Dwarf Stars 2021

Each year, the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association selects the Dwarf Stars Award for the best short speculative poetry of the year before. The 2021 Dwarf Stars anthology contains a diverse mix of excellent, very short science fiction, fantasy, horror, and surrealist poetry (ten lines or fewer) and prose poems (100 words or fewer) from many venues, expected and unexpected.The Dwarf Stars anthology is a selection of the best speculative poems of ten lines or fewer (100 words or fewer for prose poems) from the previous year, nominated by the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association membership and chosen for publication by the editors.From this anthology, SFPA members vote for the best poem. The winner receives the Dwarf Stars Award, which is analogous to the SFPA Rhysling Awards given annually for poems of any length.Information about the Dwarf Stars awards and the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association can be found on sfpoetry_com.Poetry by, Colleen Anderson, F. J. Bergmann, Jacob Bergstresser, Robert Borski, Bruce Boston, Susan Burch, Anna Cates, Deborah L. Davitt, Greg Fewer, Adele Gardner, Kim Goldberg, LeRoy Gorman, John Hawkhead, Nick Hoffman, R. Mac Jones, Herb Kauderer, Julie Bloss Kelsey, Deborah P Kolodji, David C. Kopaska-Merkel, Mary Soon Lee, Monica Louzon, John C. Mannone, Lauren McBride, Michelle Muenzler, Ngo Binh Anh Khoa, Kimberly Nugent, Juan Manuel Perez, Lana M. ‘Rochel, Lorraine Schein, semi, William Shaw, Noel Sloboda, Christina Sng, Debbie Strange, Gretchen Tessmer, Lisa Timpf, Holly Lyn Walrath, and Greer Woodward.Note: The cover art, Red Eye to Transcentral, is by Janie Christian. Teri Santitoro's poem in this anthology was originally published under her pseudonym, semi.