Kevin J Fellows

Jun 29, 2024 | kevinjfellows.medium.com | Kevin J Fellows

By Kevin J Fellows PoetryA Reading List for Poets Serious About PoetryPhoto by Claudia Wolff on Unsplash Any poet, any writer, who works seriously, must read more than they write. That's not only my opinion, but one shared by every serious writer I've ever heard on the topic. But what do we read? Where do we start and where do we go next? I've assembled this list of books that I've found extremely helpful. This is hardly complete...

Jan 9, 2024 | strangehorizons.com | Nancy Moore |Kevin J Fellows |M. Krishnan |Rachel Cordasco

I’m told the Moon’s gravity isone-sixth of that here on Earth. Imagine time spent in a placewhere there’s so little resistance. I could do a grand-jeté thereeven though I flunked out of ballet. Or maybe a jump kick to the headsince I prefer fighting to dance. Wouldn’t matter that the cartilage is gone. My knees wouldn’t hurt on the Moon. And falls wouldn’t do any damageif my bones grow brittle and thin. No one yet lives on the Moon. Scientists are focused on Mars.

Jan 9, 2024 | strangehorizons.com | Kevin J Fellows |Nancy Jane Moore |M. Krishnan |Rachel Cordasco

I could do a grand-jete there / even though I flunked out of ballet. Once there lived a princess who was a girl, a corpse, a slippery amphibial nymph. She was tucked within several lives, each life pleating and creasing into silken layers of woe. But for our purposes, we will restrain ourselves to one of those lives. Maybe even two. Her name was Marakatam, but it was not the name she was born with. It was a name she was bequeathed, and this was how it happened.

Jan 9, 2024 | strangehorizons.com | Rachel Cordasco |Kevin J Fellows |Nancy Moore |M. Krishnan

The protagonist of Sarena Ulibarri’s Another Life is Galicia Aguirre, the mediator/leader of a Death Valley utopian community called “Otra Vida,” where residents live, work, and eat together in a utopian vision of sustainable energy and brotherly love. In this world, a failed plan to transplant humans to another, cleaner planet somehow led to worldwide collapse and the rearrangement of national borders, as well as another civil war in the United States.

Aug 24, 2023 | medium.com | Kevin J Fellows

By Kevin J Fellows Poetry Photo by zenad nabil on Unsplash Moments before the sun, when everythingis pink but wants to be purple,ribbons stretch across the sky. Pale rose glows against silver tree trunksabandoned by night's rich plum. Left naked - infant pink,vulnerable to the coming scorching gold. © 2023 by Kevin J. Fellows