SFPA February 2026 Round-Up

Questions about:

     Groundhogs occur naturally in February, and I find that they lead to questions about woodchucks. But none of that should detract from the following list of items that various SFPA members have gotten up to during the aforementioned month.

                                                                      Mike

Darius Jones

     poem, "The Point", Strange Horizons, Feb. 9, 2026, https://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/poetry/the-point/

David C. Kopaska-Merkel

     poem, print, "His Implacable Regard," Spectral Realms #24, Winter 2026, https://www.hippocampuspress.com/journals/spectral-realms/spectral-realms-no.-24

     editor, Dreams & Nightmares #132, January 2026, https://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com/2026/01/012626.html

Miguel O. Mitchell

     poem "Sound healing", Sauuti Terrors Short Stories, Flame Tree Publishing, 2/17/2026, https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Sauuti-Terrors-Short-Stories/Eugen-Bacon/Beyond-and-Within/9781835626405

Michael H. Payne

     4 poems, #1867 - 1870, Terebinth, Feb. 2, 9, 16 & 23, 2026, http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20260202.html, http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20260209.html, http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20260216.html & http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20260223.html

Pixie Bruner

     poem, “In Season”, Penumbric Speculative Fiction, vol. ix #5, Feb 11, 2026, https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/brunerSeason.html

     poem, “The Ritual”, Substack, Jan 20, 2026, https://open.substack.com/pub/pixiebruner/p/the-ritual

Pixie Bruner, Anonymous Muse, and Angela Yuriko Smith

     prose poem, “New York”, Jan 29, 2026, https://open.substack.com/pub/pixiebruner/p/new-york

Wendy Van Camp

     poem, non-genre under pen name Indigo Starling, "Tanka Number One”, Rez: the virtual arts and life magazine, January 2026, https://viewer.joomag.com/january-2026/0999521001767981436

     poem, non-genre under pen name Indigo Starling, “Tanka Number Two,” Rez: The virtual arts and life magazine, February 2026, https://viewer.joomag.com/february-2026/0937302001770511078

     featured poet, “The Spoken Word Series,” Octavia's Coffeehouse, February 1st, 2026, Second Life, https://www.instagram.com/p/DULlTEIDDd9/

     essay, “Organizing Creativity: How a Bullet Journal Supports Writers", Medium, February 1st, 2026, https://medium.com/p/c8097eabe3b3

     panelist, “Ethics in Writing”, Continual: The Panel Room Podcast with Layla Dorine, Patrick Dugan Author, Nancy Dunne, Rick Gualtieri, Venessa Giunta, Lee Martindale, and host James P. Nettles III, February 3rd, 2026, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi-EA7MCdqA

     table and autographs, Gallifrey One, Los Angeles, CA, February 6th-8th, 2026, https://www.gallifreyone.com/

     panelist, “Asimov Favorites”, Continual: Fandom Podcast with Stuart Jaffe, Dennis M. Myers, Ian Randal Strock, and host Nancy Northcott, February 6th, 2026, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pHZ33QRLng

     3 poems, non-genre, "Cat in the Slipper," Farmer's Market," and "For Maestra”, Verse-Virtual: an online journal of poetry, February 2026, https://verse-virtual.org/2026/February/van-camp-wendy-2026-february.asp?p=42&n=44

     reader, “Read Across America”, Adelaide Price Elementary, Anaheim, CA, February 24th, 2026, https://anaheimelementary.org/price/

     reader, “Private Reading for Reluctant Mermaids Anthology Poets”, Southern California Haiku Study Group, February 21st, 2026, https://socalhaiku.wordpress.com/events-2/

Silvatiicus Riddle

     poem, spec, "Civilized", The Goblin's Reliquary, January 2026, https://silvatiicus.substack.com/p/civilized

     poem, spec, "Homecoming", print, Spectral Realms Issue #24, Winter 2025, https://www.hippocampuspress.com/journals/spectral-realms/spectral-realms-no.-24

Kim Whysall-Hammond

     poem, "Our Lady, The Future", What We Hold On To, The Chaos Section Poetry Project, January 2026, https://thechaossectionpoetryproject.com/what-we-hold-on-to/

Anna Cates

     2 poems, untitled tanka and “Toil and Trouble,” Abstractaphy, February 2026, https://abstractaphy.org/category/community-voices/anna-cates/

     haiku, Sense & Sensibility, February 2026, https://sensesensibilityhaikujournal.wordpress.com/2026/01/14/sense-sensibility-february-2026/

     3 poems, “Deceitful Meat,” “Fur Baby” and “After Apple-Picking,” The Other Bunny, February 22, 2026, https://theotherbunny.blog/2026/02/22/deceitful-meat/, https://theotherbunny.blog/2026/02/22/fur-baby/ and https://theotherbunny.blog/2026/02/22/after-apple-picking/

     tanka, Onions in Moonlight: Tanka Society of America 2025 Anthology, January 2026, https://www.tankasocietyofamerica.org/tsa-anthologies#h.u43l79khplvs

Robin Wyatt Dunn

     poem, "you should have picked an interest of unfathomable depth", Dissident Voice, Feb 8 2026, https://dissidentvoice.org/2026/02/you-should-have-picked-an-interest-of-unfathomable-depth-2/

     poem, "Charon Means Fierce-eyed", Dissident Voice, Nov 30 2025, https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/11/charon-means-fierce-eyed/

     poem, "lash back against the night inside", Dissident Voice, Nov 16 2025, https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/11/lash-back-against-the-night-inside/

     poem, "life after death after life", Dissident Voice, Nov 9, 2025, https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/11/life-after-death-after-life/

     poem, "dead among the dead", Dissident Voice, September 7, 2025, https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/09/dead-among-the-dead/

     poem, "Louhi Captures the Sampo, with You in My Arms", Dissident Voice, July 13, 2025, https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/07/louhi-captures-the-sampo-with-you-in-my-arms/

     poem, "writ right body the shaman traps his koodoo", Dissident Voice, June 22, 2025, https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/writ-right-body-the-shaman-traps-his-koodoo/

     poem, "Hamlet’s Father Came to Him in Armor on the Parapet", Dissident Voice, June 8, 2025, https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/hamlets-father-came-to-him-in-armor-on-the-parapet/

     poem, "Now that I'm dead", Dissident Voice, June 1, 2025, https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/06/now-that-im-dead/

     poem, "Pandora All-Giver Keens from Her Pot", Dissident Voice, May 11, 2025, https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/pandora-all-giver-keens-from-her-pot/

     poem, "Daylight under the Geofence", The Metaworker, May 2, 2025, https://themetaworker.com/2025/05/02/daylight-under-geofence-by-robin-wyatt-dunn/

Marie Brennan

     poem, "Dulle Griet Stages a New Assault," Strange Horizons, 26 January 2026, https://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/poetry/dulle-griet-stages-a-new-assault/

     poem, "The Virtues of the Throne," 4LHP4NUM3R1C #14: Misfit Magic, 25 February 2026, https://www.zoeticpress.com/an-14-misfit-magic

     online reading, Starburst! Speculative Poetry Reading Series, 15 March 2026, https://www.eventbrite.com/e/starburst-speculative-poetry-readings-for-womens-history-month-tickets-1855444958819?aff=oddtdtcreator

Ian Li

     poem, "A Bird Is Just One Voice," Penumbric vol.ix #5, February 2026, https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/liVoice.html

Haley Bossé

     chapbook, Aurora Comes Online, Game Over Books, February 24, 2026, https://www.gameoverbooks.com/store/p/aurora-comes-online-haley-boss

Stephanie Johnson

     poem, "Escape Pod," Analog Science Fiction & Fact, Jan/Feb 2026, https://reader.magzter.com/preview/f4unxo84ka6b11exe0wutk22809760/2280976

Brian U. Garrison

     poem, "Final Ride on the Space Elevator," Radon Journal #12, https://www.radonjournal.com/issue-12/final-ride-on-the-space-elevator

Marisca Pichette

     poem, "obituary (reprise)," Dreams & Nightmares #132, January 2026, https://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com/2026/01/012626.html

     poem, "Mary's Bag," Small Wonders #32, February 2026, https://smallwondersmag.com/piece/marys-bag/

     poem, "Persephone Wins Custody of Herself," Haven Spec #22, February 2026, https://havenspec.com/poetry/persephone-wins-custody-of-herself/

John Philip Johnson

     poem, non-genre, "Letter to Jane," Image Journal #127, https://imagejournal.org/article/letter-to-jane/

Colleen Anderson

     poem, non-genre, “Fresh Picked,” If Memory Serves, Good Printed Things, Feb. 2026, https://goodprintedthings.com/products/if-memory-serves

Devin M. Anderson

     poem, "Bedlam In Flesh", The Horror Zine, Spring 2026, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GNGWX5YW

Larina Warnock

     poem, "hope lives in the horizon," Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, February 23, 2026, https://autumnskypoetrydaily.com/2026/02/23/hope-lives-in-the-horizon-by-larina-warnock/

Mahaila Smith

     poem, "The Busiest Season for a Contemporary Witch," Penumbric vol ix issue 5, February 2026, https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/smithWitch.html

Katherine Quevedo

     featured work, The Inca Weaver's Tales, SFWA Speculative Poetry Book Club, February 7, 2026, https://events.sfwa.org/events/speculative-poetry-book-club-6/

A J Dalton

     poem, “The Comet”, Trollbreath #7, https://magazine.trollbreath.com/

M. Frost

     poem, "Visit to a Private Collection of Parietal Art," Dreams & Nightmares #132, January 2026, https://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com/2026/01/012626.html

     3 haiku, 2 print and 1 online, Scifaikuest, February 2026, https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/scifaikuest-february-2026 and https://www.hiraethsffh.com/scifaikuest-online

Herb Kauderer

     editor, East to West Volume One: Period Haiku for the SCA, Written Image, July 2025, https://books.google.com/books/about/Period_Haiku_for_the_SCA.html?id=KMt20QEACAAJ

     3 poems, “return to nest”, “dead messages” and “older sibling”, Scifaikuest print, August 2025, https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/scifaikuest-august-2025

     poem, “Chocolate Dragon”, View from Atlantis #125: Peculiar Creatures, August 2025, https://viewfromatlantis.wordpress.com/2025/08/23/issue-125-peculiar-creatures/

     5 poems, “A Time of Hope”, “Identity Totems”, “Fleeting Thought”, “Dead Funny”, and “the snow never stops”, Catskill Chaos, September 2025, 518 Publishing, https://www.pub518.com

     chapbook, Sleepless Nights in the Dreamers Mall, Island of Wak Wak Press, October 2025, https://www.amazon.com/Sleepless-Nights-Dreamers-Coffee-Chapbook/dp/9199046849/

     4 poems, “rarified air”, “fluid-preserved specimen”, "unstable representation" and “proceedings”, Scifaikuest print, November 2025, https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/scifaikuest-november-2025

     3 poems, “pandemic planet”, “food diplomacy” and “cloudspotting”, Scifaikuest online, November 2025, https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?1080448

     chapbook, The Industrial Complex, Written Image, December 2025, https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-industrial-complex

     4 scifaiku, “orbital fidelity”, “foreign custom”, “work stoppage”, and “put a ring on it”, Scifaikuest print, February 2026, https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/scifaikuest-february-2026

Daniel Ausema

     2 poems, "Six images in the Mist" and "The Unpredictability of Space Rocks," SpecPoVerse vol. 1 #3, 12/31/25, https://specpoverse.org/vol-1%2C-issue-3-2025

     poem, "The Palms that Tear Through Human Thought," Kaleidotrope, 1/1/26, https://kaleidotrope.net/winter-2026/the-palms-that-tear-through-human-thought-by-daniel-ausema/

LindaAnn LoSchiavo

     2 reviews, Cancer Courts My Mother, GoodReads Jan 31, 2026 & Feb. 15, 2026, https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8317357359 & https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8361614414

     spotlight, Cancer Courts My Mother, LatinosUSA Poetry Bookshelf, February 7, 2026, https://latinosenglishedition.blog/2026/02/07/featuring-cancer-courts-my-mother-by-lindaann-loschiavo/

     5 reviews, Vampire Verses, Goodreads, January 31, 2026, February 7, 2026, February 10, 2026, February 16, 2026 & February 26, 2026, https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8317835152, https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8331072763, https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8348113914, https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8318839504 & https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8292772429

     review, Vampire Verses, Ginger Nuts of Horror, February 4, 2026 https://gnofhorror.com/vampire-verses-review-lindaann-loschiavo/

     5 reviews, Vampire Verses, LibraryThing, January/February 2026 https://www.librarything.com/work/35252022/t/Vampire-Verses

     review, Vampire Verses, Lily Greer, February 7 2026, https://lshadowlynauthor.com/2026/02/07/review-vampire-verses/

     article, "6 Lessons from Lord Byron: How Poets Can Make Readers Swoon with Words", Substack, January 26th - February 4th, 2026, https://greenwichvillagepoet.substack.com/p/6-lessons-from-lord-byron

     poem, "Jaundice", Substack, February 4, 2026, https://greenwichvillagepoet.substack.com/p/world-cancer-day-february-4-2026

     article, "Echo Verse”, Substack, February 26, 2026, https://substack.com/@greenwichvillagepoet/p-189269722 & https://youtu.be/WSeQu6d7GV0

     poem, "Wolf Girl Relishes the Wolf Moonrise", Penumbric, December 2025, https://www.penumbric.com/archives/December2k25/cover.html

     prose-poem, "The Meeting", The Paremphasis Magazine #1, January 27, 2026, https://theparemphasismagazine.com/01-paremphasis/

     poem, “Cue”, Mugwort Magazine Season 3: Vol.1, January 2026, https://mugwortmag.wordpress.com/

     poem “Regrets”, Quotidian Bagatelle #3, March 2026, https://foofaraw.press/

Richard Magahiz

     poem, genre, "Electric Dyson Olive", dadakuku, 9 February 2026, https://dadakuku.com/2026/02/09/electric-dyson-olive/

     2 poems, genre, "[love me]" and "[tinkling colonies]", Smols, 14 February 2026, https://smolspoetryjournal.blogspot.com/2026/02/blog-post_72.html

     poem, genre, "The granite seabirds", Jelly Squid #4, https://www.jellysquid.site/issue-4/the-granite-seabirds-richard-magahiz

     3 poems, genre, "[sidewalk chalk sutra]," "[squatting beside]," and "[for your]", Five Fleas, 28 February 2026, https://fivefleas.blogspot.com/2026/02/afternoon-of-february-28-2026.html

Kim Malinowski

     book, Lilith: Weaving Mountains into Canyons, Blue Cedar Press, Feb. 2026, https://bluecedarpress.com/product/1703/

Robert Frazier

     poem, "Sounds of Silence", Asimov’s Science Fiction, March/Aprll 2026, https://asimovs.com/current-issue/poetry/

Mary Soon Lee

     poem, mainstream, "Corn Snake #3," The Oakland Review Volume LI, 2025, https://static1.squarespace.com/static/583382c39f7456c31d7ef247/t/69654b1a46890602bceee48c/1768246042059/2025+Final+Draft-interior-+Vol.+LI_01_12_2025.pdf

Lisa Timpf

     poem, spec, “Chicken Little’s Vindication,” Spaceports and Spidersilk, February 2026, https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/spaceports-spidersilk-february-2026

     2 poems, spec, “[water drips from the condenser]” & “[you’re sitting right there],” Scifaikuest online, February 2026, https://www.hiraethsffh.com/scifaikuest-online

     review of The Ball Dreams of the Sky: Poems by Henry Schipper, Sports Literature Association, February 22, 2026, https://sportliteratureassociation.wordpress.com/2026/02/22/the-ball-dreams-of-the-sky-poems-by-henry-schipper/

Ann K. Schwader

     poem, "Yuggoth at the Rim," Spectral Realms #24, Winter 2026, https://www.hippocampuspress.com/journals/spectral-realms/spectral-realms-no.-24

Clarabelle Miray Fields 

     panel, RoundTable 360, March 26, 2026, https://calendly.com/northernlightspublishing/roundtable-360

     reading, Cozy Sessions Como, March 13, 2026, https://www.instagram.com/cozysessionscomo/

     poem, "quercus draconensis, or the dragon oak," Livinia Press Magazine #15: Fairytales, Myths, and Legends, February 2026, https://a.co/d/0j4DGYFf

     poem, "Hades Calls A Family Meeting," Vinegar Press, February 2026, https://vinegarpress.substack.com/p/hades-calls-a-family-meeting

     poem, "Silly Boys," Bluestocking Literary Magazine #1: The Cold Blue Flame, January 2026, https://heyzine.com/flip-book/16eb775569.html

Lori R. Lopez

     poem, genre, “The Gargoyle’s Cat”, Spectral Realms #24, Winter 2026 https://www.hippocampuspress.com/journals/spectral-realms/spectral-realms-no.-24

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