🎅 🎀 🎄 🔔 Merry Xmas 🎁 Stylish greetings to all from New York, NY! @hwany.org @charlesbastille.bsky.social @sfpoetry.bsky.social @swsworlds.bsky.social @dmcwriter.bsky.social @kimwhysallhammond.bsky.social @birdwriterwrites.bsky.social @alpbeck.com greenwichvillagepoet.substack.com/p/on-decembe...

Wordsmiths Born Under Saturn (Part 2) Gloomy Samuel Johnson and William Butler Yeats @swsworlds.bsky.social @sfpoetry.bsky.social @kimwhysallhammond.bsky.social @dmcwriter.bsky.social @tomr-bsky.bsky.social greenwichvillagepoet.substack.com/p/wordsmiths...

omg!! Juggernaut by Alyza Taguilaso is up for best collection of poetry in the Philippine National Book Awards!! and that collection includes "Time Skip" published in our issue 16! read the poem here: psychopomp.com/deadlands/is... or get the collection: www.philippinebooks.com/products/jug...

🎅 🗽 Santaland Is Still Enchanting Believers Since 1862 at R.H. Macy & Co. 🎁 But Saint Nick Never Delivered the Gift I Wanted Most. @swsworlds.bsky.social @sfpoetry.bsky.social @ceciliacopeland.bsky.social @dmcwriter.bsky.social @morganvl.bsky.social @alpbeck.com substack.com/@greenwichvi...

A little Speculative Poetry PSA: If you have something speculative poetry related to share, tag us! We'd love to support/boost you ✨

Looking for some fantastic poetry?🦄 Come thru... for poems by: Mu’izz Ọpẹ́yẹmí Àjàyí Aishat Yahkub (Issue 97) Eleanor Ball Mateo Perez Lara (Issue 98) Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan Alex Jennings (Issue 99) psychopomp.com/fantasy/

and our second FANTASY FRIDAY treat is POETRY ✨💖 "Too often I consider my rib cage hanging from This tree or that I think of inked shadows" Grove of Jealous Lovers by @alexjennings.bsky.social psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...

#HorrorCommunity Robin Ginther-Venneri Reviews “Vampire Verses: Poems” Star Rating ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Skull Dread Rating 💀 💀 🖤🧛‍♂️🦇🩸Got your copy yet? @hwany.org @sfpoetry.bsky.social @swsworlds.bsky.social @gnofhorror.com @sffreview.bsky.social @dmcwriter.bsky.social @alpbeck.com www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

ICYMI: Thanks to Destinies on @wusbradio.bsky.social for sharing my #poem "How The Big Bang Happened." (Poem at 10:06) Plus Patrick Thomas's "Dear #Cthulhu," #StarTrek, #HarryPotter, and #WickedforGood. #specpo cc @sfpoetry.bsky.social Click here to listen: captphilonline.com/Destinies/De...

The Poet's Guide to Marketing: Tip # 8. Write Adjacent to Your Themes @sfpoetry.bsky.social @swsworlds.bsky.social @kimwhysallhammond.bsky.social @emteepoetry.bsky.social @joshuasiegal.bsky.social @authorlindamcrate.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/greenwic...

#MondayMood #PoetryCommunity #PoetryInAmerica was funded by PEDO Jeffrey Epstein PBS Cuts Ties With Former Harvard Professor Elisa New Following Epstein Email Release on Donations @alansmitheedga.bsky.social @im-just-sayin.bsky.social @sfpoetry.bsky.social www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

I am beyond excited to be co-chairing the Rhysling awards with @jordanrhirsch.bsky.social! Glad to be celebrating speculative poetry and speculative poets.

Rhysling Award season is quickly approaching, and we're excited to announce the 2026 Rhysling Award Co-Chairs! @ajwentz.com and @jordanrhirsch.bsky.social ✨ Thank you so much, AJ and Jordan, for helping speculative poetry thrive! Rhysling award nominations open January 1 ✨

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The Poet's Guide to Marketing: Tip # 6. Build Community Through Authentic Engagement @sfpoetry.bsky.social @swsworlds.bsky.social @dmcwriter.bsky.social substack.com/@greenwichvi...

Yes indeed - my favorite of which is probably 'Eagle-Eyed' in Eye to the Telescope from @sfpoetry.bsky.social! eyetothetelescope.com/archives/057...

#HorrorCommunity 🧛‍♂️ 🦇 Thrilled to share that my book "Vampire Verses" has been reviewed by Bruce @bbuchananwomble.bsky.social @hwany.org @swsworlds.bsky.social @sfpoetry.bsky.social @dmcwriter.bsky.social @twisteddreamspress.bsky.social @hdwp.com www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

#PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity The Poet's Guide to Marketing: Tip 5. Create Visual Mood Boards That Capture Your Collection's Essence These tips also work for fiction writers! @sfpoetry.bsky.social @swsworlds.bsky.social @dmcwriter.bsky.social greenwichvillagepoet.substack.com/p/the-poets-...

🧛‍♂️ Special Guest Post 🩸🦇 Le Fanu's Carmilla: The Vampire Who Changed Everything by the author of "Vampire Verses" @dmcwriter.bsky.social @twisteddreamspress.bsky.social @hwany.org @gnofhorror.com @hdwp.com @alpbeck.com @sfpoetry.bsky.social @swsworlds.bsky.social lshadowlynauthor.com/2025/12/07/c...

#PoetryCommunity Ern Malley: The Greatest Poet Who Never Was. ✍️ ⚖️ A Literary Hoax that Ended Up in Court @sfpoetry.bsky.social @swsworlds.bsky.social @dmcwriter.bsky.social youtu.be/9m3bytB5ULw?...

#PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity The Poet's Guide to Marketing: Tip # 3. Embrace the Art of Short Video This advice works for novelists, too. @sfpoetry.bsky.social @swsworlds.bsky.social @dmcwriter.bsky.social @bookspotlight.bsky.social substack.com/@greenwichvi...

✒️ 📖 🖤 My book released by @prolificpulsepress.bsky.social received this review: Poetry collections about illness fall into 2 predictable categories ... "Cancer Courts My Mother" avoids both paths ... @sfpoetry.bsky.social @swsworlds.bsky.social thebookishmagazine.com/2025/12/05/c...

🖤 ✒️ 📕🧛‍♂️ 🦇 Released on Black Friday, "Vampire Verses: Poems" got an outstanding review. 🎨🖌️Fully illustrated by @giuliadrawsstuff.bsky.social @hwany.org @swsworlds.bsky.social @sfpoetry.bsky.social @dmcwriter.bsky.social @twisteddreamspress.bsky.social @hdwp.com authoranthonyavina.com/2025/12/05/v...

and for our SECOND Fantasy Friday offering of the day 💞 today's POETRY ✨ "the ground startled with despair only grows more teeth" More Than A Blank Parenthesis Equals God’s Forgetfulness by @nwuguruchidiebere.bsky.social read the full poem here: psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...

Ranking right up there with my favorite things - my ♏ 🎂Scorpio birthday, 🎃 Halloweentide & ✒️🍂 🍁writing poems on October - is appearing in 🖤 @penumbricmag.bsky.social Come read "On Oct. 31st" + meet the phantom postman, who delivers mail to the dead! 👻 ✉️ 📬 @hwany.org @hdwp.com @sfpoetry.bsky.social

#WritingCommunity ✒️ The Poet's Guide to Marketing Bringing Your Words to the World (& these savvy tips also work for novelists) @sfpoetry.bsky.social @swsworlds.bsky.social @dmcwriter.bsky.social @kimwhysallhammond.bsky.social @pixieb.bsky.social @nytebird45.bsky.social substack.com/@greenwichvi...

My new speculative poetry collection Entropocene comes out on 12/18 and is now available for pre-order bookshop.org/a/197/978196...

#HorrorCommunity 🖤 LibraryThing Early Readers: 🧛 Request "Vampire Verses: Poems" Dec. 1-26, 2025 Not on LT? Request an ARC! Illustrated by @giuliadrawsstuff.bsky.social @twisteddreamspress.bsky.social @dmcwriter.bsky.social @hwany.org @sfpoetry.bsky.social www.librarything.com/ner/detail/5...

Our February 2026 issue is open for submissions! Poetry, visual art, and music: redogrereview.submittable.com/submit

A judge has permanently blocked Trump's destruction of the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Really good news for libraries (and those like me, who love them! www.ala.org/news/2025/11...

Author readings for the issue are available on our site and as a playlist on our YouTube channel: youtube.com/@redogrereview

Our thirty-third and December issue is live! ogre.red We're closing out the year of magazine issues strong with our trademark mix of poetry, visual art, and music, along with a spoken word audioscape and a new column in our regular series on contemporary poetry and culture. Check it out!

I have some work I’m really excited to get to you next year. Thanks so much for reading! I’ve also been very happy to co-edit Specpoverse with @miguelmitchell.bsky.social this year. As a last piece, please read my statement on form in speculative poetry: angrygablepress.com/2025/11/26/t...

Alright speculative poetry fans! It’s time for my end of 2025 awards eligibility post! This is my first year publishing in speculative markets and I have ten poems out, which are eligible for the Rhysling, poetry Hugo, Best of the Net, and others. Let’s get started!

O, frabjous day! I am so very excited that 2026 will have a Best Poem Hugo!

Guess what poetry lovers? Today is The Poetry Super Highway Poetry Ebook Free For All! You can snag the SFPA’s Alchemy of Stars, as well as books by several SFPA members and many more. Today only! poetrysuperhighway.com/psh/great-po...

Sarah Kelderman, EIC, Exquisite Death Zine, interviewed me about my new poetry collections 🖤"Cancer Courts My Mother"💀 & 🧛‍♂️🦇"Vampire Verses."🪦 @sfpoetry.bsky.social @hwany.org @swsworlds.bsky.social @dmcwriter.bsky.social @prolificpulsepress.bsky.social www.exquisitedeathezine.com/interview-li...

I received my awards from the @sfpoetry.bsky.social The Elgin Award for best Best Full-length Poetry Collection (Mexicans on the Moon) and the Dwarf Star Award (Perish and Live Forever). Many thanks to everyone who voted or has supported my work. It is the honor of a lifetime. Much love!

#HorrorCommunity 🧛‍♂️ 🦇 ARC & Press Kit available for award-nominee "Vampire Verses" published by @twisteddreamspress.bsky.social 🖤 See the GoodReads reviews! @hwany.org @sfpoetry.bsky.social @dmcwriter.bsky.social @joshuasiegal.bsky.social @pedroiniguez.bsky.social @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social

INTERVIEW: LindaAnn LoSchiavo on Turning Caregiving into Creative Expression in "Cancer Courts My Mother" (Prolific Pulse Press, Nov. 2025). #FormalVerse @prolificpulsepress.bsky.social @sfpoetry.bsky.social @swsworlds.bsky.social @bookspotlight.bsky.social onetribune.one/2025/11/29/l...

#SFFcommunity 💣 💥 #poetrycommunity Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter & rhyme. @sfpoetry.bsky.social @swsworlds.bsky.social @dmcwriter.bsky.social @alpbeck.com www.wired.com/story/poems-...

Double issue of MicroVerse Spec Flash Roundup with Oct-Nov recs!

🙏 Thanksgiving greetings from a NYC vegan to all! ❣️ @hwany.org @swsworlds.bsky.social @sfpoetry.bsky.social @dmcwriter.bsky.social @trishcwilson.bsky.social @wsbookclub.bsky.social @behindthepages.bsky.social @lshadowlyn.bsky.social @morganvl.bsky.social @ceciliacopeland.bsky.social @hdwp.com

Nov. 28th is book release day! "Vampire Verses" is your portal to the immortals! @twisteddreamspress.bsky.social @dmcwriter.bsky.social @hwany.org @gnofhorror.com @trishcwilson.bsky.social @sfpoetry.bsky.social @wsbookclub.bsky.social @behindthepages.bsky.social substack.com/@greenwichvi...

#HorrorCommunity ✒️ 💀 The Art of Writing Horror Poetry A Guide to Crafting Verse That Haunts @hwany.org @sfpoetry.bsky.social @swsworlds.bsky.social @hdwp.com @charlesbastille.bsky.social @joshuasiegal.bsky.social @pixieb.bsky.social @alpbeck.com greenwichvillagepoet.substack.com/p/the-art-of...

#SFFcommunity ❓“You’re going to be dead in 24 hours. Would you like to save the world?” ✍️📕 A detailed review of "Letters from an Imaginary Country" by Theodora Goss, a member of SFPA @swsworlds.bsky.social @sfpoetry.bsky.social @bookspotlight.bsky.social www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/lett...

November 25th = the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. ✍️ 🚉 🗽 "My Subway Pervert Cannot Be Erased" is based on true events in NYC @swsworlds.bsky.social @sfpoetry.bsky.social @dmcwriter.bsky.social @alpbeck.com greenwichvillagepoet.substack.com/p/november-2...

If you're not familiar with the Webster Awards, they honor the memory of my dear friend (& one time @sfpoetry.bsky.social secretary) Bud Webster, a Roanoke-born Richmond-based writer of humorous science fiction & serious genre history who, yes, often wore fezzes, ’cause he KNEW it was funny. [2/3]

#SFFcommunity ⏰ Call to Submit: 23rd Annual Triangulation Anthology 💔 Theme: Bad Romance + 👻 speculative elements 🧟‍♀️ 💲 Parsec Ink pays writers & poets 3¢ per word ⏰ Deadline: 31 Jan 2026 @sfpoetry.bsky.social @swsworlds.bsky.social @thesharkqueen.com @alpbeck.com www.parsecink.org/submissions

How will you celebrate National Book Week? National Book Week [Nov. 24-28 2025] isn’t just about celebrating stories—it’s about embracing the benefits of reading fiction & poetry. @hwany.org @sfpoetry.bsky.social @swsworlds.bsky.social greenwichvillagepoet.substack.com/p/how-will-y...