Shining Moon Episode 37: Speculative Poetry IV

Daniel Ausema is an educator and stay-at-home dad. His poems have appeared in Strange Horizons, Fantasy Magazine, Dreams & Nightmares, and many other places and have been nominated for the Rhysling Award. He is also the author of the Arcist Chronicles and the creator of the Spire City series, as well as the writer of many short stories, roughly a hundred of which have been published in places like Diabolical Plots and Strange Horizons. He lives in Colorado at the foot of the Rockies and can be found online at danielausema.com.

Brian U. Garrison (he/him) catches new, old, and otherworldly jazz from the radio station KMHD in Portland, Oregon. His poetry has appeared in Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov's, Dreams & Nightmares, and elsewhere. His chapbook Micropoetry for Microplanets (Space Cowboy Books) celebrates the smallish to medium rocks that circle our sun. He serves as Managing Editor for Eye to the Telescope. Find him online at www.bugthewriter.com

D.A. Xiaolin Spires steps into portals, reappearing in Hawai’i, NY, various parts of Asia and elsewhere. Her work appears in Clarkesworld, Analog, Nature, Strange Horizons and Uncanny. She’s conducted NSF-funded research in anthropology, specializing in food, environmental issues, agriculture and technology. Each of her ten fingers is equipped with a monkey and a typewriter. Through the clamoring of these near-dozen simians and some strange wondrous convergence in the universe, poetic things arise. 

Bogi Takács (e/em/eir/emself or they pronouns) is a Hungarian Jewish  author, editor, critic and scholar who's an immigrant to the US. Bogi  has won the Lambda and Hugo awards, and has been a finalist for other  awards. Eir debut poetry collection Algorithmic Shapeshifting and eir  debut short story collection The Trans Space Octopus Congregation were  both released in 2019, and eir second short story collection Power to  Yield and Other Stories came out just now. You can find Bogi on various  social media as bogiperson.

"Don't tell me that the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." -- Anton Chekov

Piano music for closure

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