SFPA January 2025 Round-Up

Into the new year:

With new poems and such from the members of SFPA!

Mike

Pixie Bruner

poem, "First Fruits", Abyss & Apex, Abyss & Apex, Issue 93, January 2025, https://www.abyssapexzine.com/2025/01/first-fruits/

3 poems, "Danse Macabre," "Once We Were Mermaids," and "Crash Landing Aria I," January Featured Poet, The Horror Zine, January 2025, https://www.thehorrorzine.com/Poetry/Jan2025/PixieBruner/PixieBruner.html

Michael H. Payne

4 poems, #1811 - 1814, Terebinth, Jan. 6, 13, 20 & 27, 2025, http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20250106.html, http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20250113.html, http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20250120.html & http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20250127.html

Robert Frazier

poem,"Your Clone Can Look Herselves Up", Asimov’s SF, Jan-Feb. 2025, https://www.asimovs.com/current-issue/

Ian Li

poem, "Transmissions," The Sprawl Mag, Vol. 2.2, https://www.thesprawlmag.ca/vol-2-2

LindaAnn LoSchiavo

collection, Always Haunted: Hallowe'en Poems, 3rd Place Finalist, Annual Chrysalis BREW's Readers' Choice Awards, January 9, 2024, https://thechrysalisbrewproject.com/2025/01/01/congratulations-to-the-winners-and-finalists-of-the-monthly-and-annual-brew-readers-choice-award-2024-2025-2/

audiobook, Felones de Se: Poems about Suicide, Ukiyoto, September 14, 2024, https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/felones-de-se-lindaann-loschiavo/1146294298

review of  Felones de Se: Poems about Suicide, GoodReads, January 12, 2025, https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7207595839

review of  Felones de Se: Poems about Suicide, Barnes & Noble, January 15, 2025, https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/felones-de-se-lindaann-loschiavo/1146028297#review/333338148

review of Always Haunted: Hallowe'en Poems, Amazon, December 13th, 2024, https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R1GI4KUXXNI6J0/

review of Always Haunted: Hallowe'en Poems, LibraryThing, December 22nd, 2024, https://www.librarything.com/work/32559750/reviews

review of Always Haunted: Hallowe'en Poems, Lily Greer's website, December 13th, 2024, https://lshadowlynauthor.com/2024/12/14/review-always-haunted/

2 poems, "Diane Arbus  (1923 – 1971)" and "Wildfires Worry the Scarecrow", October Hill Magazine Vol. 8, Issue 3, Fall 2024 issue, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-d_oQIC3saJ0mFcYvaDs4GUdfGbjUvcU/view

poem, non-genre, "Caciacavallo Cheese," Amaranth Journal Vol. 3, Issue 2, Autumn 2024, https://amaranthjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Amaranth-Journal_Vol3-Issue-2_Autumn_2024-2.pdf

poem, non-genre, "Mad March at Daybreak," The Literary Cocktail Magazine, Fall Issue 2024, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qo9lHipJtsNuZxrVakp0Wc4KKOEHTc1H/view

poem, "Lethe's Lullaby," The Literary Times #4: Dark & Dreary, January 5, 2025, https://theliterarytimes.wordpress.com/issue-iv/

poem, "Rendezvous in the Forest", Sublimation Annual I: The Best of Volume 1, January 16, 2025, https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/sublimation-annual-1-ts-s-fulk/1146831551

poem, "Once Upon a Time in Elfriche," Contest Finalist, Echoes of Frost and Fantasies, Wingless Dreamer Publishing, January 16, 2025, https://www.amazon.com/Echoes-Frost-Fantasies-Ruchi-Acharya-ebook/dp/B0DTBXF4W3/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0

poem, non-genre, "After Lam Doy Died", Coalition Arts, January 21, 2025, https://coalitionist.substack.com/p/after-lam-doy-died-lindaann-loschiavo

3 poems, "In the Graveyard, Decomposing," "Come Softly to Me," and "A Christmas Presence", The Beauty in Darkness,  Dark Moon Rising Publications, January 31, 2025, https://www.amazon.com/Beauty-Darkness-Literary-Tribute-Woolard-ebook/dp/B0DS57XCJ2/

Colleen Anderson

poem, "Cosmos," The Number 50, Jul. 2024, https://thenumberfivezero.wordpress.com/2024/07/02/109/

2 scifaiku, [world’s food] & [we peer from] and sijo, [galaxies], Scifaikuest, Oct. 2024 https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/scifaikuest-october-2024

collection, Weird Worlds, 2024 Stoker Award preliminary ballot, Jan. 2025, https://bramstokerawards.horror.org/front-page/the-2024-bram-stoker-awards-preliminary-ballot-announced/

A J Dalton

3 poems, “Cowfolk”, “Digidreams” and “The Newly Dead”, The Genre Society #3, Jan 2025, https://www.thegenresociety.com/ourcollections

poem, “Review of the Pre-Anthropocene Museum”, Radon Journal #9, https://www.radonjournal.com/issue9/review-of-the-pre-anthropocene-museum

2 poems, “Mr Ray Gun” and “Disturbing the Peace”, Unlikely Stories Mark V, Jan 2025, https://www.unlikelystories.org/content/disturbing-the-peace-and-mr-ray-gun

poem, “The Dead Place”, Quail Bell Magazine, 29 Dec 2024, http://www.quailbellmagazine.com/the-unreal-20/poetry-the-dead-place-by-a-j-dalton

poem, “Children of Yesterday”, AntipodeanSF #315, Jan 2025, https://www.antisf.com/the-stories/children-of-yesterday

poem, “Dissemblance”, Not One of Us #81, Jan 2025, https://legacyliteraryservices.com/not-one-of-us/latest-issue-table-of-contents/

poem, “Goblin Slaves”, Low Hanging Fruit #2, Winter 2025, https://www.fruithanginglow.com/product-page/issue-2-winter-2025-digimag

collection, Dark Woods Rising, Starship Sloane Publishing, 22 Nov 2024, https://starshipsloane.com/dark-woods-rising-by-a-j-dalton/

Jordan Hirsch

poem, "Tell Me I'm Real Under All This," Not One of Us #81, January 2025, https://legacyliteraryservices.com/not-one-of-us/latest-issue-table-of-contents/

Brian Hugenbruch

poem, “don’t follow the lights,” Kaleidotrope Winter 2025, https://kaleidotrope.net/winter-2025/dont-follow-the-lights-by-brian-hugenbruch/

Elizabeth R. McClellan

poem, spec, "Seething Sun," light 'em up anthology, fifth wheel press, October 2024, reprinted in FWP 24: an anthology of queer writing, https://fifthwheelpress.com/anth6backend/mcclellan1 & https://fifthwheelpress.myshopify.com/products/fwp-2024-an-anthology-of-queer-writing

poem, spec, "A Diner's Guide to Avoiding Paradox," beestung, November 2024 https://beestungmag.com/issue21/one-poem-by-elizabeth-r-mcclellan/

poem, spec, "Reflections of a Foreign Exchange Student, Grown Old,"* Utopia Science Fiction December 2024 Art Issue, https://www.utopiasciencefiction.com/product-page/december2024 & https://mixam.com/print-on-demand/674672f6d8689058aa675ec0

Paul Voermans

poem, "The death of the moon," Focus, British Science Fiction Association, Winter 2024, https://bsfa.co.uk/focus

M. Frost

poem, "Interstellar Spaces," Abyss & Apex, January 2025, https://www.abyssapexzine.com/2025/01/interstellar-spaces/

poem, "Id, or the Relic from The Model 8 Polysomnograph," View from Atlantis #115: The Necronomicon, Jan 28, 2025, https://viewfromatlantis.wordpress.com/2025/01/28/issue-115-the-necronomicon/

Robin Wyatt Dunn

poem, "Descend with Me Grandfather", Dissident Voice, January 19, 2025, https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/01/descend-with-me-grandfather/

poem, "The world comes to an end the same way a woman puts on a dress", Stickman Review, December 18, 2024, http://www.stickmanreview.com/V23N2/Robin-Wyatt-Dunn.html

poem, "Afterwards We Can Say the Names", Dissident Voice, November 29, 2024, https://dissidentvoice.org/2024/11/afterwards-we-can-say-the-names/

poem, "we the dead rise again", Mobius: the Journal of Social Change, November 1, 2024, https://mobiusmagazine.com/poetry/wethedea.html

poem, "Though I the dead should fall", Dissident Voice, October 13, 2024, https://dissidentvoice.org/2024/10/though-i-the-dead-should-fall/

poem, "You would spell out an evil magic", Dissident Voice, September 1, 2024, https://dissidentvoice.org/2024/09/you-would-spell-out-an-evil-magic/

poem, "Though I should trade the sky and sleep", Dissident Voice, July 28, 2024, https://dissidentvoice.org/2024/07/152273/

Eugen Bacon

prose poem, " A Hundred Words," Live Encounters, February 2025, https://liveencounters.net/2025-le-pw/eugen-bacon-a-hundred-words/

Lauren McBride

article, "Etheree: A Wedge of Words," and poem, genre, "After Negotiations Failed," Scifaikuest print, October 2024, https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/scifaikuest-october-2024

Ken Poyner

poem, non-genre, print, “The Application”, Blue Collar Review vol 28 #1, https://www.partisanpress.org/

G. O. Clark

poem, “Armageddon Smiles”, Fumptruck, Written Backwards Press, Dec 2024, https://nettirw.com/2024/12/15/fumptruck-pre-order-now/

Lyri Ahnam

poem, "Singularity Storm," Abyss & Apex, Issue 93, 1st Quarter 2025, https://www.abyssapexzine.com/2025/01/99363/

Frank Coffman

poem, "Arrangements," Sublimation Annual #1, Annual Contest Finalist, Jan. 2025, https://islandofwakwak.com/sublimation-annual-1.html

2 poems, "Carcosan Shadows" and "Horror Home," Spectral Realms #22, Winter 2025, https://www.hippocampuspress.com/journals/spectral-realms/spectral-realms-no.-22

Mary Soon Lee

novel in poems, The Sign of the Dragon, first print edition, January 2025,  JABBerwocky Literary Agency, Inc, https://www.amazon.com/dp/1625674910/

chat with Brandon O'Brien about SFF poetry, Worldcon Blog, https://seattlein2025.org/2025/01/27/con-verse-chatting-with-mary-soon-lee/

poem, "What Moon Rabbit Reads," The Sprawl Mag, Volume 2.2, Winter 2025, https://www.thesprawlmag.ca/vol-2-2

poem, "Frog Prince," Dreams and Nightmares #129, January 2025, https://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com/p/ordering-dreams.html

poem, "Solace," NewMyths.com, Volume 18, Issue 69, Winter 2024, https://sites.google.com/newmyths.com/newmythscomissue69/issue-69-stories/solace

poem, "Dragon in a Bottle," Constellations, Volume 14: Second Look, Fall 2024, http://www.constellations-lit.com/issues/issues/vol14.html

reading on Zoom for Parsec, 2/15/2025, https://parsec-sff.org/

Lauren Scharhag

2 poems, "Father," "Sorting the Beans," New Feathers, Spring 2024, https://www.newfeathersanthology.com/newfeathersspring24.html#/

poem, "Father," Confetti, Vol. 4 No. 1, Spring 2024, https://confettimag.org/poetry/father/

poem, "Pando," Thimble Magazine Vol. 7 No. 1, Summer 2024, https://www.thimblelitmag.com/2024/04/12/pando/

poem, "Mono no Aware," Ultramarine Literary Review, January 2025, https://www.ultramarinereview.com/post/mono-no-aware

Anna Cates

collection, The Ark: And Other Fantastic Tales, Wipf & Stock, Dec 2024, https://wipfandstock.com/9798385237869/the-ark/

poem, “In Retrospect,” The Other Bunny, Jan 20 2025, https://theotherbunny.blog/2025/01/20/in-retrospect/

haiku, Wales Haiku Journal, Winter 24/25, https://www.waleshaikujournal.com/winter2024

Alan Vincent Michaels

poem sequence, "Time for Musings," SciFanSat #18: Time, Blue Boar Press, January 25, 2025, https://scifansat.com/PDF/SciFanSat_Issue_18_Time_01-25-2025.pdf

S. T. Eleu

poem, "You Are Shipwrecked On A Deserted Island," View from Atlantis Issue 109: We're All Lost, Nov 2024, https://viewfromatlantis.wordpress.com/2024/11/19/issue-109-were-all-lost/

poem, "A Bee's Lament," Five Fleas, November 28 2024, https://fivefleas.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2024-11-28T12:25:00-08:00

Linda D. Addison

poem, "Space Children Dream of the Last Place," Spacefunk, MVmedia LLC, January 25, 2025, https://www.mvmediaatl.com/product-page/spacefunk-john-jennings-variant-cover

Katherine Quevedo

poem, reprint, "Ghosted by Pac-Man," Meow Meow Pow Pow, [indents] theme, January 17, 2025, https://www.meowmeowpowpowlit.com/recent/ghosted-by-pac-man-by-katherine-quevedo

poem, reprint, "The Deku Butler's Son," Dangerous to Go Alone! 2, Manawaker Studio, January 31, 2025, https://payhip.com/b/Xvdk1

poem, reprint, "Meditations on Super Smash Bros.," Y2K Quarterly: Volume 1, January 31, 2025, https://www.amazon.com/Y2K-Quarterly-1-Melinda-Wyers/dp/1733570721

Greer Woodward

scifaiku, « the yellow brick road », Troutswirl, The Haiku Foundation, January 15, 2025, https://thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialogue-dreams-future-and-past-commentary/

scifaiku, « flying back to earth », Troutswirl, The Haiku Foundation, December 11, 2024,  https://thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialogue-dreams-day-and-night-long-list

Marisca Pichette

2 poems, "cassiopeia, in spring" and "i see poems," Door is a Jar, Issue 33, December 2024, https://www.doorisajarmagazine.net/issues/winter-2024

poem, "Mirror, mirror," New Myths, Winter 2024 issue, December 2024, https://sites.google.com/newmyths.com/newmythscomissue69/issue-69-stories/mirror-mirror?authuser=1

poem, "Recipe (Remastered)," Haunted Words Press, Issue 9, December 2024, https://issuu.com/hauntedwordspress/docs/issue_nine_blood-bound

poem, "Between the Waters of Phlegethon & Molloy," Kaleidotrope, Winter 2025 issue, January 2025, https://kaleidotrope.net/winter-2025/between-the-waters-of-phlegethon-molloy-by-marisca-pichette/

poem, "Last sanctuary," Small Wonders, Issue 19, January 2025, https://smallwondersmag.com/piece/last-sanctuary/

Angela Liu

poem, "Mnemonic Burning,” Nightmare Magazine Issue 147, December 2024, https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/poetry/mnemonic-burning/

Ruth Berman

poem, "Mamaliga," The Rockford Review, Winter-Spring 2025, https://www.rockfordwritersguild.org/

Richard Magahiz

poem, genre, "Coin of the realm", dadakuku, January 5, 2025, https://dadakuku.com/2025/01/05/coin-of-the-realm/

2 prose poems, genre, "Wandering through Sinai" and "Want or want-want?", Fevers of the Mind, January 21, 2025 https://feversofthemind.com/2025/01/21/freewriting-stream-of-consciousness-challenge-from-john-donley-nike-truth-rich-magahiz-preeth-ganapathy-james-penha/

3 poems, genre, "[diamonds underfoot]," "[Like a crooked bone]", and "[The old master reads scriptures]", Five Fleas, 24 January 2025, https://fivefleas.blogspot.com/2025/01/afternoon-of-january-24-2025.html

Juleigh Howard-Hobson

poem, “Sylvan Episode”, The Borough, Issue 2, Jan 2025, https://theboroughpoetry.com/

poem, non genre, “Mine Forever”, Vast Chasm Literary, Jan 18 2025, https://vastliterarypress.org/2025/01/18/25q1-howard-hobson-mine-forever/

Kendall Evans and David C. Kopaska-Merkel

poem, print, "Dragon Ash and Vampire Scat," Night to Dawn 47, April 2025, www.bloodredshadow.com

David C. Kopaska-Merkel

3 poems, "chest deep," "crocodile eyes," "Martian slugs," Five Fleas, Feb. 2, 2025, https://fivefleas.blogspot.com/2025/02/afternoon-of-february-2-2025.html

Alicia Hilton

poem, “Epitaph for Melting Glaciers,” Constellations Volume 14, Fall 2024, December 2024, http://www.constellations-lit.com

poem, “The Anglerfish Lures a Mate,” Uppagus Issue #65, November 2024, https://uppagus.com/poems/hilton-anglerfish/

poem, “Centrifuge, Radioactive Isotopes, Phantom Professor,” HWA Poetry Showcase Volume XI, October 2024, https://www.amazon.com/HWA-Poetry-Showcase-Maxwell-Gold/dp/1959048279 

poem, “The Blacksmith’s Box of Haunted Memories,” Strange Horizons, August 5, 2024, http://strangehorizons.com/poetry/the-blacksmiths-box-of-haunted-memories/

2 poems, “The Care and Feeding of the Cranium Spider” and “MANHATTAN 2081: THE PHYSIOGNOMY OF FEAR,” Extrasensory Overload: an anthology of speculative excess, July 31, 2024, https://www.amazon.com/Extrasensory-Overload-anthology-speculative-excess/dp/B0D9ZNVR8Y

poem, “Letter to the Lips that Gave Me My First Kiss,” The Quarter(ly) Volume X-WET, July 31, 2024, https://quarterpress.com/shop-qp/p/preorder-the-quarterly-vol-x-wet

poem, “Cthulhu Hopscotch,” James Gunn’s Ad Astra Issue #14, June 2024, https://www.adastrasf.com/cthulhu-hopscotch/

poem, “Padfoot the Grim,” Chiron Review Issue 133, May 2024, https://www.lulu.com/shop/michael-hathaway/chiron-review-133/paperback/product-m2w4wp7.html?page=1&pageSize=4

Ann K. Schwader

poem, print, "If There are Time Machines," Dreams & NIghtmares #129, January 2025, https://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com/2025/01/dreams-and-nightmares-129.html

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