Spring means more than:
The squirrels and mockingbirds outside my window eyeing each other suspiciously. It also means it's time to see what the members of SFPA have been getting up to lately!
Mike
Richard Magahiz
4 poems, genre, "[boiling in the blood]," "[ocelot protocols]," "[milkweed silk]," and "[cameras flash]", Five Fleas, 7 March 2025, https://fivefleas.blogspot.com/2025/03/afternoon-of-march-7-2025.html
poem, non-genre, "look at me when I'm talking to you", dadakuku, March 11 2025, https://dadakuku.com/2025/03/11/look-at-me-when-im-talking-to-you/
poem, genre, "The mystery of the thermionic", Songs of Eretz Artifacts issue, Spring 2025, http://www.songsoferetz.com/2025/03/songs-of-eretz-poetry-review-spring.html
Robert Frazier
poem, "Now that I Have Found You", Asimov’s, March/April 2025, https://www.amazon.com/Asimovs-Science-Fiction-Magazine-March-April/dp/B0DWKGCB7T
poem, "It’s Always All About the Weather In Greenfield, Iowa", Midwest Futures, Middle West Press, March 2025, https://www.amazon.com/Midwest-Futures-Micro-Stories-Tomorrows-Heartland/dp/1953665322
Pixie Bruner
prose poem, spec, “His Arm, My Ring”, Weird Fiction Quarterly: Ghosts, Winter 2025, https://weirdfictionquarterly.com/wfq-ghosts-2025-is-out/
Wendy Van Camp
featured reader, San Diego Poetry Annual Open Mic, San Diego Writers Festival, April 5th, 2025, https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/
essay, “How StimuWrite Helps Neurodivergent Authors Beat Distraction,” Indie Author Magazine, April 2025, https://indieauthormagazine.com/
Michael H. Payne
4 poems, #1824 - 1827, Terebinth, April 7, 14, 21 & 28, 2025, http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20250407.html, http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20250414.html, http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20250421.html, & http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20250428.html
reading, Speculative Sunday Series, April 14, 2025, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7kxB7GCKz0
Ken Anderson
poem, “Atheist,” Confetti: Westchester Writers Workshop Magazine, Spring 2025, https://confettimag.org/poetry/atheist/
2 poems, “Waiting for Clearance” & “Secret Ruin,” Soliloquist Magazine #1, April 2025, https://online.fliphtml5.com/obsvt/guhu
poem, "Midas," Voices Unbound: International Poetry Anthology, Fresh Words, https://sites.google.com/view/freshwordsmagazine/special-anthologies
RJ Aurand
poem, "False Beet," Small Wonders, April 2025, https://smallwondersmag.com/piece/false-beet/
Alexandra Honigsberg
poem, reprint, “Photo Album”, White on White: A Tribute to Bauhaus, Feb 2025, https://www.amazon.com/White-Literary-Tribute-Bauhaus-Special/dp/B0DY6BZ6GK/
poem, “Lilith: Mother of Dreams: Soliloquy”, Hand of Doom: A Literary Tribute to Black Sabbath, Apr 2025, https://www.amazon.com/Hand-Doom-Literary-Tribute-Sabbath/dp/B0F5P25M2T/
Linda D. Addison & Jamal Hodge
collection, Everything Endless, Raw Dog Screaming Press, April 22, 2025, https://rawdogscreaming.com/book/everything-endless/
Carolyn Clink
poem, "Pulp Literature," Polar Starlight #18, April 2025, https://polarborealis.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/POLAR-STARLIGHT-18-April-2025.pdf
Elizabeth R. McClellan
poem, spec, "Mother Takes A Wife," Garland #3, April 2025, https://fifthwheelpress.com/garland
poem, spec, "Olezkha Takes Up Poetry," Ouch! Collective vol. 4, Spring 2025, https://www.ouchcollective.com/store/p/vol-4
poem, non spec, "untitled/oh my body," Libre Lit, March 2025, https://www.librelit.com/themagazine/untitled-elizabeth-mcclellan
poem, spec, "Mother Loves the Land and Loves the Sea," Last Girls Club: Lost At Sea issue, Spring 2025, https://www.lastgirlsclub.com/
KT Wagner
poem, "The Princess and the Sack of Peas", Polar Starlight #18, April 2025, https://polarborealis.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/POLAR-STARLIGHT-18-April-2025.pdf
Ian Li
poem, "Old Brooklyn Magic," Nightmare Magazine, April 2025, https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/poetry/old-brooklyn-magic/
poem, "Flighty," Kaleidotrope, Spring 2025, https://kaleidotrope.net/spring-2025/flighty-by-ian-li/
Frank Coffman
poem, "Merlin's Return," Abyss & Apex #94, 2nd Quarter 2025, https://www.abyssapexzine.com/2025/03/merlins-return/
Anna Cates
haiku, Under the Basho, April 14, 2025, https://underthebasho.com/the-journal/under-the-basho-2025/haiku.html
Christina M. Rau
poem, "Brighter Materials," Destinies: The Voice Of Science Fiction radio show at 25:47, https://captphilonline.com/Destinies/Destinies_04_18_25.mp3
M. Frost
poem, "view," Strange Horizons: Ageing Issue, March 31 2025, http://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/poetry/view/
poem, “Menu from the Fairy Tale Restaurant,” Defenestration, Spring 2025, https://www.defenestrationmag.net/2025/04/menu-from-the-fairy-tale-restaurant-by-m-frost/
poem, “Sainte-Chapelle,” Loch Raven Review, April 2025, https://thelochravenreview.net/m-frost/
2 poems, “midwife” and “Pieces,” The Rumen, March 2025, https://www.therumen.com/publications/mCLBsbCsT2Clt4AEjbQa
Melodie Bolt
poem, “Haze,” Erie Tales: Sweet Sixteen, Great Lakes Association of Horror Writers, April 2025, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F5XYYMFN
N. Jed Todd
2 poems, "Texas Innovation" & "AP Biochem, Class of 2035", Midwest Futures: Poems & Micro-Stories from Tomorrow's Heartland, Middle West Press, 4 March 2025, https://www.middlewestpress.com/2025/03/available-now-midwest-futures-poems.html
Ken Poyner
poem, non-genre, “Potential”, Mad Swirl, 4/7/2025, https://madswirl.com/poetry/2025/04/potential/
collection, Sermons for the Rain, with music by Out of Orion, 4/24/2025, https://open.spotify.com/album/34yVyXTXIfl2MpOnutuTSX
J. D. Harlock
poem, "This Crown of Thorn," Teach. Write., Fall-Winter Issue 2024, https://teachwritejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/2024-FAWI.pdf
2 poems, "Dry My Tears, the Soldier Cried" & "Welcome to Beirut," Teach. Write., Spring-Summer 2024, https://teachwritejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/spsu24-revised.pdf
poem, "A World Where Only We Can Speak," Systemic Dreaming: Mobile Data Magazine, March 2025, https://mobiledatamag.substack.com/p/a-world-where-only-we-can-speak-systemic
M. C. Aster
poem, non-genre/online; "A Seaside Fable", FWS: Solace issue, Spring 2025; https://formidablewoman.org/fall-2024-solace-iii/
A J Dalton
poem, “Fare Thee Well”, James Gunn’s Ad Astra, Spring 2025, https://www.adastrasf.com/fare-thee-well/
poem, “Cow Planet”, Space & Time Magazine #148, Spring/Summer 2025, https://www.amazon.com/Space-Time-Spring-Summer-148/dp/1959048317
poem, “The Visitor”, parABnormal, March 2025, https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/parabnormal-magazine-march-2025
poem, “Dwarfish Honour”, Disabled Tales, April 2025, https://www.disabledtales.co.uk/poetry/dwarfish-honour-by-a-j-dalton
3 poems, “Nekraverse”, “Unseen” and “Underspace”, Black Petals Horror/Science Fiction Magazine #111, 13 April 2025, https://blackpetalsks.tripod.com/blackpetalsissue78-2/index.html
poem, “Beneath”, The Stygian Lepus Magazine #24, https://stygianlepus.com/2025/04/07/beneath-by-a-j-dalton/
poem, “A Memoir of Magickal Failure”, The Lorelei Signal, April 2025, https://www.loreleisignal.com/a-memoir-of-magickal-failure
Jack Cooper
poem, "Matthew 28:19", The Latin Programme Poetry Prize V Anthology, March 2025, https://www.thelatinprogramme.co.uk/poetryprize-v
Deborah L. Davitt
poem, spec, "Red Blood, Dark Water," Abyss & Apex, Issue 94: 2nd Quarter 2025, https://www.abyssapexzine.com/2025/03/red-blood-dark-water/
Randall Andrews
poem, "Relative," Abyss & Apex, Issue 94: 2nd Quarter 2025, https://www.abyssapexzine.com/2025/03/relative/
Robin Wyatt Dunn
poem, "Kinmaker make me", Dissident Voice, April 27, 2025, https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/04/kinmaker-make-me/
poem, "Uncover the Collapsing Lamp Wholly Possessed and Held", Dissident Voice, April 13, 2025, https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/04/uncover-the-collapsing-lamp-wholly-possessed-and-held/
poem, "what black waste is home to my children", Dissident Voice, March 16, 2025, https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/03/what-black-waste-is-home-to-my-children/
poem, "Netzarim", Dissident Voice, February 9, 2025, https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/02/netzarim/
Marisca Pichette
poem, "When the Shadows Showed All," Kaleidotrope, Spring 2025, https://kaleidotrope.net/spring-2025/when-the-shadows-showed-all-by-marisca-pichette/
poem, "Lagomorpha," Penumbric, April 2025, https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/pichetteLagomorpha.html
Colleen Anderson
poem, "Breached," Last Girls Club #17: Lost at Sea, Mar. 2025, https://www.lastgirlsclub.com/
poem, "This is Just to Say II," Morsus Vitae #3, Feb. 2025, https://www.mementomoriinkmag.com/morsus-vitae
5 poems, reprint, "Vampire Grrlz," "Lessons in Spellcasting," "Savor," "How to Cook with Children" and "Our Lady of Holy Death," Weird House #3, Mar. 2025, https://weirdhousepress.com/products/weird-house-magazine-issue-3
Casey Aimer
poem, "How to Write Poetry in an Alien Invasion," Trollbreath Magazine, Spring 2025, magazine.trollbreath.com/how-to-write-poetry-in-an-alien-invasion
poem, "Micro-OLED Mask," Baubles From Bones, Spring 2025, baublesfrombones.com/micro-oled-mask.html
poem, "Black Hole Framing," Foofaraw, Spring 2025, foofaraw.press/black-hole-framing
poem, "VR Self-Medication," Worlds of IF, print only, March 2025, https://shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params=rN1bW4ePUvLjPaFnSJsZQMTX07svSqLYbskynCQvntV
Mary Soon Lee
poem, "Reaper," Strange Horizons, 7 April 2025, http://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/poetry/reaper/
poem, reprint, "So This Is Mars," Odyssey, May 2025, https://www.bis-space.com/publications/odyssey/
poem, non-genre, "Primordial Pouch," Uppagus #67, April 2025, https://uppagus.com/poems/soon-lee-primordial/
poem, "The Emperor Penguins of Mars," DreamForge Anvil, Issue 19, March 2025, https://dreamforgemagazine.com/story/the-emperor-penguins-of-mars/
poem, "Lost and Found," Worlds of IF #178, Vol. 1 No. 2, March 2025, https://worldsofifmagazine.com/home
Alan Vincent Michaels
haiku sequence, "The Chaos Theory Paradox," SciFanSat, Issue 20 | Chaos, March 29, 2025, https://scifansat.com/bibi/?book=SciFanSat_Issue_20_Chaos_03-29-2025.epub#p=1
AJ Deane
poem, 'Street Mule', Glow: City at Night Poetry 4, The Broken Spine: Thematic Slimline Poetry Anthologies, https://www.amazon.co.uk/Glow-Poetry-Thematic-Slimline-Anthologies/dp/B0F5HB8J92/
performance, Two Sisters Arts Centre, Trimley, Felixstowe, UK, 23rd May '25, http://twosistersarts.co.uk/2025/02/13/performance-poetry-with-an-edge-from-james-domestic-virginia-betts/
David C. Kopaska-Merkel
poem, "Aquifer," SpecPoVerse v. 1 no. 1, April 30, 2025, https://specpoverse.org/
poem, "Redneck Aliens," Syzygy Poetry Journal v. 2 no. 1, May 2025, https://thesyzygypoetryjournal2.wordpress.com/david-c-kopaska-merkel/
LindaAnn LoSchiavo
article, "Six Sizzling Strategies to Snag Reviews for Your Poetry Collection", BREW Brilliance for The Chrysalis BREW Project, March 24, 2025, https://thechrysalisbrewproject.com/2025/03/24/brew-brilliance-new-insights-from-lindaann-loschiavo/
podcast reading of selections from Always Haunted: Hallowe'en Poems, The Present Poetry Podcast, April 2, 2025, https://open.spotify.com/episode/6EbIJnaHDtfl0cdB2BXN1y?
interview, "Poetry as Witness: On Relecting Humanity Through Verse", Books for Humanity, April 24, 2025, https://booksforhumanityglobal.com/2025/04/24/poetry-as-witness-lindaann-loschiavo-on-reflecting-humanity-through-verse/
review of Always Haunted: Hallowe’en Poems, Book Excellence, March 27, 2025, https://bookexcellence.wordpress.com/2025/03/27/always-haunted-halloween-poems-by-lindaann-loschiavo/
review of Always Haunted: Hallowe'en Poems, LibraryThing, April 1, 2025, https://www.librarything.com/work/32559750/reviews/283986397
review of Felones de Se: Poems about Suicide, GoodReads, April 16, 2025, https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7494284143
review of Felones de Se: Poems about Suicide, Book World Front, April 22, 2025, https://onetribune.wordpress.com/2025/04/22/felones-de-se-by-lindaann-loschiavo/
review of Felones de Se: Poems about Suicide, Sam’s Library, April 25, 2025, https://samslibrary.com/felones-de-se-poems-about-suicide-by-lindaann-loschiavo/
3 poems, “Memento Mori”; “Grim Guardian” & “Nonet: The Wolf Woman’s Candor”, Altered Realty Magazine, January 9, 2025, https://www.alteredrealitymag.com/memento-mori-by-lindaann-loschiavo/, https://www.alteredrealitymag.com/grim-guardian-by-lindaann-loschiavo/ & https://www.alteredrealitymag.com/the-wolf-womans-candor-by-lindaann-loschiavo/
poem, non-genre, "The Bones of the Hospital (Le ossa dell’ ospedale)", Poems for Tomorrow #3, March 31, 2025, https://poems4tomorrow.wixsite.com/poems-for-tomorrow/post/the-bones-of-the-hospital-le-ossa-dell-ospedale
poem, “Once Upon a Time in Elfriche”, A Sparkle of Woodland Magic, West Avenue Publishing, April 2, 2025, https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0F384F6D7
haiku, non-genre, "From Floral to Faded", Culterate #3, Spring 2025, https://ko-fi.com/s/ea05562f74
3 poems, "The Werewolf as a Schoolboy", "Moonlight’s No Longer for Mating" & "Hallowe’en Howl", Black Petals #111, Spring 2025, https://blackpetalsks.tripod.com/blackpetalsissue78-2/id101.html, https://blackpetalsks.tripod.com/blackpetalsissue78-2/id102.html & https://blackpetalsks.tripod.com/blackpetalsissue78-2/id103.html
2 poems, "Volcano Vixen" and "From Pluto's Jukebox, the Volcano Lets Off Steam", The Creativity Webzine: World Tour Issue, April 14, 2025, https://moultoniancreativity.weebly.com/poetry.html
poem, non-genre, "Sailing to Sanctuary", The City Key, April 21, 2025, https://citykeyzine.com/2025/04/21/sailing-to-sanctuary-by-lindaann-loschiavo/
poem, "Golden Shovel: Death Waited Like a Stage-Door Johnny", Perwinkle Pelican #2, April 25, 2025, https://theperipelican.wixsite.com/my-site-1/post/issue-two-the-truth-is-i-want-to-want-to-live
poem, "Acts of Light," Red Flag Poetry, April 2025, https://www.redflagpoetry.com/
LindaAnn LoSchiavo and Juleigh Howard-Hobson
2 poems, "Emily Post's Etiquette Book for Ghosts" and "Reasons Why Ghosts Are Not Good Housemates", Collaborature, April 7, 2025, https://collaborature.blogspot.com/2025/04/etiquette-for-ghosts-jh-ll.html
Juleigh Howard-Hobson
poem, “Death Doesn’t Sound Like It Looks”, Uppagus, April 20, 2025, https://uppagus.com/poems/howard-hobson-death/
poem, non genre, “Sometimes a Poem is Nothing More than a Frittata”, Shift: A Publication of MTSU Writes, Volume 7, https://www.mtsu.edu/write/
4 poems, non genre, “I repeat your question: what are you doing here?”, “Lonely Sweet”, “two sides of the same” & “Taste it like the sweet Toblerone bar it is,” The Alien Buddha After The Alien Buddha, Alien Buddha Press, April 30 2025, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F6Y8VWLB
Katherine Quevedo
article, "Level Up Your Poetry, Part 6: Advice from Other Poets," Sidequest, April 14, 2025, https://sidequest.zone/2025/04/14/level-up-your-poetry-part-6-advice-from-other-poets/
interview with CB Droege, "Level Up Your Poetry, Part 7: An Editor's Point of View", Sidequest, April 28, 2025, https://sidequest.zone/2025/04/28/level-up-your-poetry-part-7-an-editors-point-of-view/
Richard Groller
11 poems, "The Warriors of Day" "Imperium" "The Spectre of Commencement" "Glimpses" "The Silence Never Dies" "Detente" "The Killer Angels" "My Quest" "Mirror" "Limbo/God Only Knows" & "Leviathan", Standing Against All Fears, Dingbat Publishing, April 25, 2025 https://www.amazon.com/Standing-Against-Stories-Brigade-Universe-ebook/dp/B0DXN7DRVV/
Tabor Skreslet
poem, "We are", James Gunn's Ad Astra #15, www.adastrasf.com/issue-15/
Lisa Timpf
poem, spec, “I’d Like to Go,” The Martian Wave, April 2025, https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/martian-wave-april-2025
Gary Every
named Poet Laureate of Sedona, AZ, May 13, 2025, https://www.redrocknews.com/2025/05/03/sedona-poets-laureate-every-lior/amp/
Jordan Hirsch
poem, "Forge," Kaleidotrope, Spring 2025, https://kaleidotrope.net/spring-2025/forge-by-jordan-hirsch/
poem, "Soporifia," Not One of Us #82, April 2025, https://legacyliteraryservices.com/not-one-of-us/
Kristina W Kelly
collection, Imaginari: A Collection of Scifi and Fantasy Poetry, J&K Writing, October 23 2024, http://jonathanandkristina.com/book/imaginari/
Kimberly Kuchar
haibun, "Dwindling," The Pan Haiku Review, Issue 4, Winter 2024, December 2024, https://www.callofthepage.org/the-pan-haiku-review/
micropoem, "search engine," Five Fleas Itchy Poetry, February 25, 2025, https://fivefleas.blogspot.com/2025/02/afternoon-of-february-25-2025.html
senryu, "his toothy smile," horror senryu journal, February 12, 2025, https://horrorkujournal.blogspot.com/2025/02/kimberly-kuchar.html
rengay, spec, "Embers," Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog, November 24, 2024, https://charlottedigregorio.wordpress.com/2024/11/24/sci-fi-apocalyptic-rengay/
haiku, spec, "whispering walls," Suspect Device, Column: Turning Japanese #15, November 2024, https://suspectdevicehq.blogspot.com/p/columns.html#:~:text=Turning%20Japanese%20%2315