SF & F Poetry Assn

🧛‍♂️ 🦇 ⚰️ 🖤 ✍️ Sneak Preview:
What do blue flames on St. George’s night signify? Find out in an upcoming article.
Bookmark “DRACULA BEFORE STOKER” on Substack!

@sfpoetry.bsky.social @hwany.org @gnofhorror.com @dmcwriter.bsky.social @twisteddreamspress.bsky.social @prolificpulsepress.bsky.social

Ep. 3 — Prequel: DRACULA BEFORE STOKER: Romanian Pursuits

#HorrorCommunity
🧛 🦇 🖤 Ep. 3 — Prequel: DRACULA BEFORE STOKER:
As Jonathan Harker prepares for his trip, Count Dracula also prepares—in his own way
@hwany.org @dmcwriter.bsky.social @sfpoetry.bsky.social @twisteddreamspress.bsky.social @hdwp.com
greenwichvillagepoet.substack.com/p/ep-3-prequ...

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."

La poesia di LindaAnn LoSchiavo (USA). A cura di Irma Kurti (ITA-ENG) - Alessandria Today Italia News Media IL FANTASMA DANZANTE DI MIA MADRE Quell'anno, la morfina divenne un minuetto, Un dolce pianissimo. I suoi morbidi pedali placarono L'angoscia, rimproverarono l'inesorabile scandire del tempo — Tic, ti...

#PoetryCommunity
My poem 👻 "My Mother's Ghost Dancing" (1st seen in "Apprenticed to the Night" + 🖤 rpt in "Cancer Courts My Mother") translated into Italian by Irma Kurti.
Molto grazie!
@sfpoetry.bsky.social @prolificpulsepress.bsky.social @dmcwriter.bsky.social
alessandria.today/2026/03/03/l...

Keats and Cats in Testaccio, Rome’s Non-Catholic Cemetery The Orenaug Mountain Poetry Journal showcases the work of a variety of international poetic voices. It is published by Orenaug Mountain Publishing.

🐈‍⬛ 🐾 🪦 🖤 In honor of John Keats (31 Oct 1795 – 23 Feb 1821), I wrote a cat poem 😺
"Keats and Cats in Testaccio, Rome’s Non-Catholic Cemetery"
@sfpoetry.bsky.social @dmcwriter.bsky.social @prolificpulsepress.bsky.social @birdwriterwrites.bsky.social
www.orenaugmountainpoetry.net/2023/11/keat...

Small Press Points: Write Bloody Publishing Los Angeles press Write Bloody Publishing releases books by “troubadour poets” who can command the stage as well as the page. “We love getting knocked on our asses by honesty,” says Write Bloody found...

#PoetryCommunity
Open to mss subs with a $10 fee from March 1 - April 17, Write Bloody Publishing intends to publish 2-6 full-length collections.
Selected poets must conduct at least 20 readings during the 1st year of the book’s release.
@sfpoetry.bsky.social
www.pw.org/content/smal...

Ep. 1 — Prequel: DRACULA BEFORE STOKER: Thoughts from Transylvania

🧛‍♂️ 🦇 🩸 Ep. 1 — Prequel: DRACULA BEFORE STOKER: Thoughts from Transylvania
@hwany.org @gnofhorror.com @sfpoetry.bsky.social @dmcwriter.bsky.social @twisteddreamspress.bsky.social @bibliophile99.bsky.social @angelayurikosmith.bsky.social @alpbeck.com
greenwichvillagepoet.substack.com/p/ep-1-prequ...

JOYOUS CONGRATULATIONS to all the @sfpoetry.bsky.social Rhysling nominees!!!

to my astonishment, my long poem “One Hundred Thousand Legends and the Longing Underneath,” published by @cbdroege.bsky.social, is among them! ⚔️

i share this honor with gamers everywhere

sfpoetry.org/wp/rhysling-...

Like @manuelaamiouny.bsky.social, congrats to @sfpoetry.bsky.social's 2026 Rhysling Award nominees!

I am pleased to note that Forgotten Ground Regained has two poems on the list:

@dacooperpoet.bsky.social's "Hellhound"

@mrpoemguy.bsky.social's "Knot Loosener Memorial Disputation with Gas Giant"

The Find of the Century & the Serial it Inspired: “Dracula Before Stoker”

The Find of the Century & the Serial it Inspired:
🧛‍♂️ 🦇 “Dracula Before Stoker” 🩸
by the author of "Vampire Verses"

@hwany.org @sfpoetry.bsky.social @swsworlds.bsky.social @dmcwriter.bsky.social @twisteddreamspress.bsky.social @gnofhorror.com
greenwichvillagepoet.substack.com/p/the-find-o...

PISCES: Your Empathy Isn't a Flaw—It's Your Superpower For February’s Sun Sign followers: “Cancer Courts My Mother” meets the Zodiac

PISCES: Your Empathy Isn't a Flaw—It's Your Superpower.
"Cancer Courts My Mother" meets the zodiac.
@sfpoetry.bsky.social @prolificpulsepress.bsky.social @dmcwriter.bsky.social
greenwichvillagepoet.substack.com/p/pisces-you...

Reflections on National Fairy Tale Day, Feb. 26th: Exploring Ovid's Echo and Narcissus Myth via Formal Verse

#PoetryCommunity
Watch the VIDEO
Exploring Ovid's Myth of Echo & Narcissus via the Hidden Genius of Echo Verse on Feb. 26, National Fairy Tale Day
@sfpoetry.bsky.social @dmcwriter.bsky.social @prolificpulsepress.bsky.social @emteepoetry.bsky.social
greenwichvillagepoet.substack.com/p/reflection...

Congratulations to all the 2026 @sfpoetry.bsky.social Rhysling Award nominees! 🎉

Very exciting to see twelve (!!!) poems from last year's Strange Horizons issues on the list!

Thank you to everyone who trusted us with their work and thank you to everyone who read and enjoyed them! ❤️

To Be the Change When the heir becomes a daughter…

Nebula nominations close soon! I hope you'll consider my two Rhysling nominees for your Poetry category:

TO BE THE CHANGE: trans autonomy / intergenerational prophecies / harbingers tinyurl.com/ToBeTheChange

EAGLE-EYED: slipstream fantasy / distorted vision / body horror
tinyurl.com/EagleNMN

Huge thank you to @strangehorizons.bsky.social and @sfpoetry.bsky.social for giving these poems a home!

Thanks to Destinies: The Voice of Science Fiction radio show on @wusbradio.bsky.social for sharing my poem “Things Are Getting Weird Around Here”
Listen here at 15:40
captphilonline.com/Destinies/De...
#specpo #theyogapoet #radioshow #newyorkpoet
cc: @sfpoetry.bsky.social

📙 🎦 Many thanks to my publisher @prolificpulsepress.bsky.social for sending my chapbook "Cancer Courts My Mother" to Amy Renfroe for an UNBOXING video on FB.
Amy's review to follow.
#PublishersWhoBoostBooks #publicity

@dmcwriter.bsky.social @sfpoetry.bsky.social @swsworlds.bsky.social

So pleased that my sci-fi poem about deep time and legacy, "Looking Back", has been nominated for the Rhysling Award @sfpoetry.bsky.social. Thanks as always to the editors at @analogsf.bsky.social for believing in it.
sfpoetry.org/wp/rhysling-...

Really exciting to see classical forms of poetry celebrated!!

Spec poets take note ✨⬇️

An excerpt of the poem "Mothercraft (a villanelle)" by Erin Brown, in Issue 22 of Haven Spec Magazine (February 2026). The text reads: It isn’t magic, doll, which fastens you. I am the needle, thread, I am the pin. It is the art I wield, the work I do. I hasten credit where I think it due, And do not find earned pride to be a sin. It isn’t magic, doll, which fastens you. The background is the issue's cover art, titled Harmonies of the Harvest, by Matthew Spencer. It shows a figure with a human body and a deer head.

👀February 2026 Poetry👀

"Mothercraft (a villanelle)" is a poem by @babblewocky.bsky.social about the magic that binds us and the ways we make and are made. Read it for its witchiness.

Subscribe and read it now!
havenspec.com/issues/issue...

A Speculative Poem Explores Misogyny: Defying Horror Genre Expectations in “Meeting”

#HorrorCommunity #DomesticViolence
✒️ 🩸 Spec-Po Explores Misogyny:
🖤 😱 Defying Horror Genre Expectations in “Meeting”
@hwany.org @sfpoetry.bsky.social @swsworlds.bsky.social @prolificpulsepress.bsky.social @charlesbastille.bsky.social @dmcwriter.bsky.social
substack.com/@greenwichvi...

#PoetryCommunity
In "The Ring and the Book," poet Robert Browning explained that "art can tell a truth obliquely...."
❓What truths are you telling -- via metaphors, similes, rhetorical devices, etc. -- in your poems?
@sfpoetry.bsky.social @prolificpulsepress.bsky.social

#ICYMI ❤️ SFPA Valentine's Poetry page is up!🖤
Read my poem "Cupid and Psyche"
@sfpoetry.bsky.social @swsworlds.bsky.social @dmcwriter.bsky.social @prolificpulsepress.bsky.social
sfpoetry.org/wp/publicati...

"Meeting" Explores the Brotherhood of Batterers A figure from folklore – the werewolf – examines toxic masculinity

#HorrorCommunity:
🐺 The Werewolf Within:
Toxic Masculinity in LindaAnn LoSchiavo’s ‘Meeting’
🎦 🎞️ Post contains a VIDEO 🎦
@hwany.org @gnofhorror.com @sfpoetry.bsky.social @dmcwriter.bsky.social @prolificpulsepress.bsky.social @hdwp.com @alpbeck.com
greenwichvillagepoet.substack.com/p/meeting-ex...

Happy to announce that my scifaiku, "sutures pop," is forthcoming in Star*Line!

-with thanks to editor John Reinhart and the team!
@sfpoetry.bsky.social

Delighted that my poem ftom @salonsinister.com 1, "Patient 10642," has received an @sfpoetry.bsky.social Rhysling Award nomination! Big thanks to @ewhag.com for giving this piece a home and to whoever felt it worthy of receiving a nomination.

Hex Supply Customer Support Log please do your job and check the thing / I want my frog antiques

So happy to share that "Hex Supply Customer Support Log" was nominated for the @sfpoetry.bsky.social Rhysling Award longlist! Sending love to all the fellow witches who enjoyed this one 🐸🪄 @strangehorizons.bsky.social

#HorrorCommunity
🖤 🧛 🦇 "Vampire Verses" published by @twisteddreamspress.bsky.social soon ends its NetGalley tour.
‼️📕 Proud to share:
we made it to p. 1 of MOST REQUESTED BOOKS!
@hwany.org @sfpoetry.bsky.social @dmcwriter.bsky.social @twisteddreamspress.bsky.social
www.netgalley.com/catalog/publ...

Greeting the Mighty Fire Horse on February 17, 2026: What if the crucible of caregiving could make you emerge incandescent?

#PoetryCommunity ✍️ #CAREGIVING
🐎 🔥 ㊗️ 🌟
Greeting the Mighty Fire Horse on February 17, 2026:
Can a crucible make you incandescent?
@sfpoetry.bsky.social @prolificpulsepress.bsky.social @dmcwriter.bsky.social @wsbookclub.bsky.social
substack.com/@greenwichvi...

Year of the Fire Horse Begins February 17th, 2026: Chinese Astrology’s Particular Promise

#PoetryCommunity ✍️
🐎 🔥 ㊗️ 🌟 Year of the Fire Horse Begins 17 Feb 2026:
What is Chinese Astrology’s Particular Promise for 2026? Find out!
@sfpoetry.bsky.social @prolificpulsepress.bsky.social @underbellypress.bsky.social
greenwichvillagepoet.substack.com/p/year-of-th...