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Dwarf Stars 2020

Robin Mayhall

First published 2020
Series Dwarf Stars Poetry Award Anthology
Publisher SFPA
Format octavo
Type Anthology
Cover art Michal Kváč
Pages 28
Price $5.00

73 poems of 10 lines or less. 61 poets. These poems constitute the preliminary nominations for the Dwarf Star Award for best very short speculative poems of 2020.

Page Title Author(s) Type
1 "night sieved city of light" Joseph Salvatore Aversano Poem
1 "The knife blade flutters" Colleen Anderson Poem
1 "zen garden" Helga Anton-Beitz Poem
1 A Simpler Time F. J. Bergmann Poem
2 "glow-in-the-dark fruit" Robert Borski Poem
2 "hoping for the best" Johannes S. H. Bjerg Poem
2 "reeking of time" Robert Borski Poem
2 Mystery Multiplied Bruce Boston Poem
3 "For her who laid and hatched my egg," Ronald A. Busse Poem
3 she had broken Susan Burch Poem
4 "clear winter night" Frank Coffman Poem
4 Balancing Act Deborah L. Davitt & Gretchen Tessmer & D. A. Xiaolin Spires Poem
4 Tree in Drought Beth Cato Poem
5 "ritual at dawn" Carmen Duvalma Poem
5 "space station yoga" John J. Dunphy Poem
5 2015 Zinfandella Denise Dumars Poem
5 Infection Roger Dutcher Poem
6 "There are fossils" Mark A. Fisher Poem
6 The Old Ones: A Ghazal Joshua Gage Poem
7 "H3N2" LeRoy Gorman Poem
7 "leaving Saturn" LeRoy Gorman Poem
7 Erwin Schrodinger Jean-Paul L. Garnier Poem
7 Tikbalang Vince Gotera Poem
8 "a glimpse" Hazel Hall Poem
8 "dystopic future" Carolyn M. Hinderliter Poem
8 "Feast of St. George--" C. R. Harper Poem
8 "memorial day visit" C. William Hinderliter Poem
8 ragtime gal Brittany Hause Poem
9 "moonlight" Duro Jaiye Poem
9 "peeling night" Alegria Imperial Poem
9 "stale morning smog" Nick Hoffman Poem
9 Epitaph for John Carter Herb Kauderer Poem
10 "through the portal" Julie Bloss Kelsey Poem
10 Notes for the Next Letter Home Herb Kauderer Poem
10 the music of Luna's pull Herb Kauderer Poem
11 "baby born healthy" Ngo Binh Anh Khoa Poem
11 "dancing with the stars" Deborah P. Kolodji Poem
11 "pi day" Deborah P. Kolodji Poem
11 "placoderms sizzling" David C. Kopaska-Merkel Poem
12 "I read the future" Geoffrey Landis Poem
12 red shirts David C. Kopaska-Merkel Poem
13 How to Notice a Dark Nebula Mary Soon Lee Poem
13 How to Time Travel Mary Soon Lee Poem
14 "her gentle kisses" ayaz daryl nielsen Poem
14 "New Earth's many moons" Lauren McBride Poem
14 Standing Up John C. Mannone Poem
15 "mass into photons" Kimberly Nugent Poem
15 Aeolus Brian Gene Olson Poem
15 When Death Comes Back Cindy O'Quinn Poem
16 "beyond its two eyes" Juan Manuel Perez Poem
16 "black widow spider..." Valentina Ranaldi-Adams Poem
16 "gestating through space--" Terrie Leigh Relf Poem
16 "human flesh transformed" Brian Gene Olson Poem
17 "ordinary flashlight" Tom Sacramona Poem
17 Cold Weather Accessories for Imaginary Creatures Lorraine Schein Poem
17 loose change Allan Rozinski Poem
18 "Voyager outbound" Ann K. Schwader Poem
18 Death Spiral, Korolev Crater Ann K. Schwader Poem
19 "gentlest quiver" Christina Sng Poem
19 "starless night a preacher's corpse" Greg Schwartz Poem
19 "stream of consciousness" William Shaw Poem
19 "the ghost wife" Gloundan Smorpian Poem
20 "bioluminescence" Debbie Strange Poem
20 "seeing stars" Christina Sng Poem
20 "still can't decide" Christina Sng Poem
20 "within sight" Christina Sng Poem
21 "harvest moon" Barbara Tate Poem
21 The Haunting Lucy Whitehead Poem
21 what she knows for sure Cathy Tenzo Poem
22 "iron in the dunes" Greer Woodward Poem
22 The Trophy Room Andrew J. Wilson Poem
23 "stargazing on Olympus Mons" Greer Woodward Poem
23 Recent Federal Postings Greer Woodward Poem
27 Past Dwarf Stars Winners uncredited Essay
ii Introduction (Dwarf Stars 2020) Robin Mayhall Essay