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The SFPA was established as the Science Fiction Poetry Association in 1978 by author and linguist Suzette Haden Elgin. [6] Elizabeth Chater served as the first president of the SFPA, followed by Gene Wolf. [7] Other SFPA presidents have included Deborah P Kolodji, David C. Kopaska-Merkel, Bryan D. Dietrich, and, most recently, Bryan Thao Worra. [8]
Speculative poetry is a genre of poetry that focusses on fantastic, science fictional and mythological themes. It is also known as science fiction poetry or fantastic poetry.It is distinguished from other poetic genres by being categorized by its subject matter, rather than by the poetry's form.
The common mineral selenite is not a selenium mineral, and contains no selenite ion, but is rather a type of gypsum (calcium sulfate hydrate) named like selenium for the moon well before the discovery of selenium. Selenium is most commonly found as an impurity, replacing a small part of the sulfur in sulfide ores of many metals.
The Rhysling Awards are an annual award given for the best science fiction, fantasy, or horror poem of the year. The award name was dubbed by Andrew Joron in reference to a character in a science fiction story: the blind poet Rhysling, in Robert A. Heinlein's short story "The Green Hills of Earth". [1]
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Eye to the Telescope is a quarterly online journal of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association, [1] which publishes speculative poetry, including science-fiction, fantasy, horror, and poetry. [2] It was established in 2011. [3] It is a theme-based periodical [4] with rotating editors. The first issue, in May 2011, had the theme "The ...
Group members have also created a few of their own poetry forms, such as the contrail and the Fibonacci-No-Haiku (based upon the Fibonacci number), written SF poetry based on other short poetry forms such as the cinquain, and experimented with a number of collaborative poetry forms such as science fiction renga and stellarenga.
Suzette Haden Elgin (born Patricia Anne Suzette Wilkins; November 18, 1936 – January 27, 2015) was an American researcher in experimental linguistics, construction and evolution of languages and poetry and science fiction writer. She founded the Science Fiction Poetry Association and is considered an important figure in the field of science ...