Casey Aimer

In an hour I'll board a cruise ship in Texas for my honeymoon. I'm making this status to note I am not suicidal in any way. If anything happens to me it is because of political persecution. My wife and I are both US citizens

Issue 12 | Radon Journal Radon Journal's twelfth issue brings new poems and stories that challenge your perceptions and dare to look at the future.

Radon's twelfth issue came out, online & in print radonjournal.com/issue12

This one is special, in that it's the perfect mix of raging against the machine & emotional tear-jerkers. This issue is a reaction against the fascist takeover of the US where our editors are, yet infused with so much hope

SFWA Presents
SPECULATIVE POETRY
BOOK CLUB
ONLINE VIA ZOOM
Hosted by Mary Soon Lee
Book: "The Inca Weaver's Tales" by Katherine Quevedo
Winner of the 2025 Elgin Award
Members of SFWA sign up via events page on #SFWA website

#bookclub #sfpoetry #marysoonlee #sciencefiction

Here are my 2025-eligible sci-fi poems inside my eligibility post on Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/case...

Fellow SFWA members, I hope you won't be leaving the poetry section blank in your Nebula nominations. It's the first year of the award, and important to show that it gets the love it deserves.

If you don't know where to find great SFF poetry, just ask me or another SFWA poet, and we can direct you

My hot-climate-ass didnt realize how valuable a snow shovel would be during the winter until right now.

So here I am, scooping snow with a damn cooking sheetpan

When the nuremberg trails 2.0 begin in the future, don't let any Republican off the hook. They intentionally curated this horrible reality. Anyone who's ever voted Republican or conservative is at fault. There's no such thing as a good Republican. There is never any reason to vote conservative.

When you see any journal's new art, know it's the hardest part of the magazine and the fact that it exists should be celebrated

Artists, not authors, are going to be the absolute death of me in the journal industry. The amount of stress they give me is unreal

Some prose writers are going to fight me, but I think by and large, poets come up with more interesting titles for their works compared to short story authors.

And finally, "Circuitry" - a sonnet about exploitation and post-humanism - was published in @sfpoetry.bsky.social's "Cyberpunk" issue of Eye to the Telescope, editing by the supremely talented @caseyaimer.bsky.social.

www.eyetothetelescope.com/archives/058...

I can't wait until we get to the guillotine part of the revolution against these fucking fascists

9–12) "Politics of Stolen Body Parts", "Digital Afterlife Market", "Means of Spaceflight", "Neon-Nazis"
www.amazon.com/Antifa-Lit-J...

13) "VR Self-Medication" shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params...

14) "Pocket Black Hole" sfpoetry.org/wp/starline/...

Behind book paywalls, but I'm happy to send you the poems if you ask:

7) "Descending Digital Mind" payhip.com/b/VOTnw (Literally my first and favorite sci-fi poem I've ever written)

8) "Radiation Exposure as Emotional Therapy" www.amazon.com/dp/B0FCCM8XQB

5) "An Aging AI Tries to Remember Its Life" smallwondersmag.com/piece/an-agi... (From @smallwondersmag.com)

6) "Black Hole Framing" foofaraw.press/black-hole-f... (From @foofarawpress.bsky.social)

3) "Micro-OLED Mask" www.baublesfrombones.com/micro-oled-m... (From @bfbzine.bsky.social)

4) "How to Write Poetry in an Alien Invasion" magazine.trollbreath.com/how-to-write... (From @trollbreathmag.bsky.social)

First, the freely available poems online:

1) "Technological Distraction for the Troubled Mind" magazine.trollbreath.com/technologica... (From @trollbreathmag.bsky.social)

2) "They Said Robots Are" www.penumbric.com/archives/Jun... (From @penumbricmag.bsky.social)

2025 was a stellar year for my sci-fi poetry. In addition to landing an agent and having my debut collection put on sub, I have 14 poems eligible for nomination in the @sfpoetry.bsky.social's 2026 Rhysling Awards.

I'll list them below, or you can view my author website: CaseyAimer.com

Every two years I spend Christmas 20 meters from the southern US border wall. And every time I'm reminded how utterly ridiculous the concept of borders are, and how we should tear them all down.

There's something poetically ironic about a poet who becomes so good at cutting off their own emotions in normal day-to-day life.

Anyway, the older I get, the more I understand artists hiding out in mountain cabins for a month to write their next work. Maybe that'll be me next NaPoWriMo

Well it officially happened to me, like so many before

My wife has bought far too many clothes and shoes and we have nowhere to put it all

I'm proud to say I'm officially a card-carrying member of a workers' union. Been a big supporter of them in my life, and glad I've moved into a job with a burgeoning (new) union to get involved with.

Turns out being extrovert for a weekend makes me more tired than expected.

And Neil Clarke had a lot of great information. Lot of data.

It's hard to make it as a semi-pro journal, and Uncanny should no longer be considered semi-pro to make room for younger journals in the Hugo awards

Just got home to DC—and I have never known a more profound introvert exhaustion than after being on for three days at Philcon. But a great first true con experience that I'll unpack as the week unfolds, including a dinner with Neil Clarke

Final day of Philcon, if you wanna chat about SFF poetry I'll be in the dealer's room

Getting to Philcon just an hour late due to Baltimore traffic. But once there I'll be seeing everyone

When's the launch party?

The recent issue of Eye to the Telescope focused on cyberpunk, and WOW! Each poem blew me away. Edited by @caseyaimer.bsky.social.

@sfpoetry.bsky.social

Our yearly finance report for Radon is out. It also serves as a public showcase of exactly how much it takes to produce a genre journal.

I remember when I was younger wondering why no one ever made detailed public posts on this topic. And wanting to see some. So now I make one each year

Back in the early days of MySpace and Facebook, I'd write statuses about every thought that popped into my head. Nowadays, I still have plenty of commentary, but I never seem to make posts. Perhaps it's that arguing with people online got old. Or maybe I just save it all for my books.