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Rhysling nomination: Drew Morse, chair of the 2006 Rhysling Poetry Awards, notified me on Feb. 23 that "Cargoes of Immensity" has been nominated in the long-poem category for the award. This will mean publication in the 2006 Rhysling Anthology, a chapbook published by the Science Fiction Poetry Association. (Posted 27 Feb. 06.)
SpinDrifter: Jean Paul Jenack has done me quite the favor, not only publishing a sizeable group of poems in his Spindrifter: The Island Literary Journal in his Summer 2005 issue, but also writing an introduction about me and my work in the small press. He even uses the photograph formerly featured on this website, of me playing with a "Sputnik" toy from the 1950s.
There are not that many editors who would know about those early magazines I founded or helped found. Besides The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, there were The Silent Planet and Treaders of Starlight. The latter was subtitled "The Magazine of Speculative Poetry."
Single-issue price is $6.50 for this truly interesting little. Write to dpi press, inc., P.O.Box 3563, Placida, Fla. 33946. (Posted, finally, 9 Feb. 06.)
2006 Rhysling Anthology. "Cargoes of Immensity: October 4, 2004."
Asimov's SF Magazine. "Staying the Course."
Asimov's SF Magazine. "They Arrived."
The Magazine of Speculative Poetry. "Souvenir."
Poesia, Jan. '07. "Anticipations."
Talebones. "Uncaught."
2005
"Different Toast." Ship of Fools, No. 58, Winter 2006, p. 33.
"Dust." The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, No. 25 (7:1), Winter 2004-05 (received April 2005), p. 23.
"Cargoes of Immensity: October 4, 2004." The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, No. 25 (7:1), Winter 2004-05 (received April 2005), pp. 24-26.
"The Times We Changed." Medlar Circle, Anna Tambour's website feature, March 2006.
"Box of Wires." Same.
"Grace Notes." Same.
"Walk." Poetry Midwest, No. 14 (5:2), Spring-Summer 2005, p. 23.
"Warm Air." Spindrifter, 2:2, Summer 2005, p. 29.
"Those Inches." Same.
"While She Ponders Away." Same.
"Far Travel." Same.
"Seven Hundred Species." Same. (Haiku.)
"Nothing Overheard." Same, p. 30.
"Sweepers." Same, p. 30.
"Cage." Same, p. 31.
"Death of a Favorite Son." Same, p. 31.
... and misc. ones from a few less recent years ...
"Ancient Materials." The Magazine of Speculative Poetry [ ... ]
"Where on the river they cannot build." Electric Velocipede, No. 2, Spring 2002, p. 15.
"To Sleep." Strange Horizons, April, 2002.
"In Memoriam (J.F.)." Electric Velocipede. No. 1, Fall 2001, p. 17.
"The Sky-Eater." Talebones. No. 8, Summer 1997, p. 29.
"White Lips." Poem. No .70, Nov. 1994, p. 70.
"That Same, in Winter." Poem. No .70, Nov. 1994, p. 69.
"Ears, Not Knees." Poem. No .70, Nov. 1994, p. 68.
"For a Sports-Car Owning Friend on his Fortieth Birthday." Light. No. 5, Spring 1993, p. 20.
"Body Counts." Poem. No. 67, May 1992, p. 65.
"From Beside Dark Waters." Sozoryoku. No. 4, Dec. 1991, p. 9.
"Drawing of a Tree." Time Frames, ed. Garey. 1991, pp. 19-24.
"This Far." Time Frames, ed. Garey. 1991, pp. 18.
"Deeper into the Voyage." Time Frames, ed. Garey. 1991, p. 17.
"Embassy of Anomie." Xenophilia. No. 2, Jan. 1991, pp. 44-47.
"Voyage of Stillness." The Magazine of Speculative Poetry. 3:1, Oct.-Dec. 1990, p. 15.
"Epilogue." Riverside Quarterly. 8:3, July 1990.
"Snow Late Procession." Dark Alley. 1:1, June 1990, p. 14.
"In Our Country." The Magazine of Speculative Poetry. 2:4, July-Dec. 1989, p. 7.
"Delivery." Seems. No. 24-25, 1989, p. 33.
"In Situ." Eldritch Science. No. 3, March 1989, p. 29.
"Bells at the Midnight Noon." Eldritch Science. No. 3, March 1989, p. 29.
"Amassing Knowledge." Lightyear 1988-89. 1988, p. 103.
"On Escaping," reprint. Rhysling Anthology 1988. Jan. 1989, p. 18.
"A Person of Action Wonders Sometimes." Manhattan Review. 4:2, Spring 1988, p. 47.
"Descent," reprint. Rhysling Anthology 1988. Jan. 1989, p. 44-46.
"Before this Dawn." The Magazine of Speculative Poetry. 2:2, Oct.-Dec. 1988, pp. 13-14.
"On Escaping." Ice River magazine. 1:2, Winter 1987, pp. 36-7.
"Music Room." Ice River newsletter. 3:5-8, Oct.-Dec. 1987, p. 1.
"Even the Mourning Doves." Poem. No. 58, Nov. 1987, p. 10.
"The Face Is a Face." Poem. No. 58, Nov. 1987, p. 9.
"After the Harvest." Nexus. 23:1, Fall 1987, p. 4.
"Shattered Bridge." Panoply. 1:2, Oct. 31, 1987, p. 12.
"Dark Gravity." Scavenger's Newsletter. No. 45, Nov. 1987, p. 6.
"Night Vision." Nycticorax. No. 4, Summer 1987, p. 20.
"Putting It Right There." Nycticorax. No. 4, Summer 1987, p. 7.
"Signals Star to Star." Starline. 10:2, March-April 1987, pp. 11-12.
"In this Daylight." Supernatural Poetry. No. 1, April 1987.
"Letter." Panoply. 1:1, March 20, 1987, p. 15.
"The Alien Reads a Romance." The Mage. No. 6, Winter 1987, p. 11.
"In Ghostly Red File." The Magazine of Speculative Poetry. 1:4, Jan.-March 1987, pp. 11-12.
"Forward from What Vanishes." Amazing Stories. 61:5, Jan. 1987, p. 51.
"Fractions Come in All Numbers." Mind in Motion. No. 8, Winter 1986, p. 3.
"Automated Dreams." Ouroboros. No. 5, Sept. 1986, p. 30.
"In Observation at the Mysteries." Ouroboros. No. 5, Sept. 1986, p. 39-40.
"We Sit in Space." Mind in Motion. No. 7, Autumn 1986, p. 15.
"How Mystery Begins." New Word. No. 2, Oct. 1986, p. 2.
"Post," reprint. Rhysling Anthology 1986. Sept. 1986, p. 25.
"Clocks and Locks." Light Year '87. Pages 186-87.
"The Season Not Yet Fall." Expressions. 1:1, Spring/Summer 1986, p. 25.
"Carnival." Visions. No. 20, March 1986, pp. 30-31.
"Remorse." Visions. No. 20, March 1986, pp. 31.
"When She Listens After Supper." Poem. No. 55, March 1986, p. 36.
"April Oak First Green." Poem. No. 55, March 1986, p. 35.
"Wisconsin Rain." Mind in Motion. No. 4, Winter 1985, p. 13.
"Post." The Magazine of Speculative Poetry. 1:3, Summer-Fall 1985, p. 17.
"On a New World." The Magazine of Speculative Poetry. 1:2, Spring 1985, p. 14.
"In this Center Hold Solitude." The Mage. No. 4, Winter 1985, p. 22.
"Holding White Petals." Pandora. No. 14, 1985, p. 31.
"To the Salamander." Uranus. No. 1, Spring 1979, p. 7.
"Perhaps the Tiger." Uranus. No. 1, Spring 1979, pp. 4-6.
"The Strength of Earth, the Weakness of Mist." Speculative Poetry Review. No. 2, 1977, p. 17.
"Rocketman." Speculative Poetry Review. No. 1, 1977, p. 26.
"Clown Mask, Crown of Ebon." Cthulhu Calls. 4:2, Jan. 1977, p. 25.
"Eire Coast." Cthulhu Calls. 4:2, Jan. 1977, p. 21 (second prize in SF poetry contest).
"A Broken Delusion or 2." Cthulhu Calls. 3:3, Jan. 1976, p. 32.
"And I, Dwarfed Beneath the Resplendent Dream." Treaders of Starlight: the Magazine of Speculative Poetry. 1:2, Aug. 1976, p. 23.
"On Some Inner Planet, a Fawn." Treaders of Starlight: the Magazine of Speculative Poetry. 1:2, Aug. 1976, p. 21.
"We, Starlight Treaders." Treaders of Starlight: the Magazine of Speculative Poetry. 1:1, Oct. 1974, p. 20.
"The Windows Expanding out of Chaos." The Silent Planet. 1:1, Oct. 1973, p. 10.