The Hugo Poetry Award still needs more nominations from you. Just a few days left. Are you a fiction person who needs help judging poetry? I've got just the thing for you: bsky.app/profile/case... The best free outlets to find said poetry listed below

Casey Aimer@caseyaimer.bsky.social · 5mo ago

GUIDE FOR FICTION-LOVERS READING POETRY FOR THE FIRST TIME: So you've only read fiction your whole life, and now people are yelling at you to nominate poems. How the hell do you figure out what's a good poem? Let a guy with three degrees in fiction + poetry + publishing tell you.

Star*Line (SFPA's premier speculative poetry journal) announced today it's raising its pay rates for poems and articles sfpoetry.org/wp/starline/

The best wine sweet spot is when you're just inspired enough to break out your ukulele and learn more emo songs

Great news for the poets, in that the Hugo Award for Best Poem has been secured until at least 2029. And the voters each vote during this years-long process get more and more % in favor of speculative poetry.

Books are all fun, until you have to move them in bulk more than 10 feet. Then they're your worst enemy

Got an extra-nerdy book present for my birthday

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My MFA taught me that the world sees poets as the weird bohemians in the corner talking to themselves. And fiction writers as the cool kids in leather jackets gaining media attention and drawing crowds, drinking like Hemingway, and always just about to write the next Great American Novel

Some days the urge is strong to post overly-cryptic emo statements, like how we did in 2005 with our AOL away messages

Many writers (especially poets) will try to submit works with quotes or song lyrics beginning the text. Please don't do this, as journals have to reject you for this. These things are both copyrighted and you need express permission to use them. No journals have the resources to buy the rights

I challenge fiction editors in the SFF industry to add poetry editors to your teams and begin publishing SFF poetry at an equal elevation to your prose. Don't know where to begin? PM me and I'll help. If I can't help, I know poets. If I don't know enough poets, the SFWA Poetry Committee can help

My Saturday: Watching Starship Troopers, MMO events, and plotting 40/100 poems for the next book

My first Nebula, as a finalist no less, was memorable. Even if my introvert battery often died sooner than I'd like. I didn't meet one non-great person. I always considered a nomination a not-very-likely career-topper, and it's an honor to receive one while just getting started in my early 30s

Why SFF Poetry Matters panel starts at 1 central time today at the Nebula Conference. If you've been curious what all the new hoopla is about poetry in the spec world, this is the best panel to go to this weekend for that answer

A couple days late here apologies! It's the cursed thirteenth issue of the absolutely fantastic @radonjournal.bsky.social available for download freely or £3.50 P/C for the physical copy :) seditionist.uk/distro/reada...

Issue 13 will always be the Cursed Issue to me. Having to edit this on a boat, journal finally getting hit with AI, all the sci-fi body horror in it, the artist going dark at key moments while they went into Iran to protect their family living there Still crazy to me to think we're on Issue 13 now

Radon Journal@radonjournal.bsky.social · 2mo ago

ISSUE 13 - OUT NOW! 🌌🌌 All-new science fiction stories and poems. Free to read on our website: www.radonjournal.com/issue13

As an active SFF journal editor dealing with increasing levels of AI bullshit, who spends more and more hours analyzing and reading and investigating all of it I'm increasingly worried my subconscious will accidentally pick up some of their writing ticks

I'll be a panelist at two Nebula Conference panels next week: 1) Why Speculative Poetry Matters @ 4 PM Central (Fri, June 5) 2) Best Poem Finalists in Conversation @ 8 AM (Sat, June 6)

Booked a new session with my tattoo artist. Officially doing that rather than getting tested for neurodiversity this summer

Special MicroVerse roundup with poetry recs by the amazing Ai Jiang! @aijiang.bsky.social

Special Issue * Poetry Recs from Ai Jiang

Welcome to this special guest-edited issue, featuring poetry recommendations by Ai Jiang! I met Ai through an online writing group several years ago. Watching her career soar has been such a treat.…

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One of the best parts running a semi-pro journal is working so closely with the authors for developmental and copy editing. For some it's the first in-depth experience they've had among spec journals with the process. Getting to know so intimately someone's story feels like getting to know them.

Here I am re-reading Jack Gilbert's poem "Failing and Flying" and bawling my eyes out. I've read this so many times and I can't move past it in the book. Just eternally stuck in this one resonating moment of beautiful heartbreak.

Well this is neat! We are still pretty fresh in our poetry publishing days (although I want to publish more and have increased our rates), but Casey’s “Black Hole Framing” continues to be one of my favorites and the one I point to when people ask what kinds of poems I’m looking for.

Casey Aimer@caseyaimer.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Some good news amid my writer's block: "Black Hole Framing" has been announced as a Rhysling Award finalist, having cleared the jury hurdle. Run-off voting by SFPA members happens this summer. Cheers to @foofarawpress.bsky.social for the good run the poem's been having

Some good news amid my writer's block: "Black Hole Framing" has been announced as a Rhysling Award finalist, having cleared the jury hurdle. Run-off voting by SFPA members happens this summer. Cheers to @foofarawpress.bsky.social for the good run the poem's been having

Tonight was a good night. I took myself on a date and started two mosh pits and one circle pit

How all us SFWA members feel as the final day of Nebula voting dawns

Good overview of some great speculative poetry markets. Good for poets to read as well as curious folks wondering what the poetry scene in the Industry looks like

Locus Magazine@locusmag.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Speculative Poetry Feature: A Brief Survey of Speculative Poetry Markets by Josh Pearce locusmag.com/feature...

I officially have my Nebula Conference ticket, and I'll be there physically June 3-7. My first time being able to attend, and doing so as a finalist is a double treat

I love that Project Hail Mary and the Artemis II moon flyby are reigniting excitement for space and sci-fi. That sense of awe and wonder that only comes from gazing into the cosmos is hard to beat. Fantasy just doesn't do it for me like that