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Dwarf Stars 2016

Lesley Wheeler & Jeannine Hall Gailey

First published 2016
Series Dwarf Stars Poetry Award Anthology
Publisher SFPA
Format octavo
Type Anthology
Cover art Michaela Evans
Pages 15
Price $5.00

45 poems of 10 lines or less. 39 poets. These poems constitute the preliminary nominations for the Dwarf Star Award for best very short speculative poems of 2015. The poem "Bees Feel Asleep" by Grzegorz Wróblewski was translated from the Polish by Piotr Gwiazda.

Page Title Author(s) Type
1 Accident-Prone Susan Rooke Poem
1 Alice was chasing white rabbits out of a black hole John C. Mannone Poem
2 "at the barre" Julie Bloss Kelsey Poem
2 "awake after surgery" Sandra J. Lindow Poem
2 "back on earth" Robert Piotrowski Poem
2 Anomaly F. J. Bergmann Poem
2 Bees Fell Asleep Grzegorz Wróblewski Poem
3 Black Hull, Greenheart Susan Grimm Poem
3 Boston to Providence Carrie Etter Poem
4 "Comicon" Susan Burch Poem
4 "crumbling castle" Greer Woodward Poem
4 Classified II Robert Borski Poem
4 Creation Myth (1981) Iliana Rocha Poem
5 "daybreak" Helen Buckingham Poem
5 Driving 80 MPH at Night William Cullen, Jr. Poem
5 The Doorman F. J. Bergmann Poem
6 "hell-bent" Susan Burch Poem
6 "the economy of a solar system ..." Ralf Bröker Poem
6 A Field Amelia Martens Poem
6 Gretel Robert Borski Poem
7 "late winter" Kristen Deming Poem
7 How We Sing Katharine Coles Poem
7 jellyfish Beth Langford Poem
8 "methane rain" Joshua Gage Poem
8 "night sky" Susan Antolin Poem
8 Notes for Next Week's Sermon David C. Kopaska-Merkel Poem
8 The Man with Red Eyes Christina Sng Poem
9 "shapeshifter" John Reinhart Poem
9 "she said" DL Mattila Poem
9 November Rain LeRoy Gorman Poem
9 Placebo Effect Roberta Beary Poem
9 Scissors Series Arielle Greenberg Poem
10 "steam rises" David McKee Poem
10 "they claimed our star" C. R. Harper Poem
10 Tail in Winnipeg Sandra J. Lindow Poem
10 Thor and Saturn's Tête-á-tête Maceo J. Whitaker Poem
11 "time portal wedding" LeRoy Gorman Poem
11 "upturned faces" Deborah P. Kolodji Poem
11 "warm the blur..." Michelle Tennison Poem
11 We Begin This Way Stacey Balkun Poem
12 Weathering Sandi Leibowitz Poem
12 What Dolls Eat Karen Bovenmyer Poem
13 "the window cleaner's ladder" Mark Holloway Poem
13 "when hell freezes over" Deborah P. Kolodji Poem
13 Wish Rebecca Buchanan Poem
iv Introduction: A Letter from the Editors (Dwarf Stars 2016) Jeannine Hall Gailey & Lesley Wheeler Essay