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Dwarf Stars
The Dwarf Stars Award is an annual award presented by the Science Fiction Poetry Association to the author of the best horror, fantasy, or science fiction poem of ten lines or fewer published in the previous year. The award was established in 2006 as a counterpoint to the Rhysling Award, which is given by the same organization to horror, fantasy, or science fiction poems of any length. Poems are submitted to the association by the poets, from which approximately 30 are chosen by an editor to be published in an anthology each fall. Members of the association then vote on the published poems, and first through third-place winners are announced. The 2006 anthology was edited by Deborah P. Kolodji, and subsequent anthologies have been edited by an array of editors, including Kolodji, Stephen M. Wilson, Joshua Gage, Geoffrey A. Landis, Linda D. Addison, Sandra J. Lindow, John Amen, Jeannine Hall Gailey, and Lesley Wheeler. During the 16 nomination years, 51 poems by 37 poets have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction Poetry Association
The Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA) is a society based in the United States with the aim of fostering an international community of writers and readers interested in poetry pertaining to the genres of science fiction, fantasy, and/or horror. The SFPA oversees the quarterly production of literary journals dedicated to speculative poetry and the annual publication of anthologies associated with awards administered by the organization, i.e. the Rhysling Awards for year's best speculative poems in two length categories and the Dwarf Stars Award for year's best very short speculative poem. Every year since 2013, the SFPA has additionally administered the Elgin Awards for best full-length speculative poetry collection and best speculative chapbook. History The SFPA was established as the Science Fiction Poetry Association in 1978 by author and linguist Suzette Haden Elgin. Elizabeth Chater served as the first president of the SFPA, followed by Gene Wolf. Other S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strange Horizons
''Strange Horizons'' is an online speculative fiction magazine. It also features speculative poetry and nonfiction in every issue, including reviews, essays, interviews, and roundtables. History and profile It was launched in September 2000, and publishes new material (fiction, articles, reviews, poetry, and/or art) 51 weeks of the year, with an emphasis on "new, underrepresented, and global voices." The magazine was founded by writer and editor Mary Anne Mohanraj. It has a staff of approximately sixty volunteers, and is unusual among professional speculative fiction magazines in being funded entirely by donations, holding annual fund drives. Editors-in-chief * Mary Anne Mohanraj, 2000–2003 * Susan Marie Groppi, 2004–2010 * Niall Harrison, 2010–2017 * Jane Crowley and Kate Dollarhyde, 2017–2019 * Vanessa Rose Phin, 2019–2021 * Gautam Bhatia, 2021–present Awards Susan Marie Groppi won the World Fantasy Special Award: Non-Professional in 2010 for her work as Ed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 In Poetry
Major poetry related events which took place worldwide during 2018 are outlined below under different sections. This includes poetry books released during the year in different languages, major literary awards, poetry festivals and events, besides anniversaries and deaths of renowned poets etc. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, India or France). Events * August 11 – Writer V. S. Naipaul, on his deathbed in London, is read Tennyson's poem "Crossing the Bar" by newspaper editor Geordie Greig. Anniversaries Selection of works published in English Australia * Jordie Albiston, ''Warlines'' * Judith Beveridge, ''Sun Music: New and Selected Poems'' * Ken Bolton, ''Starting at Basheer's'' * Sarah Day, ''Towards Light & Other Poems'' * Paul Hetherington, ''Moonlight on Oleander'' * John Mateer, ''João'' * Tim Metcalf, ''The Underwritten Plain'' * Tracy Ryan, ''The Water Bearer'' Canada * Gwen Benaway, ''Hol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events *May 23 – English poet Tony Walsh reads his 2013 poem "This is the place" to the crowds gathered in Albert Square, Manchester for a public vigil following this week's Manchester Arena bombing. *June 23 – English English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England ** English national ide ...-resident writer Ben Okri publishes his poemGrenfell Tower, June 2017 in the ''Financial Times'' following this month's Grenfell Tower fire in London. Anniversaries *March 1 – Centenary of the birth of the American poet Robert Lowell. Selection of works published in English Australia * Michael Farrell (poet), Michael Farrell, ''I Love Poetry'' * Alan Wearne, ''These Things Are Real'' * Fio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events *January 14 – Egyptian poet Omar Hazek, who was released from prison in September 2015, is prevented from leaving Egypt to receive the 2016 Oxfam Novib/PEN Award for Freedom of Expression. *January 26 – Egyptian poet Fatima Naoot is sentenced to three years in prison, found guilty of "contempt of religion." Naoot goes to prison immediately and must appeal from there. *American poets Hawona Sullivan Janzen and Clarence White participate in public art project ''Rondo Family Reunion'' in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Anniversaries * January 25 – the 125th birthday of Osip Mandelstam. * March 5 – semicentenary of the death of Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet (Requiem) * March 27 – 90th birthday of Frank O'Hara. (See July 25) * April 24 – centenary of the start of the Easter Rising in Dublin, which inspired W. B. Yeats’s poem " Easter, 1916". * May 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * September 8 – In the 2015 edition of ''Best American Poetry'', the inclusion of a poem by Michael Derrick Hudson, a white American poet from Fort Wayne, Indiana, who claims he used the Asian female pseudonym Yi-Fen Chou to get the poem published, causes considerable debate and criticism on the issue of identity politics and cultural appropriation. * September 15 – Juan Felipe Herrera, the first Latino to serve as U.S. poet laureate, gives his inaugural reading. * November 10 – The Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford in England acquires its twelve millionth book, a unique copy of Shelley's subversive ''Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things'', "By a Gentleman of the University of Oxford," published in 1811. * November 17 – the General Court of Abha in Saudi Arabia sentences Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh to death for apostas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Star*Line
The Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA) is a society based in the United States with the aim of fostering an international community of writers and readers interested in poetry pertaining to the genres of science fiction, fantasy, and/or horror. The SFPA oversees the quarterly production of literary journals dedicated to speculative poetry and the annual publication of anthologies associated with awards administered by the organization, i.e. the Rhysling Awards for year's best speculative poems in two length categories and the Dwarf Stars Award for year's best very short speculative poem. Every year since 2013, the SFPA has additionally administered the Elgin Awards for best full-length speculative poetry collection and best speculative chapbook. History The SFPA was established as the Science Fiction Poetry Association in 1978 by author and linguist Suzette Haden Elgin. Elizabeth Chater served as the first president of the SFPA, followed by Gene Wolf. Other S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2014 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events *January – Five fragments of nine poems, some previously unknown, by Greek poet Sappho are discovered on ancient papyrus, including the Brothers Poem. This news is being reported by multiple news sources by the end of the month. *January 7 – Michel Pleau is named Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate (or Canada's new poet laureate), beginning a two-year mandate to "draw Canadians’ attention to the reading and writing of poetry." *January 29 – Hashem Shabani, an Arab–Iranian poet, was executed by hanging in an unidentified Iranian prison after Iranian President Hassan Rouhani approved the sentences. *March 7 – For the first time ever, all five poets laureate of the British Isles are women and for the first time all five perform together at the Women of the World festival in London on the eve of International Women's Day. The poets are: Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prism International
''Prism International'' (styled ''PRISM international'') is a magazine published quarterly in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Established in 1959, it is Western Canada's senior literary magazine. The magazine was started with name ''Prism'' and five years later its name changed to ''Prism International''. The focus of the magazine is contemporary fiction and poetry, but it also publishes drama and creative non-fiction Creative nonfiction (also known as literary nonfiction or narrative nonfiction or literary journalism or verfabula) is a genre of writing that uses literary styles and techniques to create factually accurate narratives. Creative nonfiction contra .... The rendering of the name is idiosyncratic: "PRISM" is intentionally all upper-case and "international" is all lower case. References External links * 1959 establishments in British Columbia Literary magazines published in Canada Magazines established in 1959 Magazines published in Vancouver Quarterly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2013 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events *June 4 – English publication of ''For a Song and a Hundred Songs: A Poet's Journey through a Chinese Prison'' by Liao Yiwu, recounting Yiwu's time following the Tiananmen Square protests of June 4, 1989, and the four brutal years he spent in jail for writing the poem "Massacre". *August 5 – PEN International's Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC) issues a call to action, demanding that the jailed 60-year-old Kazakh poet Aron Atabek be released from solitary confinement, where he has been since December 2012 and where he will continue to stay until the end of 2014. This is his punishment for writing ''The Heart of Eurasia'', a blunt critique of President Nursultan Nazarbayev and his government. Atabek is currently serving an 18-year prison sentence for other alleged crimes against the state. *September 13 – Australians Graham Nunn and Andrew Slattery ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2012 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events *January 31 – A Chinese court sentences poet and political dissident Zhu Yufu to a seven-year prison term for "inciting subversion of state power". During Yufu's trial hearing, prosecutors have cited a poem and messages he had sent on the internet. *February 13 – In a ceremony at the White House, John Ashbery is awarded the National Humanities Medal and Rita Dove awarded the National Medal of Arts. The honors are bestowed to 15 artists in all by President Barack Obama. *April 4 – Günter Grass's poem "What Must Be Said" is first published. Four days later, Eli Yishai, the Israeli Minister for the Interior, declares Grass ''persona non grata''. *June 7 – Natasha Trethewey is chosen by the Library of Congress to be the 19th U.S. Poet Laureate. *November 29 – A Qatari poet, Muhammad Ibn al-Dheeb al-Ajami, age 36, is sentenced to life imprisonmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2011 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * January 19 – Liz Lochhead becomes the second Scots Makar, the official national poet of Scotland. * April 4 – Canadian poet Christian Bök announces a significant break-through in his 9-year project to engineer "a life-form so that it becomes not only a durable archive for storing a poem, but also an operant machine for writing a poem". On April 3, Bök said that he * June 12 – A poet and student, Ayat al-Ghermezi of Bahrain, is sentenced to a year in prison as part of that kingdom's crackdown on Shiite protesters calling for greater rights. Ayat was arrested on March 30 for reciting a poem critical of the government and cursing the current prime minister, Khalifa ibn Salman Al Khalifa, during the Bahraini uprising in Pearl Square, the main gathering place for demonstrators, in February 2011. * August 9 – Announcement that Philip Levine h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
