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Dwarf Stars 2021

Charles Christian

First published 2021
Series Dwarf Stars Poetry Award Anthology
Publisher SFPA
Format octavo
Type Anthology
Cover art Janie Christian
Pages vi+22
Price $5.00

The Dwarf Stars Award is given by the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association to recognize the best speculative poem of 1–10 lines published in the previous year. The fifty-one poems in this anthology were all nominated for the Dwarf Stars Award 2021. The table of contents does not list the poems on pages 8 and 15 in the order in which they appear on those pages.

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Page Title Author(s) Type
21 Past Dwarf Stars Winners uncredited Essay
10|10.1 Lesser Eternity F. J. Bergmann Poem
10|10.2 Light Voyager Adele Gardner Poem
11|11.1 "lonely robot" Noel Sloboda Poem
11|11.2 More Than a Feeling Lauren McBride Poem
11|11.3 "on a pirate ship" Lana M. 'Rochel Poem
12|12.1 Phoenix Colleen Anderson Poem
12|12.2 "photons in knit and purl" Kimberly Nugent Poem
12|12.3 "probably mist" John Hawkhead Poem
12|12.4 "right at home" LeRoy Gorman Poem
13|13.1 Runaway Greenhouse Effect David C. Kopaska-Merkel Poem
13|13.2 Sailing the Seas of Lune Robert Borski Poem
14|14.1 Saint George's Lament Jacob Bergstresser Poem
14|14.2 seasonal greeting Herb Kauderer Poem
14|14.3 "shapeshifter" Ngo Binh Anh Khoa Poem
15|15.1 Sheets Deborah L. Davitt Poem
15|15.2 The Softness of Impossible Fossils Robert Borski Poem
15|15.3 "Sotheby's Lot 9" Greer Woodward Poem
15|15.4 "springtime on Pluto" David C. Kopaska-Merkel Poem
16|16.1 Surreal Agenda Bruce Boston Poem
16|16.2 "t)here" LeRoy Gorman Poem
16|16.3 "thrown away in recycling" Christina Sng Poem
17|17.1 "wet market" John Hawkhead Poem
17|17.2 "the winged demons come" Greg Fewer Poem
17|17.3 "winter jasmine" Debbie Strange Poem
18|18.1 Yes, Antimatter Is Real Holly Lyn Walrath Poem
18|18.2 "Zombie Night" Lisa Timpf Poem
1|1.1 "6 months" Susan Burch Poem
1|1.2 "adrift in space" Semi Poem
1|1.3 "alien hovercraft" Deborah P. Kolodji Poem
1|1.4 "alternate history" Greer Woodward Poem
2|2.1 "bacon and coffee" Michelle Muenzler Poem
2|2.2 "black rabbits" Michelle Muenzler Poem
2|2.3 Blue Mood Gretchen Tessmer Poem
2|2.4 "bovine witnesses" William Shaw Poem
3|3.1 "brain software warning" Julie Bloss Kelsey Poem
3|3.2 Document Search Lorraine Schein Poem
3|3.3 "downwind" Nick Hoffman Poem
4|4.1 "driving home" Susan Burch Poem
4|4.2 "every lover" Christina Sng Poem
4|4.3 "evil comes always" Juan Manuel Perez Poem
5|5.1 Fairy Ring John C. Mannone Poem
5|5.2 "fireflies" Anna Cates Poem
6|6.1 Frozen Hurricanes Herb Kauderer Poem
6|6.2 "the FTL squad" Deborah P. Kolodji Poem
7|7.1 Garden Kim Goldberg Poem
7|7.2 "happy hour" LeRoy Gorman Poem
7|7.3 "head in one hand" David C. Kopaska-Merkel Poem
8|8.1 "how bright you shine" Monica Louzon Poem
8|8.2 How to Tidy the Asteroids Mary Soon Lee Poem
9|9.1 I Think the Article Said Something about First Contact R. Mac Jones Poem
9|9.2 "in a cracked mirror" Julie Bloss Kelsey Poem
iii Introduction (Dwarf Stars 2021) Charles Christian Essay