Science Fiction + Poetry = Science Fiction Poetry!

What exactly IS science fiction poetry? Suzette Haden Elgin discusses it in a short essay, "About Science Fiction Poetry," here.

A sample excerpt of a science fiction poem, for your edification:

There is a bacterium the color of melted butter,
under the microscope,
stunned and limp in the maw of a great blue molecule
that can only be sicced upon it by prescription.
I look at the gory photograph by chance,
as it caught my attention
— I was just passing by — I feel compassion.
(I am reminded, eyeless though it is, of the baby seals.)
What plaints it raises, and to what power, I will never know;
but I cannot keep from thinking: "Poor little thing!"

Want more science fiction poetry? Or, perhaps, you're writing science fiction poetry yourself? If so, join the Science Fiction Poetry Association.