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- Machine Guns Loaded with Pomegranate Seeds, by Mike Allen
(11/19/12)
- Poetry.
- A thousand Persephones lie bleeding in the Lethe
- Kandinsky's Galaxy, by Mike Allen
(4/9/12)
- Poetry.
- The calming void / came to him each time he closed his eyes
- Carrington's Ferry, by Mike Allen
(1/23/12)
- Poetry.
- but as the taxi rushed the Lisbon streets / a voice heard from the wrong end / of a trumpet whispered new instructions / and she demanded instead the embassy / to Mexico
- La Donna del Lago, by Mike Allen
(8/22/11)
- Poetry.
- as he drowned unknowing, / pursued her murmur down into the deeps.
- Reviews for the week of
1/17/11
- Review.
- Monday: Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach, reviewed by Karen Burnham
Wednesday: Tron: Legacy, reviewed by Shaun Duke Friday: Clockwork Phoenix 3: New Tales of Beauty and Strangeness, edited by Mike Allen, reviewed by Hannah Strom-Martin
- Deluge, by Mike Allen
(11/16/09)
- Poetry.
- When he learned he could drink the stars, he vowed / that even one burning sphere could never be enough
- Rattlebox III, by Mike Allen, Kendall Evans, & David C. Kopaska-Merkel
(7/27/09)
- Poetry.
- Skinner's daughter is or is not / within the box, a paradox. / Is she learning an algebraic maze?
- Ascending, by Mike Allen
(1/5/09)
- Poetry.
- The escalator, rolling ever down, / has reached an end at last and here you lie
- Mondrian's War, by Mike Allen
(8/18/08)
- Poetry.
- When did he first discover this gift for equilibrium? / An urgent revelation in a haystack-mounded field?
- Freebasing the Moon, by Mike Allen
(6/25/07)
- Poetry.
- Silver glitters in his cratered eyes
- Reviews for the week of
4/2/07
- Review.
- Monday: Jon Armstrong's Grey, reviewed by Richard Larson
Tuesday: Mike Allen's Mythic 2, reviewed by Donna Royston Wednesday: Matthew Hughes' Majestrum, reviewed by Siobhan Carroll Thursday: Shortlist Overview: the 2007 Philip K. Dick Award, reviewed by Nicholas Whyte
- Reviews for the week of
7/3/06
- Review.
- Monday: Nintendo Recent Release Roundup: Fresh Faces on Old Favorites in the Palm of Your Hand, reviewed by Erin Hoffman
Tuesday: Steve Cockayne's The Good People, reviewed by Farah Mendlesohn Wednesday: Jon Courtenay Grimwood's End of the World Blues, reviewed by David Soyka Thursday: Mythic, edited by Mike Allen, reviewed by Donna Royston
- lis pendens, by Mike Allen
(6/26/06)
- Poetry.
- I filed suit for your soul today.
- The Journey to Kailash, by Mike Allen
(1/23/06)
- Poetry.
- I tell him I know a doctor / who can do something about that nose.
- Interview: Jane Yolen, by Mike Allen
(11/14/05)
- Article.
- "I don't sit around defining my poetic leanings. But I have read a lot of folklore, which redefines the way I see the world...[o]r underlines it anyway."
- The Strip Search, by Mike Allen
(10/3/05)
- Poetry.
- I thought I'd tossed all my hope away, / but when I stepped through the Gate, it still pinged.
- Picasso's Rapture, by Mike Allen
(6/6/05)
- Poetry.
- handsome, sullen, clad in / diamonds of rose and black, / wearing Harlequin's peaked hat, / the nature of his magic / as yet unsculpted.
- Rattlebox, by David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Mike Allen
(5/30/05)
- Poetry.
- heat shimmer veils Heisenberg / details—the expected can never happen here, / but sometimes it just might.
- Speculative Poetry: A Symposium, Part 2 of 2, by Mike Allen, Alan DeNiro, Theodora Goss, and Matthew Cheney (ed.)
(5/9/05)
- Article.
- "I'm not sure that poetry is more emancipatory than fiction, but I do think that speculative fiction and poetry have a particular emancipatory power."
- Speculative Poetry: A Symposium, Part 1 of 2, by Mike Allen, Alan DeNiro, Theodora Goss, and Matthew Cheney (ed.)
(5/2/05)
- Article.
- "When I say that I'm concerned about newer SF poets not knowing the history of SF poetry, I'm also saying, even proclaiming with a shade of defiance, that there is a history to learn."
- Chagall's Lamp, by Mike Allen
(3/7/05)
- Poetry.
- She shone from inside, / her skin like sunlit clouds, / her eyelashes pins of light.
- Strange Cargo, by Mike Allen
(12/6/04)
- Poetry.
- The train slides toward the hill-concealed horizon, / a mammoth serpent winding through the tall grass,
- Space War, by Mike Allen
(6/14/04)
- Poetry.
- SPACE went to war with itself at 8:20 Tuesday morning / on the phony oriental rug in my living room.
- How I Will Outwit the Time Thieves, by Mike Allen
(12/22/03)
- Poetry.
- at last I see this conspiracy / for what it is: a temporal embezzlement
- Pulse, by Mike Allen
(9/22/03)
- Poetry.
- Red pulse black pulse blue pulse sound thrums / quantum chance rhythm beats with subatomic / possibilities that pulse up pulse down pulse with
- Mrs. Rigsby's Fatecast, by Mike Allen
(9/1/03)
- Poetry.
- And if you happen to be Mrs. Hilda Rigsby, / do not walk down Coralview Avenue at 10:38 / this evening. . . .
- Metarebellion, by Mike Allen
(11/4/02)
- Poetry.
- This is the time, the Soothspeaker said, / the webbing of her mind filled with tangles / of light, the clusters of her eyes pressed / shut.
- Seventh Coming, by Mike Allen and Ian Watson
(10/14/02)
- Poetry.
- One Messiah in particular became rather famous.
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