We will be reopening to submissions on March 1, 2008. Those of you who have already submitted work this year need not panic. I will still consider all submissions received to date. However, as the next issue is already full, I will be reading for the summer/fall issues.

Our guidelines remain largely unchanged except for one new point: we now allow simultaneous submissions. It seems silly not to, and given the recent variability in our response times, almost cruel.

I look forward to seeing your work in March.

In honor of my little co-editor’s four-month birthday, I am pleased to announce the launch of Astropoetica’s Winter Issue, featuring:

• No Such Thing as I in the Universe, by Zayra Yves
• Poem gains self-confidence, doesn’t bite stardust, by Oke Mbachu
• watcher & watched, by Kate Hutton
• Tangent to the Z Axis, by Mary Alexandra Agner
• Moonchild, by Steve Klepetar
• Ua Huli Ka Ia (Hawai’ian Lullaby), by Mary Alexandra Agner
• The Cosmogonic Cyclist’s Itinerary, by Rich Murphy
• The Orbit, by Rich Murphy
• Fearful Weight of Moon, by Steve Klepetar
• The Sun Throws Its Kiss, by David Jalajel
• Why I am Not Afraid of the Dark, by Zayra Yves
• Jovian Dreams, by David Jalajel
• Cosmos Under Glass, by Rich Murphy
• Archaean Sea, by David Jalajel
• The Universal Law of Family, by Greg Beatty
• Rundown on the earth:, by Oke Mbachu
• The Sun is Just a Star, by Zayra Yves
• Postcards from Venus, by Patricia A. Boutilier
• Planet of Hope, by Danny Rosen
• Sleeping with one sky open, by Oke Mbachu
• Night Music, by Pat Tompkins
• I am not Mars, you are not Venus, by Damien Stednitz
• Audrey’s Shower, by Robert Appleton
• Halley’s Vision, by Richard St. Clair
• Deep Field, by Danny Rosen
• Villanelle for the Ages, by Matthew Masucci
• Three Quarters Full, by Srinjay Chakravarti
• Mythless, by Pat Tompkins
• Artemis, by R. Nugent
• The Legacy of Aristarchus, by James R. Hoye
• Universal Stage, by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
• Orion, by Dan Mitrut
• Unlucky Astronomer, by Stefan Berinde
• Children of the Galaxy, by Zigmund Tauberg
• Around the Sun, by Adrian Sima
• Astrocantata, by Dominic Diamant

Proofs for the Fall 2007/Where did the time go?/Oh yeah, 4th trimester/Winter 2008 issue are now out. Despite Arden’s new trick of kicking my keyboard out of my lap, I think I will finally have a new issue of Astropoetica up this week.

Some of you have asked when we will be opening to new submissions, and while I don’t have a firm date for you yet, know that I am tweaking our current guidelines to hopefully make things more fair for submitters. I have enough in inventory to fill the spring (let’s hope it’s spring) issue, and I’d like to spare the rest of you an epic wait for publication.

More later…