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...

Well this was nice to receive

since it’s fresh lit mag subscription season, become a patron for @radonjournal.bsky.social essential reading if you’re not interested in taking the blue pill www.patreon.com/c/radonjourn...

I love editing poetry because it lets you fall in love with each poem as much as the author. Hearing their detailed, nuanced reasoning for each minute decision is fascinating and always inspiring. Writing a poem is like constructing a man-made iceberg you get to climb into and make your home.

Honored to be nominated for my first Best of the Net. This poem functions both as a standalone SFF poem, but also the prologue to my poetry collection (currently on sub to publishers)

I accomplished one of my long-term rock climbing goals: lead climbing to the top of this 60-foot wall for the first time. Specifically the front-facing part of the wall. It's entirely overhung so I'm leaning slightly upside down the whole time

Eye to the Telescope decisions are out. Edits for those in the issue this work week, and full Cyberpunk issue will be out Oct 15

As I go through the Cyberpunk poems, I'm reading Neuromancer

Today is the last day to submit to the (paying) poetry opportunity under the cyberpunk theme: eyetothetelescope.com/submit.html I'll be guest editing this themed issue of SFPA's long-running outlet, and look forward to not only scifi cyberpunk, but interesting fantasy interpretations of the genre.

The SFWA Speculative Poetry Committee now has its own official logo. #SpecPo #SpeculativePoetry #ScifiPoetry Looks pretty damn cool. Reminds me of the Two Trees of Valinor, with a scifi twist of the stars and cybernetic roots.

Casey roundup b/c I don't post: * Lead climbing certified * @foofarawpress.bsky.social contest judge * My long poem "Body Revolt" is still in the running for the @sfpoetry.bsky.social's Rhysling Award * My agent and I finalized my full-length poetry collection and expect it to go on sub soon

I never make as many update posts as I should as I always don't want to bother people. Then it builds up and I have to make bullet points. So, uh, expect some bullet points tomorrow.

We are honored to have three wonderful judges. @charliefish.bsky.social, editor-in-chief of Fiction on the Web, @caseyaimer.bsky.social, editor at @radonjournal.bsky.social, and @joelgloverauthor.bsky.social, author and Foofaraw contributor!

Radon is about 40% filled in both poetry and fiction for Oct 1's Issue 11. Plenty of room for your latest gritty sci-fi exploring dystopian futures

Expanded my forearm tattoo with a wrap-around watercolor brush stroke design

It's rare I buy poetry books. I know that's odd, but after writing and editing poems all day I relax with a scifi novel. Goal is to read 1 poem a day and study it. So far I'm already emotionally wrecked by a Jack Gilbert poem. I also love that my MFA mentor, Naomi Shihab Nye, is in here too.

@trollbreathmag.bsky.social has my poem "Technological Distraction for the Troubled Mind" now free to read on their site: magazine.trollbreath.com/technologica... Perfect for the anxious among us in the tech age

Humid summer nights like this remind me of finding empty parking lots with my poetry friends and spitting slam poems until 3 AM.

This past week I've had COVID after getting it at the Spy Museum. Very cool museum, didn't like the disease, though. I'm vaccinated and boosted so it's been just a light cough and drainage but still, even this introvert is getting stir-crazy. Reminds me of life in 2020.

Voting has officially begun for this year's Rhysling Awards in the SFPA. I hope you'll keep in your mind my poem "Body Revolt" in the Long Poem category, published last year in @strangehorizons.bsky.social

Congratulations to my agent @seraphecda.bsky.social moving to @belcastroagency.bsky.social and starting today. Nothing but good things have been said about the agency from other writers. It's an exciting time

Physical copy of the antifa volume came in. Over 200 pages of great anti-fascist writing in here. A record four of my own political scifi poems are in it too. @notapipe.bsky.social