I’m very happy to report that my poem “Dear Creator” has been accepted by F&SF 🙂

My poem Master of Chocolate has won the 143rd weekly contest at poetrynook.com 🙂 This poem first appeared in the Atlanta Review in 2009.

To my happy surprise, I discovered that Poetry Nook have raised their prize money to $150, making this the joint most I’ve received for a single poem’s publication. I highly recommend the contest as a place to submit previously-published poems. They are open to reprints, charge no entry fee, and offer a $150 first prize each week. On the other hand, they put all entries online, so I would NOT recommend them as a market for unpublished poems (because you won’t then be able to submit those poems to other markets as unpublished).

My poem Elemental has been published online at Songs of Eretz Poetry Review. It’s a short poem playing on chemistry, written whilst I was working on Elemental Haiku.

There’s a brief article about my Elemental Haiku in the 5 August 2017 issue of the Wall Street Journal. The article includes three of the haiku, and, if you are a subscriber, may be read online in the Moneybeat section.

I am delighted to report that I have 119 Elemental Haiku in Science, one haiku for each element in the periodic table! I believe this is the first time I’ve had my poetry appear in a scientific publication 🙂 I note that the haiku are primarily scientific / whimsical in nature, rather than being science fiction or fantasy.

The haiku are available online in a wonderful interactive periodic table, where different haiku appear as you mouse over the elements. I’m also interviewed in this week’s Science podcast.

N.B. I used a loose interpretation of haiku, so, for example, I believe there are a grand total of zero seasonal references.

Polu Texni just accepted a science fiction poem of mine, “The Secret Life of a Toaster.” It will be my second appearance in Polu Texni.

Catching up after a family vacation: I am happy to report that I had four poems accepted and one poem published while I was away. My poems “Treebound” and “Monster: Puppeteer” will appear in Apex Magazine, “What War Is Like” will appear in Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, and “Lotus Moon” will appear in Mythic Delirium 🙂 Of these, “Monster: Puppeteer” and “Lotus Moon” are both part of The Sign of the Dragon. My poem “The Travelers” was reprinted in issue #25 of Eye to the Telescope (the poem first appeared in the Magazine of Speculative Poetry). Lastly, I now have a Twitter account: @MarySoonLee.

My poem Not Like This, first published in Apex Magazine, has won 3rd place in the 2017 Rhysling Awards in the long poem category 🙂 🙂

Also, my poem “Bespeaking: Riddles” is in the Summer 2017 issue of Star*Line. It’s a poem from The Sign of the Dragon featuring the dragon.

My poem “Unsaid” has been accepted for the September issue of Uppagus. It’s a poem that about King Xau and his second wife, one that I am fond of.

My poem “Elemental” has been accepted by Songs of Eretz Poetry Review 🙂