Volume 47, Issue 1
Winter 2024

Star*Line 47.1 cover
Cover: Patience
© Dante Luiz

Wyrms & Wormholes

Succeeding

2023 came and went in a blur. Another year full of reading amazing speculative poetry. Every issue I read thousands of poems and have to narrow it all down to fit in this little magazine (a difficult task). As our membership has grown, so has the volume of submissions. While it makes getting an acceptance into Star*Line more difficult, it also illustrates a great strength in the rising popularity of specpo. This pleases me greatly! And today more and more venues are publishing speculative poetry. To me, this means that your voices are being heard, that people care about poetry, and that interest continues to grow. As a community we are succeeding. And there’s so much wonderful poetry it’s impossible to read it all.

Our 45th year has come and gone and it makes me wonder what other amazing things the SFPA will be able to accomplish moving forward into the future. A huge thank you to all of our executive committee, guest editors, volunteers, and of course our members. We couldn’t do it without you!

—Jean-Paul L. Garnier, Star*Line Editor


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Table of Contents

Departments

  • Wyrms & Wormholes * Jean-Paul Garnier
  • SFPA Announcements
  • President’s Message * Colleen Anderson
  • From the Small Press * John Reinhart, Lisa Timpf
  • Stealth SF * “The Gloves Come Off, Part II” * Denise Dumars
  • SpecPo Publishing * Interview with Tonya R. Moore * Jean-Paul Garnier
  • Xenopoetry * un corito negro/a dark little chorus * Juan M. Pérez

Art

  • Patience * Dante Luiz

Poetry

  • New Variant * Gerri Leen
  • Cold * Sarah Cannavo
  • [Light glances off …] * Mahaila Smith
  • How Asteroids Die * Herb Kauderer
  • Voltage Meter * Mary Cresswell
  • Human Oversight * Herb Kauderer
  • [radio array …] * Lauren McBride
  • Back from the Dead * Joy Yin
  • The Existence of Dragons * Sarah Jackson
  • [artificial intelligence] * Joshua St. Claire
  • Bat-minton * Adele Gardner
  • Twin Worlds * Anna Cates
  • rose quartz satellite * lae astra
  • A Black Hole Is a Melting Pot … * Pedro Iniguez
  • New Planet Landscape * Ken Poyner
  • [your planet ’s not gone—] * Richard Magahiz
  • Block Party * Benjamin Whitney Norris
  • The Hatch * Cat S. Chen
  • [Bad credit financing] * Randall Andrews
  • Continuation * Lisa Timpf
  • A Non-Denominational Great Old Ones Worship Service* Aaron Knuckey
  • breathlessness * Eva Papasoulioti
  • Taste of Sunset * Beth Cato
  • Intergalactic Renthead * Melissa Ridley Elmes
  • Cotton Mather * F. J. Bergmann
  • Lydia Villa-Komaroff (b. 1947) * Jessy Randall
  • Meanwhile in the New Atlantis … * Howard V. Hendrix
  • The Creature of the Black Lagoon Is a FB Friend * Richard Magahiz
  • [homecoming] * Ngo Binh Anh Khoa
  • Vitality * Benjamin Whitney Norris
  • Numbers on Doors: 003 * Yuliia Vereta
  • In Deep Time * Anthony Bernstein
  • Umbilicus cosmicum * JM Cyrus
  • How to Duel on New Tombstone * Lisa Timpf
  • Experiment Ultra * Fiona Perry
  • Angelic Voices * DJ Tyrer
  • The universe next door is just ok * Rebecca Bennett
  • Cause and Effect * Emily McIntyre
  • lunar lament * Lorraine Schein
  • Who * Anna Cates
  • The Whippoorwills in the Hills * DJ Tyrer
  • The Trees Are Made of Metal * Caleb Edmondson
  • Choosing Our New Earth * Lauren McBride
  • The Sum of My Parts * Colleen Anderson
  • River Sticks * Devan Barlow
  • Death, Life, and the Economy of Hyphae * Jordan Hirsch
  • When a Nose Grows Too Long * Brian U. Garrison
  • When I Am Asked About My Personal Relationship With Religion * Jenna Le
  • The Fate of Seven Ark Ships (and Those Left Behind) * Jason P. Burnham
  • Food for Thought * John H. Dromey
  • Unwind * A J Dalton
  • weird shrimp from canada * Elis Montgomery
  • The Strange Remains * G. O. Clark
  • Reflections of a Time-Traveler * T. R. Jones
  • Surface Tension * A J Dalton
  • Un-haunted * Roger Dutcher
  • chrysalis of teeth * Marisca Pichette
  • The race of light and sound * Matthew Wilson
  • Spreadsheet Scrutiny * John H. Dromey
  • Lapidescence * Brian Hugenbruch
  • Nova * James Arthur Anderson
  • [a letter] * David C. Kopaska-Merkel
  • no price too high * Yuliia Vereta
  • [Dear SFPA] * Debby Feo
  • Elemental Scales * Ruth Berman
  • [OCD-afflicted vampire …] * Alan Ira Gordon
  • [our folly in flight—] * Howard V. Hendrix
  • [migrating dragons] * F. J. Bergmann
  • Dessert Island * David C. Kopaska-Merkel
  • Crone * Jacqueline West
  • Do the Math or Who ’s for Supper? * Gavin Kayner
  • What I Could Be * Valerie Hunter
  • Pioneer Cemetery on Mars * Howard V. Hendrix
  • Waystation * Sonny Rane
  • Love Through a Telescope * Jon Wesick
  • [after] * LeRoy Gorman
  • Elemental Shamanic Shuddering * Gary Every
  • The Horse Who Gave Birth to the First Car * Rachel Rodman
  • Dragon Dusk * Sarah Cannavo
  • Death Cheats at Cards * Mary Soon Lee
  • [ghost apple] * Greg Schwartz
  • Thanks to dark energy * Richard Magahiz
  • SZAD1001.ai * Sara Omer
  • It Wasn ’t as If … * Anna Cates

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