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Distillations: Explorations of Hunger
In this month’s Distillations column, we explore three poems involving different twists on the mundane experience of eating and the experience of hunger. The narrators in each poem are human, and the food being discussed is not particularly exotic: risotto, soufflés, and mother’s milk. However, each poem shows hunger from an unexpected direction.
Continue ReadingSometimes While Dreaming by Marcie Lynn Tentchoff
Sometimes While Dreaming is a chapbook of poetry written by Marcie Lynn Tentchoff. Thirty-seven of the 48 poems in this collection are new. Eight ethereal illustrations by Marge B. Simon accompany them. At her best, Tentchoff is able to put the reader in touch with the souls of some pretty strange people […]
Continue ReadingFlashing Swords, #9, Winter 2008
Flashing Swords, #9, Winter 2008, serves up a generous helping of sword and sorcery fiction and verse. This issue, 133 pages long, contains illustrations by a variety of artists and 19 written pieces. Alas, the table of contents does not distinguish between stories, essays, and poems, although interviews are always titled as “interview […]
Continue ReadingLone Star Stories #25, February 2008 (Poetry)
The February issue of Lone Star Stories contains three poems. The first of these, “Up North” by Elizabeth Hand, is a rather long piece of prose poetry. “Up North” uses rich language and surreal imagery to describe what is either a world only slightly different than our own, or our own world going […]
Continue ReadingDistillations: Visions of Time
Around here, March is when spring starts making its tentative appearance. If fall and winter are about remembering the past, spring is all about the future. In many ways, this idea of change is where science fiction began. What will happen next? What will the world be like if X happens? What will […]
Continue ReadingDreams & Nightmares #78
Dreams & Nightmares #78 contains ten poems, many of them illustrated. The shortest in the issue is “Still Falling” by Anne K. Schwader, a nine-line piece, vaguely oriental in style. The first stanza grabbed me right from the start:
It’s not only black holes,
you know: all events
have horizons….
Those lines open the poem up […]
Dreams & Nightmares #77
There are 15 poems in the 77th issue of Dreams & Nightmares, which seems a large number for this publication. As usual, there is a nice mix of fantasy, science fiction, and myth, but for once the poems that most catch my eye are among the more futuristic of those offered.
“Spring in Rutherford County” […]
Dreams & Nightmares #76
Issue #76 of Dreams & Nightmares contains twelve poems, which rage in size from a three-line haiku to a four-page poetically told myth.
The issue opens with “Till Stars Turn Strange,” a piece of Norse verse by Tom Galusha. Old Norse poetic forms rely as much on very strict alliteration as on meter or […]
Distillations: Scifaiku
Even during a leap year, February is the shortest month. For this month’s column, we will explore the haiku form, which is short by design. Unlike the miserable cold of February (at least for those in the northern hemisphere), haiku is delightful. Everything unnecessary has been pared away. All that remains are the seventeen syllables, […]
Continue ReadingMythic Delirium #17, Summer/Fall 2007
Mythic Delirium #17 (Summer/Fall 2007) is the most recent issue of this poetry-only print magazine.
MD 17 contains 21 poems by as many poets. Most of these poems are mythic and most of them are fantasy. There is such a thing as mythic science fiction, and there is some here. Or […]
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