Best Speculative Poetry of 2012: The Longlist

Rose Lemberg (editor of Stone Telling) is pulling together a compilation which asks the poetry editors at various genre magazines for their top five from 2012 (excluding what their own magazines published). I have not yet decided on my top five, and in any case you would have to wait for Rose's compilation, but here is my longlist, most of which can be read online. If you know of anything wonderful I'm missing that comes from a print-only magazine, I probably haven't seen it; drop me a line by Saturday night and I'll take a look. (It must have been published in 2012.)

note: I am not only not considering Strange Horizons poems; I am also not considering poems by Strange Horizons editors. Therefore, special shout-outs: Blueshift by Sonya Taaffe in Goblin Fruit; In the Firebird Museum by Soyna Taaffe in Stone Telling; Letters to Lost Friends & Imaginary Lovers by AJ Odasso in Strong Verse (which is really not speculative poetry but I like it so I'm linking).

A sad goodbye to Jabberwocky. An abundance of poems this year about golems and about Persephone.

To the list!

( In no particular order. . .  )