This Friday, Feb. 8, the long-running
Deep Cleveland Poetry Hour reading series will be featuring editors and authors of
Dwarf Stars, an anthology of the best short-short speculative poetry of the year. Every year, the
Science Fiction Poetry Association awards the "Dwarf Stars" award to the best short speculative poetry of the year, where "short" is defined as "ten lines or fewer," and "speculative" means poems of science-fiction, fantasy, horror, surrealistic, or similar content. The Dwarf Stars volume, which just came out, reprints the fifty best such short speculative poems of last year.
But, what does this have to do with Cleveland poetics, you might ask? Well, as it turns out, this year the
Dwarf Stars anthology was edited by two Cleveland poets: myself and Joshua Gage. And the book contains, among others, poems by two Cleveland poets, J.E. Stanley and dan smith. So the Deep Cleveland Poetry Hour is perfect for the debut of the anthology!
Should be a great night with some science fiction and fantasy poetry!
--anybody else out there write SF and fantasy? Come on over! We'll have an open mike!
Deep Cleveland is held on the second Friday of every month at the MugShotz Coffee Shop, 6556 Royalton Road North Royalton, Ohio; the event starts at 8, with the feature reading starting at 8:30 p.m.
Looking for a collection of
scifaiku and other one-breath short-shorts that are science-fictional in the way of poetry? The anthology will be for sale at the reading, or if you can't make it, it can be
purchased from the SFPA for $8.00 plus $2.00 shipping (in the US).
To celebrate Hallowe'en, the SF poetry Association has put together an online audio Halloween poetry reading, of poems spooky and otherwise.
ClevelandPoetics Blog contributor Geoffrey A. Landis has won the Science Fiction Poetry Association's 2009 Rhysling Award in the Long Poem Category. This is Landis' second Rhysling win. He also walked away with the award back in 2000. Here's a complete list of this year's winners:
