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The latest Star*line: http://sfpoetry.com/sl/issues/starline41.4.html -- A collaboration between me and Ann K. Schwader is an editor's choice. We had a great time writing this one.

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DN 110 goes to the printer tomorrow. Here are the contents:

Denny Marshall, Phantom Call ...................................................... cover
From the Brain Stem ................................................................................ 3 
Chris Friend, illo .................................................................................... 3 
m. c. childs, On approach ....................................................................... 4
 Chris Friend, illo .................................................................................... 4
 Gloundan Smorpian, a full moon rising .............................................. 4 
Neal Wilgus, Calendary Cycle ................................................................ 5
 Robert Frazier, A Vow Concerning the Use of Beans ................... 6 
Robert Borski, One More Infraction and You're Gone, Mr. Chaney ... 7 
Adele Gardner, My Little Vampire ....................................................... 8
 Herb Kauderer, epitaph for the creature ............................................. 9
 Lisa Timpf, Over It ................................................................................ 10
 Robert Borski, Trojan Ape ................................................................... 10
 Lynne Sargent, Particularities ............................................................ 11 
Ruth Berman, Explosion in the Time Factory .................................... 12
Neal Wilgus, Surrealestate ................................................................... 12
 Gwen Thomas, Fractals ........................................................................ 13
 Deborah P Kolodji, songs we can't hear ............................................. 14
 Zella Christensen, Foreign Tongue .................................................... 14 
FJ Bergmann, Verdant ......................................................................... 15
 Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Communion ................................................... 18 
Holly Lyn Walrath, How We Got Here ............................................... 20
 

You really don't want to miss this one!


$5 print; $1 pdf, $90 lifetime sub print (includes all available back issues; about 10); $39 lifetime sub, pdf (includes nearly every back issue) 

DN is the oldest extant spec. po. zine, except for Star*line. 

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Just saw a beautiful review of Metastable Systems in  the forthcoming issue of Star*line. They say that favorable reviews do not increase sales, but they sure make you feel good. I also have several poems  coming out in that same issue.

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Two of my poems and a chapbook review in the next Star*line, which has an awesome cover.  Remember, almost any of the 107 published issues of Dreams and Nightmares $1 each in digital form. For $39 you get all past and future issues in digital form. Print copies $5 ea; $25/6 i
ssues. Paypal to jopnquog at gmail.com.

Geological Survey of Alabama has a great new camera for macrophotography. We'll use it to photograph some of the beautiful fossils from the last half a billion years, preserved in our state. We've not been able to do this before.

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Happy Darwin Day, you products of 3,800,000,000 years of evolution! Go out and adapt!

On a more plaintive note, I need to get in touch with Kim Neidigh. I owe 2 contributor's copies of Dreams and Nightmares 105, but have lost the address.

Help?

 On a more informative note, I have now mailed almost every contributor and subscriber copy of Dreams and Nightmares 105. The remainder will go out tomorrow, except for the one lacking an address. I am pretty sure that Star*line is the only genre poetry zine in print longer that also has published more issues. The Magazine of Speculative Poetry has been in print longer, but issues come out pretty infrequently these days.

You can get a digital copy for a dollar and a print copy for five dollars. PayPal to jopnquog@gmail.com or a check to me at 1300 Kicker Rd., Tuscaloosa, AL 35404. You can also get lifetime subscriptions, including all available back issues: $39 for digital only, $90 for print and digital. Or a six-issue print subscription for $25. So many options!

Starline back issues on sale

Star*Line SALE: Back issues of any issue available, any quantity, only $1 each including shipping (35.1 - 37.2, plus earlier issues listed at top of http://www.sfpoetry.com/sl/slarchive.html

Going to readings? Conferences? Take some along to give away or sell! (We're trying to reduce extra stock on hand, and generate funds for SFPA.)


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color covers for Star*line

Copied from the SFPA Facebook page

Color covers for Star*line

Last summer I put out a call for donations to pay for color covers on Star*line. We received enough money to pay for covers through the end of 2012. I think the artists who have adorned the magazine with their artwork have done a stunning job. The first impression a magazine makes comes from its cover. Thanks to the skill, generosity, and talent of artists like Kelli Hoppmann and Franco Brambilla, Star*line has looked better than ever before. You can see all the covers at
http://sfpoetry.com/sl/slarchive.html.

We couldn't afford to pay for color if we had to do so out of the SFPA's income. Instead, color covers have been paid for by: anonymous, Kendall Evans, Robert Frazier, David Larson, and David Lunde. Thank you all! It's been great, but our color-cover fund will run out with the calendar year 2012. If you would like us to continue using color covers, and can afford to donate towards that end, please do. It costs about $100 to put color on a single issue, but you don't have to donate that much. Whatever you can afford is what we'd be pleased to receive. Also, you can
donate anonymously, in your own name, in the name of your press, or however you choose. Please send PayPal donations to SFPATreasurer@gmail.com or mail a check made out to SFPA to SFPA, PO Box 4846, Covina CA 91723. Please tell us that your donation is to pay for color covers, and state what name should be acknowledged.

David C. Kopaska-Merkel
President, Science Fiction Poetry Association

small-press reviews

Wrote reviews of Clink & Dietrich for Star*line. Yolen is next.

Not so vicarious award

Year's best horror honorable mention: Kopaska-Merkel,David & Rathbone,Wendy“ApparitionHouse,”(poem) Star*LineJan/Feb

older poem

archaeolog


The Empath strokes the weathered stone,
Evoking tactile images: smoothness, yielding warmth,
the prickle of dust.
Deeper she buries her SELF in the layered history
Of this freighted artifact;
Sensations of electrostatic force, gravitic repulsion,
Odors of ozone and dust, a hint of exotic organics --
Perfume of the vanished owner? Or a cleaning agent.
Deeper. The present is the path to the past.
Give up the present, abandon all connections.
The tinkling of chimes, low-frequency rumblings, oddly
syncopated,
(speech?), briefly, a cacophony of noise.
Deeper....the empathic sphere yields love, pride;
These may be the fossilized emotions of the artist itself!
The empath's excitement shocks her partway out of the
trance,
Relax, find the receptive frame, receive the past, live it
The emotions return, stronger, they live,
She IS the artist: a fragment of vision sears the mind's
Eye. The artifact is perceived in the moment of creation,
Whole, new, and in its proper frame of reference.
Time, considered as an onion of detritus,
Peeled to its core of fossil NOW.
But where perception reaches, understanding still may fail.
The empath spirals outward to her NOW of shattered relics;
Striving to comprehend the lives that now are dust.


END


Prev. publ. Star*line. Not sure when, but file last saved 1997.