Star*Line is the official journal of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association. Now on volume 46, Star*Line comes out on a quarterly basis, and is currently edited by Jean-Paul Garnier. The newest cover is by Austin Arthur Hart, entitled Struggle for the Starbox as the association marks our 45th anniversary since its founding in 1978. Denny E. Marshall and Jade Sng are providing interior art this time.
The issue features a message from SFPA President Colleen Anderson in addition to regular column features, an essay by Denise Dumars on Stealth SF * “The Gloves Come Off, Part I,” an interview Casey Aimer on publishing, and Xenopoetry * Werwolf/Werewolf * with F.J. & Fred W. Bergman. This issue also features details on the 2023 winners of the Rhysling, Dwarf Stars AND Elgin Awards. It also includes information about voting for a new Secretary and Treasurer and nominating for the Grand Master Award. You can get your copy here for $5.00 plus $2 U.S./$3 international shipping, or as .pdf for $2.50.
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The 46.4 poems and poets are:
- The Dream-Ships of the Yser * Goran Lowie
- Headlines from Utopia * Lynne Sargent
- Gods of the Landfill * Pedro Iniguez
- The Alien Words, Formed and Empty * Daniel Ausema
- I didn’t know the lights … * Richard Magahiz
- Time Crystals * F. J. Bergmann
- Personal Demons * Mary Soon Lee
- Halogenorium * Miguel O. Mitchell
- Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909–2012) * Jessy Randall
- Ravages of Time * F. J. Bergmann
- Acrylic Beads * David C. Kopaska-Merkel & Kendall Evans
- Ode to aerogel * Richard Magahiz
- Foaming * Mahaila Smith
- Greetings from the Future! * Jason P. Burnham
- Our Past * Timons Esaias
- [feeling] * Christina Sng
- [starless sky] * Ryan J. M. Tan
- [lightspeed travel] * Lisa Timpf
- Gorgon Restricted * Gerri Leen
- Multi-Species Spacecraft Crew Consensus * John H. Dromey
- Preserved * X. S. Aaron
- [Zombie get-together sucks] * Alan Ira Gordon
- Human Laughter * Ciarán Parkes
- Surrealia #16 * Miguel O. Mitchell
- [Alpha Centaurians] * LeRoy Gorman
- microcosm * Russell Nichols
- My Grotesque Treasure * Abi Marie Palmer
- Scattered * Devan Barlow
- 4-D Mirror * Francis W. Alexander
- The Permanence of Stone * Beth Cato & Rhonda Parrish
- [Chrononauts! Objects] * Howard V. Hendrix
- Digital Desire * A J Dalton
- [plein air] * Ann K. Schwader
- Things I Should’ve Told You * Bill Abbott
- Carcinisation * Richard Magahiz
- The Curator of Curses * LindaAnn LoSchiavo
- [religious robots] * Randall Andrews
- Gemini * Jean-Marie Romana
- Death Idle * Soren James
- Kalanchoe daigremontiana * Marisca Pichette
- Mnemosyne * Devan Barlow
- Ice and Fire * Roger Dutcher
- Borne on a Hundred Wings * Anna Madden
- Emissaries * Ann K. Schwader & David C. Kopaska-Merkel
- Some Things Never Change * Marsheila Rockwell
- The Spider Invasion * Kendall Evans
- [The dryad waits] * Sarah Cannavo
- A Catalog of Shade * Jennifer Crow
- Prairie In The Sky * Robert Frazier
- Blow out the Candles * Cassandra Blomberg
- Heirs of Wickedness * Roger Dutcher
- The Ones Who Stayed * Goran Lowie
- [frozen corpses] * Sarah Das Gupta
- [zombie yoga] * Lauren McBride
- five o’clock traffic * D. A. Xiaolin Spires
- The Year It Changed * David C. Kopaska-Merkel
- [A mouth awaited] * Debby Feo
- Bottom of the Jar * Beth Cato
- You Can’t Keep Bananas on Saturn * Brian U. Garrison
- Creamed Corn * H. Russell Smith
- Photosynthesis * Eva Papasoulioti
- The Princess and the Peewee * PS Cottier
- Mass-Market Affair * Casey Aimer
- UAP * Wendy Van Camp
- Next Time * F. J. Bergmann
- Bossa Nova in the Blues Bar on Blue Mars * Libby Graham
- They call us brethren monsters * Ngo Binh Anh Khoa
- A New Mythology * Dawn Vogel
- [Kong plucks] * Dennis Maulsby
- [woodsmoke …] * Greg Schwartz
- hospitable * Lorraine Schein
- How Ironic * John H. Dromey
- [a soldier bleeding out] * Royal Baysinger
- [warning! Earth is not] * Howard V. Hendrix
- Wandering Star * Rick A. Pearson
- [in a dark bazaar] * Barun Saha
- end in sight * Benjamin Whitney Norris
Thank you to all of our contributors from around the globe!
