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Charm City Spec: April Edition lands at Bird in Hand on April 11, 6pm. Featuring Scott Edelman, TT Madden, Mahaila Smith, Aina Hunter, and Trae Hawkins. Five voices working the edges of speculative fiction, from eco-weird to near-future hope. Join them at 11 E. 33rd St.
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1.Event Horizons
Horizon 1 A traveller glides voidward, slow,Its compass cracked by silent stress;No axis points the way to go. Across a field of emptinessIt drifts through dust too faint to name,A thought unmoored in wilderness. The stellar winds no longer claimIts fragile fins or fractured guides;All vectors blur to pale ash-flame. It angles where the dark divides,Through lattices of frozen sunsWhose dead light folds in drifting tides. No message hums, no beacon runs;The void consumes the drifting […]
ICYMI, The Woodlot published a thoroughly delightful review by Pearl Pirie of Mahaila Smith's SEED BEETLE. If you still haven't picked up your copy, you truly can't miss with this debut collection.
Read the whole review here: https://the-wood-lot.ca/2025/09/29/seed-beetle-poems-by-mahaila-smith-stelliform-press-2025/
#poetry #canlit #canadianauthor #speculativepoetry #sfpoetry #poetrycollection #debutcollection #books #bookstodon
2.Event Horizons
Horizon 2 A traveller drifts voidward, dark,Its gyro cracked by silent strain;No charted star declares a markNo axis holds a stable plane. Through regions where the vacuum humsIn frequencies no ear could claim,It moves as shattered logic comesA self displaced from former frame. Nebular frost in cobalt ringsCollects along its failing skin;The quiet crush of ancient thingsPressurises the dark within. As gravimetric shadows roll,Predictive paths collapse to dust;No numbers stabilise the […]
The Cold Republic
╔══[ARCHIVE: VESSEL ASTRAEUS]══╗║ LOG SERIES 1–Ω ║╚═══════════════════════════════╝ SYSTEM INIT: STELLAR_SCANNER ONLINEANOMALY_DETECTION: ACTIVEALERT_LEVEL: █▒░▒█ERROR_THRESHOLD: 0.02 ───────────────────────────────Section I — Detection & Observation [Log 01-α]Sensors awake to irregular flare,A human rogue defies des—design & […]
I’m seeking a young, clever woman, cute enough
to prompt a smile, armed with enough pity for
the dregs of the universe…
—Tracey S. Rosenberg, “The Time Lord’s Job Advertisement”
published in THE FLIGHT OF THE TURTLE: New Writing Scotland 29 (ASL, 2011)
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#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #ScienceFiction #SFpoetry #DoctorWhoDay #DoctorWho
Wha’s Doctor Wha? Wha better kens nor he
that jouks the yetts and rides the birlin wheels
o time and space, shape-shiftin as he reels
through endless versions o reality? …
—James Robertson, “Doctor Wha”
First published in Where Rockets Burn Through (ed. Russell Jones, 2012)
Today, 23 November, is Doctor Who Day!
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#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #sciencefiction #SFpoetry #DoctorWho #DoctorWhoDay
The Serpent’s Orbit
I. Star-Wound The serpent coils the newborn star,A band of shadow drawn afar,A measured arc, a silent barthat binds the burning core. No haste.No haste.The long, slow drawof gravitation’s ancient lawa circle carved before God sawthe shape of sky or shore. II. The Deep Circuit It circles when the light is young.It circles when the song is sung.It circles when the last is hungin ash across the sky. Not fall,not flightbut turning will,the quiet wheel no brake can stillthe ancient writ by […]
Archive of Ash
(Recovered from Deep Signal Array Ϟ–13 / Origin: Unknown) [00.00] BOOT / REBOOT / RECALLSystem integrity: 0.0001%.Power draw: residual starlight.Command: CONTINUE ARCHIVE.Previous operators: dissolved. log: I calculate the sound of dust.log: it equals silence × infinity. Self-check loop complete.Error persists: Purpose not found. [03.19] ENVIRONMENTAL SCAN // SURFACE CODEPlanetary crust: vitrified.Atmospheric residue: oxidised memory.Organic index: 0.Faith index: trace. Scanning […]
Particles
Stallwhere light unweaves.The stars will falllike brittle leaves. Buildon gravity’s rim.Space is stilled,their motion's hymn. Driftthrough gaseous shawl.The void’s slow giftremembers all. Callthrough bending glass.Each step recallswhat cannot pass. Stackthe photon’s husk.Their temples crackthe edge of dusk. Turnthe spiral’s seam.Mass will burn,and thought will stream Fallbeyond return.Through timeless walltheir bodies churn. Crawl.The dark undone.Through endless thrall,they […]
Cold Exchange
Sidereal affairs unfolda psalm of dust and distance.Gravity kneels to its own law,light keeps the faithat time’s behest. The nebula wheels in silence,doubling and burningin sacred obedience.Stars relinquish their warmth,offering brillianceto the dark. There is solacein such orderwhere beauty stands apart,untainted by desire.A fragment of soul sentseeking communionwith that cold perfection,that logical gracewhich never speaks of love, yet embodies nothing else,yet embodies nothing,yet […]
The Singing Dunes
Sand moves.Sand sighs.The desert states in sound. ––– Grain upon grain,the slow collapse of light,the shiver of silicaa voice born from friction. It whistles beneath the wind,a hymn of movement,a memory of glass. ––– What is dust,but a fallen star remembering heat?What is song,but the ache of geometry learning to count? ––– Now the scales unfold.Interstellar sands collidecloud upon cloud,ion on ion,and the void begins to murmur. ––– Solar winds rub the edges […]
This is your fault, witch.
It had a voice like rusty chains.
And cracking joints.
#SFpoetry
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The Void Is in a Playful Mood ...
A wonderfully evocative poem "The Void Is in a Playful Mood Tonight" by @nsborwein.bsky.social (keep scrolling for the perfectly moody art by @floopy-b.bsky.social). #SFpoetry #ScifiArt
now sleep, the sun's up
mom checked under the bed
there's no Van Helsing
#haiku
#dailyhaikuprompt - sunrise
#sfpoetry
the sudden blue
above the sea of tranquility
a silent earthrise
#haiku
#dailyhaikuprompt - tranquil
#sfpoetry
sat down with a book
burn only half the candle
bookworm replicant
#dailyhaikuprompt - candle
#haiku
#sfpoetry
I’m seeking a young, clever woman, cute enough
to prompt a smile, armed with enough pity for
the dregs of the universe…
—Tracey S. Rosenberg, “The Time Lord’s Job Advertisement”
published in THE FLIGHT OF THE TURTLE: New Writing Scotland 29 (2011)
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#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #ScienceFiction #SFpoetry #DoctorWhoDay #DoctorWho
Wha’s Doctor Wha? Wha better kens nor he
that jouks the yetts and rides the birlin wheels
o time and space, shape-shiftin as he reels
through endless versions o reality? …
—James Robertson, “Doctor Wha”
First published in Where Rockets Burn Through (ed. Russell Jones, 2012)
Today, 23 November, is #DoctorWhoDay
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#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #ScienceFiction #SFpoetry #DoctorWhoDay #DoctorWho
The #SFWA Board of Directors has approved the addition of Poetry and Comics categories to the Nebula #Awards https://file770.com/sfwa-approves-new-poetry-comics-nebula-awards/ #sfpoetry
No cold nor snow
Winter only in decor
In the moon base
#dailyhaikuprompt - winter moon
#haiku
#scifi
#sfpoetry
orbital station
leaves stuck on the branches
unfalling in zero G
@dailyhaikuprompt
@haiku
#dailyhaikuprompt - fallen leaves
#haiku
#poetry
#sfpoetry
I'll always love you!
Cries the atom pulled away
the nova explodes
yellow leaves, red sky
spring comes early this year to
the empty martian farm
@dailyhaikuprompt
@haiku
#dailyhaikuprompt - yellow leaves
#haiku
#sfpoetry
We’re delighted that Amanda Cook, author of “Guidelines for Living Your Fairy Tale (in no Particular Order)” in The Future Fire #69, is joining us for a quick chat. http://press.futurefire.net/2024/04/micro-interview-with-amanda-cook.html
We’re delighted to have Petra Kuppers, author of the poem “Bone Planet” in The Future Fire #68, join us for a short chat.
http://press.futurefire.net/2024/02/micro-interview-with-petra-kuppers.html
#microinterview #sfpoetry #pain #spacetravel #disability #dance #speculativefiction
The longlist (so far) for the Rhysling Award for science fiction poetry is up at
https://sfpoetry.com/ra/rhyscand.html
Some great stuff up there (including one little TFF nom).
dark lanes
thread an empty neighbourhood
yet there are lights on
everywhere
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#poem #poetry #shortpoems #bonsaiku @poems @poetry #sfpoetry
thanks to @Billthoo for the inspiration:
https://mastodon.art/@Billthoo/111911538863568679
= infestation =
we struggle with the depths
of these many million years -
the idea
that we are just surviving
in the scabs
of mother earth
but feel her hand
and watch her scratching
down
to the bleeding bone
at our persistent
irritation
her hot blood, rising
#scififri #sfpoetry
#poem #poetry #vsshorror #Gaia
#smallpoems
Extract:
“Bring soil from Earth, regardless how spoiled—
Lunar soil might not be polluted,
but it is full of silicon.
Do not use fertilizer.”
We invited Elena S. Kotsile, author of “How to plant an olive tree on the Moon when all is lost” in The Future Fire #67, over for a brief chat about trees, planets and poetry.
http://press.futurefire.net/2023/12/micro-interview-with-elena-s-kotsile.html
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Thank you. I'm aware of the word, of “The SciFaiku Manifesto” (1995), and Tom Brinck. I appreciate his desire to write such #Poetry, but I also purposely don't use the word #Scifaiku. I have written very little #Haiku and plenty of what I call #Haikuesque. I decided on that name as those #Poems I write simply are neither haiku nor #Senryū, nor are they haiku with an added science-fictional colouring. I prefer using a name that's more explicit about the distinction.
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—Ia—
Strange plains,
luminiscent flowers;
stellar aroma.
—Ib—
Strange mountain,
transhumant trees;
radical fruit.
Spanish original: https://linguosynthesis.github.io/science-fiction-poetry.html#haikuesque-i
#ScienceFictionPoetry
#ScienceFictionPoems
#SFPoetry
#SFPoems
#Haiku
#Haikuesque
#ScienceFiction
#RobertoQS
start the hot water kettle
with a glare fueled
by the infuriating recollection
of how your boss said
‘oh don’t worry, we’ll investigate’
Beyond the Pale; or, A Note from the Chaos Colony
I’m seeking a young, clever woman, cute enough
to prompt a smile, armed with enough pity for
the dregs of the universe…
—Tracey S. Rosenberg, “The Time Lord’s Job Advertisement”
Published in The Flight of the Turtle: New Writing Scotland 29
#Scottish #literature #poetry #ScienceFiction #SFpoetry #DoctorWhoDay #DoctorWho
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Wha’s Doctor Wha? Wha better kens nor he
that jouks the yetts and rides the birlin wheels
o time and space, shape-shiftin as he reels
through endless versions o reality? …
First published in Where Rockets Burn Through (ed. Russell Jones, 2012). In 2018, to maintain synchronicity with the time vortex, James Robertson reversed the polarity of the pronoun flow in the poem’s final line
#Scottish #literature #poetry #ScienceFiction #SFpoetry #DoctorWhoDay #DoctorWho
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https://scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/dr-wha/
in ships like starving sharks
they burst out from the crystal dark
on the trail of tv streams
to home, to planet Earth
their only goal
to block our simple dream
of poisoning the sharing stars
with Wealth
we faced the fight with broken swords
and yet more promises of stocks
our leaders fled like lords to Mars
to secret vaults, with diamomd locks
where now they wait for better times
and higher prophets
#scififri #sf #sfpoetry
#poem #poetry #smallpoems
#poetrycommunity
#wrdz
@sfpoetry