AJ Wentz
@ajwentz.com
Writer of speculative poetry and prose | not hip, cool, or with it | words in Lightspeed, Modern Haiku, Dreams & Nightmares, and elsewhere | member of SFPA and Haiku Society of America | ajwentz.com
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AJ Wentz
@ajwentz.com
· Oct 25
Eye to the Telescope
Eye to the Telescope, the quarterly online journal of SFPA, the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association, an international organization of speculative poets.
eyetothetelescope.com
“The city / of nightmares is dark, but she will light it up.”
Do you desire cyberpunk with Y2K aesthetics? Cyborgs with transparent plastic body mods?
My poem “Girlie-Pop Cyborgs Dream of Revolution” might be for you! Available in the latest issue of Eye to the Telescope!
Do you desire cyberpunk with Y2K aesthetics? Cyborgs with transparent plastic body mods?
My poem “Girlie-Pop Cyborgs Dream of Revolution” might be for you! Available in the latest issue of Eye to the Telescope!
Art museum 🖼️
Soft piano 🎶
Winter cocktail 🍸
Perfection
Soft piano 🎶
Winter cocktail 🍸
Perfection
December 3, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Art museum 🖼️
Soft piano 🎶
Winter cocktail 🍸
Perfection
Soft piano 🎶
Winter cocktail 🍸
Perfection
Insert a movie into another movie:
2 Star 2 Trek
2 Star 2 Trek
BACK TO THE FUTURE III: THE FINAL DIMENSION
Insert a movie into another movie:
AVATAR III: THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK
AVATAR III: THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK
December 3, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Insert a movie into another movie:
2 Star 2 Trek
2 Star 2 Trek
We’ve reached the point of the year in which I always forget that I need to walk out the door early to scrape ice from my windshield.
December 3, 2025 at 12:51 PM
We’ve reached the point of the year in which I always forget that I need to walk out the door early to scrape ice from my windshield.
Wonderful news! Glad to see poetry recognized by the greater speculative community.
In Anaheim did Worldcon
a special Hugo Award decree
where sci-fi verse
with rhymes diverse
were celebrated as best poetry
(With apologies to Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Yes, there will be a Hugo for Best Poem in 2026. The press release is out. The LAcon V will be updated later today.
a special Hugo Award decree
where sci-fi verse
with rhymes diverse
were celebrated as best poetry
(With apologies to Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Yes, there will be a Hugo for Best Poem in 2026. The press release is out. The LAcon V will be updated later today.
December 2, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Wonderful news! Glad to see poetry recognized by the greater speculative community.
The siren song of the rack of lamb at the butcher counter calls to me 🤤 gonna need some volunteers for a dinner party soon.
November 29, 2025 at 5:57 PM
The siren song of the rack of lamb at the butcher counter calls to me 🤤 gonna need some volunteers for a dinner party soon.
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STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND WATCH THE CHEETAH CAM DEN 2
https://nationalzoo.si.edu/webcams/cheetah-cub-cam
https://nationalzoo.si.edu/webcams/cheetah-cub-cam
November 28, 2025 at 2:22 AM
STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND WATCH THE CHEETAH CAM DEN 2
https://nationalzoo.si.edu/webcams/cheetah-cub-cam
https://nationalzoo.si.edu/webcams/cheetah-cub-cam
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I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
November 27, 2025 at 4:21 AM
I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
Know this: if you ever come to my home for charcuterie, I will provide you with more than a paltry ounce of cheese. You will be given so much cheese.
"For your charcuterie board party, plan on about one ounce of cheese per person" my GUY have you ever MET CHEESE BEFORE, I would NEVER limit my friends to ONE SINGLE OUNCE OF CHEESE.
November 27, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Know this: if you ever come to my home for charcuterie, I will provide you with more than a paltry ounce of cheese. You will be given so much cheese.
Don’t even get me started on three goblins @alicreagar.bsky.social @chrismckeever.bsky.social
Science has yet to properly explain why two goblins are measurably stupider than one goblin
November 27, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Don’t even get me started on three goblins @alicreagar.bsky.social @chrismckeever.bsky.social
Trying a gluten-free version of my holiday staple rum cake. Since marrying into a gluten sensitivity, I’ve reserved the rum cake for work parties, but I miss making it for family events (and I’ve stopped going to my own family events 😬), so I’m going to try to make it gluten free.
Wish me luck!
Wish me luck!
November 25, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Trying a gluten-free version of my holiday staple rum cake. Since marrying into a gluten sensitivity, I’ve reserved the rum cake for work parties, but I miss making it for family events (and I’ve stopped going to my own family events 😬), so I’m going to try to make it gluten free.
Wish me luck!
Wish me luck!
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This seems to be a good time to note that I'm still hoping that we will have a Special Hugo Award for Best Poem in 2026!
I love that the special award happened and that you were nominated for it!
November 22, 2025 at 5:07 PM
This seems to be a good time to note that I'm still hoping that we will have a Special Hugo Award for Best Poem in 2026!
I have whiskey. I have a seat near the stage. I am ready to listen to some literature.
November 21, 2025 at 12:40 AM
I have whiskey. I have a seat near the stage. I am ready to listen to some literature.
Reskeet with a time you looked cool
November 21, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Reskeet with a time you looked cool
It is rainy and thundery and dark, and I should not have to leave my house, my cat, and my books.
November 20, 2025 at 1:14 PM
It is rainy and thundery and dark, and I should not have to leave my house, my cat, and my books.
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Wondering what are the BEST science fiction and fantasy books of 2025? I got you covered! Here are ten fantastical books that rocked my world and keep snagging in my mind.
www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
The 10 best sci-fi and fantasy novels of 2025
From an indigenous vampire story to the tale of two sisters living in a cosmic whale, this year’s books kept us guessing.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Wondering what are the BEST science fiction and fantasy books of 2025? I got you covered! Here are ten fantastical books that rocked my world and keep snagging in my mind.
www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
Discovered that my blender is broken while cooking the first soup of the season 😫
November 19, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Discovered that my blender is broken while cooking the first soup of the season 😫
please trust me with your potions and spells
I can be trusted with potions and spells
November 18, 2025 at 6:23 PM
please trust me with your potions and spells
Sorry I'm late, the autumn leaves instilled in me a simultaneous awe of nature and piercing remembrance that all things end.
November 18, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Sorry I'm late, the autumn leaves instilled in me a simultaneous awe of nature and piercing remembrance that all things end.
I will need a little Christmas two weeks from today and absolutely no sooner.
The grocery store is playing “Need a Little Christmas Now” on November 15th and I am not okay with this.
November 15, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I will need a little Christmas two weeks from today and absolutely no sooner.
I may be tired, but my notes app is full. So many glimpses of beauty lately.
November 12, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I may be tired, but my notes app is full. So many glimpses of beauty lately.
My local distillery is doing Twilight themed cocktail classes tonight, so you can expect me to be so obnoxious about it
a woman is sitting in the driver 's seat of an orange truck .
Alt: Bella Swan in a pickup truck awkwardly throwing a peace sign
media.tenor.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:18 AM
My local distillery is doing Twilight themed cocktail classes tonight, so you can expect me to be so obnoxious about it
If the history of SFF literature is at all of interest to you, you want to read Trace Elements.
Jo and Ada taught two courses using the working draft as the textbook, and they were phenomenal. I learned so much in those two semesters!
Jo and Ada taught two courses using the working draft as the textbook, and they were phenomenal. I learned so much in those two semesters!
November 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
If the history of SFF literature is at all of interest to you, you want to read Trace Elements.
Jo and Ada taught two courses using the working draft as the textbook, and they were phenomenal. I learned so much in those two semesters!
Jo and Ada taught two courses using the working draft as the textbook, and they were phenomenal. I learned so much in those two semesters!
Got to spend the weekend in community with other poets, and I am going into the week feeling invigorated.
November 10, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Got to spend the weekend in community with other poets, and I am going into the week feeling invigorated.
Experiencing writer’s block? Try being trapped in a villa with Lord Byron! You won’t regret being trapped in a villa with Lord Byron.
November 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Experiencing writer’s block? Try being trapped in a villa with Lord Byron! You won’t regret being trapped in a villa with Lord Byron.
Petition for a red-letter edition of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
(or, if this already exists, for someone to tell me where I can find it)
(or, if this already exists, for someone to tell me where I can find it)
November 10, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Petition for a red-letter edition of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
(or, if this already exists, for someone to tell me where I can find it)
(or, if this already exists, for someone to tell me where I can find it)