Last day for #RhyslingAward nominations: anything not linked in the thread is in the members area. Particularly fond of "The Giant Robot Prefers Not To" and the first poem in my collection as well as "Far Above All Other Whales, An Unwritten Life" and "Patient 10642".

#RhyslingAward nominations close tomorrow. I would be honored to receive your nomination for any of these works for a #Rhysling but particularly "The Giant Robot Prefers Not To." My packet is in the members area on the @sfpoetry.bsky.social site. Enjoy the reading.

Stillborn * * * **CW** : none. * * * _I grew up in rural and remote areas across Canada, and have travelled the world, witnessing both willful and incidental destruction of ecosystems. Until I became too disabled to continue, I marched with Land Defenders in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en over the Canadian government’s and Coastal GasLink’s continued desecration of their sovereign territory. This poem was written in response to the LandBack movement and as part of the brainstorming process for my unpublished cli-fi novel_ The Everwhen _._ — SP I fear they will never stop being born, that the labour of the world is never-ending. Spasm after spasm, go go go! Forced birth pangs of great celerity, speeding through the earth’s skin and muscle, tearing open cracks in the landscape like a self-administered episiotomy. Mother earth screams as frack holes carve wounds into her most intimate areas, fistulas pouring forth fluids like a gouting tear in her carotid. Amputate her mountains. Bone marrow biopsy from her rocky mantle, that slab of coal-streaked shale is a steak carved by a bargain butcher. Dive into her magma and emerge from the burning birthwaters, slide high into the sacred stratosphere and look at what ruin her most self-serving children beget. Do you kiss your mother with that mouth, child? Do you kiss your mother at all? Enjoyed this article? Consider supporting us via one of the following methods: * Buy eBook * Direct (ePub/Mobi/PDF) * Amazon (Kindle) * Barnes & Noble (Nook) * Weightless (ePub/Mobi) * Kobo (ePub) SubscribePatreon

My ecological horror poem "Stillborn" has been nominated for the Rhysling Award. It's my first time making it to that list. https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/podcast/stillborn/ #poetry #ecology #RhyslingAward #SpeculativePoetry #PoetryCommunity

Back on TikTok for now. If you want to watch me read “The High Priestess Falls in Love with Death” ( @thedeadlands.com ), which is up for the #RhyslingAward from @sfpoetry.bsky.social, you’re in luck:

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Do I mildly mispronounce the word poem in the beginning? Maybe.

👏 Congratulations, Miguel O. Mitchell! His poem, "Max Returns to His Home World" from "Surrealia" has been nominated for a 2025 Rhysling Award in the Long Poem category by the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association!

#RhyslingAward #Rhysling #Nomination

Katabatic Circus Vol. 1 Released! Buy

My 2024 #poem "Gorgoneion" qualifies for the short-form Rhysling Award at @sfpoetry.bsky.social. Find it in Katabatic Circus Vol. 1 or in the #SFPA members' drive. A nomination would be lovely! #vote #rhysling #rhyslingaward #sfpoetry #canadianpoet #awardconsideration @angrygablepress.bsky.social

Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association
Opens Rhysling Nominations!

Wendy Van Camp has poem that meets qualification for the short form Rhysling Award.

I ask for your consideration during the voting process.

#vote #rhysling #rhyslingaward #sfpoetry #awardconsideration

What You Find at the Center by Elizabeth R McClellan, Haven Spec Magazine Fiction for the 21st Century!

and finally another notaleptic, my #RhyslingAward Finalist, my baby "What You Find At The Center" which is about running away and also the journey of katabasis to pull someone out of a dark place. You might like it. www.havenspec.com/what-you-fin...