Frankly just too depressed to think of a good April Fool's

This week we’re reading the Nebula finalists in the poetry category! Links to each nominee below - give these poems a read! @sfwa.org #Nebulas

The biggest holiday for poets is coming up on Wednesday. Everyone's heard of NaNoWriMo, but poets in April have NaPoWriMo (National Poetry Writing Month). I'll be aiming to write my next poetry collection via a poem a day. But the emotional taxation is so great, I'll probably extend it through June

To be a poet is to realize you'll have to come up with hundreds of unique metaphors for crying And then get tired a couple dozen in and vow to never write tears again And then need those metaphors anyway And then wonder aloud why the hell the speakers in your poems are always crying

I hope folks nominating for the Hugo's Best Semiprozine surprise us all and nominate a bigger spread this year of smaller semi-pro mags and not the same labeled-semi-pro-but-actually-pro-mags that have shown up the last two decades

The best part of the Poetry Nebula Award is that you can read the entire slate of nominees with only five minutes of your time. Poets are like late-night robbers, coming to beat your heart with emotions, and then fleeing before your nervous system alarms go off. Links below

Excited, humbled, surprised, nervous, happy, bewildered, and a thousand other adjectives, to share that I'm a finalist for the first Poetry Nebula Award. Thank you @penumbricmag.bsky.social for taking a chance on "They Said Robots Are" Free for the world to read: www.penumbric.com/archives/Jun...

I am so honored to share this category with @mariness.bsky.social @nicowritesbooks.bsky.social @angelaliu.bsky.social @caseyaimer.bsky.social @nytebird45.bsky.social and @directorh.bsky.social -- I have so much to learn from all of you and I am humbled to be here with you in this category!

If you're looking to get into Radon's potentially cursed Issue #13, I can tell you directly that I'm looking for bread-and-butter sci-fi short stories to round out the issue, ideally on the shorter side (up to 3k words). That's what I'm hunting the slush pile for over the next month

Two days later, and my social battery (and voice) is still recovering from AWP. Loved being an oasis for genre fans, and they made their joy known. Got to tell plenty of young writers what SFWA and SFPA were about. Many were young MFA writers happy to know a professional genre org even existed

Another good day with SFWA and SFPA. Many SFF fans have found us but not all. Come get a respite from the literary journals and enjoy a speculative space.

I'll be at AWP working the combo @sfpoetry.bsky.social and @sfwa.org table at spot T346 We won't be there and live until Thursday so have fun today without us. But be seeing everyone Thur-Sat I'm making this year's theme be, "Yeah, sci-fi poetry does exist. And you should write it."

I'm proud to say that--for the first time--I have a poem nominated in both the short and long categories of the Rhysling Award. "Black Hole Framing" at @foofarawpress.bsky.social and "An Aging AI Tries to Remember Its Life" at @smallwondersmag.com

GUIDE FOR FICTION-LOVERS READING POETRY FOR THE FIRST TIME: So you've only read fiction your whole life, and now people are yelling at you to nominate poems. How the hell do you figure out what's a good poem? Let a guy with three degrees in fiction + poetry + publishing tell you.

There's a whole SFWA interview/article helping you get to know the new Poetry Nebula Award: www.sfwa.org/2025/02/18/s...

Mail day! Adding Issue 12 of @radonjournal.bsky.social to my stack of production babies.

I'll be at AWP this year working the combined SFWA & SFPA table. Just looking at the full list of who's coming and it's fucking huge. Pretty much all the big names. Pour one out for my fellow small presses and journals who will never afford the $1.5k to get a booth

How's everyone's Nebula poetry nominations going? Hardest thing you've ever had to do, due to endless options and possibilities condensed down to five?

They haven't gone for people on cruise ships, yet. That's good at least. Not that me accessing the Internet after a week shows me anything other than a decreasing quality of life for us Had a foundational idea for a new poetry collection though, while looking into the sea-abyss. So that's something

In an hour I'll board a cruise ship in Texas for my honeymoon. I'm making this status to note I am not suicidal in any way. If anything happens to me it is because of political persecution. My wife and I are both US citizens

Radon's twelfth issue came out, online & in print radonjournal.com/issue12 This one is special, in that it's the perfect mix of raging against the machine & emotional tear-jerkers. This issue is a reaction against the fascist takeover of the US where our editors are, yet infused with so much hope

SFWA Presents SPECULATIVE POETRY BOOK CLUB ONLINE VIA ZOOM Hosted by Mary Soon Lee Book: "The Inca Weaver's Tales" by Katherine Quevedo Winner of the 2025 Elgin Award Members of SFWA sign up via events page on #SFWA website #bookclub #sfpoetry #marysoonlee #sciencefiction

Fellow SFWA members, I hope you won't be leaving the poetry section blank in your Nebula nominations. It's the first year of the award, and important to show that it gets the love it deserves. If you don't know where to find great SFF poetry, just ask me or another SFWA poet, and we can direct you

My hot-climate-ass didnt realize how valuable a snow shovel would be during the winter until right now. So here I am, scooping snow with a damn cooking sheetpan

When the nuremberg trails 2.0 begin in the future, don't let any Republican off the hook. They intentionally curated this horrible reality. Anyone who's ever voted Republican or conservative is at fault. There's no such thing as a good Republican. There is never any reason to vote conservative.

When you see any journal's new art, know it's the hardest part of the magazine and the fact that it exists should be celebrated

Artists, not authors, are going to be the absolute death of me in the journal industry. The amount of stress they give me is unreal

Some prose writers are going to fight me, but I think by and large, poets come up with more interesting titles for their works compared to short story authors.

And finally, "Circuitry" - a sonnet about exploitation and post-humanism - was published in @sfpoetry.bsky.social's "Cyberpunk" issue of Eye to the Telescope, editing by the supremely talented @caseyaimer.bsky.social. www.eyetothetelescope.com/archives/058...

I can't wait until we get to the guillotine part of the revolution against these fucking fascists

2025 was a stellar year for my sci-fi poetry. In addition to landing an agent and having my debut collection put on sub, I have 14 poems eligible for nomination in the @sfpoetry.bsky.social's 2026 Rhysling Awards. I'll list them below, or you can view my author website: CaseyAimer.com

Every two years I spend Christmas 20 meters from the southern US border wall. And every time I'm reminded how utterly ridiculous the concept of borders are, and how we should tear them all down.

There's something poetically ironic about a poet who becomes so good at cutting off their own emotions in normal day-to-day life. Anyway, the older I get, the more I understand artists hiding out in mountain cabins for a month to write their next work. Maybe that'll be me next NaPoWriMo

Well it officially happened to me, like so many before My wife has bought far too many clothes and shoes and we have nowhere to put it all

I'm proud to say I'm officially a card-carrying member of a workers' union. Been a big supporter of them in my life, and glad I've moved into a job with a burgeoning (new) union to get involved with.

Turns out being extrovert for a weekend makes me more tired than expected. And Neil Clarke had a lot of great information. Lot of data. It's hard to make it as a semi-pro journal, and Uncanny should no longer be considered semi-pro to make room for younger journals in the Hugo awards

Just got home to DC—and I have never known a more profound introvert exhaustion than after being on for three days at Philcon. But a great first true con experience that I'll unpack as the week unfolds, including a dinner with Neil Clarke

Final day of Philcon, if you wanna chat about SFF poetry I'll be in the dealer's room

Getting to Philcon just an hour late due to Baltimore traffic. But once there I'll be seeing everyone

The recent issue of Eye to the Telescope focused on cyberpunk, and WOW! Each poem blew me away. Edited by @caseyaimer.bsky.social. @sfpoetry.bsky.social

Our yearly finance report for Radon is out. It also serves as a public showcase of exactly how much it takes to produce a genre journal. I remember when I was younger wondering why no one ever made detailed public posts on this topic. And wanting to see some. So now I make one each year

Back in the early days of MySpace and Facebook, I'd write statuses about every thought that popped into my head. Nowadays, I still have plenty of commentary, but I never seem to make posts. Perhaps it's that arguing with people online got old. Or maybe I just save it all for my books.

Death comes for us all, even AIs adrift in space. But death doesn't have to be the end, as we learn in "An Aging AI Tries to Remember Its Life," by @caseyaimer.bsky.social.

How do others determine how many books to bring to a SFF conference to sell?

Proud of this ETTT issue. The poetry community embraced cyberpunk in wonderful and creative ways. There are even some fantasy-witch cyberpunk poems here. It was a great experience guest editing. Come see how that's possible by clicking the link below

My new cyberpunk poem "Snitched" is out today in the @sfpoetry.bsky.social's Eye to the Telescope edited by @caseyaimer.bsky.social eyetothetelescope.com/archives/058...

The dumbest thing I realized I had wrong my whole life is which window at fast food drive-thrus is which. Whenever they said "pull up to the second window" I thought that meant the window before the main one, because the food window was considered the first one. Turns out it's the opposite.

The Smart Search List of the Day is: Paying Poems feat. @parisreview.bsky.social @radonjournal.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com...

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