This past March was productive and successful for many of our members from across the globe including some excellent publications and readings. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association thanks Michael H. Payne for gathering together your wonderful updates. Congratulations, and we look forward to more news from each of you soon as we celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the SFPA!

Deborah Davitt poem, literary, "Surrender," Poetry Quarterly, Winter 2017 (March 3, 2018), https://prolificpress.com/bookstore/poetry-quarterly-c-1/poetry-quarterly-winter-2017-p-238.html

2 poems, literary/spec, "They never left," and "Past is Present,"  Modern Poetry Quarterly Review, Winter 2018 (March 7, 2018), http://www.modernpoetryreview.com/poetry/two-poems-by-deborah-davitt/

poem, spec, "Once Carved in Marble," NewMyths.com, issue 42 (March 15 2018), https://sites.google.com/a/newmyths.com/nmwebsite/poems/once-carved-in-marble

poem, spec, "Masks," Polu Texni: A Magazine of Many Arts, March 26, 2018.http://www.polutexni.com/?p=1670

Greer Woodward haiku, “Stephen Hawking,” Haikuniverse, March 24, 2018, www.haikuniverse.com

 

Christina M. Rau 2 columns, "4 Books For Readers Who Like Being Confused," Book Riot, March 17, 2018: https://bookriot.com/2018/03/17/4-books-to-be-confused-by-and-love-it/ & "5 Quotes From Mary Oliver Poems That Could Save Humanity," Book Riot, March 26, 2018: https://bookriot.com/2018/03/26/mary-oliver-quotes/

 

Ken Poyner poem, “On The Job Counseling”, non-genre, Mobius #29.1, http://www.mobiusmagazine.com/poetry/on-the-job.html

poem, “Robot Motivation”, genre, Silver Blade #37, https://www.silverblade.net/2018/03/robot-motivation/

poem, “Institutionalized Temptation”, non-genre, The Disappointed Housewife, March 2018, https://thedisappointedhousewife.com/2018/03/16/institutionalized-temptation-poetry-by-ken-poyner/

 

Shannon Connor Winward poem, "Lying Down with Ghosts", Minola Review, March 2018, https://www.minolareview.com/shannon-connor-winward

poem, "Innocence Elixir", Rivet, March 2018, http://rivetjournal.com/innocence-elixir-by-shannon-connor-winward/

 

G. O. Clark poem, "Slippage." Dreams & Nightmares Magazine #108, January 2018, http://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com/2018/01/dn-108-contents.html

 

Jacqueline West poetry collection, Candle and Pins: Poems on Superstitions, Alban Lake Publishing, http://store.albanlake.com/product/candles-and-pins-poems-on-superstitions/

 

Geoffrey A. Landis SFPA had a significant representation at ICFA, the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, March 15-18 in Orlando, FL.  Poets reading included Michael Arnzen, Don Riggs, Sandra Lindow, Gina Wisker, Marilyn Jurich, Bernadette Bosky, Marge Simon, and Mary Turzillo; Bryan Dietrich was on the program but unable to attend, and as a substitute Geoffrey Landis read his poems.  Several other SF poets, including Mari Ness and Theodora Goss, participated in other (non-poetry) readings and as moderators.

 

Linda D. Addison poem, “The Black Speculative Art Manifesto (Spell),” Cosmic Underground, Cedar Grove Publishing, March 2018, https://www.amazon.com/Cosmic-Underground-Grimoire-Speculative-Discontent/dp/1941958788

reading at Juneteenth Poetry Festival, April 7 at the Dunbar African American Culture Center, 325 W 2nd St. Tucson, AZ 85705, https://www.facebook.com/events/402781796848547/

 

Christina Sng Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection, "A Collection of Nightmares", Raw Dog Screaming Press, July 2017, https://www.amazon.com/Collection-Nightmares-Christina-Sng/dp/1935738984/

3 poems, "The Girl and Her Wolf Dog", "When We Fall", and "Memoirs in the Dark”, Spectral Realms No. 8, March 2018, https://www.hippocampuspress.com/journals/spectral-realms/spectral-realms-no.-8?zenid=1tipvfk1mjg98qgugbtc20iu65

2 scifaiku, "Rumble" and "Titan Landing", and 2 horrorku, "Between" and "Thin Winter Air”, February 2018, Scifaikuest 59 and Scifaikuest Online, http://store.albanlake.com/product/scifaikuest-59/ and http://albanlake.com/scifaikuest-nov-2017/

 

David C. Kopaska-Merkel poem, "Bring Me Moa," Altered Reality Magazine, http://www.alteredrealitymag.com/bring-me-moa-by-david-c-kopaska-merkel/

David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Kendall Evans chapbook, Entanglement, Diminuendo Press, http://www.cwizprod.com/

 

PS Cottier poem, “Mining Time”, Not Very Quiet, Issue 2, March 2018 https://not-very-quiet.com/2018/03/10/mining-time/

 

Peter Roberts poem, "concentric delusions," Illumen, Spring 2018 (vol. XIV, no. 3), http://albanlake.com/

 

Robin Wyatt Dunn chapbook, I'm Leaving America, Analog Submission Press, March 21, 2018, http://www.analogsubmission.com/product/i-m-leaving-america-by-robin-wyatt-dunn

chapbook, Deliver us into the Dark, Writing Knights Press, January 12, 2018, http://writingknightspress.blogspot.com/2018/01/fourplay-25-deliver-us-into-dark-by.html

collection, Debudaderrah, January 15, 2018, http://robindunn.com/debudaderrah.html

8 poems, "no gravesend mine", "who heard the board", "I’ve been counting", "who heard me", "Facebook prison", "take heed and hell over the lake", "400 Manhattan Place", "the light defends the right", 1947 Journal, http://1947journal.tumblr.com/post/172026519969/no-gravesend-mine-by-robin-wyatt-dunn, http://1947journal.tumblr.com/post/171717020919/who-heard-the-board-by-robin-wyatt-dunn, http://1947journal.tumblr.com/post/171473313624/ive-been-counting-by-robin-wyatt-dunn, http://1947journal.tumblr.com/post/171039800679/who-heard-me-by-robin-wyatt-dunn, http://1947journal.tumblr.com/post/170715088224/facebook-prison-by-robin-wyatt-dunn, http://1947journal.tumblr.com/post/170153767734/take-heed-and-hell-over-the-lake-by-robin-wyatt, http://1947journal.tumblr.com/post/169380574314/400-manhattan-place-by-robin-wyatt-dunn, and http://1947journal.tumblr.com/post/169380559604/the-light-defends-the-right-by-robin-wyatt-dunn

poem, "sit down and shut up", Steemit, March 18, 2018, https://steemit.com/poetry/@settdigger/sit-down-and-shut-up

2 poems, "we're dying and I begin" and "Attach the electricity", Between Hangovers, https://inbetweenhangovers.wordpress.com/2018/02/23/were-dying-and-i-begin-by-robin-wyatt-dunn/ and https://inbetweenhangovers.wordpress.com/2018/01/20/attach-the-electricity-by-robin-wyatt-dunn/

poem, "the black bread of life is silent and watchful", Duane's Poetree, February 14, 2018, https://duanespoetree.blogspot.com/2018/02/robin-wyatt-dunn-writes.html

poem, "what black deep you made", Fowl Feathered Review #25, January 3, 2018, http://anyflip.com/wykb/yjpp/

 

Akua Lezli Hope poem “Thank You”, New Verse News, March 1, https://newversenews.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-kids-are-and-all-right-alright.html

book, Them Gone, The Word Works, http://www.wordworksbooks.org/

reading/performance, March 25, 2018, 171 Cedar Arts Center, Corning, NY, http://akualezlihope.com/them-gone

 

Cassandra Rose Clarke 3 poems, "The Collaborator," "Chthonia," and "A Chronology of the Devouring Queen," Illumen, Alban Lake, Spring 2018, http://albanlake.com/

 

R. Mac Jones poem, "Come Marvel at Barnum's Diminutive Prince," NonBinary Review, Issue 16, March 2018 (The Little Prince issue) https://www.zoeticpress.com/lit-journals/?category=NonBinary+Review

 

Laura Madeline Wiseman and Andrea Blythe chapbook, Every Girl Becomes the Wolf, Finishing Line Press, 2018, https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/every-girl-becomes-the-wolf-by-laura-madeline-wiseman-andrea-blythe/

 

John Reinhart book, "dig it," Arson Press, https://www.amazon.com/dig-John-Reinhart/dp/198435065X

2 poems, "home" & "he thought death," Quatrain.Fish, http://quatrain.fish/post/172172474894/john-reinhart & http://quatrain.fish/post/172380663003/john-reinhart

 

Mary Soon Lee ​poem, "Diaspora," F&SF, March/April 2018​, https://www.sfsite.com/fsf/

poem, "Venus, As It Might Have Been," Analog, March/April 2018, http://www.analogsf.com/

2 poem, "Reasons for Reading" & "Harold's Samaritan," mainstream, Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, http://www.songsoferetz.com/2018/03/reasons-for-reading-by-mary-soon-lee.html & http://www.songsoferetz.com/2018/03/harolds-samaritan-by-mary-soon-lee.html

 

Herb Kauderer poem “The Crocdilians” Dreams & Nightmares #108, http://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com/2018/01/dn-108-contents.html

non-genre poem, “Lacking a Microscope”, Walls (a Poet’s Speak anthology), Beatlick Press and Jules’ Poetry Playhouse Publications, https://www.amazon.com/Walls-Poets-Speak-Anthology-4/dp/1985244608/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1522448934&sr=8-1&keywords=walls+a+poet%27s+speak

non-genre poem, “Carpe Gutter”, Ground & Sky Quarterly, https://www.cwp-press.com/bookstore/ground-sky-quarterly-4-fall-2017

5 poems, “stranded observatory”, “new realities”, “career change”, “Last Gleaming”, “failed diplomacy”, Altered Reality, http://www.alteredrealitymag.com/failed-diplomacy-by-herb-kauderer/

prose poem “Lost Weekend”, Speculative 66 #17, https://speculative66.weebly.com/

poem, “Sugar Daddy Ultimatum”, Disturbed Digest, http://store.albanlake.com/product/disturbed-20/

 

Ann K. Schwader haiku (mainstream), "Chaco Canyon," frogpond Vol. 41:1, March 2018, http://www.hsa-haiku.org/frogpond/2018-issue41-1/index.html

 

Ann K. Schwader and David C. Kopaska-Merkel poem, "It Took Some Time," Devilfish Review Issue 20, March 2018, https://devilfishreview.com/issue-twenty/it-took-some-time-by-david-c-kopaska-merkel-and-ann-k-schwader/

 

Lisa Timpf poem, genre, print, "The Tell-Tale Knight", Frostfire Worlds, February 2018, http://store.albanlake.com/product/frostfire-worlds-february-2018/

2 poems, genre, print, "android tracker" and "visiting on Lepidon", Scifaikuest, February 2018 print edition, http://store.albanlake.com/product/scifaikuest-59/

poem non-genre, print, "In Any Language", THEMA: Is There a Word for That? vol. 30, no. 1, spring 2018, http://themaliterarysociety.com/issues/WORD%20FOR%20THAT.htm

 

Robert Frazier poem, "Your Clone Defies Aging", Asimov's Science Fiction, March/April. 2018, www.asimovs.com

 

Deborah P Kolodji 2 one-liner haiku, “lost in step-relatives…”, “foreign key constraint…”, Sonic Boom #11, March 2018,  http://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/61020d_ab34b1155c4746bb98da5599e300990a.pdf

haiku, “heart monitors,” The Heron’s Nest, Vol XX No 1, March 2018, http://www.theheronsnest.com/March2018/haiku-p7.html

haiku, “dandelions opening,” Haiku Windows, The Haiku Foundation, 3/14/2018, https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2018/03/14/haiku-windows-window-shade-window-blind/

2 haiku, “daybreak,” “I hear you,” World Haiku Review, March 2018, https://sites.google.com/site/worldhaikureview2/

haiku, “consulting…”, Haiku Windows, The Haiku Foundation, 2/28/2018, https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2018/02/28/haiku-windows-office-window/

haiku, “plywood,” Haiku Windows, The Haiku Foundation, 2/14/2018, https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2018/02/14/haiku-windows-broken-window/

poem, “Meals of Camelot,” Scryptic, Best of 2017-2018, https://www.amazon.com/Scryptic-Best-2017-2018-Chase-Gagnon/dp/198682554X/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1522196987&sr=8-3&keywords=scryptic+magazine&dpID=51o9sBg8NmL&preST=_SX218_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_&dpSrc=srch

haiku, “wedding day,” Stardust Haiku, February 2018, https://drive.google.com/file/d/16csW1N-r93Ru_8_5o3DKyOxKGNEOVJPb/view

haiku, “late afternoon,” Golden Triangle Haiku Contest, (haiku published on yard sign in streets of Washington, D.C.), https://3al7vg3hahkr4er97p13jo9w-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Golden-Haiku-2018-Signs.pdf

4 haiku, California Quarterly, Volume 44, Number 1, Spring 2018, https://www.californiastatepoetrysociety.org/our-archives

haiku, “California winter,” bottle rockets, #38, February 2018, http://www.bottlerocketspress.com/

 

Peter J.  King poem (non-genre, print journal) “Cotswold Scenes”, The Curlew vol.  II issue II (Acer), March 2018, http://www.the-curlew.com/

3 poems (non-genre; print journal) “Larkin from the Festival Platforms”, “Carrion Comfort”, “Rictus”, A Restricted View from Under the Hedge issue 1, March 2018, https://www.hedgehogpress.co.uk/2017/09/29/a-restricted-view-from-under-the-hedge/

 

Colleen Anderson poem, "Washday Blues," Polar Borealis #6, April 2018, http://polarborealis.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/POLAR-BOREALIS-6-Apr-May-2018.pdf

interview of poet Sarah Tolmie, March 2018, https://colleenanderson.wordpress.com/