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Three short poems out now in SpecPoVerse to close 2025

Miguel and Michael have done it again—a beautiful new issue of SpecPoVerse just dropped. Go read it!

One thing I particularly love about SpecPoVerse is they read blind–a strategy that helps counter bias–imagine my thrill when three of my poems were accepted!

what the moons told me is a favorite poem from The March, a collection that explores a variety of character perspectives in the same world over the span of generations–I imagine each poet-character writing their own verse. This one is ‘penned’ by the same woman who ‘wrote’ view, out earlier this year from Strange Horizons. She’s on the same balcony, but instead of looking at her aging husband (view), she’s looking up.

Snow on the Interstellar Netfeed came to me in a flash one day as I was driving home from work. A series of dots appeared in my head, then they began to fall…

I’m fond of monsters–Medusa perhaps my favorite. But Monster at the End of the World is about the one we all face…eventually. I’ve written quite a few End of the World poems this year; you’ve already met Museum at the End of the World that came out recently from Orion’s Belt. They are my tributes to this year, which was abysmal from the viewpoint of my day job. As in: dear tiniest-gods-of-2025, please take these poems as tribute and move on. (See that distant star system nowhere near anything I love in the cosmos…head for that and keep going…)

Of course, my characters remind me that there is hope, even with what seem like impossible odds. That is the core of what the moons told me.

So Happy New Year. As we enter 2026, may the odds be ever in your favor.