What can I say:
About this particular August that I haven't said about all the other Augusts before it? Maybe that we could use a few gusts here 'cause it's pretty darn hot. Still, the members of SFPA have continued stalwartly onward, writing poems and such. And here are links to some of 'em!
Mike
Carolyn Clink
poem, "Jellyfish," Polar Borealis #39, July 2026, https://polarborealis.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/POLAR-BOREALIS-39-July-2026.pdf
poem, "Distant Blooms", Polar Starlight #24, August 2026, https://polarborealis.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/POLAR-STARLIGHT-24-August-2026.pdf
William Shaw
poem, "Gernsback’s Grandchildren; or, A History Of The Hugo Awards In Seventy Sentences," Ancillary Review of Books, 21 August 2026, https://ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2026/08/21/gernsbacks-grandchildren/
Ken Anderson
3 haiku, “Dismounting the air,” “A school of fireflies,” and ”A cherry tree blooms,” Rain and Roots: A Nature and Earth Haiku Anthology, Fresh Words, August 2026, https://www.lulu.com/shop/som/rain-and-roots-a-nature-earth-haiku-anthology/paperback/product-65kmpw5.html?page=1&pageSize=4
poem, “Delay,” Unfinished Conversations, Quillkeepers Press, August 18, 2026, https://www.amazon.com/Unfinished-Conversations-Quillkeeper-Press/dp/1969601086/
2 poems, “My Heart’s Wide Open” & “Model Plane,” Pocket Poet Journal, Sept. 2026, https://11.heyzine.com/flip-book/7400ba9902.html
Michael H. Payne
5 poems, #1893 - 1897, Terebinth, August 3, 10, 17, 24 & 31, 2026, http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20260803.html, http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20260810.html, http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20260817.html, http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20260824.html & http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20260831.html
Colleen Anderson
poem, "What Time Forgot," Polar Starlight #24, August 2026, https://polarborealis.ca/
Chris Hyde
poems, "Four Mythos Haiku", Spectral Realms #25, August 2026, https://www.hippocampuspress.com/journals/spectral-realms/spectral-realms-no.-25
A J Dalton
poem, “Cowboy”, Cryptids, Kaiju & Corn, Vol. 2, Middle West Press, Sept. 2026, https://www.amazon.com/Cryptids-Kaiju-Corn-Micro-Stories-Monsters-ebook/dp/B0HB7JL9MG/
poem, “Renewed”, redrosethorns journal, August 2026, https://www.redrosethorns.com/post/renewed
Jay Caselberg
poem, "Super Hero", James Gunn's Ad Astra #18, August 2026, https://www.adastrasf.com/issue-18/
Richard Magahiz
2 poems, genre, "[if you want to know]" and "[who cancelled this sky]", Five Fleas, 7 August 2026, https://fivefleas.blogspot.com/2026/08/afternoon-of-august-7-2026.html
2 poems, genre, "[Hellcat has]" and "[an ecstasy]", Smols, 25 August 2026, https://smolspoetryjournal.blogspot.com/2026/08/p-margin-bottom-0_01693065209.html
poem, genre, "If we touch", SpecPoVerse Volume 2 Issue 2, August 2026, https://specpoverse.org/vol-2%2C-issue-2-2026
Deborah L. Davitt
poem, spec, “If the Big Bang Wasn’t,” Utopia Science Fiction, August 1, 2026, https://www.utopiasciencefiction.com/product-page/utopia-science-fiction-magazine-august-2026
poem, spec, “Beldame, Bedamned,” Witches Save the World: Covens, Cauldrons, and Curses Gone Right, August 1, 2026, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HBPGVBNS/
poem, spec, “Reality,” Penumbric vol X #2, August 2k26, https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/davittReality.html
poem, spec, “The Deicide,” Strange Horizons, August 14, 2026, https://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/poetry/the-deicide/
J. D. Harlock
poem, "Star Walker," James Gunn's Ad Astra #18, August 2026, https://www.adastrasf.com/the-star-walker/
Ian Li
poem, "To the first NASA computers," Utopia SF, August 2026, https://www.utopiasciencefiction.com/product-page/utopia-science-fiction-magazine-august-2026
poem, "Messages Between Galaxies," Amazing Stories, August 2026, https://amazingstories.com/2026/08/messages-between-galaxies/
Katherine Quevedo
4 panels, "Anti-genre Round Table," "Roots on the Page: Writing Shaped by Heritage," "Chapbook: The Poetry Mixtape," and "How Videogames Inspire Writers' Creativity," LAcon V (Worldcon 2026), August 28-29, 2026, https://guide.lacon.org/people/fa6b8c68/katherine-quevedo
workshop, "The Jump (Scare) to Horror: Speculative and Horror Poetry for Literary Poets," co-taught with Richard Leis, co-sponsored by the Oregon Chapter of the Horror Writers Association (HWA) and the Garden Home Community Library, August 22, 2026, https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/events/6a5ab7ee82c03c5c17d8c467
Eugen Bacon
2 prose poems, reprints, "Calibration," and "In Effect", SpecPoVerse Vol. 2, Issue 2, August 31, 2026, https://specpoverse.org/vol-2%2C-issue-2-2026
M. Frost
chapbook, The March, The Arcanist, Summer 2026, https://thearcanist.net/books/the-march-a-collection-of-fantasy-poetry/
microchapbook, Atlas, Origami Poems Project, Summer 2026, https://www.origamipoems.com/poets/592-m-frost
poem, "I never will write a poem (in conversation with Theodora Goss' "Medusa Gets a Haircut")," Space & Time #153, August 2026, https://authortunitiespress.com/b/153
poem, "Umbrella (dedicated to David Kopaska-Merkel)," Tiny Poems, August 2026, https://washingtonwriters.org/?mailpoet_router&endpoint=view_in_browser&action=view&data=WzMyLCI3NGU0YmIzODQwZGEiLDAsMCwxNjEsMV0
Wendy Van Camp
book, non-genre, Pages She Will Carry, Indigoskye Press, August 16, 2026, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HFF9Q8ZW/
poem under pen name Indigo Starling, non-genre, “Tanka Number Eight: [light in the darkness],” Rez: The virtual arts and life magazine, August 2026, https://viewer.joomag.com/august-2026/0070206001786127820/p32?short=
2 poems, non-genre, “Permission to Wonder" and "First Flight”, Verse-Virtual Poetry Journal, August 2026, https://www.verse-virtual.org/2026/August/van-camp-wendy-2026-august.asp?p=34&n=36
essay, “The Sound of Other Worlds: Using Sound Devices to Build Speculative Atmosphere”, Medium, August 3, 2026, https://medium.com/@wvancamp/the-sound-of-other-worlds-22c2694250a1
featured poet and speaker, “Constellations of Connection: Finding God in a Digital Universe”, The Gospel Project, Irvine United Congregational Church, August 29th, 2026, https://www.iucc.org/
Stephanie Johnson
poem, "The Game's Afoot," Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag, August 2026, https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/johnsonAfoot.html
Karen Menzel (Bovenmyer)
poem, “Death of Stars,” James Gunn’s Ad Astra #18, August 22, 2026, https://www.adastrasf.com/death-of-stars/
LindaAnn LoSchiavo, Angela Acosta and Anne Nydam
panelists, "SWSW Inspiration & Insight podcast Episode 4: A Universe of Meter and Verse", July 31, 2026, https://youtu.be/NfLDHhpFlVU
LindaAnn LoSchiavo
interview, "Crafting the Immortal Imagination: A Conversation with LindaAnn LoSchiavo", The Bookish Magazine, August 26th, 2026, https://thebookishmagazine.com/2026/08/26/crafting-the-immortal-imagination-a-conversation-with-lindaann-loschiavo/ and https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HGPNQCZH
reading, "Dracula Considers Writing a Memoir," YouTube, August 19, 2026, https://youtu.be/fRmJ2BoOY60
reading, "When We Rented 'A Nightmare of Elm Street'," YouTube, August 27, 2026, https://youtube.com/shorts/q3iah1l3Bwc?feature=share
poem, non-genre, "The Red Rituals of Pummarola", Tap Into Poetry: Colors, August 1, 2026, https://tapintopoetry.wordpress.com/2026/08/01/tap-into-poetry-30/#the-red-rituals-of-pummarola-by-lindaann-loschiavo
3 poems, “Streetwalker as Stalker”, “Wolf Girl Relishes the Wolf Moonrise” and “Eurydice in the Underworld", Exquisite Death, August 1, 2026, https://www.exquisitedeathezine.com/streetwalker-as-stalker-lindaann-loschiavo.html
poem, "Remembering Remission Xmas", Calliope #192, Summer 2026, https://calliopeontheweb.org/issue_192/PoetryPage05.aspx
poem, “Secrets of the Spell”, Witches Save the World: Covens, Cauldrons, and Curses Gone Right, August 1, 2026, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HBPGVBNS/
poem, "Sickroom at 138 Degrees Fahrenheit", Maiden Mother Crone: The Anthology, Sea Crow Press, August 4, 2026, https://www.amazon.com/Maiden-Mother-Crone-Anthology-Crossing/dp/1961864606/
poem, non-genre, "Feeding the Fantasy", Underbelly Press #7, Summer 2026, https://underbellypress.wixsite.com/home/issue-seven
poem, non-genre, "La Rue des Reves", Continental Social #2: Between the Lines, August 13, 2026 https://continentalsocial.gumroad.com/l/betweenthelines?layout=profile
2 poems, non-genre, "Mother Magnified" and spec, "Why the Scarecrow Loves October", The Listening Eye #53, August 18, 2026, https://docs.google.com/document/d/1i5gCwQHcv83miCG-mNncQpPW8HQSZUf9hcozWjrlybs/edit?pli=1&tab=t.0#heading=h.hsomgtoyzs43
poem, non-genre, “My Mother Requests Miracles”, The Journey of Life: Biographical or Autobiographical Poems and Narrative Poetry, Poets Choice Publisher, August 21, 2026, https://www.poetschoicepublisher.com/shop/journey-of-life
Linda D. Addison
4 poems, “Bloated," "Earth is a Boneyard," "Overtime in the Blue Folder Portal," and "True Sight" NecronomiCon Providence 2026 Memento Book, Lovecraft Arts & Sciences Council Press, August 13, 2026, https://necronomicon-providence.com/welcome/
S. T. Eleu
2 poems, "Where the Sidewalk Ends, the Universe Begins" & "Brain Candy", Infinity Wanderers #18, August 2026, http://www.infinitywanderers.com/infinity-wanderers-18.html
Nicholas De Marino
2 poems, "Slippery Slopes" & "The 362 Clones of Einstein," SpecPoVerse Vol 2 #2, Aug. 31, 2026, https://specpoverse.org/vol-2%2C-issue-2-2026
poem, "Cloudflexing," SciFanSat #37: Alter, Aug. 29, 2026, https://scifansat.com/bibi/?book=SciFanSat_Issue_37_Alter_08-29-2026.epub#p=1
poem, "[Baba Yaga flees]," View From Atlantis #143: Whimsical Witcheries, Aug. 27, 2026, https://viewfromatlantis.wordpress.com/2026/08/27/issue-143-whimsical-witcheries/
poem, "[nuclear summer …]," Haikuniverse, Aug. 14, 2026, https://haikuniverse.com/haiku-by-nicholas-de-marino-2/
poem, “Image Problem,” Spectral Realms #25, Summer 2026, https://www.hippocampuspress.com/journals/spectral-realms/spectral-realms-no.-25
3 poems, "Agentic Black Hole," "[robo-therapist ...]," & "[it's the perpendicular universes]," Five Fleas, Aug. 3, 2026, https://fivefleas.blogspot.com/2026/08/afternoonof-august-3-2026.html
Akua Lezli Hope
2 poems, "Divination I” and "Sound Clearing Space", Tar Baby Quarterly #5: Cosmic Collaborations, Spring 2026, https://tarbaby.com/shop/p/issue-5
poem and reading, "Sonny Rollins, Jazz Musician", Sunday Poems, June 14, 2026, https://www.jerryjazzmusician.com/the-sunday-poem-sonny-rollins-by-akua-lezli-hope/
2 poems, "UNDER ASSAULT“ and "BANNEd Word Ban", Electronic Brain #3, August 2026, https://spacecowboybooks.com/electronic-brain-issue-3-art-under-fire-released/
4 panels, "Parables for New Sowers with Erin Brown Heidi", "Roots on the Page: Writing Shaped by Heritage," "Poetry Reading," and "Table Talk," LaConV/WorldCon, August 28-31, 2026, https://guide.lacon.org/people/20999bf7/akua-lezli-hope
workshop, Southeast Steuben County Library, Sept. 13, 2026, https://ssclibrary.org/event/speculative-poetry-workshop-akua-lezli-hope/
5 panels, "Fill the Creative Tanks," "Ignytes on the Ignytes," "Pathways to Speculative Poetry," "Disability Futurisms," and "Chill-n-Chat with Akua Lezli Hope," Flights of Foundry, Sept. 18 - 20, 2026, https://flights-of-foundry.org/
Julia Ember
poem, "dopamine vortex," Small Wonders, August 2026, https://smallwondersmag.com/piece/dopamine-vortex/
KB Nelson
poem suite, “Fibonacci Pilgrim Suite,” Utopia Science Fiction, Aug 2026, https://www.utopiasciencefiction.com/
E.F. Schraeder
book, The Case for Cryptids: Field Notes of a Believer, Raw Dog Screaming Press, August 2026, https://rawdogscreaming.com/book/the-case-for-cryptids/
Anna Cates
haiku, Sense & Sensibility, Sept. 2026, https://sensesensibilityhaikujournal.wordpress.com/2026/08/09/the-september-issue-of-sense-sensibility-is-out/
tanka, Laurels #6, August 2026, https://www.tankasocietyofamerica.org/laurels/laurels-6
Marisca Pichette
poem, "sometimes sleeping feels like being awake," Just Keep Up Magazine, Aug 2026, https://www.justkeepupmagazine.com/sometimes-sleeping-feels-like-being-awake-by-marisca-pichette
2 poems, "ceramic serpent" and "Prodigal Sun," SpecPoVerse Volume 2 #2, Aug 2026, https://specpoverse.org/vol-2%2C-issue-2-2026
Nico Martinez Nocito
prose poem, "iron & garlic & salt & blood," Flash Fiction Online, August 2026, https://flashfictiononline.com/issues/august-2026/#iron-garlic-salt-blood
poem, print, "Don't Look Too Closely," Saturday Mourning Television, Sliced Up Press, 31 August 2026, https://sliceduppress.com/smt/
poem, non-genre, "Happily Ever After," Unfurled: An Anthology of Trans and Genderqueer Voices, Off Topic Publishing, 28 July 2026, https://books2read.com/u/b5eEy7
interview, "Interview with Nico Martinez Nocito," Orion's Belt #36, Summer 2026, https://www.orions-belt.net/issues/36-summer-26
Lisa Timpf
2 poems, spec, “Dreams of Immortality” and “Growing Amok,” Scifaikuest online August 2026, https://www.hiraethsffh.com/scifaikuest-online
poem, spec, “Here and There,” Utopia Science Fiction Volume VIII, August 2026, https://www.utopiasciencefiction.com/
3 poems, spec, “Imagining Orioles,” “Mother Nature Didn’t Weep,” and “What Eagles Dare,” Sublimation Volume 3 Issue 2: Marching Toward Dystopia, https://islandofwakwak.com/sublimation-volume-3-2026.html
poem, spec, “Indifferent,” Polar Starlight #24, August 3, 2026, https://polarborealis.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/POLAR-STARLIGHT-24-August-2026.pdf
Ken Poyner
2 poems, non-genre, “Utility” and “Understanding,“ 13 Myna Birds, 25 August 2026, 13myna.blogspot.com
Kelly J Cooper
poem, "Paring Down," Space & Time #153, August 2026, https://authortunitiespress.com/b/153eb
James Machell
chapbook, The Kingdom of Hell is Inside You, Space Cowboy Books, August 2026, https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-kingdom-of-hell-is-inside-you/31dedd730dd3e295
Timons Esaias
poem, "Formal Petition to Switch Universes," Inlandia Journal vol.17, Summer 2026, https://inlandiajournal.net/summer-2026-vol-17-timons-esaias-p/
Julia Sinclair
poem, "Greenhouse," Heartlines Spec #11, Summer 2026, https://www.heartlines-spec.com/greenhouse-by-julia-sinclair/
2 poems, "A Martian and a Terraformer by the Riverside" and "Christina in the Sky with Diamonds," SpecPoVerse, Vol. 2 #2, August 2026, https://specpoverse.org/vol-2%2C-issue-2-2026
Mary Soon Lee
poem, "To the Reader," Strange Horizons, 8/17/2026, https://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/poetry/to-the-reader/
poem, "Opus Number Three," SpecPoVerse Vol. 2 #2, Aug 2026, https://specpoverse.org/vol-2%2C-issue-2-2026
4 poems, reprints, "The Dodos of Deimos" + "Harbor" + "Interregnum" + "The Languages of Birds," Inlandia Journal Vol. 17, Summer 2026, https://inlandiajournal.net/summer-2026-vol-17-mary-soon-lee/
poem, mainstream, "Corn Snake #31," After Happy Hour #30, Summer 2026, https://afterhappyhourreview.com/Issue30.pdf
RJ Aurand
2 poems, "Graft vs. Host" and "Lost Cosmonauts", SpecPoVerse v.2 #2, August 2026, https://specpoverse.org/vol-2%2C-issue-2-2026
Dennis Owen Frohlich
poem. "View from a Hexagonal Window," Scifaikuest, August 2026. https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/scifaikuest-august-2026
Pixie Bruner
poem, spec, “Watching Plinkers Plonk”, SpecPoVerse Vol.2 #2, Aug 2026, https://specpoverse.org/vol-2%2C-issue-2-2026
poem and essay, “Content Warning— I Pull the Trigger -Summer Reading Wrecks”, Substack, August 3, 2026, https://pixiebruner.substack.com/p/content-warning-i-pull-the-trigger
essay, “Spicy Lit”, Substack, August 12, 2026, https://pixiebruner.substack.com/p/spicy-lit
poem, spec, “A Chaos of Poets”, Substack, August 15, 2026, https://pixiebruner.substack.com/p/a-chaos-of-poets"
poem, spec, "The After 'After Love' After Poem (inspired by Maxine Kimin’s 'After Love')”, Substack, August 17, 2026, https://pixiebruner.substack.com/p/the-after-after-love-after-poem
poem, spec, “Our House”, Substack, August 18, 2026, https://pixiebruner.substack.com/p/our-house
essay, “The New McCarthyism (The Red and Blue Scourges)”, Substack, August 24, 2026, https://pixiebruner.substack.com/p/the-new-mccarthyism
poem, “Aubade”, Substack, August 28, 2026, https://pixiebruner.substack.com/p/aubade
Lilith Acadia
poem, "misalignment is the mother of invention (please)," Stone of Madness #34, August 2026, https://stoneofmadnesspress.com/l-acadia-4
Clarabelle Fields
interview, "Interview with Clarabelle Miray Fields of Carmina Magazine", The Idlewild House, August 2026, https://idlewildhouse.substack.com/p/a-letter-from-idlewild
poem, "gooseflesh", Smols Poetry Journal, August 2026, https://smolspoetryjournal.blogspot.com/2026/08/p-margin-bottom-0_0988262199.html
poem, "Paying Queen Anne a Visit, or Picking Wildflowers Along a Country Road", Chewers, August 2026, https://chewersmasticadores.wordpress.com/2026/08/19/paying-queen-anne-a-visit-or-picking-wildflowers-along-a-country-road-by-clarabelle-miray-fields/
3 poems, "Breakfast for two," "i told hekate", and "my therapist told me to grow plants", Pink Birthmark Mag, August 2026, https://shorturl.at/
Brian Garrison
poem, "Jukebox of the Insect World", SpecPoVerse vol. 2 #2, https://specpoverse.org/vol-2%2C-issue-2-2026
poem, "Unfiltered", Space & Time Magazine #153, https://authortunitiespress.com/b/153
guest column with 4 poems (3 reprints), "Writing on a Theme (to Explore a Variety of Themes)", Marge Simon's Blood & Spades, The Altruist Newsletter vol. 1 #6, July 2026, https://thealtruistnewsletter.substack.com/p/blood-and-spades-brian-u-garrison
Angela Acosta
poem, "To Love a Flower," Snoozine & As Alive, Summer 2026, https://snoozine.wixsite.com/snoozine/general-8-1
interview, A Coop of Owls, Summer 2026, https://www.patreon.com/ACoupOfOwls/posts/q-angela-acosta-158267630
Roger Dutcher
poem, "July 5th", Chrome Baby #159, https://robindunn.com/bairn159.html