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Eye to the Telescope, Issue #56: A Garden of an Issue

Eva

This year, I was delighted to edit the 2025 Spring Issue 56 for Eye to the Telescope on the theme of Plants.

For those who don’t know, Eye to the Telescope is an SFPA journal that publishes one issue per season with guest editors.

I had a wonderful time reading through the poems, long and short, and all the imaginative ways the poets interpreted the theme. I got 256 submissions and I wish I could accept more than the twenty poems that appear in the issue.

Go read the issue and enjoy the blooming poetry in it!

 

And here is my editor’s note:

From centenarian trees to small flowers blooming through cracks in the concrete, plants have shown that life is as simple and complicated as putting down roots and absorbing the sun.

Plants have been fighting storms and blizzards, heatwaves and droughts for millions of years. Today, with climate change, the expansion of urban landscape, the wildfires and the unregulated deforestation, being resilient sometimes seems to be all a plant can do.

In some ways, words are like plants.

Tenacious. Defiant. Even when cut down, uprooted, stepped on, erased, their seeds still fall on the ground, their pollen travels with the wind. Eventually, they sprout and grow into poems all over again.

In this garden of an issue of Eye to the Telescope, the twenty poems blooming from the underworld to outer space and everywhere in between will take us into a journey about memory, adaptability, change and hope.

I would like to thank everyone who submitted and trusted me with their work. It has been a pleasure to edit this issue and I hope you will enjoy it as much as I did.

—Eva Papasoulioti

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A small update because life

Eva

So, the past couple of months have been challenging.

At the beginning of May, my father died. It was very quick and very sudden. I’m still processing what happened and going through his belongings. We’re currently mid-emptying my parents’ house, bringing stuff to our own, as well as rearranging and purchasing new furniture to accommodate the new arrivals. Overall, it feels as if I’m the one moving out. Needless to say, I’m not a fan.

On the writing front, my poetry is living the dream. My poem “Petrichor” is a Rhysling finalist and “Fifth tongue”, that appeared in the Spring Issue of Silver Blade, has been nominated for the Dwarf Stars. I feel very grateful and lucky to see my poems liked by people.

Last week, my flash story “Money Thirst” was published in the 4th Issue of Radon Journal. While you’re there, check out all the wonderful poems and stories published in the same issue.

And that’s it from me. I’m going back to packing stuff and writing in between stolen moments.

Have a nice day and tell your loved ones you love them.

🌺💜

My poem “Νόστιμον Ήμαρ” is up in Uncanny Magazine

Eva

I have a new poem up in Uncanny Magazine. “Νόστιμον Ήμαρ” is a poem about leaving and missing home and the taste of it.

Νόστιμον Ήμαρ means “the day of return” in Greek and it’s an expression one can find in Odyssey. The word νόστιμος (tasty) has the same root as νoσταλγία (nostalgia) which is νόστος and means coming back to your home country. It’s an interesting thing if you think about it, how tastes and food can mean home to people.

I hope you enjoy it!