Introduction to Poetry Issue 93, Q1, 2025
I pray you had a wonderful string of holidays as a precursor to your excellent health and prosperous New Year, especially with respect to your writing goals. For some, there has been tragedy, and my heart goes out for you. Our own speculative community has suffered the terrible loss of a fine and notable poet and writer, Bruce Boston. May his wife, Marge Simon, a very fine poet herself, be comforted by good thoughts and prayers.
As usual, I am delighted to bring poems for your reading pleasure, and also because your poetry editor traditionally includes a gift to the magazine and its readers, my seasonal speculative poem will kick it off. There is a preponderance of space-centered poems:
John C. Mannone (Oak Ridge, Tennessee): There Are No Secrets Among the Stars
Lyri Ahnam (Belleville, Illinois): Singularity Storm
F. J. Bergmann (Madison, Wisconsin): HD164595
Howard S. Carman, Jr. (Blountville, Tennessee): Quantum Question
Tabor Skreslet (Charlottesville, Virginia): Two-Minute Test
Pixie Bruner (Atlanta, Georgia): First Fruits
M. Frost (Towson, Maryland): Interstellar Spaces
Michelle Koubek (Jacksonville, Florida): The Child
Sabrina Salvo (Levittown, Pennsylvania): The Nativity
Katharyn Howd Machan (Ithaca, New York): Albino Raven
John Wise (Ocala, Florida): In Darkness
