Just Hanging Around

From the fall of 2004 until the beginning of November in 2007, I was the Website coder for the Science Fiction Poetry Association (SFPA), and so it was my job to put together the first two SFPA On-line Halloween Poetry Readings. In the fall of 2008, Debbie Kolodji, then SFPA president, asked me to handle the third reading, also. 

For the 2006 SFPA Halloween Poetry Reading, I recorded a poem that I’d written in the 1970s: “Waiting.” 

In 2007, I wrote a poem especially for the SFPA poetry reading: “At Allantide.” Allantide is a Cornish festival that coincides

All Hallows Eve

with Halloween. On that day, Allan apples were given to family members for good luck, and it was said that a young girl who slept with the apple beneath her pillow would see in her dream the man she would marry. My husband’s name being Allan, the resulting poem was inevitable. 

My poem for 2008, “Hunter’s Moon,” is a reworking of a poem that was also written in the 1970s; I’d never been quite happy with it, and I’m quite pleased with the way it turned out. Quite appropriate for a cloudy night. 

Lost in the Forest

For the 2008 SFPA On-line Halloween Poetry Reading, I also supplied all of the art work, which can be seen here, until the next reading goes up the week before Halloween in 2009: 3rd Annual On-line Halloween Poetry Reading.