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Vampire Verses. LindaAnn LoSchiavo. Cover by Jennifer Horgan, Illus. by Giulia Massarin and Erin Caldwell, Twisted Dreams Press, 2025, pp. 65. $12.99. www.twisteddreamspress.com A Review by Sandra J. Lindow LindaAnn LoShiavo’s Vampire Verses is an exploration of the popular psychosexual fascination with vampires. The cover is both elegant and creepy, the cartoonlike illustrations, light-hearted,…
The Wreck of the S.S. Wheeler (2025) by Michael H. Payne. Self-published. About 45 pages, web typeset. Free. ISBN: none. Available here: http://pandora.xepher.net/images/wheel.html A Review by Herb Kauderer with Sandra J. Lindow This collection contains an introduction and thirty-two numbered poems telling one story. The story was written in response to the sudden death of […]
Over It: Goddesses Who’ve Reached Their Limit by Gerri Leen. Island of Wak-Wak October 2025. 33 pages, digest-sized. $15.00 US. ISBN: 979-9-1990468-6-0. Available on Amazon. A Review by Herb Kauderer The cover is a striking anime-style portrait of a screaming face in the style of the iconic print “Under the Wave Off Kanagawa”. The cover […]
The Goose Liver Anthology: Mother Goose Meets the Spoon River Anthology by Ken Anderson. Red Ogre Review & Liquid Raven Media. 69 pages, digest-sized. $9.99 US. ISBN: 979-8-8837824-8-9. Available on Amazon. A Review by Herb Kauderer This book is an Elgin nominee again, in its second and final year of eligibility. As the subtitle indicates […]
Satan’s School for Girls and Other Works by Benjamin Schmitt, Goldfish Press, September 28, 2025, pp 137. Unique themes, humor, and striking and unusual imagery are hallmarks of the writing in Benjamin Schmitt’s Satan’s School for Girls and Other Works. a review by Lisa Timpf The collection begins with a multi-page narrative poem titled “Satan’s […]
Mother Hubble’s Cupboard,and Other Poems about Inner and Outer Space, by Sandra Lindow. isbn 978-91-989599-3-2, Island of Wak-Wak, Vӓstra Vintergatan 136, Orebro Sweden (www,islandofwakwak.com), July 2025), 65 pp. paperback (also available on Kindle). Sandra Lindow is a fan of astronomy, and especially of recent astronomy – the developments in tools such as the title-punned Hubble’s […]
The SFPA has a new website, and the SpecPo Blog is moving shop! If you have bookmarked this site, or if you receive automatic notifications from wordpress.com when it, you will need to change your bookmarks and subscriptions. You can now find the blog at https://sfpoetry.org/wp/sfpa-blog/ The good news? The SpecPo Blog will now be […]
June melting into July: Means that it’s time to spin around for a moment and see what the members of SFPA got up to before said melting had begun. Mike Carolyn Clink poem, “aliens,” Polar Borealis #34, May 2025, https://polarborealis.ca/currentback-issues/ Eugen Bacon & Dominique Hecq poem, spec, “Momentum Vitae”, SpecPoVers vol.1 no.1, April 30, 2025, […]
In Sacred Flute, John C. Mannone offers 39 poems, described in the book’s introduction as “infused with and inspired by Native American Indian culture, history and legend.” The poems are divided into seven sections, Land and Nature, Identity, Love, Dark History, Apocalyptic, Spirituality and Healing, and Afterlife. A Review by Lisa Timpf The wonder of […]
Spring continues: But let’s take a few moments’ break from all the leaping about to look at what the members of SFPA have gotten up to lately, shall we? Mike David C. Kopaska-Merkel 4 poems, “flat bastard,” “shearing,” “the ancient,” and “the yawn,” Five Fleas, May 18, 2025, https://fivefleas.blogspot.com/2025/05/morning-of-may-18-2025.html Silvatiicus Riddle haiku, “Rites”, Carmina Magazine, […]
