{"id":2942,"date":"2017-05-09T02:01:41","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T02:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/specpo.wordpress.com\/?p=2942"},"modified":"2017-05-09T02:01:41","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T02:01:41","slug":"2017-rhysling-poets-showcase-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/2017\/05\/09\/2017-rhysling-poets-showcase-20\/","title":{"rendered":"2017 Rhysling Poets\u2019 Showcase #19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-3030 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/img_8732.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8732\" width=\"394\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/img_8732.jpg 750w, https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/img_8732-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/img_8732-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 394px) 100vw, 394px\" \/>Huzzah! Welcome to the Nineteenth 2017 Rhysling Poets Showcase, the penultimate post of this inaugural series to highlight the many talented nominees who appear in this year&#8217;s Rhysling Anthology.\u00a0 But as all speculative writers know, endings are only beginnings: you can revisit the work of these exemplary poets in full\u2014along with ALL of our uber-talented Rhysling nominees\u2014 in 2017 Rhysling Anthology, which will appear like magic in mailboxes (virtual or otherwise) of all SFPA members, and\/or which can be purchased by anyone who so desires, in PDF or print formats, <a href=\"http:\/\/sfpoetry.com\/rhysling.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With no further ado, please meet on our \u00a0next six Rhysling poets\u2014and thank you for coming along on this journey with us.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Kathleen A. Lawrence<\/strong>. \u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alteredrealitymag.com\/dorothy-delivered\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cDorothy Delivered<\/a>\u201d \u2022 <em>Altered Reality Magazine<\/em> 1<\/li>\n<li><strong> B.J. Lee<\/strong> \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bjaylee\/posts\/10209547396217425?notif_t=feedback_reaction_generic&amp;notif_id=1493837666941748\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cRiding the Dark\u201d<\/a> \u2022 <em>Frost Fire Worlds<\/em>, February 2016<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mary Soon Lee \u2022\u00a0<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/theopenmouse.wordpress.com\/2016\/05\/06\/mary-soon-lee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cFirst Lesson\u201d<\/a> \u2022 <em>Silver Blade 30 \u2022\u00a0<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apex-magazine.com\/not-like-this\/\">\u201cNot Like This\u201d<\/a> \u2022 <em>Apex Magazine,<\/em> August 2016 <em>\u2022<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/theopenmouse.wordpress.com\/2016\/05\/06\/mary-soon-lee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cReturning\u201d<\/a> \u2022 <em>The Open Mouse<\/em>, May 6<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sandi Leibowitz \u2022 <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mythicdelirium.com\/featured-poem-%E2%80%A2-december-2016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cIm Wald\u201d<\/a> \u2022 Mythic Delirium 3.2<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rose Lemberg\u00a0\u2022<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/strangehorizons.com\/poetry\/the-ash-manifesto\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cThe Ash Manifesto\u201d<\/a> \u2022 <em>Strange Horizons<\/em>, October 2016 \u2022\u00a0 \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/roselemberg.net\/?p=1811\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Journeymaker to Keddar (II)<\/a>\u201d \u2022 Marginalia to Stone Bird (Aqueduct Press)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-2953 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/kathleen.jpg\" alt=\"Kathleen\" width=\"203\" height=\"242\" \/>Kathleen A. Lawrence<\/strong> was born in Rochester\u2014home of the Garbage Plate, Kodachrome, and Cab Calloway\u2014and spent most of her youth in a plaid jumper.\u00a0 She left briefly to get a pesky Ph.D., then returned to Central NY in 1992, where she has been an educator for 30 years \u2013 teaching Communication, Popular Culture, and Gender Studies at SUNY Cortland. Kathleen has had poems appear recently in the HIV Here &amp; Now 2015-2016 poem-a-day countdown; two Prince memorial anthologies \u2013 A Prince Tribute from <em>Yellow Chair Review <\/em>and <u>Delerious: A Poetic Celebration of Prince<\/u> from <em>NightBallet Press; The Muses&#8217; Gallery<\/em> on the <em>Highland Park Poetry<\/em> website; and the third issue of <em>Crow Hollow 19.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-3025 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/bjleephoto-133x2151-1.jpg\" alt=\"bjleephoto-133x215[1]\" width=\"197\" height=\"318\" \/>B.J. Lee <\/strong>writes for both children and adults. Her speculative poems have been published in <em>Frostfire Worlds,<\/em><em> Beyond Centauri and Spellbound magazines. This is her 6<sup>th<\/sup>Rhysling nomination.<\/em> She is also an award-winning children\u2019s poet whose first picture book has recently been accepted for publication. She has over 80 poems published\/forthcoming in children\u2019s anthologies and magazines. Her children\u2019s anthology credits include<em>The National Geographic Book of Nature Poetry<\/em>, <em>The National Geographic\u2019s United States of Poetry <\/em>(2018) and<em> One Minute Till Bedtime <\/em>(Little, Brown), and she is widely published in children\u2019s magazines. In a former life, she was a music librarian at The Boston Conservatory. She enjoys singing jazz, drumming on the beach and photographing wildlife. She lives in Florida with herhusband and toy poodle. For more information, please see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.childrensauthorbjlee.com\">www.childrensauthorbjlee.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-2955 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/marysoonlee.jpg\" alt=\"MarySoonLee\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/marysoonlee.jpg 200w, https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/marysoonlee-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><br \/>\nMary Soon Lee<\/strong> was born and raised in London, but now lives in Pittsburgh with her husband, two children, and two cats. Several poems from her 2016 Elgin-award winning collection, <u>Crowned<\/u> (part I of the epic story of King Xau, <em>The Sign of the Dragon)<\/em> may be read at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesignofthedragon.com\/\">thesignofthedragon.com<\/a>, including \u201cInterregnum\u201d, winner of the 2014 Rhysling Award for the Long Poem.<br \/>\n<strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-2959 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/sandi.jpg\" alt=\"Sandi\" width=\"195\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/sandi.jpg 960w, https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/sandi-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/sandi-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><br \/>\nSandi Leibowitz<\/strong> is a classical singer, school librarian and friend to dragons. Her speculative poetry and fiction appear in <em>Metaphorosis, Polu Texni, Not One of Us, Mithila Review <\/em>and other magazines and anthologies. She has ridden in a hot-air balloon over the Rio Grande, traveled in the footsteps of medieval pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela and visited with Arthur in Avalon. She lives next door to bogles in a raven\u2019s wood in New York City. She invites you to visit her at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandileibowitz.com\">www.sandileibowitz.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-2962 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/rose.jpg\" alt=\"Rose\" width=\"196\" height=\"273\" \/><br \/>\nRose Lemberg<\/strong> <span id=\"yiv4324366474m_-4231111412021251908yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493681943081_5850\">is a queer, bigender immigrant from Eastern Europe and Israel. Their\u00a0fiction and poetry have appeared in <em>Lightspeed&#8217;s Queer Destroy Science Fiction,\u00a0Strange Horizons, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Uncanny<\/em>,\u00a0and other venues. Rose&#8217;s work has been a finalist for the Nebula, Tiptree, Elgin, Rhysling, and Crawford awards.\u00a0Their debut\u00a0poetry collection,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\"><span class=\"yiv4324366474m_-4231111412021251908yiv0807808807gmail-m_-3633173159528637007gmail-m_2200595609133457919gmail-il\">Marginalia<\/span>\u00a0to\u00a0<span class=\"yiv4324366474m_-4231111412021251908yiv0807808807gmail-m_-3633173159528637007gmail-m_2200595609133457919gmail-il\">Stone\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"yiv4324366474m_-4231111412021251908yiv0807808807gmail-m_-3633173159528637007gmail-m_2200595609133457919gmail-il\">Bird<\/span><\/span><span id=\"yiv4324366474m_-4231111412021251908yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493681943081_5870\">, is available from\u00a0Aqueduct Press (2016). For a full bibliography, please visit\u00a0<\/span><a id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493719144461_45038\" href=\"http:\/\/roselemberg.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/roselemberg.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2017 Rhysling Poets&#8217; Showcase #20<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[142,24,143,60,28,144,145],"class_list":["post-2942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rhysling-award","tag-b-j-lee","tag-featured","tag-kathleen-a-lawrence","tag-mary-soon-lee","tag-poetry","tag-rose-lemberg","tag-sandi-leibowitz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}