There's always so much:
Leaping about and yodeling at this time of the year! So let's have a little of that and see what the members of SFPA have gotten up to during the recently passed month of August.
Mike
Ken Anderson
5 haiku, Ikusei: Nurture, Quillkeepers Press, Aug 2025, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FL7HC9KM
poem, “Nighthawks," Chewers by Masticadores, Aug. 22, 2025, https://chewersmasticadores.wordpress.com/2025/08/22/nighthawks-by-kenneth-lynn-anderson/
haiku, Whispers of the Seasons: A Contemporary Haiku Anthology, Fresh Words, Sept 2025, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tkjuna1vmBQm7C-xhhbFIYd7DAe37Npb/view?pli=1
LindaAnn LoSchiavo
review by Rebecca Linam of Gathered Here Today: An Open Casket of Art and Poetry, GoodReads, August 8th, 2025, https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7812235013
review by Dawn Colclasure Wilson of Gathered Here Today: An Open Casket of Art and Poetry, Dawn Reviews Books, August 8th, 2025, https://dawnreviewsbooks.blogspot.com/2025/08/horror-poetry-at-its-best-gathered-here.html
review by Mary Soon Lee of Always Haunted: Hallowe'en Poems, GoodReads, August 11, 2025, https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7817346572
interview, "Blasting Off With LindaAnn LoSchiavo," Collaborature, August 22, 2025, https://collaborature.blogspot.com/2025/08/blasting-off-with-lindaann-loschiavo.html?m=1
poem, non-genre, “Mother Magnified”, Presence, Willowdown Books, July 30, 2025, https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0FKT7KPZH
5 poems, "A Vampire Joins the Playboy Club," "Living in Death," "Blood Lust," "Vampires in Training," and "At the Hangman’s Tree", Vampire Visions, Muses of Mythology, August 1, 2025, https://www.amazon.com/Vampire-Visions-Muses-Mythology-Anthology/dp/B0FBW1SNWM/ref=sr_1_1
prose-poem, "Meeting", This Exquisite Topology: A Collection of Happy Abstractions, Angry Gable Press, August 7, 2025, https://www.amazon.com/This-Exquisite-Topology-collection-abstractions/dp/B0FCFQ6KFN/?
poem, "Forbidden Fruit", The Literary Times Issue 06, August 11, 2025, https://literarytimes.gumroad.com/l/tijda?layout=profile
2 prose-poems, "Young Jack the Ripper" and "Invisible Visitors", Skummel Issue 01, August 2025, https://skummel.net/young-jack-the-ripper-invisible-visitors
4 poems, non-genre, "The Crust," "Merchants of Venus," "First Thirst: Memories," and "Boardwalk Soda-Fountain Shop", Tempest 2, Ravens Quoth Press, August 16. 2025, https://www.amazon.com/Tempest-Romance-Collection-Ravens-Quoth/dp/B0FJR5X58D/ref=sr_1_1
poem, non-genre, "What Remains", Verseve Blockout: Alice in Wonderland Edition, September 2025, https://verseve.gabriellev.art/alice-in-wonderland-black-out-poetry-call-for-submission/
poem, non-genre, "Arrival", The Writers' Journal, Vol. 2: Doors, September 2, 2025, https://writers-journal.com/
Ruth Berman
poem, non-genre, "The Difficulties of Dream Reading," The Avalon Literary Review, Summer 2025, https://www.avalonliteraryreview.com/
Angela Acosta, Michael H. Payne & Yilin Wang
panelists, Wednesday Poetry Panel, Worldcon 2025, Aug 13, 2025, https://vimeo.com/1109895357/f5c85f1af2
Angela Acosta
poem, "Centaurian Quixote," Worldcon Souvenir Book, August 2025, https://seattlein2025.org/files/SeattleWorldcon2025SouvenirBook.pdf
Michael H. Payne
4 poems, #1837 - 1840, Terebinth, Aug 4, 11, 18 & 25, 2025, http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20250804.html, http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20250811.html, http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20250818.html & http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20250825.html
collection, The Wreck of the S.S. Wheeler, Hey, Your Nose is on Fire Industries, Aug 2025, http://pandora.xepher.net/images/wheel.html
John Reinhart
book, How to Ride a Turtle Through a Time Vortex, Arson Press, August 2025, https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/how-to-ride-a-turtle-through-a-time-vortex-john-reinhart/1148051818
Sandra Lindow
book, Mother Hubble's Cupboard and Other Poems about Inner and Outer Space, Coffee Table Books Aug. 2025, https://www.amazon.com/Mother-Hubbles-Cupboard-Coffee-Chapbook/dp/919895993X
2 poems, “Fire,” and “This Spring”, The Mythic Circle #47, July 2025, https://mythsoc.org/mythic-circle.htm
poem, “Breath”, Blue Heron Review 19, https://blueheronreview.com/
poem, “Mother Hubble’s Elegy for RHESSI: (2002-2023, April 19, 2023)," Analog XCV, Nos. 7&8, July/Aug. 2025, https://www.amazon.com/Analog-Science-Fiction-Fact-July-August/dp/B0FK2MBXYL
poem, “Mothers, a Ghazal”, 2026 Wisconsin Poet’s Calendar, July 2025, www.wfop.org
poem, “Frankenstein’s Monster Seeks Urgent Care,” Sublimation Vol. 2 #1: The Heart of Winter, February 2025, https://islandofwakwak.com/2.1-the-heart-of-winter.html
Tom Rogers
poem, «shooting stars,» Scifaikuest, August 2025, https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/scifaikuest-august-2025
Deborah L. Davitt
poem, spec, "A River, a Tree," This Exquisite Topology, August 7, 2025, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FCCM8XQB
poem, spec, "Diamond World," After Happy Hour #27, August 19, 2025. https://afterhappyhourreview.com/Issue%2027.pdf
G. O. Clark
poem, "Love Song", The Alien Buddha Loves You Too, Alien Buddha Press, August 2025, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FLVTCQFH
Sandra Bond
3 poems, "The Goblin Muse", "The Faelon", and "Faerie at the Open Mic", Away with the Faeries, Poetic Edge Publishers, August 2025, https://poeticedgepublishers.com/away-with-the-faeries/
Ian Li
poem, "A Taste of Clean Water," Small Wonders, August 2025, https://smallwondersmag.com/piece/a-taste-of-clean-water/
Brian U. Garrison
poem, "Rolling Over Indecision," This Exquisite Topology: A Collection of Happy Abstractions, Angry Gable Press, August 7, 2025, https://angrygablepress.com/2025/08/07/this-exquisite-topology-releasing-today
poem, reprint, "Recognition," Worldcon 2025 Souvenir Program Book, August 2025, https://seattlein2025.org/program-and-events/program-book-and-pocket-program
Pixie Bruner
poem, "Finger Foods for Failed Apoptosis," Timberline Review, August 2025, https://timberlinereview.com and runner-up, 2025 Kay Snow Awards, Paulann Petersen Award for Poetry, Williamette Writers, August 2025, https://willamettewriters.org/kay-snow-writing-contest/
hybrid prose poem, “So Close I Smell the Ichor”, Weird Fiction Quarterly: The King in Yellow, Spring 2025, August 23, 2025, https://weirdfictionquarterly.com/the-king-in-yellow-is-here/
poem, “With Serviettes Upon Our Heads”, Strange Horizons, August 11, 2025, http://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/poetry/with-serviettes-upon-our-heads/
editor/art/introduction, Morsus Vitae #7: Rats and Other Vermin, July 2025, https://www.mementomoriinkmag.com/mvpresent
A J Dalton
poem, “The Event”, Odyssey: The Magazine of the British Interplanetary Society, Sept 2025, https://www.bis-space.com/publications/odyssey/.
foreword to The Girl Who Was Silver by David Gerrold, Starship Sloane Publishing, Aug 2025, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FMS259VG
David C. Kopaska-Merkel
poem, print, "Stationary," Focus 2025, British Science Fiction Association, August 2025, www.bsfa.co.uk
Richard Magahiz
poem, genre, "The New Earth", Mobius: the Journal of Social Change Vol 26 No 3, https://mobiusmagazine.com/poetry/newearth.html
poem, genre, reprint, "[side effects may include:]", Haiku 2025, Modern Haiku Press, https://www.modernhaiku.org/mhbooks/Haiku2025.html
4 poems, genre, "[green screams]" "[the edges of the frame]" "[the icy salt water]" and "[cries of RTs]", Five Fleas August 6, 2025, https://fivefleas.blogspot.com/2025/08/afternoon-of-august-6-2025.html
poem, genre, "A tour of our superconducting word collider", Penumbric vol ix no 2, https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/magahizTour.html
3 poems, genre, "[coal seam bride]," "[sour plums]," and "[my own realm]", Heliosparrow Poetry Journal, 11 August 2025, https://heliosparrow.com/2025/08/17-21/, https://heliosparrow.com/2025/08/18-20/ & https://heliosparrow.com/2025/08/16-21/
reading with Bryan Thao Worra, 12 August 2025, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtnc0xYF9fk
poem, genre, "Personal note", Chrome Baby: Bairn 147, 28 August 2025, https://robindunn.com/bairn147.html
poem, genre, "We interrupt this coverage", dadakuku, 29 August 2025, https://dadakuku.com/2025/08/29/we-interrupt-this-coverage/
Anna Cates
haiku, Frogpond 48.2, 2025, https://www.hsa-haiku.org/frogpond/2025-issue48-2/index.html
poem, “Late Season Soliloquy," Contemporary Haibun Online 21.2, 2025, https://contemporaryhaibunonline.com/table-of-contents-21-2/tanka-prose-21-2/anna-cates-late-season-soliloquy/
Darius Jones
collection, The Book of Hours, Alien Buddha Press, Sept 2025, https://www.instagram.com/p/DNgKf1RRYFh/
Lisa Timpf
poem, spec, “The Day of the First Mars Landing,” Polar Starlight #20, August 2025, https://polarborealis.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/POLAR-STARLIGHT-20-August-2025.pdf
poem, spec, “Zombie-In-Waiting,” Dreams and Nightmares #130, May 2025, https://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com/2025/06/062025b.html
review of Great Silent Ballad by A.F. Moritz, The Miramichi Reader, posted August 11, 2025, https://miramichireader.ca/2025/08/great-silent-ballad-by-a-f-moritz/
review of This May Be the Year by Carole Giangrande, The Seaboard Review of Books, posted August 18, 2025, https://www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/this-may-be-the-year-carole-giangrande
review by Rhea E. Rose of Cats and Dogs in Space, Polar Starlight, Issue 20, August 2025, https://polarborealis.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/POLAR-STARLIGHT-20-August-2025.pdf
Katherine Quevedo
reading and panel, "Poetry Readings Saturday" and "Poetry Performance Tips," Seattle Worldcon 2025, August 16, 2025, https://seattlein2025.org/program-and-events/schedule/
reading, Chatter PDX, A Midsummer Night's Dream, accompanying live classical chamber music performances by Maria Garcia and Yoko Greeney, August 31, 2025, https://www.livemusicproject.org/events/157358/chatter-pdx-a-midsummer-nights-dream
Colleen Anderson
3 poems, "Whale Song," "Nature’s Course," and "Golden," This Exquisite Topology, Angry Gable Press, Aug. 2025, https://angrygablepress.com/2025/08/07/this-exquisite-topology-releasing-today/
poem, "Final Fare," Polar Starlight #20, Aug. 2025, https://polarborealis.ca/2025/08/12/polar-starlight-20-august-issue-now-available-for-free-download/
poem, "The King in Yellow," Weird Fiction Quarterly, Aug. 2025, https://weirdfictionquarterly.com/the-king-in-yellow-is-here/
poem, "The Minotaur’s Tale," OnSpec #131, Mar. 2025, https://onspec.ca/current-issue/
M. Frost
poem, "Chessie: three portraits," SpecPoVerse Issue 2, https://specpoverse.org/vol-1%2C-issue-2-2025