Future Anthropology • Jean-Paul L. Garnier (Space Cowboy Books, 2018)

Ghosts Still Walking • Do Nguyen Mai (Platypus Press, 2016)

Ghosts, Trolls, and Other Things on the Internet • C. E. Hoffman • (Bottlecap Press, 2022)

Girls from the County • Donna Lynch • (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2022)

Glitter and Ghosts • Amy Zoellers • (Yuriko Publishing, 2022)

God’s Will for Monsters • Rachelle Cruz (Inlandia Institute, 2017)

goodwill galaxy hunting • LeRoy Gorman (Urban Farmhouse Press, 2019)

Grab • Kendra Preston Leonard • (Red Ogre Review, 2023)

Grave Goods • Cardinal Cox (Demain Books, 2020)

Gravedigger’s Dance • G.O. Clark (Dark Renaissance Books, 2014)

Grim Series • Kristine Ong Muslim (Popcorn Press, 2012)

Hairy Hullabaloo • Richard Stevenson • (Starship Sloane Publishing, 2024)

Halloween Hearts • Adele Gardner (Jackanapes Press, 2022)

Hatch: Poems • Jenny Irish • (Curbstone Books, 2024)

Heliophobia • Saba Syed Razvi (Finishing Line Press, 2017)

Here I Am, Pry Me Open • Atlas St. Cloud (Kith Books, 2023)

Horrific Punctuation • John Reinhart (Arson Press, 2021)

hortus animarum • Sienna Tristen • (Frog Hollow Press, 2022)

House of Mystery by Courtney Bates-Hardy (ChiZine Publications, 2016)

How to Do the Greased Wombat Slide • Pamela Miller • (Unsolicited Press, 2024)

how to extricate yourself • Laura Theis (Demsey & Windle, 2020)

How to Flirt in Faerieland and Other Wild Rhymes • CSE Cooney (Papaveria Press)

How to Navigate Our Universe • Mary Soon Lee • (Self Published, 2023)

Hungry Constellations • Mike Allen (Mythic Delirium Books, 2014)

Hydra Medusa • Brandon Shimoda • (Nightboat Books, 2023)

Hysteria: A Collection of Madness • Stephanie Wytovich • (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2013)

I Am Not A War • Sophia Terazawa (Essay Press, 2016)

I Am Not Your Final Girl: Poems • Claire C. Holland (Glass Poet Press, 2018)

I Awaken in October: Poems of Folk Horror and Halloween • Scott J. Couturier • (Jackanapes Press, 2022)

I Dreamed a World • Colleen Anderson (LVP Publications, 2022)

If the Hero of Time Was Black • Ashley Harris (Weasel Press, 2018)

If the Tabloids Are True What Are You? • Matthea Harvey (Graywolf Press, 2014)

Igor in Therapy • M. K. Garrison (Spuyten Duyvil, 2021)

Ill Weathers and Other Fates • Blair Hamelink • (Quillkeepers Press, 2024)

Imitation of Life • L. Marie Wood • (Falstaff Books, 2024)

In Days to Come • Lisa Timpf (Hiraeth Publishing, 2022)

In the Crocodile Gardens • Saba Razvi (Agape Editions, 2016)

In the Dead of Night • James Bryant • (self-published, 2021)

Infernas • West Ambrose • (West of Canon Press, 2023)

Instrumentals: Book One • Jonel Abellanosa • (Lemures Digital Collection, 2022)

Into the Forest and All the Way Through • Cynthia Pelayo (Burial Day Books, 2020)

Invocabulary • Gemma Files (Aqueduct Press, 2018)

Kraken Fever • Kyra Starr & Angela Yuriko Smith (Yuriko Publishing, 2021)

LARPing IRL • S. Michael Shrawder • (Red Ogre Review, 2024)

Let the Dead In • Saida Agostini (Alan Squire Publishing, 2022)

Letting out the Demons • Terrie Leigh Relf • (Elektrik Milk Bath Press, 2013)

Lexicon of Future Selves • Gretchen Rockwell (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press, 2021)

Liberating the Astronauts • Christina M. Rau (Aqueduct Press, 2017)

Lilith’s Demons • Julie r. Enszer (A Midsummer Night’s Press, 2015)

Lost Gardens of the Hakudo Maru • Ryu Ando (a…p press, 2016)

Love for Slaughter • Sara Tantlinger (Strangehouse Books, 2017)

Love Robot • Margaret Rhee (The Operating System, 2017)

Lovers & Killers • Mary Turzillo (Dark Regions Press)

Luminous Worlds • David C. Kopaska-Merkel (Dark Regions Press, 2013)

Magic Lives in Girls • Sadee Bee (Kith Books, 2023)

Many Restless Concerns • Gayle Brandeis (Black Lawrence Press, 2020)

Maps of a Hollowed World • TD Walker (Another New Calligraphy, 2020)

Marginalia to Stone Bird • Rose Lemberg (Aqueduct Press, 2016)

Mars Maundering • Denise Dumars • (Space Cowboy Books, 2023)

Mary Shelley Makes a Monster • Octavia Cade (Aqueduct Press, 2019)

Mathematics for Ladies • Jessy Randall • (Penguin Random House, 2022)

Meaningless Cycles in a Vicious Glass Prison • Anton Cancre (The Dragon’s Roost Press 2020)

Medea Redux/Hares on the Mountain • Ali Graham • (Hem Press Books, 2024)

Melancholia: A Book of Dark Poetry • Sumiko Saulson • (Bludgeoned Girls Press, 2024)

Messengers of the Macabre • LindaAnn LoSchiavo & David Davies • (Audience Askew, 2022)

Metastable Systems • David C. Kopaska-Merkel (Cyberwizard Productions, 2017)

Mexicans On The Moon • Pedro Iniguez • (Space Cowboy Books, 2024)

Micropoetry for Microplanets • Brian U. Garrison • (Space Cowboy Books, 2024)

Midnight Comes Early • Marcie Lynn Tentchoff (Hiraeth Publishing, 2021)

Million-Year Elegies • Ada Hoffman (2021)

Mindscapes • G. O. Clark • (Hireath Publishing, 2024)

Mobius Lyrics • Maxwell I. Gold & Angela Yuriko Smith (Independent Legions Publishing, 2022)

Monsters I Have Been • Kenji C. Liu (Alice James Books, 2019)

Monstrous • PS Cottier (Interactive Press, 2020)

Monstrum Poetica • Jezzy Wolfe (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2021)

Monument • Manahil Bandukwala (Brick Books, 2022)

Moonlight and Monsters • Lauren Scharhag • (Gnashing Teeth Publishing, 2023)

Moth Frenzy • Shane D. Keene • (Self-published, 2024)

MOTHERDEVIL • Kailey Tedesco • (White Stag Publishing, 2024)

Mourning Jewelry • Stephanie Wytovich (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2014)

Mutable Forests • Noah David Roberts (Kith Books, 2023)

Naming the Ghost • Emily Hockaday • (Cornerstone Press, 2022)

Naughty Ladies • Marge Simon (Eldritch Press, 2015)

Neon Lights and Plane Tickets • Eli Alemán • (Self-Published, 2023)

Night Life: A Folk Horror Poetry Collection • Alba Sarria • (Monstrous Love Lounge Press, 2023)

Night Song • Daan Katz (2021)

 "Nisus and Euryalus at the Louvre" • West Ambrose • OnlyPoems February 2024

No Comet, That Serpent in the Sky Means Noise • Sueyeun Juliette Lee (Kore Press, 2017)

No Farther Than the End of the Street • Benjamin Niespodziany • (Okay Donkey, 2022)

No Mercy • Alessandro Manzetti (Crystal Lake Publishing, 2017)

No Quarter: A Novella in Verse • Amanda Worthington • (self-published, 2022)

noise of our origin • Dietmar Tauchner (Red Moon Press, 2013)

Noisesome Ghosts • Clay Thistleton (Blart Books, 2018)

Not a Lot of Reasons to Sing but Enough • Kyle Tran Myhre • (Button Poetry, 2022)

Not a Princess, But (Yes) There Was a Pea & Other Tales to Foment Revolution • Rebecca Buchanan • (Jackanapes Press, 2022)

Notes from the Last Age • José Chapa Valle (FlowerSong Press, 2020)

Notes From the Shadow City • Bruce Boston & Gary William Crawford (Dark Regions Press)

Notes on the End of the World • Meghan Privitello (Black Lawrence Press, 2016)

notsleepyyet • Alexander Garza (Weasel Press, 2021)

Numinous Stones • Holly Lyn Walrath • (Aqueduct Press, 2023)

Oblivion in Flux: A Collection of Cyber Prose • Maxwell I. Gold (Crystal Lake Publishing, 2021)

October Ghosts and Autumn Dreams • K. A. Opperman (Jackanapes Press, 2021)

Odyssey • John Urbancik (Dark Fluidity, 2021)

On that one-way trip to Mars • Marlena Chertock (Bottlecap Press, 2016)

On the Subject of Blackberries • Stephanie Wytovich (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2023)

Our Otherworld • Juleigh Howard-Hobson (The Red Salon, 2018)

Our Rarer Monsters • Noel Sloboda (Sunnyoutside, 2013)

Palaces of the Ages: Poetry of the Fantastic and the Strange • irving (2018)

Para-Social Butterfly • Šari Dale • (Metatron Press, 2022)

Paranormal Romance: Poems Romancing the Paranormal • Denise Dumars (Sam’s Dot [now Alban Lake], 2012)

Past the Glad and Sunlit Season • K. A Opperman (Jackanapes Press, 2020)

Phantom Navigation • Robert Frazier (Dark Regions Press, 2012)

Pittsburgh and other Poems • Alan Ira Gordon • (Hireath Publishing, 2024)

Planet Hunter • Alan Ira Gordon (Alban Lake, 2018)

Planet of the Zombie Zonnets • Juan Manuel Pérez (Hungry Buzzard Press, 2021)

Plenitude • Daniel Sarah Karasik (Book*hug Press, 2022)

Poems of My Night • Cynthia Pelayo (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2016)

Poems that Could End the World • Ronald A. Busse (Turning Point, 2020)

Poetry for the Neon Apocalypse • Jake Tringali (Transcendent Zero Press, 2018)

Poor Anima • Khaty Xiong, (Apogee Press, 2015)

Prophets • Peter A. Salomon (Eldritch Press, 2014)

Psalms and Sorceries • Wade German • (Hippocampus Press, 2022)

PseudoPsalms: Saints v. Sinners • Peter Adam Salomon (Journalstone, 2016)

Queen to His King • David M. Hoenig (Oscillate Wildly Press, 2018)

Recalibrating the Future • Herb Kauderer (Diminuendo Press, 2018)

Refrains • Stephen Sunderland • (Steel Incisors, 2023)

Resonance Dark and Light • Bruce Boston (Eldritch Press, 2015)

Rivers in Your Skin, Sirens in Your Hair • Marisca Pichette • (Android Press, 2023)

Roadmap • Monica Prince (Santa Fe Writer's Project, 2023)

Sacred Flute • John C. Mannone • (Iris Press, 2024)

Sacred Summer • Cassandra Rose Clarke (Aqueduct Press 2020)

Sacrificial Nights • Bruce Boston & Alessandro Manzetti (Kipple Officina Libraria, 2016)

Satan’s Sweethearts • Marge Simon & Mary Turzillo (Weasel Press, 2017)

Saving Shadows • Eugen Bacon (NewCon Press, 2021)

Scenes Along the Zombie Highway • G. O. Clark (Dark Regions Press, 2013)

Sci-Ku: Explorations into the Poetry of Science • Jay Friedenberg (2020)

Selected Poems 1965-2020 • Michael Butterworth • (Space Cowboy Books, 2023)

Shadow Abyss • Luna Nyx Frost (Enchanting Tales Publishing, 2020)

Shelf Life • F.J. Bergmann • (Space Cowboy Books, 2023)

Shelter in Place • Catherine Kyle (Spuyten Duyvil, 2019)

Sifting the Ashes • Michael Bailey & Marge Simon (Crystal Lake Publishing, 2022)

Single Bound • Bryan D. Dietrich (Wordfarm Press, 2018)

Small Spirits: Dark Dolls • Marge Simon (Midnight Town Media, 2016)

Small Waiting Objects • T. D. Walker (CW Books, 2019)

Soft Apocalypse • Leah Nieboer • (University of Georgia Press, 2023)

Soft Science • Franny Choi (Alice James Books, 2019)

Solar Maximum • Sueyeun Juliette Lee (Futurepoem Books, 2015)

Some Disassembly Required • David C. Kopaska-Merkel • (Diminuendo Press, 2022)

Some Fatal Effects of Curiosity and Disobedience • Laura Madeline Wiseman (Lavender Ink, 2014)

Songs of the Underland • Kurt Newton • (The Ravens Quoth Press, 2022)

space neon neon space • Luna Rey Hall • (Variant Lit, 2022)

Space Traveler • Benjamin S. Grossberg (University of Tampa Press, 2014)

Spacers Snarled in the Hair of Comets • Bruce Boston (Mind's Eye Publishing, 2022)

Special Powers and Abilities • Raymond McDaniel (Coffee House Press, 2013)

Star Tent: A Triptych • Amie Whittemore (Tolsun Books, 2023)

Staying Alive • Laura Sims (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2016)

Stolen • Sophie Bowns (Self-published, 2022)

Stone the Monsters, or Dance • Ken Poyner (Barking Moose Press, 2021)

Strange Nests • Jessica McHugh (Apokrupha, 2021)

Such Luck • Sara Backer (Flowstone Press, 2019)

SuiPsalms • John Edward Lawson (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2012)

Summoning Space Travelers • Angela Acosta (Hiraeth Publishing, 2022)

Superheroes Take Over the World • Wendy Rathbone • (self-pub, 2022)

Surrealia • Miguel O. Mitchell • (Gnashing Teeth Publishing, 2024)

Sweet Poison • Marge Simon & Mary Turzillo (Dark Renaissance Books, 2014)

Syntax Error • Siobhan Dunlop (Kith Books, 2023)

Tea for the Wicked • Serena Morrigan • (Self-published, 2024)

Tea with Death • Abigail Wildes (Alban Lake Publishing, 2020)

Temporary Planets for Transitory Days • Albert Wendland (Dog Star Books, 2020)

Terror of the Zombie Zonnets: Season Three of Planet of the Zombie Zonnets • Juan Manuel Pérez • (House of the Fighting Chupacabras, 2022)

Texture of Silence • Eugen Bacon & Steve Simpson (Independent Legions Publishing, 2023)

The Acolyte • Nancy Hightower (Port Yonder Press, 2015)

The Ambassador Takes One for the Team • David C. Kopaska-Merkel (Diminuendo Press, 2019)

The Apocalyptic Mannequin • Stephanie M. Wytovich (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2019)

The Black Ship • David Clink (Aeolus House Press, 2023)

The Body as Haunted • Pixie Bruner • (Authortunities Press, 2024)

The Body Snatchers and Other Death Rituals • Kurt Newton • (Island of Wak-Wak, 2024)

The Bone Joiner • Sandi Leibowitz (Sycorax Press, 2018)

The Book of Haibun: 26 Modern Interpretations of the Ancient Story/Verse Form • Herb Kauderer • (Written Image Press, 2022)

The Book of Robot • Ken Poyner (Barking Moose Press, 2016)

The Book of Sleep • Herb Kauderer (Written Image, 2023)

The Border Simulator: Poems • Gabriel Dozal (Author), Natasha Tiniacos (Translator) • (One World, 2023)

The Cat Star and other Poems • Terry A. Garey (Crumbfairy Press, 2022)

The Ceremonial Armor of the Impostor • Gregory Kimbrell (Weasel Press, 2019)

The Comfort of Screams • G. O. Clark (Alban Lake, 2018)

The Configuration Discordant • John Baltisberger (Things in the Well, 2019)

The Crimson Tome • K. A. Opperman (Hippocampus Press, 2015)

The Cyborg Anthology • Lindsay B-e (Brick Books, 2020)

The Dark Between the Twilight • Jamal Hodge • (Crystal Lake Pub, 2024)

The Demeter Diaries • Marge Simon & Bryan D. Dietrich (Independent Legions, 2019)

The Devil’s Dreamland • Sara Tantlinger (Strangehouse Books, 2018)

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows • John Koenig (Simon & Schuster, 2021)

The Dishonesty of Dreams • A.J. Odasso (Flipped Eye Publishing, 2014)

The Endless Frontier: Poetry for Space Explorers • irving (2018)

The First Bite of the Apple • Jennifer Crow (Elektrik Milk Bath Press, 2013)

The Full Moon Whaling Chronicles • Jason Guriel • (Biblioasis, 2023)

The Future is Brief • Jean-Paul L. Garnier • (Space Cowboy Books, 2024)

The Galaxy Is a Dance Floor by Bianca Lynne Spriggs (Argos Books, 2016)

The Gates of Never • Deborah L. Davitt (Finishing Line Press, 2019)

The Ghettobirds • Bryant O'Hara (Frayed Edge Press, 2021)

The Golem and the Nazi • Anna Cates (Red Moon Press, 2019)

The Goose Liver Anthology • Ken Anderson • (Red Ogre Review, 2024)

The Gorelets Omnibus: Collected Poems 2001-2011 • Michael Arnzen (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2012)

The Grandson of Heinrich Schliemann & Other Truths and Fictions • David Lunde (Mayapple Press, 2014)

The Gravity of Existence • Christina Sng (Interstellar Flight Press, 2022)

The Hand that Wounds • David E. Cowen • (Weasel Press, 2022)

The High Alive: An Epic Hoodoo Diptych • Carlos Sirah (The 3rd Thing, 2020)

The Inca Weaver's Tales • Katherine Quevedo • (Sword & Kettle Press, 2024)

The Journey • Anna Cates (Resource Publications, 2020)

The Ladies of the Everlasting Lichen and Other Relics • Wade German (Mount Abraxas Press, 2019)

The Last Hurrah • West Ambrose • (Bottlecap Press, 2024)

The Last Robot and Other Science Fiction Poems • Jane Yolen • (Shoreline of Infinity, 2021)

The Last Selchie Child • Jane Yolen (A Midsummer Night’s Press)

The Lies We Weave • Grace R. Reynolds (Curious Corvid Publishing, 2023)

The Lore of Inscrutable Dreams • Colleen Anderson (Yuriko Publishing, 2023)

The Madness of Empty Spaces • David E. Cowen (Weasel Press, 2014)

The Malevolent Volume • Justin Phillip Reed (Coffee House Press, 2020)

The Manufacturer of Sorrow • Michelle Scalise (Eldritch Press, 2014)

The Martian’s Regress • J. O. Morgan (Jonathan Cape, 2020)

The Monstrance • Bryan D. Dietrich (Needfire Poetry, 2012)

The Nothing Box • Steven Withrow (Mind's Eye Publications, 2023)

The Nurseryman  • Arthur Allen (Kernpunkt Press, 2019)

The Octopus Museum • Brenda Shaughnessey (Knopf, 2019)

The Odyssey of Star Wars • Jack Mitchell (Abrams Image, 2021)

The Offspring of the Moon • John W. Sexton (Salmon Poetry, 2013)

The ONEIRONAUT Ø1 • Sheri-D Wilson • (Write Bloody North, 2023)

The Owl Kingdom • Rebecca Marjesdatter (Crumb Fairy Press, 2023)

The Pastime Machine • Lester Smith (Popcorn Press, 2018)

The Phoenix Knight • Draco Amethystus • (Storm Dragon Publishing, 2024)

The Planets • Wendy Van Camp (2019)

The Primitive Observatory • Gregory Kimbrell (Southern Illinois University Press, 2016)

The Quiet Ways I Destroy You • Jessica McHugh • (Apokrupha Press, 2023)

The Rat King • Sumiko Saulson • (Dooky Zines, 2022)

The Receptionist • Lesley Wheeler (Aqueduct Press, 2012)

The Rings of Ganymede • Kendall Evans (Alban Lake Publishing, 2014)

The Robot Scientist’s Daughter • Jeannine Hall Gailey (Mayapple Press, 2015)

The Role of Lightning in Evolution • David Clink (Kelp Queen Press, 2016)

The Saint of Witches • Avra Margariti (Weasel Press, 2022)

The Saints of Capitalism • Benjamin Schmitt (New Meridian Arts Literary Press, 2021)

The Savior and the Shadow Queen: A Fantastical Tale Told Through Sequential Poems • Kimberly McAfee (Quillkeepers Press, 2023)

The Second Dream • Madelaine Culver • (Steel Incisors, 2024)

The Second Stop is Jupiter • upfromsomedirt • (Wayne State University Press, 2023)

The Seven Yards of Sorrow • David E. Cowen (Weasel Press, 2016)

The Sibyl • Hamant Singh • (Partridge Publishing, 2022)

The Sign of the Dragon • Mary Soon Lee (JABberwocky Literary Agency, 2020)

The Silence Inside the World • Earl Livings • (Peggy Bright Books, 2021)

The Smallest of Bones • Holly Lyn Walrath (CLASH Books, 2021)

The Spellbook of Fruit and Flowers • Christine Butterworth-McDermott (Fomite Press, 2023)

The State She’s In • Lesley Wheeler (Tinderbox Editions 2020)

The Sun Ships & Other Poems • Steven Withrow (2019)

The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us from the Void • Jackie Wang • (Nightboat Books, 2021)

The Telepathy Machine • Jean-Paul L. Garnier (Space Cowboy Books, 2023)

The Voice of the Burning House • John Shirley • (Jackanapes Press, 2021)

The Ward at Twilight • Ken Anderson • (Island of Wak-Wak, 2024)

The Withering • Ashley Dioses (Jackanapes Press, 2020)

The Year of the Witch • Shannon Connor Winward (Sycorax Press, 2018)

Theatre Macabre—The Little Book of Horror Poetry • Sèphera Girón • (Great Lakes Horror Company, 2024)

There Will Be a Reckoning: Poems of Magic and Dread • irving (2018)

Thirteen Nocturnes • Oliver Sheppard (Ikonograph Press, 2018)

Through Immortal Shadows Singing • Mari Ness (Papaveria Press, 2017)

Time's Arrow • Jean-Paul L. Garnier • (Space Cowboy Books, 2022)

Tiny Oblivions and Mutual Self Destructions • Maxwell I. Gold • (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2024)

To Daughter a Devil • Megan Mary Moore (Unsolicited Press, 2023)

To Love As Aswang • Barbara Jane Reyes (PAWA, 2015)

Tombstones • G. O. Clark • (Weird House Press, 2022)

Tortured Willows: Bent. Bowed. Unbroken. • Christina Sng, Angela Yuriko Smith, Lee Murray, & Geneve Flynn (Yuriko Publishing, 2021)

Toxicon and Arachne • Joyelle McSweeney (Nightboat Books, 2020)

Turn Left at November: Poems • Wendy Rathbone (Eye Scry Publications, 2015)

Underwater Fistfight • Matt Betts (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2016)

Unexplained Fevers • Jeannine Hall Gailey (New Binary Press, 2013)

Unicorn Death Moon • Zachary Cahill • (Red Ogre Review, 2023)

Unicorn Death Moon: Paris Guidebook • Zachary Cahill • (Red Ogre Review, 2024)

Unmanned • Jessica Rae Bergamino (Noemi Press, 2018)

Unquiet Stars • Ann K. Schwader (Weird House Press, 2021)

Unwelcome Guests • David C. Kopaska-Merkel • (Weird House Press, 2024)

Unwilling: Poems of Horror and Darkness • Gerri Leen • (Self-published, 2024)

Utopian Problems • Jean-Paul L. Garnier • (Space Cowboy Books, 2021)

Vampire Ventures • LindaAnn LoSchiavo • (Alien Buddha Press, 2023)

Vampire Ventures • LindaAnn LoSchiavo • (Alien Buddha, 2023)

Venus Intervention • Corrine De Winter & Alessandro Manzetti (Kipple Officina Libraria, 2014)

Victims • Marge Simon & Mary Turzillo • (Weasel Press, 2022)

Village • LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs (Coffee House Press, 2023)

Visitations into Sídhe and Tír na nÓg • Alex Ness (Uffda Press, 2015)

War • Marge Simon & Alessandro Manzetti (Crystal Lake Publishing, 2018)

Water-Kin • Mahaila Smith • (Metatron Press, 2024)

We’ve Been Here Before • Anne Carly Abad • (Aqueduct Press, 2022)

Weird Worlds • Colleen Anderson • (Weird House Press, 2024)

What appears in the dark • Pete Kelly • (Yuriko Publishing, 2022)

What If What’s Imagined Were All True • Roz Kaveny (A Midsummer Night’s Press, 2012)

Wheeling, Yet Not Free • Alan Katerinsky • (Written Image Press, 2024)

When the Night Owl Screams • Michael H. Hanson (Moon Dream Press, 2017)

Where the Wolf • Sally Rosen Kindred • (Diode Editions, 2021)

Whitechapel Rhapsody • Alessandro Manzetti (Independent Legions, 2020)

who is owed springtime • Rasha Abdulhadi (Neon Hemlock, 2021)

Winds from Sheol • Fred Phillips (Hippocampus Press, 2017)

Witch Doctrine • Annah Browning (The University of Akron Press, 2020)

Witch Wife • Kiki Petrosino (Sarabande Books, 2017)

World's End Feast • Auzin • (Bottlecap Press, 2024)

Worm Sonnets • Amelia Gorman • (Quarter Press, 2023)

Xenoforming • Deborah L. Davitt • (Self-published, 2024)

You There! • Peter Payack • (Zoland Editions, 2023)

Your Strange Fortune • Chloe N. Clark (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press, 2019)

Zen Amen: A Collection of Abecedarians • Michael Kriesel (Pebblebrook Press, 2019) 

US Literary Journals: Lousiana to Wyoming, 2026

The following list of active or presumed active literary journals in the US comprises a little over 200 publications from Louisiana to Wyoming. The majority of these should be free to submit to, but some may have specific time frames in a year that they accept submissions in poetry and prose for certain, other genres on occasion. Most should not have submission fees but double-check they may be restricted to students of particular colleges, universities or geographical residence. I have not had the chance to have extended conversations with all of the editors here, so you'll have to do your own research in that regard to determine if publication with them is a good fit. I've included links to these on my Patreon for my paid subscribers but I also want to make sure that everyone has a chance to check these publications out over time! Good luck and here's to all of the amazing work that you create. Don't send AI entries to them, that should go without saying. 

Louisiana

Bayou Magazine

New Delta Review

New Orleans Review

Rougarou

Southern Review

Thema

Xavier Review

Maine

Cafe Review

Off the Coast

Stone Coast Review

Maryland

Grub Street Literary Magazine

Passager Journal

Wellter

Massachusetts

Agni

Boston Review

Breakwater Review

Emerson Review

Massachusetts Review

Salamander Magazine

Worcester Review

Michigan

The MacGuffin

Michigan Quarterly Review

Passages North

Third Coast

Woodward Review

Minnesota

Blue Earth Review

Conduit

Great River Review

Midway Journal

Midwest Review

Saint Paul Almanac

Sleetmagazine.com

Split Rock Review

The Talking Stick

The Under Review

Whistling Shade

Missouri

Boulevard

december

Missouri Review

Natural Bridge

New Letters (Almost 90!)

River Styx

Montana

CutBank

Whitefish Review

Nebraska

Fine Lines

Laurus

New Territory

Prairie Schooner

Nevada

Brushfire

Interim

Red Rock Review

Sierra Nevada Review

New Hampshire

Barnstorm Journal

Lifelines

Meetinghouse

Northern New England Review

New Jersey

Black Fox Literary Magazine

The Literary Review

The Nassau Literary Review

Paterson Literary Review

New Mexico

Blue Mesa Review

Puerto del Sol

Santa Fe Literary Review

New York

Barzakh

The Brooklyn Review

Columbia

Epoch

Global City Review

Inkwell

Lit

Olive Tree Review

Salt Hill

Washington Square Review

North Carolina

Glint Literary Journal

storySouth

North Dakota

North Dakota Quarterly

Northern Eclecta

Ohio

The Journal

Mid-American Review

Passages North

River Teeth Journal

Rubbertop Review

Oklahoma

Absolute Literary Journal

cimarronreview.com

Nimrod

The Oklahoma Review

World Literature Today

Oregon

45th Parallel

CALYX

Gobshite Quarterly

The Gravity of the Thing

Phantom Drift

Portland Review

Silk Road Review

The Timberline Review

Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine

Pennsylvania

The Blue Route

The Fourth River

Hot Metal Bridge

Paper Dragon

Penn Review

Tinge

Woodcrest Magazine

Rhode Island

The Alembic

Bryant Literary Review

Mount Hope

The Ocean State Review

Spry

Wizards in Space

South Carolina

Cola Literary Review

Illuminations Literary Magazine

South Carolina Review

swamp pink

South Dakota

Oakwood

Red Coyote

South Dakota Review

Tennessee

Cumberland River Review

Grist

Nashville Review

New Millennium Writings

PINCH

The Sewanee Review

Texas

Aries

Bat City Review

Carve Magazine

FlowerSong Press

Iron Horse Literary Review

Gulf Coast

Reunion: The Dallas Review

San Antonio Review

Southwest Review

Space City Underground

Texas Review Press 

Utah

Route 7 Review

Western Humanities Review

Vermont

Bennington Review

Hunger Mountain Review

Mud Season Review

New England Review

Virginia

Blackbird

Revolute

So To Speak

Washington

Bellingham Review

Blood Orange Review

Tahoma Literary Review

The Other Journal

Willow Springs Magazine

Washington D.C.

Beltway Poetry Quarterly

FOLIO

West Virginia

Calliope

Cheat River Review

heartwood

Kestrel

Wisconsin

Cream City Review

Madison Review

Mobius: The Journal of Social Change

Stoneboat Literary Journal

Wisconsin Review

Wyoming

Expression

Owen Wister Review

Sem’s Literary & Arts Magazine

 

Khmer Poet: Makhali-Phal (1898-1965)

Every now and then I wonder about the way ghosts come back to us. April 17th is significant to the Cambodians for the fall of Phnom Penh and the beginning of the Khmer Rouge Era (ruling from 1975-1979 and continuing an insurgency for 20 years until 1999) This year, I'd been looking at a strange magazine in my library, a 1942 issue of Harper's that I don't recall buying, but it just showed up in my boxes.

I'd been looking at a T.S. Eliot essay on the verse of Rudyard Kipling with some morbid fascination and flipping around came upon a poem, "Omen" by the late Edward Weismiller from Wisconsin who had quite a storied career. He was the youngest poet to win the prestigious Yale Series of Younger Poets prize, and went on to serve in World War 2 in the newly-formed OSS, requested to assist in counter-espionage. All fascinating stuff worth a read, but what it lead to was the note that he had been asked "to translate the first award-winning novel of Franco-Khmer poet Makhali-Phal into English. La Favorite de dix ans was published in New York in 1942 as The Young Concubine. In 2008, Professor Weismiller began advising a literary team working to produce an updated version of his original translation incorporating cultural background material unavailable in 1941."

As a novel, "The Young Concubine" tells the story of Atman, a young Cambodian princess who believes she is destined to carry the burden of the universe. The narrative is rich with elements of mysticism, ritual, and the clash of cultures, as Atman navigates her relationships with her father, his concubine, and her uncle. The novel delves into her struggles with love, spirituality, and her quest for identity, ultimately leading her back to the jungle where she meets a tragic fate at the hands of sorcerers. You can read the original New York Times review from 1942 here if you have the TimesMachine or the Kirkus review from 1942. The Young Concubine updated translation does not yet seem to have been published, but it seems like something to follow up soon.

In France a website formed to bring her back into consideration but it's gone defunct since. They included a presumed portrait of her. There's a 1933 photo of her, but much about her seems to have been a mystery.

In 2010, her poetry collection Song of Peace was published by Datasia, Inc. with the introductory text "In 1898, a Franco-Khmer child was born in Cambodia whose very blood combined the opposing worlds of Europe and Asia. As an author, she devoted her life to expressing the conflict, harmony and hope inherent in these powerful forces. Her name was Makhali-Phal. Song of Peace is her timeless poem of inspiration and self-awareness for all humankind, but especially for those seeking to understand the essence of East and West. Through Makhali-Phal's visionary words, ancient Khmer souls speak again, sharing their wisdom in ways that resonate in our modern era. This new edition includes the first English translation of her epic poem Chant de Paix with complete original French text, the first published biography of the author by Sara Elizabeth Harris, and exclusive personal photos of Makhali-Phal."

She passed away ten years before the fall of Cambodia in Pau, near the French and Spanish border in the Pyrenees. Perhaps some other colleagues of mine can expand more on her story, but I think there's some things to be interested in here in regards to her imagination and the way she worked through her heritage and sense of self during the French Indochina era. Let me know what you think!

95 US Literary Journals: Alabama to Kentucky 2026

Over the course of the year, many of you may wish to set a goal of getting published in at least one journal in every state, but it can be daunting to figure out how to start. Here are 95 literary journals that are still active or likely to be active in 2026 during America's 250th birthday, from Alabama to Kentucky. I'll share the other set later this month. Most do not charge submission fees, nor do I believe they should but I understand the enticement in the middle of toxic capitalism and the AI hustle of modernity. We lost a relatively small number of journals between the last time I assembled such a list, and a few new ones have emerged. This list is not intended as encyclopedic but practical and I cannot speak to the character or quality of given editors of these journals at the time of discovery so do not consider this list an endorsement, but an observation. Caveat emptor and all of that. For the subscribers to my Patreon, I've included links to expedite matters but of course, there is value in the googling of things yourselves as well. Good fortune to all human writers in a strange strange world, and I'll share more with you soon.

Alabama

Alabama Heritage

The Auburn Circle

Aura

Birmingham Arts Journal

Birmingham Poetry Review

Dark River Review

Fiction Attic Press

The Marr’s Field Journal

Negative Capability Press

NELLE

The Oracle

Rubicon

Southern Humanities Review

Southern Literary Review

Steel Toe Review

The Sucarnochee Review

Wide Angle

Wingspan Literary Magazine

Alabama Literary Review

Alaska

Alaska Magazine

Alaska Quarterly Review

Cirque

Pacifica Literary Review

Permafrost

Arizona

Arizona Quarterly

DIAGRAM

Fairy Tale Review

Pine Reads Review

Rain Shadow Review

Sonora Review

TRANSFORMATIONS

Arkansas

Arkana

The Arkansas International

Arkansas Review | A Journal of Delta Studies

Equinox – English – UA Little Rock

Oxford American

SLANT – School of Language and Literature

California

Alchemy

Coachella Review

Faultline

Fiction International

Invisible City

Lunch Ticket

Pacific Review

Colorado

Colorado Review

Denver Quarterly

Think

Connecticut

Dogwood

Noctua Review

Delaware

The Broadkill Review

The Cicadas Cry

Dreamstreets Archive

Florida

Panhandler Magazine

Saw Palm

Talon Review

Georgia

Arts & Letters

Atlanta Review

Five Points

The Georgia Review

lullwater review

Stillpoint Literary Magazine

Three Penny Review

Hawaii

Hawaii Pacific Review

Hawaii Review

Manoa

Tinfish

Vice-Versa

Idaho

The Idaho Review

fugue

Stonecrop Magazine

Talking River Review

Illinois

After Hours Press

Another Chicago Magazine

Arcturus

Bluestem

Chicago Review

Chicago Quarterly Review

Crab Orchard Review

Euphony Journal

Ninth Letter

Oyez Review

Indiana

BOOTH

Notre Dame Review

Iowa

BRINK

Flyway

The Iowa Review

North American Review

Kansas

Coal City Review

Cottonwood

Flint Hills Review

Landlocked

Mikrokosmos

Kentucky

Jelly Bucket

Louisville Review

Miracle Monocle 

205 Asian American Poets: A starting list

 As an idea, “Asian America” is always a bit of a moving target, with as many reasons for us to push towards it as away from it, at times. In my work with the Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans we know there are over 60 different groups and ethnicities each charting their own course in the United States, while the Association for Asian American Studies, established in 1979, turns 47 this year, which isn’t that long in the history of the United States. 

People from Asia began appearing in the histories of the US as early as 1587, but many of us see the 1850s as a key period where immigrants from China and elsewhere become an ongoing part of our social conversations.  The history of Asian American literature, especially its poets is still a work in progress, but a major milestone was when the July/August 2017 issue of Poetry Magazine gave a spotlight to Asian American poets for the first time since its founding in 1912. 

The idea of the spotlight was “to introduce new readers to Asian American poets and to help those who are interested in learning more about these poets and their poetry. It is an ongoing project to make visible the vastness and variety of U.S. literary culture and to expand our notions of human experience in our time.” It was most recently updated in 2021.

This was a somewhat contentious listing initially, and there are some who have various academic disputes about the idea of Asian America as a concept and what counts for inclusion. Do you include those who go on to live outside of America, or those who never become US citizens, even if they live most of their lives here? Adoptees, or people who write only in English or in their heritage languages? Does this include East Asia, Southeast Asia, Central Asia, the Middle East, and the Pacific Islands, or just few of those zones? Do you include those who expressly don’t want to be called Asian American for whatever rationale? There are a thousand questions that I won’t go into here. But there can be many interesting reasons to look for poets with roots in the continent of Asia and the Pacific Islands and diasporas connected to it.

What becomes challenging however, is coming up with a current guide or directory to Asian American poets at any given point in time.

Most extant directories are very vulnerable to getting out of date quickly, and we don’t seem to have counterparts to the Internet Speculative Fiction Database. You’ll find information about individual poets at Academy of American Poets, for example, but next to nothing about Asian America. The Smithsonian Asian Pacific Center, Asian American Writers Workshop, Kearny Street Workshop also don’t have extensive guides that are presently poet specific. Kundiman has a list of fellows who’ve participated in their program and recently stopped differentiating between those who are strictly poets and those who are writing prose instead of or in addition to poetry and not all Asian American poets have participated in their program. The Wikipedia page on Asian American Writers is also very out of date, and we also have the emerging problem that it is very difficult to add in new poets or even to make simple updates since the process has become much more strict in recent years in addition to certain ongoing bias problems. But for now here's a list some of you may find helpful:

Aria Aber

Dilruba Ahmed

Zubair Ahmed

Ai

Meena Alexander

Agha Shahid Ali

Kazim Ali

Hala Alyan

Indran Amirthanayagam

Cynthia Arrieu-King

Fatimah Asghar

Ruth Awad

Rick Barot

Arlene Biala

Quan Barry

Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

Tamiko Beyer

Jaswinder Bolina

Jenny Boully

Luis Cabalquinto

Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello

Tina Cane

Nick Carbó

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

Dorothy Chan

Michelle Chan Brown

Wo Chan

Jennifer Chang

Tina Chang

Victoria Chang

Cathy Linh Che

Chen Chen

Ching-In Chen

Ken Chen

Justin Chin

Marilyn Chin

Wendy Chin-Tanner

Su Cho

Eric Chock

Franny Choi

Teresa Mei Chuc

Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis

Brian Komei Dempster

Tsering Wangmo Dhompa

Linh Dinh

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Jennifer Kwon Dobbs

Tishani Doshi

Carolina Ebeid

Tarfia Faizullah

Farnoosh Fathi

Monica Ferrell

Megan Fernandes

Naoko Fujimoto

Shamala Gallagher

Eric Gamalinda

Sarah Gambito

Eugene Gloria

Vince Gotera

Jessica Hagedorn

Minal Hajratwala

Sadakichi Hartmann

Raza Ali Hasan

Sharon Hashimoto

Kimiko Hahn

Jennifer Hasegawa

Lee Herrick

Anna Maria Hong

Cathy Park Hong

Garrett Hongo

Tung-Hui Hu

Luisa A. Igloria

Lawson Fusao Inada

Hiromi Itō

Paolo Javier

Ha Jin

W. Todd Kaneko

Summi Kaipa

Bhanu Kapil

Vandana Khanna

Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley

Maxine Hong Kingston

Myung Mi Kim

Suji Kwock Kim

Juliet Kono

Amitava Kumar

David Lau

Dipika Mukherjee

Alan Chong Lau

Ae Hee Lee

Ed Bok Lee

Esther Lee

Karen An-hwei Lee

Li-Young Lee

Priscilla Lee

Sueyeun Juliette Lee

Joseph O. Legaspi

Mari L’Esperance

Genny Lim

Sandra Lim

Shirley Geok-Lin Lim

Tan Lin

Tao Lin

Yuxi Lin

Timothy Liu

Lo Kwa Mei-En

Trisha Low

Pamela Lu

Gerald Maa

Amit Majmudar

Mai Mang

Randall Mann

Sally Wen Mao

Wong May

Dunya Mikhail

Janice Mirikitani

Nadia Misir

James Masao Mitsui

Rajiv Mohabir

Mary Anne Mohanraj

Mong-Lan

Faisal Mohyuddin

David Mura

Kristin Naca

Sawako Nakayasu

Vivek Narayanan

Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Rick Noguchi

Yone Noguchi

Hoa Nguyen

Diana Khoi Nguyen

William Oandasan

Matthew Olzmann

Shin Yu Pai

Hannah Sanghee Park

Ishle Yi Park

Oliver de la Paz

Craig Santos Perez

Sasenarine Persaud

Hai-Dang Phan

Bao Phi

Mali Phonpadith

Krysada Panusith Phounsiri

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Michelle Naka Pierce

Jon Pineda

Wang Ping

A. K. Ramanujan

Bino A. Realuyo

Srikanth Reddy

Paisley Rekdal

Barbara Jane Reyes

Atsuro Riley

Lee Ann Roripaugh

Patrick Rosal

Brynn Saito

Nicky Sa-eun Schildkraut

Sudeep Sen

Vijay Seshadri

Ravi Shankar

Solmaz Sharif

Prageeta Sharma

Brenda Shaughnessy

Brandon Shimoda

Sun Yung Shin

Anis Shivani

Beau Sia

Brandon Som

Cathy Song

Christopher Spaide

Brian Kim Stefans

Adrienne Su

Arthur Sze

Eileen R. Tabios

Jeff Tagami

Dujie Tahat

Alex Tarampi

Souvankham Thammavongsa

Bryan Thao Worra

Jeet Thayil

Barbara Tran

Paul Tran

Truong Tran

Pimone Triplett

Amy Uyematsu

Mai Der Vang

Pramila Venkateswaran

Catzie Vilayphonh

Ocean Vuong

Divya Victor

Sharon Wang

Ronaldo V. Wilson

Jane Wong

Janet Wong

Nellie Wong

David Woo

Koon Woon

Khaty Xiong

Lynn Xu

Wendy Xu

Mitsuye Yamada

Jeffrey Yang

John Yau

Emily Jungmin Yoon

Mia You

Monica Youn

C. Dale Young

Timothy Yu

Jenny Zhang

Visiting Pittsburgh Spring, 2026: A Quick Guide

Coming to Pittsburgh for the NFL Draft during the 30th National Poetry Month and the first few days of Year of the Horse, and wondering what to do? That seems unlikely, but just in case here are some tips for you:

There are multiple statues to Fred Rogers of Mr. Rogers Neighborhood fame, but for something really different, I would absolutely recommend the Fred Rogersaurus currently located near the Cheesecake Factory and the Southside Works on 27th street. A little further down Carson Street you can also take a ride at the famous incline seen in the opening of the show. The South Side Color Park is a fun jaunt in the South Side. At any given point in time has a wide range of graffiti, some examples more creative than others to enjoy, all of the way up to the 10th Street bridge, and maybe a little past that. Fans of street art and graffiti will also want to check out the murals by Raymer and others in the Lawrenceville neighborhood near the 40th street bridge. The Color Park is very picturesque with plenty of pre-con and post-con photo opportunities.

If you can get your way up to the nearby Northside, you'll want to visit Randyland at 1501 Arch Street, which just has to be seen to be believed. It's also near the supposedly haunted National Aviary, as well as City of Asylum Bookstore and the Poet Houses, also worth looking at. I happen to also like the relatively nearby Children's Museum, which features a number of plaques containing cryptid poetry, and a fun "dragon" sculpture, and on one floor, the original puppets from Mr. Rogers Neighborhood.

The Carnegie Museums are HUGE here, but the Natural History Museum is also connected to the major art museum, and has a great dinosaur collection as well as a gigantic diplodocus outside. Be prepared to spend a whole afternoon here if you go.

The Caliban Bookstore also has a good selection of used books nearby. But this IS a little further out from the main hotel zone. White Whale Books and City Books are also very popular bookstores in the city.

Some of you may want to visit the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall and Museum at 4141 5th Avenue, which is where they shot a key scene from Silence of the Lambs, but the cage isn't usually in there anymore. Approximately 30 minutes away is the Monroeville Mall where the classic film Dawn of the Dead was shot, but there have been so many renovations that you really can't spot any landmarks from the film. However, there is a bust of George Romero and the Living Dead Museum, which features some excellent exhibits. You may want to go see this in particular because the mall is about to be demolished for some harebrained developer hustle in the near future.

If you have a car, you can make your way up north to the cemetery in Evans City where Night of the Living Dead was shot. Here you can see a reading of my poem "Zombuddha" I did there back in 2021. It IS an actual cemetery however, so remember to be respectful. Others may find the Carrie Blast Furnaces a more interesting side stop.

Trundle Manor is located a similar distance away and is by appointment only, but it promises one of the more unusual experiences as you see some truly bizarre and macabre objects and taxidermy.

Along that line, if you time it right, you might be able to see the Center for PostNatural History at 4913 Penn Avenue. It's a small museum but it includes extensive exhibits of humans meddling with nature, including the only example I've ever seen of a biosteel goat, who was genetically modified to produce spidersilk proteins in its milk. The Center is only open on Sundays from noon to 4PM, so it's a VERY narrow time frame, but peek ahead. For some of you it may be just what you need to see.

There are of course many other sights and horrors to be found throughout Pittsburgh. I hope this will give some of you a headstart in enjoying the city during your visit!

Ruth Berman appointed SFPA Grand Master

 The Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association has named its 13th Grand Master. The honor goes to the multi-talented Ruth Berman.

Ruth Berman's speculative poetry has appeared in Asimov’s SF, Amazing Stories, Analog, Aliens and Lovers, Burning With A Vision, Fungi, Tales of the Unanticipated, Weird Tales, Worlds of Fantasy and Horror, Star*Line, and other magazines and anthologies. As a translator from French, she has placed work in Space & Time, Tales of the Unanticipated, and Fantasy Macabre. Editing credits include working with Mythlore and Pandora, assembling a collection by past Rhysling winner Terry A. Garey, The Middle Earth Songbook, The Star Trek Songbook, and the in-house newsletter on the set of the original Star Trek.

Her impact in and out of the genre has been far-reaching. In 1973, she was a nominee for the John W. Campbell category Best New Writer. She won the first ever Dwarf Stars Award (2006), won the Rhysling Award twice (2003 & 2016) and placed twice (2nd in 2000 & 3rd in 2015). Her articles on genre writing appeared in Jabberwocky (from the Lewis Carroll Society), Extrapolation, and Children’s Literature in Education.

She was active in the performances and publications of the group the Lady Poetesses from Hell. Her imprint of crumbfairy press has published sf/fantasy poetry by herself, Terry A. Garey, Rebecca Marjesdatter, and Eleanor Arnason.

https://ruthberman.com

Congratulations!

A SFPA Grand Master designation may be conferred by the SFPA President with consensus of the membership to an individual living at the time of selection whose body of work shall reflect the highest artistic goals of the SFPA, who shall have been actively publishing within the target genres of Science Fiction and Fantasy for a period of no fewer than 20 years, and whose poetry has been noted to be exceptional in merit, scope, vision and innovation.

The other Grand Masters include:

F.J. Bergmann (2024)

Akua Lezli Hope (2022)

Mary Soon Lee (2022)

Linda D. Addison (2020)

Ann K. Schwader (2018)

David C. Kopaska-Merkel (2017)

Marge Simon & Steve Sneyd (2015)

Jane Yolen (2010)

Ray Bradbury (2008)

Robert Frazier (2005)

Bruce Boston (1999)

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association was established in 1978 by Suzette Haden-Elgin and has an international membership representing over 19 nations and cultures including United States, Italy, Canada, Brazil, United Kingdom, Ireland, Romania, Poland, Denmark, Germany, France, Spain, Israel, South Africa, Singapore, Thailand, Laos, the Hmong, South Korea, Australia, and New Zealand. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association publishes two journals: Star*Line and Eye to the Telescope. It oversees three major literary awards for poetry: The Rhyslings, the Dwarf Stars, and the Elgin Awards. We also conduct an annual science fiction poetry contest and other special events and gatherings. Further, we also provide resources for emerging and established poets seeking professional publication and networking opportunities.

Research and Reflections on Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement available now!

A look at the anthology I helped to edit in advance of the 20th anniversary of the Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement, housed at the University of Purdue.

The cover is by Amorn Setthithorn. Mr. Setthithorn was born April 18, 1949, and his education includes a 1971 Diploma in Painting; Sculpture & Printing from Silprakorn University, in Bangkok ,Thailand and a 1974 Postdiploma in Painting & Sculpture from Visva Bharati University, West Bengal, India, and he has been a practicing artist for over 40 years now, and he now resides in Chiangmai, Thailand. I was happy we were able to get a 20-headed Naga for the cover just in time before the end of Year of the Dragon in April, 2025. There are so many anniversaries to observe as we also prepared to recognize 50 years in the United States since the end of the Southeast Asian conflicts of the 20th century.

I have now served as the Creative Works Editor there for almost 18 years, so it has been a delight to revisit so many wonderful pieces in our community and to see where the authors have gone since. Thank you all for your support!

I give a special thanks to my fellow editors, Dr. Wayne E. Wright, Vikrant Chap, Phitamay S. Uy, Chhany Sak-Humphry, and Vichet Chhuon who’ve been exceptional colleagues across the decades in this journey. The journal is an on-line and free open access interdisciplinary journal providing a forum for scholars and writers from diverse fields who share a common interest in Southeast Asian (SEA) Americans and their communities. JSAAEA is published with support from the Department of Curriculum and Instruction and the College of Education at Purdue University, and Purdue Libraries Scholarly Publishing Services and Purdue University Press.

Silk and Sinew Available now!

I had a poem appear last year in the Asian horror anthology Silk & Sinew, which has a wonderful range of writers included in it, edited by K.P. Kulski. Look for it from Bad Hand Books!

From lengths of muscle and vein, ground bones, endless ropes of sinew…it is with our bodies folk horror is woven. Edited by Bram Stoker Award-nominee Kristy Park Kulski, this stunning anthology features contributions from some of the most acclaimed authors of the Asian Diaspora.

The other writers featured include:
Ai Jiang
Nadia Bulkin
Christina Sng
Rena Mason
Lee Murray
J.A.W. McCarthy
Geneve Flynn
Ayida Shonibar
Yi Izzy Yu
Angela Yuriko Smith
Kanishk Tantia
Robert Nazar Arjoyan
Christopher Hann
Audrey Zhou
Seoung Kim
Rowan Cardosa
Gabriela Lee
Shawna Yang Ryan
Priya Sridhar
Jess Cho
Saheli Khastagir

Be sure to take a look at the great work they’re doing!

Founded in 2021, Bad Hand Books is owned and operated by Bram Stoker Award-winning and Shirley Jackson Award-winning editor, Doug Murano.

Editor Kristy Park Kulski (K.P. Kulski) is the Hawaii-born, Korean-American author of Fairest Flesh and House of Pungsu. Her short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Unquiet Spirits, Fantasy Magazine, Unnerving Magazine, anthologies Not All Monsters, Chromophobia, A Conjuring for All Seasons and many others. She is a veteran of the U.S. Navy and Air Force and formerly taught college history. She currently makes her home in the woods of Northeast Ohio. You can find her on Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/garnetonwinter/ and directly at her website https://www.garnetonwinter.com/

The cover is by Eileen Kai Hing Kwan a freelance Illustrator based in London. She primarily illustrates in publishing and games, and loves to illustrate haunting and beautiful dream-like moments and particularly enjoys exploring horror, gothic romance & fantasy in her work. Find her at eileenkaihingkwan.co.uk and on Instagram @whereiseileen.