SFPA July 2024 Round-Up

Extruding an arm:

From the puddle into which I've melted, I click the submit button on this post outlining some of the activities SFPA's members have performed during this most recent month of July.

Mike

Brian U. Garrison

3 poems, print, "Artificial Regret," "Unnaming of Parts," and "Rustless metal shell," Giant Robot Poems, Middle West Press, July 2024, https://www.amazon.com/Giant-Robot-Poems-Mecha-Human-Culture-ebook/dp/B0D3JFHJZW

N. Jed Todd

3 poems, "Quantum Computing and the Colonel", "Predictions" & "DrillSergeantGPT", Giant Robot Poems, Middle West Press, July 2024, https://www.amazon.com/Giant-Robot-Poems-Mecha-Human-Culture-ebook/dp/B0D3JFHJZW

Julie Shiel

poem, "When The Stars Were Right", Necronomi-Romcon: Light Edition, June 2024, https://amzn.to/4bplzls

Sumiko Saulson

collection, Melancholia: A Book of Dark Poetry, Bludgeoned Girls Press, June 14, 2024, https://sumikosaulson.com/2024/07/06/melancholia-is-out/

David C. Kopaska-Merkel

poem, print, "RU438 Writes a Poem," Giant Robot Poems, Middle West Press, July 2024, https://www.amazon.com/Giant-Robot-Poems-Mecha-Human-Culture-ebook/dp/B0D3JFHJZW

4 poems, "Some Thoughts On the Altair Question," "Sharp Encounter," "Them," and "Mollusca," The Drabbun Anthology 2.0, 2024, Hiraeth Publishing,https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/drabbun-2

Ann K. Schwader and David C. Kopaska-Merkel

poem, print, "cold case," Focus 78, summer 2024, https://www.bsfa.co.uk/focus

Michael H. Payne

poem, "Late for Sunday Dinner," Giant Robot Poems, Middle West Press, July 2024, https://www.amazon.com/Giant-Robot-Poems-Mecha-Human-Culture-ebook/dp/B0D3JFHJZW

14 poems, #28-41, Crown Moldering, Daily Grind, July 2024, http://pandora.xepher.net/daily/mold01.html

5 poems, #1784-1788, Terebinth, July 2024, http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/index.html

Kimberly Kuchar

rengay, "Sins of the Father," winning poem in the 2023 Otoroshi Rengay Contest, Otoroshi Journal, Volume 3, lssue 2, Autumn/Winter 2023/2024, April 2024, https://otoroshijournal.wixsite.com/home/issues

4 poems, spec, "Colony Xaxbara 4," "Just Yesterday," "Dust," and "What the Heavens Hide," The Space Cadet Science Fiction Review, Issue 2, Summer 2024, June 2024, https://starshipsloane.com/the-space-cadet-science-fiction-review-2/

2 poems, spec, "Lily" and "Home," Deadnought SF, Issue 2, Summer 2024, July 2024, https://starshipsloane.com/dreadnought-sf-summer-2024-issue-2/

poem, "Flimflam," Dadakuku, January, 8, 2024, https://dadakuku.com/2024/01/08/flimflam/

senryu, spec, "sorting hat," Cutting Letters: English Interpretations of the 20 Traditional Japanese Kireji, May 2024, https://a.co/d/iYFWFbr

Angela Acosta

2 poems, "Living Lithop" & "Enter, Reverberating Nostalgia," Vita and the Woolf #2, https://www.lulu.com/shop/elinora-westfall/the-pride-issue-vita-and-the-woolf-literary-and-arts-journal/paperback/product-v89q575.html?page=1&pageSize=4

2 poems, "Martian Anthropology" & "Rejected Launch," The Number Fifty, Summer 2024, https://thenumberfivezero.wordpress.com/2024/07/02/109/

3 poems, "We Leapt," "Qualifications" & "Hush," ionosphere Vol 1, Issue 2, Amplicon Press, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DB1L663P

Mahaila Smith

poem, “I vowed to be of service to other beings,” untethered magazine vol. 15, June 2024, https://alwaysuntethered.com/buy-a-copy/

Roger Dutcher

poem, "Let's Pretend It's a Bird", New Myths, Vol. 18, Issue 67, Summer 2024, https://sites.google.com/newmyths.com/newmythscomissue67b/issue-67-stories/lets-pretend-its-a-bird

Pixie Bruner

4 speculative poems, “Here Is- (Spark), “Once We Mermaids”, “Coffee in Hell”, and “Late Night Observations”, Sirens Call Summer #66, July 2024, http://www.sirenscallpublications.com/pdfs/SirensCallEZine_Summer2024.pdf

poem (reprint), “The Body As Haunted”, miniMAG #108, https://minimag.press/gallery/miniMAG%20Issue108.pdf

Pixie Bruner & Amabilis O’Hara

poem, “Aural Fixation”, Extrasensory Overload: an Anthology of speculative excess, Angry Gable Press, July 2024, https://a.co/d/8ScdEbD

Colleen Anderson

3 poems, reprint, "Techno Demon," "Thermoplastic," and "Future Visions," Giant Robot Poems, Jul. 2024, https://www.amazon.com/Giant-Robot-Poems-Mecha-Human-Culture-ebook/dp/B0D3JFHJZW

Katherine Quevedo

poem, "Ghosted by Pac-Man," Sidequest, July 15, 2024, https://sidequest.zone/2024/07/15/game-enjambment-ghosted-by-pac-man/

poem, "Rhapsody in Sage," Extrasensory Overload: an anthology of speculative excess, Angry Gables Press, July 31, 2024, https://www.amazon.com/Extrasensory-Overload-anthology-speculative-excess-ebook/dp/B0D9YXKBRL

Richard Magahiz

poem, genre, "The War Monument," Bewildering Stories Issue 1051, http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue1051/war_monument.html

poem, non-genre, "I stopped in Sturgis," dadakuku, 10 July 2024, https://dadakuku.com/2024/07/10/i-stopped-in-sturgis/

4 poems, genre, "ninety foot tulip", "just 2% pregnant", "everything those souls", and "some rotting turnip," Five Fleas, 19 July 2024, https://fivefleas.blogspot.com/2024/07/afternoon-of-july-19-2024.html

LindaAnn LoSchiavo

interview about "Always Haunted: Hallowe'en Poems" by Rebecca Linam, July 14, 2024, http://rebeccalinam.com/the-writing-cat-blog/2024/7/14/lindaann-loschiavos-always-haunted-halloween-poems

interview, posted by Bertram A. Mullin, 42 Stories Anthology, July 25, 2024, https://bamwrites.blogspot.com/2024/07/42-stories-anthology-presents-lindaann.html

book spotlight, "Always Haunted: Hallowe'en Poems", posted by Nina D'Arcangela, July 16, 2024, https://spreadingthewritersword.com/2024/07/16/read-always-haunted-halloween-poems-by-lindaann-loschiavo-free-on-netgallery-mae_westside-newrelease-halloween-poems-poetry-book-booktour/

review by Sally Major, "Always Haunted: Hallowe'en Poems," The Chrysalis BREW Project, on July 23, 2024, https://thechrysalisbrewproject.com/2024/07/23/book-review-always-haunted-halloween-poems-by-lindaann-loschiavo/

3 reviews of "Always Haunted: Hallowe'en Poems," GoodReads, July 2024, https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6662001352, https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6692857954 &  https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6716491401

2 poems, non-genre, “My Neighbor in Her Garden” and “The Kiss on My Bucket List”, Tiny Moments Vol. IV, July 3, 2024, https://www.amazon.com/Tiny-Moments-Vol-David-Pring-Mill/dp/B0D8RD4W55/

4 poems, non-genre, (1.) Lost Music, (2.) Papaveri e Papere, (3.) The Translation Trap, and (4.) Violence, "Art Meets Poetry: The poems of LindaAnn LoSchiavo accompanied by paintings", Charles Moulton's Creativity Web-Zine, July 5, 2024, https://moultoniancreativity.weebly.com/arts.html

poem,  "Mother on Morphine, Dreaming of Anna Magnani", Death Lifespan Vol. 12: Pure Slush, July 11, 2024, https://pureslush.com/store/anthologies-themed/death-lifespan-vol-12/

poem, "Night on Bald Mountain", The Stygian Society Issue 2: The Witching Hour, https://www.lulu.com/shop/rich-stahnke-and-kim%C3%B6ra-seidra-and-lindaann-loschiavo-and-akis-linardos/the-stygian-zine-002-the-witching-hour/paperback/product-zmkern7.html?page=1&pageSize=4

poem, "Exploratrix", Bare Back Magazine, published on August 1, 2024, https://www.barebackmag.com/post/exploratrix

Lori R. Lopez

2 poems, “In Vincent’s Memory” and “That Which Cannot Be Defined”, Impspired Issue 29, June 2024, https://impspired.com/2024/05/31/lori-r-lopez-8

5 poems, “Electric Sheep”, “Tomato Plant Monster”, “Horrorstruck”, “Dark is the river”, and “splinter of night”, The Sirens Call Issue 66, Summer 2024, http://www.sirenscallpublications.com/pdfs/SirensCallEZine_Summer2024.pdf

poem, “Comes The Reaper”, Spectral Realms #21, July 2024, https://www.hippocampuspress.com/journals/spectral-realms/spectral-realms-no.-21

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