One of the benefits of membership with the SFPA is the opportunity to share one’s poetic work with the community. SFPA Member Mike Payne compiles this list each month after a call for submissions. February was a productive month for many of our members! Kenny A. Chaffin prose poem, "Failed Experiment", Speculative 66, Issue 5, February 2017, http://speculative66.weebly.com/ Michael H. Payne poem, "The Stars, Like Penguins," honorable mention, 117th weekly contest, Poetry Nook, January 29, 2017 to February 5, 2017 http://poetrynook.com/forum/honorable-mentions/117th-weekly-poetry-contest-honorable-mention-stars-penguins   Ruth Berman poem, "Spacemail Only," F&SF, March/April 2017, https://www.sfsite.com/fsf/   Karen Bovenmyer poem, “Syncing Minefields,” Strange Horizons, February 20, 2017 http://strangehorizons.com/poetry/syncing-minefields/ poem, “Save Our Souls,” Silver Blade Magazine, Spring 2017—Issue 33, February 2017 http://www2.silverblade.net/   David Kopaska-Merkel periodical, print & pdf, Dreams and Nightmares 105, Jan. 2017, http://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com/ poem, print, "Portrait of the Mad Scientist's Wife," Outposts of Beyond, Jan. 2017, albanlake.com poem, print, "Chicken Tracks," Illumen, Winter, 2017, albanlake.com   David Kopaska-Merkel & Kendall Evans poem, print, "What People Were They Here," Outposts of Beyond, Jan. 2017, albanlake.com   Deborah Davitt poem (spec), "Lo Shu's Magic Square," Snakeskin #237 (Maths and Numbers issue), Feburary 1, 2017, http://www.snakeskinpoetry.co.uk/237magicsquare.html poem (horror), "Flora," Speculative 66,  Issue 5, February 6, 2017, http://speculative66.weebly.com/ poem (spec), "Awakening," The Ekphrastic Review, February 7, 201, http://www.ekphrastic.net/the-ekphrastic-review/the-awakening-by-deborah-l-davitt poem (spec), "Perspective," Visual Verse: An Anthology of Art and Words, Vol. 4, #4, February 2017, http://visualverse.org/submissions/perspective-2/ poem (spec),"The Banshee's Embrace," Zetetic: A Record of Unusual Inquiry, February 6th, 2017, https://zeteticrecord.org/2017/02/the-banshees-embrace/ poem (spec), "Epistrophia," Liquid Imagination, February 27, 2017, https://liquidimagination.silverpen.org/article/epistrophia-deborah-l-davitt poem, (spec), "Vegetative State," Spirit's Tincture issue 3, February 28, 2017, http://www.spiritstincture.com/uploads/7/8/8/5/78858740/spirits_tincture_issue_3.pdf   Geoffrey A. Landis 2 haiga, "The Moon Paints the Sky" and "Distant Train Whistle" in Wayward Sword: Dangerous Submissions, Writing Knights 2017; http://writingknightspress.blogspot.com/2017/01/dangerous-submissions-wayward-sword.html   James Dorr poem, "Tit for Tat," The Book of Blasphemous Words, A Murder of Storytellers, 2017, https://www.amazon.com/Book-Blasphemous-Words-CJ-Miles-ebook/dp/B01N4TZZ0I/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1486233623&sr=1-1   Robert Borski poem, "Rock, Paper, Scissors," Asimov's, March/April, 2017, http://www.asimovs.com/current-issue/table-of-contents/   Mary Soon Lee poem, "Seventeenth Lesson," Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #31, February 2017, http://www.heroicfantasyquarterly.com/?p=2157 poem, print+pdf, "Daunted,"  Dreams & Nightmares #105, http://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com/p/ordering-dreams.html poem, print, non-genre, "Advice to a Houseplant," Nanotext, http://medusaslaugh.com/status-of-forthcoming-books/ poem, "Stay," Songs of Eretz Poetry Review 2/15/2017, http://eretzsongs.blogspot.com/2017/02/stay-by-mary-soon-lee-frequent.html 2 poems, print, "Traveling" & "Sheep," Ship of Fools #76, http://meadhall.homestead.com/Ship.html poem, reprint, "Hero," first published in Star*Line, won the 118th weekly Poetry Nook contest, http://poetrynook.com/forum/contest-winners/118th-weekly-poetry-contest-winner-hero   Ann K. Schwader poem, "Stone Ghosts," Dreams & Nightmares #105,  January 2015, http://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com/ poem, "Temple of the Plumed Serpent,"  Spectral Realms #6, Winter 2017, http://www.hippocampuspress.com/journals/spectral-realms/spectral-realms-no.-6   Lauren McBride poem, genre, "Point of View," Keppler's Cowboys, Hadrosaur Productions, 2017, http://hadrosaur.com/keplers-cowboys.html