Poetry poetry poetry!

Here’s some speculative poetry news, both relating to Bull Spec.

First, as Bull Spec poetry editor Dan Campbell notes:

Issue 7 of Bull Spec is now for sale! It has poetry by alexa_seidel, Daniel A. Rabuzzi, thunderpigeon, Deborah Walker, Athena Andreadis, Mari Ness, Damon Shaw, and Sofia Samatar.

Also out now is The Moment of Change: An Anthology of Feminist Speculative Poetry, edited by Rose Lemberg. Three of the poems included in the antho originally appeared in Bull Spec, and I’m thrilled with the line-up of poets in the book.

rose_lemberg announces the antho here, and tithenai has a SQEEEE about it here.  :-)   Go buy it!

Second, Mike Allen has an excellent introduction to speculative poetry over at Locus, which name-drops Bull Spec as a place to look:

Where do you find this work? For one, in the same places you find short fiction: Asimov’s Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, Apex Magazine, Bull Spec, Abyss & Apex, sometimes even Analog. There’s also some spectacular websites and …

And, since I didn’t quite get the Terri Windling cover art for The Moment of Change into Bull Spec #7 as planned, here you go: