Last updated at Sunday, 16 March 2025 14:25:52 -0400
– Star*Line 48.1 – dadakuku January 5, 2025 – Five Fleas, January 25, 2025 – Uppagus February 2025
- Dreams and Nightmares, issue 129 - SFPA Valentines Day page – Bewildering Stories, Issue 1081
– Star*Line 47.4 – Lothlorien Poetry Journal Friday 4 October 2024
– Eccentric Orbits 5 – Failed Haiku Issue 104 – Five Fleas November 28, 2024 – Moss Piglet “Future” December 2024 – dadakuku, December 16, 2024 – Five Fleas, 22 January 2024Total number of pieces in print: 31
Total number of pieces online: 82
During the first part of this last quarter I have been feeling as though my published pieces are coming along a tiny bit slower than the first two. I do have some pieces slated to be published with long lead times, some of them into 2025. There were a few journals in the last several months which had published some of my work but which are no longer taking new work. I try to keep my eyes open for markets where I haven’t already sent poems before. This is time consuming, but the only way I know to learn about different submission requirements and editorial standards.
Halfway through the year I’ve been happy to continue with the run of surreal micropoetry month by month along with some longer pieces in Star*Line, Dreams and Nightmares, and Sein und Werden. Even better was to see my first piece to appear in Eternal Haunted Summer – a short prose piece with mythic resonances.
My poem [it is not] which appeared in the Heliosparrow Poetry Journal last January was awarded a Special Award for Micronarrative by their editors.
The first three months of the year had the usual crop of surreal micropoetry and a few print and online publications of speculative poetry. I also participated in an in-person event for a book launch for the Delaware Bards Anthology of 2023 where I read the mainstream poem included in the volume.
I finished off the year with a whole bunch of poems online and in print. Here are the ones which were published over the last three months of the year.
– Star*Line 46.4
There were 94 poetry submissions published on the web and 31 in printed form, each total a record for me. On Duotrope my acceptance rate is 36.1% per batch of poems, and in terms of the individual works I sent out, my success rate came to 15.4% for the last year. This is above average for their other subscribers submitting work to the publications I approached. I am happy with this and feel as though this gives me a boost to continue following the same method I’ve worked out over the past few years.
- Star*Line 46.3
- Songs of Eretz - Baycon 2023, Birds of a Feather: genre poetry session, 3 July 2023 - Five Fleas - dadakuku – Mobius: the Journal of Social Change Volume 34, Number 3 - Uppagus Issue 58 – Five Fleas – Chrome Baby 125 – dadakuku 125 – Five Fleas – dadakuku – Abyss and Apex Issue 88
- dadakuku - Star*Line 46.2 - Bewildering Stories 993
- otoliths - Danse Macabre 150 - Five Fleas - Sein und Werden: Animal - Vegetable - MineralMy poems “long story short” and “sawdust protected our torsos” which appeared in Five Fleas in 2022 have been nominated as eligible for the 2023 Dwarf Stars award and are appearing in this year’s print anthology. Also, The closest traitor was nominated to the longlist for the 2023 Rhysling Award in the short category.
I’m starting the new year off at a modest, steady rate but I know of a bunch more pieces which are due to come out in the next few months as well, so I’ll be announcing those soon.
- Heliosparrow - Star*Line 46.1
- Dreams and Nightmares - Uppagus, Issue 53 - Five Fleas - Five Fleas
- Danse Macabre, 145 - Bewildering Stories, Issue 968 - Liquid Imagination, Issue 52 - Stranged Writing: A Literary Taxonomy, an anthology by The Gravity of the Thing Five Fleas
- otoliths, Southern Summer, 2022 (with John W Sexton) - Uppagus, Issue 54 - Five Fleas - Sein und Werden, Autumn/Winter 2022 - NonBinary Review - Heathentide Orphans 2022 - HeliosparrowPublishing was a little slower during the rest of the summer into the beginning of Fall, though I am optimistic about a bunch of new pieces which will come out in the next few months.
- Star*Line 45.3 - Star*Line 45.3 - Abyss and Apex - otoliths, Southern Winter 2022 and in print as Issue 66, part one - Bewildering Stories, Issue 962 ubu, Issue 4 (with John W Sexton) - Uppagus, Issue 53 - Five Fleas - Five Fleas - Five FleasHere is the next group of my published work this year, another thirty titles online, in print, and even streaming audio. As in the last set, for the ones which appear between covers along with other items of fantastic poetry and prose, I’ve put up some images of how those volumes look. In among the fantasy and science fiction and surrealism there are a few mainstream pieces there, maybe on the edge of speculation. Some are short micropoems and some are long pieces split up into stanzas, and there a few prose poems in the mix also.
Last year was my most active year when it came to having poetry appear in print. I was not sure whether I was going to keep up the pace this year, given the many distractions the world has been throwing at me, but as I look back at January through March, I can see that the results are actually coming in even faster. I have 28 pieces either online or in print which is more than half of my total for last year (51). So, instead of waiting until the end of the year like I did then, I thought I’d start putting up a post every quarter with links to where these things can be found. Again, I’ve marked the items which would be eligible for a Rhysling Award next year with a little star for those who might be interested in nominating them for SFPA awards.
I had a good year getting my poetry published both online and in print, and I wanted to have a full list up summarizing what is out there for anyone interested. For those interested, I will start out by sharing a little bit of my experience producing poetry and having people read it.
I was going to say that I don’t have any training in this, but in fact I did take one course in college from a young instructor where we learned about English poetic forms and turned in assignments based on what we found out. I was a senior then and didn’t need this course to satisfy my requirements, wary of anything that might adversely affect my grade point average, so I was taking this course “Pass/No-Pass” just out of interest. We started with blank verse reading Milton, then heroic couplets with Dryden, and by the time I handed in my quatrain assignment the instructor spoke to me in confidence saying that I really ought to switch my registration to take the course for a grade. That was my first editorial interaction and might be the most important one for me, because I think it this is the main payoff when I hear back about poems I’ve sent off. The money up till now is meager, the fame is mostly self-deception, but the bits of praise from people who I never expected to make that kind of connection with is like a drug.
