meet Herb Kauderer

Herb Kauderer is a retired factory worker who grew up to be an associate professor of English at Hilbert College with a PhD and a lot of other degrees.

He has written film, drama, non-fiction, and short fiction, but is most noted for his poetry. His writing has won the Asimov’s Readers’ Award (2017), a third place Elgin Award (2020), the Ewaipanoma Sonnet Contest (2008), and the WorldCon Poetry Slam (1998) and been a finalist for the Analog AnLab Readers’ Awards and received honorable mention in The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror. His work has often been nominated for the Rhysling, Elgin, Dwarf Star, and Pushcart.

More about him and his writing can be found at HerbKauderer.com

Read Herb’s interview for Altered Reality Magazine

Read Herb’s work in Altered Reality Magazine

Poetry

The Last Dragon	Scholar: Seeking Wisdom
The First Dragon	Skyhook	Scone Dragon
Symbols, Numbers, Distances	The Makings of Dragons	Charcoal Dragon
sometimes unobserved is just the same	rust dragon	a time to shrink
Rogue Planet	commuter	unmanned exploration
A Room on Mars	Last Stand on Privacy	The Poem Dreams
failed diplomacy	Intended Purpose	Third Floor Bookstore
new realities	career change	Last Gleaming
Fruit of Imperfection	Dust Devils	stranded observatory
Soft Scientist	Computer Vows	Recognition Error
Keeping the Peace	Leather Dragon	What’s Been Left Behind
Dryad	Joyriding	National Security
Djinn	Stonehenge	Through the Ages
Lethe	Phlegethon	far from worship
Night Shivers	Acheron	Cocytus
keeping company	bug in the system	two wrongs
zombie existence	Profiling the unknown	duration of the crossing
Styx	out of hades	The Theft of Yesterday’s Lover
basilisk	priestess’ nightmare	scylla
satyr insane	medusa	depth perception
having touched sky	arachnid defense	space efficient
doom	what lay underfoot	look the other way
the robot insane	sentient pushing	listener

Prose

Campaign Platform
Criminal Evolutions
Typographical Archvillain
Misdirection in Oz
Names: SF’s Influence on Name Freedom

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