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SFPA members

You have less than 2 weeks to nominate for the Dwarf Stars award, for speculative* poems of 10 lines or fewer;

https://sfpoetry.com/ds/dsguide.html

*SF, fantasy, or horror

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Received yesterday the latest issue of Star line and the Dwarf Stars anthology, both of which contain a massive array of truly excellent speculative poetry. Plus the odd piece from me. If you don't know where they come from, check out sfpoetry.com.

Dreams and Nightmares 113 is at the printer now. I feel pretty certain I will get the proof back by the middle of the week. That's about when Hurricane Dorian will get here, if it doesn't deviate from its current projected path. I'll keep you posted.

I have to brag about the garden. We have a Pequin hot-pepper plants. Today we harvested about 40 red wines, and there are at least a couple hundred green ones still on the planet. These things are about the size of an English pea, or maybe a little smaller, but they are quite hot.

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These are my poems that are eligible this year for nomination for the Rhysling award of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association. The first group also are eligible for the Dwarf Stars award. Some other poems are eligible, but I like these best. If you are a member of the Association, and you would like to see the poems for nomination purposes, let me know.

Very Short Poems

“always intended,” Scifaikuest Nov. print

“changeling,” Star*Line 41.1

“at the expat school,” Scifaikuest, Feb. print

“condensation,” Scifaikuest, May print

“crystals of nitrogen,” Scifaikuest Nov. print

“freezer bags bulging,” Scifaikuest Feb. online

“fresh footprints,” Scifaikuest Aug. online

“half-elven girl,” Scifaikuest Nov. online

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways!, Dreams and Nightmares blog, Dec. 6

“Jack’s 7 league boots,” Scifaikuest Feb. print

“on each lunar peak,” Star*line 41.3

“red dust,” Scifaikuest Feb. print

“red dust dunes,” Scifaikuest Nov. print

“taut red sails,” Scifaikuest Aug. print

“the cocoon whispers,” Scifaikuest May print

“the last woman,” Scifaikuest Feb. print

“we must have been blind,” Star*Line 41.3

“young dawgs,” Scifaikuest Feb. online

Short Poems

Animatronic Aliens, Star*Line 41.1

Après le Deluge, Illumen, summer

“death from space,” Scifaikuest Aug. 18 print

Dispersal, Star*Line 41.3

“e for effort,” Star*Line 41.3

Entanglement (with Kendall Evans), Entanglement (chapbook)

“just out of sight,” (with Ann K. Schwader), Scifaikuest May print

Keep On Til Morning, Star*Line 41.1

New Stars, Star*Line 4141

On Mercury, Not One of Us 60

Perimeter, Outposts of Beyond January

Pick Up the Phone, Outposts of Beyond Oct.

Polar Thaw, Cyaegha 20

Reflections of You, Silver Blade 39

Sacraments of an Old World, Scifaikuest Nov. print

Some God Had to Be the Real McCoy, The Fib Review 29

The Once and Future Colony, The Martian Wave 2018

The Steadfast Heart, The Fib Review 30

The Unforgotten Shore, Scifaikuest Feb. print

The Werewolf Books a Trip to Mars, Bloodbond Nov.

Velocities (with Kendall Evans), The Martian Wave 2018

Word, Chrome Baby 70

Long Poems

“it took some time,” (with Ann K. Schwader), Devilfish Review #20

Memories of the Minotaur (with Kendall Evans), Entanglement (chapbook)

The Sisterhood of the Iron Wing (with W. Gregory Stewart), Eldritch Science fall

The Stars Are Not Eternal (with Kendall Evans), Entanglement (chapbook)

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Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Ass'n, Dwarf Stars competition:

2nd Place – “If She Knew She Was a Ghost” by David C. Kopaska-Merkel

Original publication: http://www.polutexni.com May 22, 2017

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Went dark while family visited. Mostly sat and talked.

Back to reading DN submissions. The next issue, which should go in the mail this week, will be late.

My latest publication, in Silver Blade 39: https://www.silverblade.net/2018/08/reflections-of-you/  Also poems in Dwarf Stars and Star*Line.

Recent sale to Outposts of Beyond.

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2 sales to Starline. Poems published in Dwarf Stars, just out. planning brief appearance in office today.

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My latest at polutexni.com -- a month of my poetry wraps up horrendously, with wholesale slaughter on a distant world. The last five weekly entries are an interview with me and four poems by me, one a collaboration with Kendall Evans.

Several recent sales to Star*line, and a few pieces picked for Dwarf Stars. Especially thrilled by the latter.

A few scifaiku sold to Scifaikuest, for several issues to be published in 2018.

Call for Dwarf Stars nominations

Call for Dwarf Stars nominations

The nomination period does not open for two weeks, but now is a good time to start looking for speculative poetry (science fiction, fantasy, horror) of no more than 10 lines. You can nominate any number of poems, including ones you wrote yourself. They must have been first published in 2016. In formal publication venues, such as blogs, do count. For specifics, see the guidelines:

http://sfpoetry.com/ds/dsguide.html

Dwarf Stars submission deadline May 15

Guidelines:

http://www.sfpoetry.com/dwarfstars.html

In brief, anyone may nominate speculative poems of 10 lines or fewer, first published in 2015. The poems in this and any blog are eligible, as well as those in any print or digital publication. They just have to be from 2015, and short enough. The short poems in this blog are not reprints.

Awards?

Nearly all the poems published here are brand new. They are Dwarf-Stars eligible, & some years blogged poems are Rhysling eligible.

sfpoetry.com

Elgin & Dwarf Stars winners

Dwarf Stars - very short poems - congratulations!

http://sfpoetry.com/ds/14dwarfstars.html



Elgin - poetry books & chapbooks - Congratulations!

(And The Edible Zoo won 2nd!!)

http://sfpoetry.com/el/14elgin.html

Today is the deadline

SFPA members: Vote for Elgin, vote for Dwarf Stars. Your opinion counts & will influence which poetic works take home the honors.

sfpoetry.com

Dwarf Stars Nominations--very short speculative poems--anyone can nominate

Dwarf Stars Call for micro poems.

Please share with other lists of folks who might be interested in
submitting.

2014 *DWARF STARS* NOMINATIONS OPEN

Submissions are open for the *Dwarf Sta*rs anthology, edited by Sandra
Lindow, from which the best short poem published in 2013 is selected.
Anyone may submit their own poems or those of others; there is no limit to
how many poems you may submit for the anthology, but only SFPA members may
vote for the award.

All genres of speculative poetry are eligible, including science fiction,
fantasy, horror, and "unclassifiable, but speculative." Poems must be no
more than ten lines (no more than 100 words for prose poems) not including
title or stanza breaks, and first published in 2013; include publication
credit. Editors are welcome to submit entire issues; no need to name
specific poems. Poems must be *received* by May 15.

Send e-mail submissions (preferred) to dwarfstars@sfpoetry.com; please use
"Dwarf Stars sub" as the subject line so submissions don't get buried in
our inboxes. Mail print submissions (discouraged) to Sandra Lindow, 1308
16th Ave E, Menomonie WI 54751.

Poetry Planet: Elgin & Dwarf Stars edition

From Diane Severson Mori: a new edition of Poetry planet showcasing the Elgin and Dwarf Stars Awards has gone live with StarShipSofa this morning: Poetry Planet No. 10 / StarShipSofa No. 303: http://www.starshipsofa.com/2013/09/04/starshipsofa-no-303-ian-sales-part-2/

You'll find Poetry Planet at the end at about the 1 hour 17 mark.

poetry awards

Diane Severson Mori on Elgin & Dwarf Stars http://amazingstoriesmag.com/2013/08/awards-awards-science-fiction-poetry-awards/

Dwarf Stars winners

SFPA 2013 DWARF STARS WINNERS ANNOUNCED

1st Place: Bashō After Cinderella (iii) by Deborah P. Kolodji
2nd Place: The Hidden by Mary Turzillo
3rd Place: Sarcophagus by N.E. Taylor

Stephen M. Wilson & Linda Addison, Co-chairs

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Elgin winners announced by the SFPA: http://sfpoetry.com/el/13elgin.html

Dwarf Stars winners to be announced shortly.

reading Swordspoint
by Ellen Kushner
my desk a mess

Dwarf Stars winners

Copied from a fb post by Geoff Landis


Joshua Gage and I would like to announce the winners of the 2012 "Dwarf Stars" award for the best short science fiction poem published in 2012, voted on by the members of the Science Fiction Poetry Association.

The winners are:

First Place: "Blue Rose Buddha," by Marge Simon, first published in The Mad Hattery (Elektrik Milk Bath Press, 2011)
Second Place: "Closure," by Greer Woodward, first published in Illumen, Autumn 2011
Third Place: "Snowflake galaxies," by G.O. Clark, first published in microcosms, October 9, 2011

We would like congratulate all of the nominees, as well as the editors and publishers of the many magazines, anthologies, and websites who worked hard to bring us a year of excellent speculative poetry.

--
Geoffrey A. Landis
http://www.geoffreylandis.com

Dwarf Stars finalists

We would like to announce the poems selected as finalists for the 2011 SFPA Dwarf Stars award for the best short-short speculative poem published in 2011. Editors for this year's Dwarf Stars anthology are Geoffrey A. Landis and Joshua Gage.

Congratulations to the finalists, and we would also like to thank the many people who sent in suggestions of poems to be nominated this year.

The poems selected as finalists are, in alphabetical order by title (or, for untitled poems, by first line):

"Adrift in the spacecraft," by Michael Arnzen, from microcosms

"The albedo of angels," by Robert Borski, from microcosms

Alien Life, by Pat Tompkins, from Spaceports & Spidersilk, March 2011

All folk have legends of her, by David Kopaska-Merkel, from Scifaikuest, May 2011

"amidst the black churning of stars my shudder," by Jim Kacian, from Roadrunner

"anorexic girl," by John W. Sexton, from Notes From The Gean, Vol. 3, No. 2, Sept. 2011

Before Science Stepped In, by Rod Usher, from Eye to the Telescope, August 2011

Blue Rose Buddha, by Marge Simon, from The Mad Hattery (Elektrik Milk Bath Press 2011)

California Vamp, by James S. Dorr, from Vampires: A Retrospective (Sam's Dot 2011)

Closure, by Greer Woodward, from Illumen, Autumn 2011

"coal-dark tombstone," by George Swede, from Roadrunner

Containers, by F.J. Bergmann, from The Binnacle

Elemental, by Cheryl Stiles, from Goblin Fruit

"Endlessly bitching when birds," by Aurelio Rico Lopez III, from microcosms

Eulogy, by Alexandra Seidel, from Inkscrawl, Issue 2, Sept. 2011

"first kiss," by Albert Schlaht, from Scifaikuest

Graffiti, by Sonya Taaffe, from Stone Telling, 5, Sept. 2011

"Graveside spell spoken," by Marsheila Rockwell, from Halloween Haiku (Popcorn Press 2011)

"Hallow's Eve," by Greg Schwartz, from Tales of the Talisman, Vol. 7, issue 2

Grey-eyed, by Emily Jiang, from Goblin Fruit. Spring 2011

Harvest, by S. Brackett Robertson, from Goblin Fruit, Fall 2011

The Lives of The Stars, by Meg Smith, from Astropoetica

"lunar base 5," by semi (Terrie Leigh Relf), from Scifaikuest, Feb. 2011

Macrocosmic Propagation, by J.E. Stanley, from Star*Line, Vol. 34.4

The Magic Walnut, by Sofía Rhei (translated by Lawrence Schimel), from Mythic Delirium, 25

Matinee Motel-Hollywood: Two Humans, by dan smith, from Paper Crow, Vol. 2, #1, Spring/Summer 2011

"the more space," by Ann K. Schwader, from Eye to the Telescope, Issue 1

Necropsy, by John R. Platt, from Space & Time, Issue 115, Fall 2011

"nearly Mars," by LeRoy Gorman, from Scifaikuest

"new colony," by Randy Brooks, from Scifaikuest

"night sky," by Dietmar Tauchner, from Heron's Nest, Vol. XIII, No. 4, Dec. 11

"particles decaying at the speed of lilac," by Melissa Allen, from Roadrunner

"the perfect evening," by Julie Bloss Kelsey, from Scifaikuest

Protocol, by F. J. Bergmann, Space & Time, Issue 115, from Fall 2011

Robespierre Had The Greenest Eyes, by dan smith, from SpeedPoets, May 2011

The Robot Scientist's Daughter [Polonium-210], by Jeanninne Hall Gailey, from The Journal, Spring/Summer 2011

Rules for Playing Hide and Seek in a Cornfield, by Jamie Wasserman, from Niteblade, March 2011

S E T I, by LeRoy Gorman, Scifaikuest, Feb. 2011 online

Snow flake galaxies, by G. O. Clark, microcosms

Song of the Machines, by Anna Sykora, Star*Line, Vol. 34.2, April-June 2011

Star Ghazal, by Holly Jensen, The Ghazal Page: Astronomy Challenge

Surreal Wish List, by Bruce Boston, Inkscrawl, Issue 1, June 2011

Taking the Auspices, by Sonya Taaffe, Inkscrawl #2, Sept 2011

10 things to know about staplers, by Carolyn Clink, Star*Line, Vol.34.1, Jan.-Mar. 2011

TiME to Go, by Elizabeth Barrette, The Wordsmith's Forge, 5-15-11

"The unborn gods stir inside my belly," by Kristine Ong Muslim, microcosms

Unland, Unlife, by Mike & Anita Allen, Inkscrawl, Issue 1, June 2011

Vanity, by Juan Perez, Star*Line, Vol. 34.1, Jan.-Mar. 2011

Voyages of the H.M.S. Whitechapel, by Robert Borski, The Pedestal Magazine, Issue 64

"wedding night," by Victor Piñeiro, Scifaikuest

What Ray Told Me, by Jenny Rossi, Strange Horizons, 2 May 2011

The World's Scriptures, by Gene Doty, Lynx, XXVI, 3, October, 2011

--
Geoffrey A. Landis
http://www.geoffreylandis.com

genre poetry nomination time

http://dreamnnightmare.livejournal.com/90943.html