I was happy to learn recently that Terrie Leigh Relf’s poem “There, where the universe begins” published in Astropoetica V. 6.2 has been nominated for the 2009 Rhysling Award.

Congratulations, Terrie, and good luck to you and all of your fellow nominees!

I have now responded to all Astropoetica submissions received prior to April 1st. If you have not heard from me, please query. It is entirely possible that either your e-mail or mine has gone astray.

Astropoetica: Mapping the Stars through Poetry is pleased to celebrate National Poetry Month with the release of its spring issue, featuring:

• Rapture, by Barbara Crooker
• Nix, by Deborah P Kolodji
• Star Man Every Night, by John Grey
• Northern Lights, by Joanne Merriam
• Leonid Meteor Shower, by Barbara Crooker
• Do Red Dwarfs Have Habitable Planets?, by Barton Paul Levenson
• My Dear Astronomer, by John Grey
• Instead, by Barbara Crooker
• Devil’s Verse, by Michael Constantine McConnell
• Triangulation, by George Moore
• In the Sun’s Empire, by Valentin Grigore
• Stars in Daylight, by Jared Carter
• Age in Years, by Patrick Ryan Dunn Sullivan
• Steady Flames, by Lyn C. A. Gardner
• Deliberation, by Cheryl Lewis
• The Long-Term Effects of Auroral Kilometric Radiation on the Earth’s Population, by Matt Betts
• Cruithne, by Clare Walker
• The Newest Moons of Dirt And Rome, by Michael Meyerhofer
• BPM 37093, by Michael Meyerhofer
• Saturn Backlit by the Sun, by Jared Carter
• No Small Thing, by Michael Travisano
• Cosmic Agglomeration, by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
• Everywhere Spirals, by Rick Novy