Introduction to Issue 90 from the Poetry Editor’s Desk
Please enjoy these endeared poets from around the world who bring you some well-done form poems (two different kinds of Pantoums and a subverted Haibun), a concrete or shape poem, as well as excellent free verse poetry.
We also congratulate our poets who were published in 2023 issues of Abyss & Apex who have been nominated for the Rhysling Poetry Awards. (Your poetry editor joins them (of course, my nominated poem was published in another venue.)
- The Man with the Stone Flute • Joshua St. Claire • Abyss & Apex 87 (short poem category)
- The Singing Girl • Kim Salinas Silva • Abyss & Apex 87 (short poem category)
- The Giants of Kandahar • Anna Cates • Abyss & Apex 88 (long poem category)
- A Mere Million Miles from Earth • John C. Mannone • Altered Reality April (long poem category)
See the complete list of “semifinalists” here: https://www.sfpoetry.com/ra/rhyscand.html (the nominees will be culled by a panel of judges to accommodate size restrictions of the print anthology.)
F. J. Bergmann: Going Native
Madison Wisconsin
Ann K. Schwader: noctalgic
Westminster, Colorado
M.C. Childs: But this could never be like Kansas
Seattle, Washington
Randall Andrews: Red Destiny
Brooklyn, Michigan
Yuliia Vereta: Martian Museum
Katowice, Poland
Suzanne Willis: The Folklore of Glass
Melbourne, Australia
Todd Sullivan: A Cartoon Universe
Mableton, Georgia
Joshua Jones Lofflin: Swan
Frederick, Maryland
