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    Winter's Last Apple
    Winter's Last Apple
    Winter's Last Apple
    Ebook113 pages56 minutes

    Winter's Last Apple

    By Ken Poyner

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    A collection of poems, prose poems, and micro-fiction pieces, speculative and surreal, which touch upon various aspects of villainy, saintliness, debauchery, responsibility and discovery. These pieces have appeared in as diverse a swath of magazines as "Asimov's Science Fiction", "Grievous Angel", "Unbroken Journal", "Rune Bear", "Pank" and dozens of others.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKen Poyner
    Release dateJun 19, 2023
    ISBN9798215537091
    Winter's Last Apple
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    Ken Poyner

    Ken Poyner has published more than 200 stories and 1200 poems in more than 200 journals and magazines, both print and web based. His books include "Cordwood" (poetry), 1985; "Sciences, Social" (poetry), 1995; "Constant Animals" (fictions), 2013; "The Book of Robot"; (poetry), 2016; "Victims of a Failed Civics"; (poetry), 2016; "Avenging Cartography"; (fictions), 2017; "The Revenge of the House Hurlers" (fictions), 2018; and more, with his latest being speculative poetry in "Lessons From Lingering Houses", 2022. He has taught creative writing on a Poets in the Schools Virginia teaching fellowship; and given readings, or taught seminars, at Bucknel University, George Washington University, the Bethesda Writers Center, and elsewhere. He has been nominated for multiple Pushcart prizes, multiple Rhysling and Dwarf Stars awards, the Sidewise award, and several Best of the Net awards. His work appears in a number of contemporary anthologies. He is known for his surreal and Irreal topics and methods.

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