I actually kept up much more closely with poetry this year than I did with fiction! Or at least the major speculative poetry venues. I’ve just been procrastinating, etc on writing it out. Here are some pieces I especially enjoyed:
Dwarf Size
- Ross Balcom, “the explorer“
- Sonya Taaffe, “Facilior“
Short
- Megan Arkenberg, “The Signatory”
- Cathy Bryant, “The Honey Times“
- Susan Carlson, “From the Record“
- Gwynne Garfinkle, “she’s alive, alive“
- Mat Joiner, “The Nerve Harp“
- Kathrin Köhler, “That Thief, Melancholy“
- Rose Lemberg, “Earth map“
- Rose Lemberg, “Landwork“
- Rose Lemberg, “The Law of Germinating Seeds“
- Jack Hollis Marr, “Proserpina, Going Deeper“
- Lev Mirov, “The Haunting“
- Cindy Potts, “The Sirens’ Song to the U.N. Security Council: Monday, July 10, 2017“
- Alena Sullivan, “The Red Daughter“
- Bogi Takács, “Outside-in / Catalytic Exteriorization“
- Bogi Takács, “You Are Here“
- Cindy Velazquez, “His Scent“
- Leslianne Wilder, “Grandmother“
Long
- C.S.E. Cooney, “And I’ll Dance With You Yet, My Darling“
- Neile Graham, “The Alchemy“
- Cory O’Brien, “A Pantheon of Madnesses“