SFPA March 2026 Round-Up

Since this is:

     The March retrospective, it must mean we're stomping along while looking backwards. Seems a rather dangerous pastime to me, but apparently we're all about the danger here at SFPA! Just take a gander at the following and see for yourself!

                                                       Mike

Lorraine Schein

     poem, “To the Eclipse,” Utopia Science Fiction vol. 7 #3, March 2026, https://www.utopiasciencefiction.com/product-page/march-2026-issue

Roger Dutcher

     3 poems, "Embrace the Moon", "Stubborn", and "Furthest Shining", Dreams & Nightmares #132, January 2026, https://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com/2026/01/012626.html

Colleen Anderson

     poem, "Awakening," Scifaikuest print, Feb, 2026, https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/scifaikuest-february-2026

     poem, [acid], Cryptic Frog Quarterly #2, Mar. 2026, https://crypticfrogpublishing.wordpress.com/issues/cryptic-frog-quarterly-issue-2-spring-2026/

     poem, "Captive," Polar Starlight #21, Mar. 2026, https://polarborealis.ca/

     poem, "finally happy," Amazing Stories: Best of 2025, Mar. 2026, https://amazingstories.com/amazing-stories-best-of-2025/

Michael H. Payne

     5 poems, #1871 - 1875, Terebinth, Mar 2, 9, 16, 23 & 30, 2026, http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20260302.html, http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20260309.html, http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20260316.html, http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20260323.html & http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20260330.html

     poem, "All Work and No Play," Abyss & Apex #98, March 29, 2026, https://www.abyssapexzine.com/2026/03/all-work-and-no-play-by-michael-h-payne/

Ryan E. Holman

     chapbook, Even Goddesses Need Smoke Breaks, Bottlecap Press, November 2025, https://bottlecap.press/products/evenreh

Wendy Van Camp

     poem, non-genre under pen name Indigo Starling, “Tanka Number Three,” Rez: The virtual arts and life magazine, March 2026, https://viewer.joomag.com/march-2026/0867953001773011344

     book, non-fiction, Quiet Places, Loud Thoughts: The Pros and Cons of Writing Retreats for Poets & Writers, Indigoskye Press, March 1st, 2026, https://payhip.com/b/ZO6KR

     essay, “Myth as a Gateway to the Future”, Medium, March 12th, 2026, https://medium.com/p/45535bc48ee8

     featured poet, “Sonder Books Presents: The Open Page”, Sonder Books, Second Life, March 12th, 2026, http://www.ceruleansl.com/sonder-books

     interviewer, “Q&A: Three Neurodivergent Authors Discuss Building a Writing Life that Fits the Brain”, Indie Author Magazine, March 24th, 2026, https://indieauthormagazine.com/q-a-three-neurodivergent-authors-discuss-building-a-writing-life-that-fits-the-brain/

     poem, “Sight Without Mercy”, San Diego Poetry Annual, March 2026, https://sandiegopoetryannual.com/order/free-pdf/

     presenter, “Writing Retreats”, Writers Workout Conference, March 28th, 2026, https://www.writersworkout.net/conference

Juleigh Howard-Hobson

     poem, reprint, “Robotic Units Are Essential Companions for the Terminally Ill”, Amazing Stories Best of 2025, March 2026, https://amazingstories.com/amazing-stories-best-of-2025/

     3 poems, non-genre, “Breaking Up With a Poet”, “Tired Of” & “Since We Fell Out of Love”, The Dichotomy Of Love, March 15, 2026, Lowell & Benson Publishing, https://books.apple.com/gb/book/the-dichotomy-of-love/id6759681930

     poem, “Antiquing’s No Fun When You Know What You’re Dealing With”, Last Girls Club #21, Spring 2026, https://www.lastgirlsclub.com/pdfcopy/p/spring-26-haunted

Leticia Toraci

     2 poems, "The Rebirth of the Goddess" & "The Return of the Ones Who Never Left", Carmina Magazine, March 2026, https://carminamagazine.com/issues-main/2026/issues/march-2026/the-rebirth-of.html & https://carminamagazine.com/issues-main/2026/issues/march-2026/the-return-of.html

Ian Li

     poem, "Graveyard of Stars," Ember: A Journal of Luminous Things, March 2026, https://read.emberjournal.org/ian-li/graveyard-of-stars/

Deborah L. Davitt

     poem, spec, "Our Titan Home," Dead of Winter IV, Milk & Cake Press, March 2026, https://milkandcakepress.com/product/dead-of-winter-iv-an-anthology/

Peter Payack

     reading with the CRLS All-Stars, An Sibin, Cambridge MA, Feb 16 2026, https://www.instagram.com/p/DU1CblGEl7d/

     reading with Jessica Lucci, Little Crepe Cafe, Cambridge MA, March 13 2026, https://citynightreadings.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Friday-Poetry-March-13_pages-to-jpg-0001.jpg

Pixie Bruner

     3 poems, speculative, “Koumpounophobia”, “Arachibutyrophobia”, and “Chroma Poem 1”, Exquisite Death Magazine, April 2026, https://www.exquisitedeathezine.com/chroma-one-pixie-bruner.html

     guest column, speculative, “Blood and Spades: Pixie Bruner by Marge Simon” & interview, "The Gallery by Laura Kester Duerrwaechter," The Altruist vol. 1 no. 3, April 2026, https://open.substack.com/pub/thealtruistnewsletter/p/blood-and-spades-pixie-bruner & https://open.substack.com/pub/thealtruistnewsletter/p/the-gallery-an-interview-with-pixie

     prose poem, “Hysterical British Romance Author”, Weird Fiction Quarterly: AI, Spring 2026, https://weirdfictionquarterly.com/ai-is-here-in-wfq-book-form/

     poem, speculative, “i am thinking of”, Substack, March 2026, https://open.substack.com/pub/pixiebruner/p/i-am-thinking-of

     poem, speculative, “All Good Things in Time”, The Solitude Diaries, Vol II issue II: Flesh, March 2026, https://heyzine.com/flip-book/4c3977f70a.html

     poem, “Ink Black Eclipse Noon”, Neuroscience Fluorescent x Penrose, March 10, 2026, https://online.fliphtml5.com/fluorescent_magazine/Neuroscience-Collection/

M. Frost

     haiku, non-genre, Haikuniverse, March 2026, https://haikuniverse.com/haiku-by-m-frost/

Angela Acosta

     reading, Speculative Poetry Sundays: Women's History Month, March 2026, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvOHqqVXAGA

Nico Martinez Nocito

     poem, print, "The Woman in the Snow," Common Bonds 2, Claudie Arseneault, March 26, 2026, https://buy.bookfunnel.com/yilbsiz3a6

LindaAnn LoSchiavo

     review, Cancer Courts My Mother, Amazon.com, March 1st, 2026, https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R3GPY1VKMFD8V1/

     interview & review, Cancer Courts My Mother, Latinos-USA English edition, March 2026, https://latinosenglishedition.blog/2026/03/08/nigel-kents-interview-with-lindaann-loschiavo-about-cancer-courts-my-mother/ & https://latinosenglishedition.blog/2026/03/30/review-cancer-courts-my-mother-by-karen-cline-tardiff/

     spotlight, Cancer Courts My Mother, Tap Into Poetry, March 23, 2026 https://tapintopoetry.wordpress.com/2026/03/23/cancer-courts-my-mother-by-lindaann-loschiavo-2025/

     2 reviews, Vampire Verses, GoodReads, February 27, 2026 & March 16, 2026, https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8395282260 & https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8439144271

     2 poems, non-genre, "Remembering Remission Xmas," and "Mother Requests Miracle," Pink Panther Magazine #43, Vol. 17 No. 1, March 8, 2026 https://pinkpanthermagazine.com/

     poem, "Moons Ago in Elfriche", Gnome and Bone Magazine #1, March 8, 2026 https://gnomeandbonemagazine.com/2026/03/08/moons-ago-in-elfriche/

     poem, reprint, "A Flash", Wailing and Gnashing: Gnashers, March 14, 2026, https://www.wailingandgnashing.com/gnashers

     erasure poem, "Bereft", Lunae Literary #2: Wistfulness & Woe, March 2026, https://lunaelitreview.weeblysite.com/issue-ii

     poem, non-genre, “Acapulco by Night”, translated by Irma Kurti into Italian, International Web Post Magazine, March 9, 2026, https://www.internationalwebpost.org/le-traduzioni-di-poesia-lindaann-loschiavo/

     poem, “My Mother’s Ghost Dancing”, translated by Irma Kurti into Italian, Alessandria Today, March 3, 2026, https://alessandria.today/2026/03/03/la-poesia-di-lindaann-loschiavo-usa-a-cura-di-irma-kurti-ita-eng/ & Tap Into Poetry #21, March 20, 2026, https://tapintopoetry.wordpress.com/2026/03/20/tap-into-poetry-21/#il-fantasma-danzante-di-mia-madre-my-mother-s-ghost-dancing-by-lindaann-loschiavo-translated-by-irma-kurti

Jack Cooper

     poem, "Offshoot," Guernsey International Poetry Competition, March 2026, https://poemsonthemove.com/previous-winners/2026-winners/offshoot

Richard Magahiz

     poem, genre, "Moving Pictures," Uppagus, March 2026, https://uppagus.com/poems/magahiz-moving/

     3 poems, genre, "[their cuboctahedral]", "[sweeping the room clean]", and "[a tongue of light]", Heliosparrow Poetry Journal, March 8, 2026, https://heliosparrow.com/2026/03/19-24/, https://heliosparrow.com/2026/03/21-24/ and https://heliosparrow.com/2026/03/20-26/

     4 poems, genre, "[at last we burn]," "[now he's gone]," "[twice distilled tears],"and "[the body]", Five Fleas, 31 March 2026, https://fivefleas.blogspot.com/2026/03/afternoon-of-march-31-2026.html

Andrew Brenza

     poem, "Love Braids," Bewildering Stories #1129, March 2 2026, https://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue1129/love_braids.html and an Editor's Choice for the first quarter of 2026, https://www.bewilderingstories.com/anthologies/anthos2026/1121-1132_antho.html#short_poetry

     poem, "The Meadow Spring," Bewildering Stories #1126, Feb 9 2026, https://bewilderingstories.com/issue1126/meadow_spring.html

Anna Cates

     tanka, Laurels #5, February 2026, https://www.tankasocietyofamerica.org/laurels/laurels-5

     2 tanka, Kokako #44, April 2026, https://kokako10.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/kokako-44.pdf

Tom Guldin

     poem, "Now Just Junk", Contemporary Haibun Online, Nov 2025, https://contemporaryhaibunonline.com/table-of-contents-21-3/tanka-prose/tom-guldin-now-just-junk/

     book, Beyond the Burnt-Orange Skies, Mar 2026, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GSXLVNLP

Christina M. Rau

     poem, "The Office Mermaid," Carmina Magazine, March 2026, https://carminamagazine.com/issues-main/2026/issues/march-2026/the-office-mermaid.html

     poem, "Where All Things Coincide," Destinies: The Voice of Science Fiction radio show, March 6, 2026, poem at 12:23, https://captphilonline.com/Destinies/Destinies_03_06_26.mp3

     poem, "Things Are Getting Weird Around Here," Destinies: The Voice of Science Fiction radio show, February 13, 2026, poem at 15:40, https://captphilonline.com/Destinies/Destinies_02_13_26.mp3

     poem, "The Goldilocks Condition," Destinies: The Voice of Science Fiction radio show, January 30, 2026, poem at 21:12, https://captphilonline.com/Destinies/Destinies_01_30_26.mp3

Marisca Pichette

     poem, "And a pocket full of posies," Trollbreath Magazine #7, March 2026, https://magazine.trollbreath.com/and-a-pocket-full-of-posies/

David C. Kopaska-Merkel

     poem, print, "Piltdown Man Takes a Seat," BFS Horizons #19, 2026, https://britishfantasysociety.org/get-in-touch/bfs-horizons/

Mary Soon Lee

     poem, "Mushroon," Strange Horizons, March 30, 2026, https://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/poetry/mushroon/

     poem, non-genre, "To an Imagined Critic," Uppagus #72, March 2026, https://uppagus.com/poems/soon-lee-critic/

Clarabelle Miray Fields

     poem, "if i could be born again", Vinegar Press, March 18 2026, https://vinegarpress.substack.com/p/if-i-could-be-born-again

     poem, reprint, "persephone triumphant", moth-eaten mag issue iv: rebirth, March 2026, https://ko-fi.com/s/981a735836

     editor, Carmina Magazine, March 2026, https://carminamagazine.com/issues-main/2026/issues/march-2026/march-2026.html

Allan Rozinski

     poem, “Tribe,” Spectral Realms #24, Winter 2026, https://www.hippocampuspress.com/journals/spectral-realms/spectral-realms-no.-24

Alan Vincent Michaels

     haiku sequence, "Your Life's Adventure Awaits," SciFanSat #32: Spiral, March 28, 2026, https://scifansat.com/PDF/SciFanSat_Issue_32_Spiral_03-28-2026.pdf

     haiku sequence, "Entranced," SciFanSat #31: Entrance, February 28, 2026, https://scifansat.com/PDF/SciFanSat_Issue_31_entrance_02-28-2026.pdf

Neile Graham

     poem, “A Walk Around the World,” Discretionary Love, 3 April 2026, https://www.discretionarylove.com/a-walk-around-the-world/

     2 poems, “The God of the Small-Hour Tides” and “Three for Roses,” Polar Starlight #22, April 2026, https://polarborealis.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/POLAR-STARLIGHT-22-April-2026.pdf

     poem, “The Goddess of Ore," New Myths #74, Spring 2026, https://sites.google.com/newmyths.com/newmythscomissue74/issue-74-stories/the-goddess-of-ore

     poem, "The Goddess of the Mad Wind," Polar Starlight #21, February/March 2026, https://polarborealis.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/POLAR-STARLIGHT-21-February-2026.pdf

Lisa Timpf

     poem, non-spec, “Hazy,” Still Point Arts Quarterly #61, Spring 2026, https://shantiarts.co/SPAQ/files/SPAQ_current.html#gsc.tab=0

     poem, spec, “One Possible Future,” Polar Starlight #21, February/March 2026, https://polarborealis.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/POLAR-STARLIGHT-21-February-2026.pdf

     poem, spec, “Transitory Dreams,” Polar Starlight #22, April 2026, https://polarborealis.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/POLAR-STARLIGHT-22-April-2026.pdf

     3 poems, spec, “[why play the hero],” “[you’ve powered right down],” and “Strange Happenings on Epsilon IV,” Scifaikuest print, February 2026, https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/scifaikuest-february-202

Randall Andrews

     2 poems, [headless horseman] and [hydraulic fluid], Scifaikuest Online, Hiraeth Publishing, February 2026, https://www.hiraethsffh.com/scifaikuest-online

     poem, [messages from home], Scifaikuest print, February 2026, https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/scifaikuest-february-2026

     poem, “Full Bloom,” Nebula Magazine, https://nebulascifymagazine.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_15.html

Oliver Smith

     4 poems, reprints, “Corpseseed”, “Gate of the Gods”, “The Reefs of Ys” & “Widdershin”, Weird Poetry, Rogue Planet Press, January 2026, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GGS7ZBVD

     poem, “Widowspins”, Spectral Realms #24, February 2026, https://www.hippocampuspress.com/journals/spectral-realms/spectral-realms-no.-24

     poem, “Swimming the Unseelie River”, Cryptic Frog Quarterly #2, March 2026, https://crypticfrogpublishing.wordpress.com/2026/03/30/issue-2-swimming-the-unseelie-river/

Lawrence Schimel

     translation from Catalan into English, Time for Haiku, written by Josep Santaeulàlia, illustrated by Luciano Lozano, Red Comet Press, March 2026, https://www.redcometpress.com/picturebooks/haiku

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