Our thanks go to Michael H. Payne who has gathered together our members news for the month of August! The members at the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association reported many new sales, publications, special events and more! Congratulations to everyone, and we look forward to hearing about more of your successes soon!

Michael H. Payne

poem, “Neighborhood Watch,” Gathering Storm, year 1 issue 4, https://www.gatheringstormmagazine.com/year-1-issue-4

David Lunde and Mary M.Y. Fung

translators, book, Xu Zhimo: Selected Poems, Renditions Paperbacks, Research Centre for Translation, Chinese University of Hong Kong, https://www.chineseupress.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=59_63_89_200&product_id=3507

David C. Kopaska-Merkel

2 poems, “generation ship” and “untitled lune,” Scifaikuest (print), Alban Lake, http://albanlake.com/scifaikuest-august-2017

Christina M. Rau

poem, “Let Nature Want,” Grasslimb vol. 15 No. 2, http://www.grasslimb.com

Alicia Cole

featured poet with selections from “Darkly Told” and other poems, OutLoud HSV, August 16, 2017, http://outloudhsv.com/calendar-1/2017/8/16/out-loud-hsv-featuring-alicia-cole

Mary Soon Lee

poems, print + online, “Elemental Haiku,” Science, August 4, 2017, http://vis.sciencemag.org/chemhaiku/

poems, reprint, print + online, 3 of the haiku from “Elemental Haiku,” Wall Street Journal 8/2017, https://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2017/08/04/science-and-poetry-together-at-last/

poem, reprint, “Master of Chocolate,” winner of the 143rd Poetry Nook weekly contest, 8/14/2017, https://www.poetrynook.com/forum/contest-winners/143rd-weekly-poetry-contest-winner-master-chocolate

poem, “Elemental,” Songs of Eretz Poetry Review 8/10/2017, http://www.songsoferetz.com/2017/08/elemental-by-mary-soon-lee.html

Robert Borski

poem, “X Marks The Spot,” Asimov’s, September/October 2017, print only, http://www.asimovs.com/

Christina Sng

book, A Collection of Nightmares, Raw Dog Screaming Press, July 2017, https://www.amazon.com/Collection-Nightmares-Christina-Sng/dp/1935738984/

2 poems, “Aenid’s Dream” and “Pull”, Spectral Realms #7, https://www.hippocampuspress.com/journals/spectral-realms/spectral-realms-no.-7

4 poems, “Racing for Shelter,” “Keeping You,” “Her Stunning Silhouette,” and “Wrong Turn”, Scifaikuest, August 2017, http://store.albanlake.com/product/scifaikuest-57/

poem, “Blown Away”, Grievous Angel, http://www.urbanfantasist.com/grievous-angel/new-haiga-blown-away-by-christina-sng

2 poems, “Red Sun,” and “Sky Full of Stars,” Scifaikuest Online, http://albanlake.com/scifaikuest-august-2017/

poem, “multiverse theory”, Sonic Boom #9, http://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/61020d_9b9f9c1e11d44f189850b929c82653c0.pdf

John Reinhart

3 poems, “I’m Cold,” “off the books,” & “those days,” non-genre, Man In The Street Magazine, Issue #1, August 2017, https://www.maninthestreetmag.com/issueone

chapbook, “screaming,” genre, Lion Tamer Press, August 18, 2017, https://www.createspace.com/7397522

one poem, “light holes,” genre, Lonesome October Lit, inaugural poem August 25, 2017, https://lonesomeoctoberlit.wordpress.com/2017/08/25/light-holes-by-john-reinhart/

Ann K. Schwader

3 poems “Lightless Oceans,” “The Final Turn,” & “Corridors Enough,”  Spectral Realms #7 (print), Hippocampus Press, Summer 2017, http://tinyurl.com/y7bfjl33

Bryan Thao Worra
On The Other Side Of The Eye 10th Anniversary Reading at DreamHaven Books, Minneapolis, August 30th, 2017.

Lisa Timpf

2 poems (genre), “The Inventor” and “She Wonders,” Polar Borealis #4, July/August 2017, http://polarborealis.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/POLAR-BOREALIS-4-Jul-Aug-2017.pdf

Deborah P Kolodji

haiku, “that call I wish,”  Brass Bell, September 2017, http://brassbellhaiku.blogspot.com/2017/09/water-haiku.html

haiku one-liner, “crackle of fireworks…” (translated into Chinese by Chen-ou Liu), Butterfly Dream, September 2, 2017, http://neverendingstoryhaikutanka.blogspot.com/2017/09/butterfly-dream-fireworks-and-dogs.html

haiku, “eclipse,” Workplace Haiku, July 26, 2017, https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2017/07/26/haiku-in-the-workplace-summer-vacation-plans/

haiku, “the lake filled,” Plum Tree Tavern, 8/13/2017, http://theplumtreetavern.blogspot.com/2017/08/lines_13.html

haiku, “fallen cone,” Plum Tree Tavern, 8/20/2017, http://theplumtreetavern.blogspot.com/2017/08/lines_20.html

haiku “orange,” Stardust Haiku, July 2017, https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2qnvk3Lnv93Sk9nTm9aVGljOFk/view

2 haiku, “last leaf” and “ambient birds,” Akitsu Quarterly (print), Autumn 2017, http://www.wildgraces.com/Akitsu-Quarterly.html

haiku, “flickering candles,” bottle rockets #37 (print), August 2017, http://www.bottlerocketspress.com/

haiku, “spring showers,” The Mainichi, June 23, 2017, https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20170524/p2g/00m/0fe/108000c

haibun, “Pantsuit in my Closet,” Contemporary Haibun Online, July 2017, http://contemporaryhaibunonline.com/pages132/Kolodji_Pantsuit.html

poetry reading, Kaleidoscope Reading at Haiku North America, Thursday, September 14, 2017, 7:30 p.m., Free & Open to the public, Hotel Santa Fe, 1501 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, NM, http://www.haikunorthamerica.com/kaleidoscope.html

poetry reading, HITCHED at the Book Show, 5503 N. Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA, Saturday, September 23, 2017, 4:00 p.m., http://bookshowla.com/