Volume 41, Issue
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Winter 2018
Wyrms & Wormholes
Greetings, all! To those of you in the northern half of Terra, I hope you are staying warm. And to those in the antipodes, in the southern hemisphere, stay cool! And to those of us on other planets or in other dimensions, I hope you stay well: cool or warm, as you wish.
Speaking of cool, Bryan Thao Worra will tell you about something very cool in his president’s message later in this issue: the SFPA’s 40th anniversary. Here at Star*Line we are celebrating the 40th by featuring cover artists who are also poets. Our cover artist this time is Akua Lezli Hope, who also has poetry in this issue. I asked Akua in particular to celebrate as well Black History Month (February in the U.S.). We actually began this in the previous issue: we honored Native American Heritage Month (November in the U.S.) with cover art by Yaqui poet Anita Endrezze.
About the poetry this time, you’ll see some formal poems: a pantoum and a cascade by Deborah L. Davitt, a rondeau redoublé by Mindy Watson, gwawdodyn by Stephen Wittenberg Gordon, sonnets by Frank De Canio and Ann K. Schwader, a limerick by Lauren McBride, a fib by David C. Kopaska-Merkel, a spiraling abecedarian by Kathleen A. Lawrence, and a double abecedarian by Michael Kriesel: the first letter and last letter of line 1 are A, then line 2 begins and ends with B, and so on, using sometimes sound rather than letter on both ends… very interesting how Mike makes both ends of the Q line work. But even cooler, dig this: Mike’s abecedarian is in decasyllabics—each line has ten syllables!
To you poets, keep writing wonderful poems and send them to Star*Line. To everyone, I hope you enjoy the poems in this issue. And stay warm. Or cool. But happy. Happy New Year, and happy 40th! Cheers!
—Vince Gotera
Star*Line Editor
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Table of Contents
Features
- Wyrms & Wormholes • Vince Gotera
- President’s Message • Bryan Thao Worra
- From the Small
Press • Herb Kauderer
- Stealth SF * In Transparent Petropolis * Denise Dumars
- XenoPoetry: Japanese Tanka • Hiroyasu Amase (translated by Natsumi Ando)
Poetry
- How Assumption Defeated the Unisex Invaders • Ken Poyner
- Tree of Swords • Deborah L. Davitt
- [distinct clang] • Christina Sng
- Failing Masterpiece • Bruce Boston
- Trying NOT to Make a Sound • Lauren McBride
- Filling Out Forms • Melanie Stormm
- The Timeport Stops • David Barber
- [the new models] • dan smith
- Nightshade • Steven Wittenberg Gordon
- [time travel lodging] • LeRoy Gorman
- The Golden Cloak • Marge Simon
- The Seraph and the Six of Swords • Mindy Watson
- White-Nose Syndrome • Robert Borski
- Dar Lugal • Deborah L. Davitt
- Notes of a Rebel Princess to Herself • Maya Chhabra
- Golden-Red Sunrise with Sea Monsters • Kendall Evans
- My Pet Cthulhu • Josh Brown
- New Planet Landscape 7 • Ken Poyner
- memory • Brittany Hause
- Interplanetary Poet • John Grey
- [dark smoke] • Roxanne Barbour
- Changeling • David C. Kopaska-Merkel
- Hot on fhe Trail of Martians • Donald Raymond
- Honoring the War God • Deborah L. Davitt
- Ship Down • Vonnie Winslow Crist
- [galaxy birth] • Roxanne Barbour
- [Rustless metal shell] • Brian Garrison
- End of Fairy Tales • Matthew Wilson
- If You Would Seek a Seeress • Rebecca Buchanan
- [endless loop] • Greg Schwartz
- [afraid] • Angelo B. Ancheta
- [whiskey tasting] • LeRoy Gorman
- [Murdering invisible man] • Matthew Wilson
- [communications satellites] • Roxanne Barbour
- Nightmare on Elm Street • Frank De Canio
- Song of Shadows • Casey Clabough
- After Ash • Jan Steckel
- The City Was Missing • Salik Shah
- Green Men Don’t Talk • Sara Backer
- A Progressive Reader Sighs in a Barnes and Noble New Release Bay • Richaundra Thursday
- Gilgamesh Tomb Found in Iraq • Michael Kriesel
- Clock Flies • John Caulkins
- His Seed • Akua Lezli Hope
- New Stars • David C. Kopaska-Merkel
- dogsledding • Brittany Hause
- Track 60 • Benjamin Schmitt
- [en route] • Angelo B. Ancheta
- [outside the chicken joint] • Greg Schwartz
- The Stars Sing • Beth Cato
- Venusian Arachnoids • David F. Shultz
- Keep On Till Morning • David C. Kopaska-Merkel
- Universal Immigrants • Ann K. Schwader
- Vipers • Efren L. Cruzada
- On Hunting Werewolves • K. S. Patterson
- Shovel • Sara Backer
- Contest at Olympus Mons • Matthew Wilson
- Schrödinger Is Considered for Publication • David Barber
- [at the center] • Tamara K. Walker
- Animatronic Aliens • David C. Kopaska-Merkel
- Haetae Moon • Jessica Jo Horowitz
- Black Hole Haberdashery • Sandra J. Lindow
- [microgravity peculiarities] • Roxanne Barbour
- [out damned spot] • dan smith
- [zombie apocalypse] • Greg Schwartz
- [flickering flame] • Christina Sng
- Thor at the Skateboard Park • Gary Every
- The Nostalgic Time Traveler • John Richard Trtek
- In the Folklore of Brain Worms • Richard Weaver
- Everything started with the Big Bang, they say • Juanjo Bazán
- safari • Brittany Hause
- An Indigo Sheath • Nora Weston
- Cinderella Continued • Kathleen A. Lawrence
- Tupilak in Failed Séance • Joshua Gage
- Eloise • Robert Borski
- [writer by day] • LeRoy Gorman
- [lost stick insect] • Tamara K. Walker
- [pancake-shaped disk] • Roxanne Barbour
- How It Pleasured Me • Akua Lezli Hope
Illustrations
- The Golden Cloak • Marge Simon
- Into the Light • Christina Sng
- Superkitty vs. Octopus • Jack Foo
- Stilt Runner • Denny E. Marshall
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