PETER MILNE GREINER is the author of Lost City Hydrothermal Field, a hybrid volume of poetry and science fiction. His work has appeared recently in Fence, Reactor, Works & Days, Antiphony and ballast, and he was a 2025 Poets Afloat Resident. PMG does water quality monitoring and advocacy around the New York Harbor.
RECENT WORK
Fence | Reactor | Antiphony | ballast | The Ekphrastic Review | slips slips
BOOK
ANTHOLOGIES
Terraform: Watch/Worlds/Burn | MCDxFSG
Beyond Earth’s Edge: The Poetry of Spaceflight | University of Arizona Press
Rendering Unconscious | Trapart Books
Resist Much/Obey Little: Inaugural Poems to the Resistance | Spuyten Duyvil Press
Big Echo Anthology | Big Echo: Critical Science Fiction
*Photo: The poet at the Cloaca Maxima, Rome, 2025
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Summer 2025 Update New website coming soon! In the meantime check out my essay about Ursula K. Le Guin’s Annals of the Western Shore in Reactor and my new long poem “The Way Science Fiction Loves” in ballast.
8/27/2024 Quick roundup about recent publications: check out a variety of new work in Fence, TAGVVERK, and Works & Days
Check out two new poems in LANDFILL @ URSUS AMERICANUS PRESS
MCD Books announces Terraform: Watch/Worlds/Burn! Coming summer 2022, this amazing anthology includes PMG’s story “Tropical Premises” alongside stories by Jeff VanderMeer, Tao Lin, Cory Doctorow, and many others! Check out the REVEAL PAGE HERE
Big thanks to Dream Pop Journal for my very first Pushcart nomination! The nomination is for my poem “The Straight of Vasopressin”! Below there’s a link to the poem and a few others that appeared in Dream Pop earlier this year.
Five new poems just published by Dream Pop Journal! Check out “The Strait of Vasopressin,” “Lake Travis Lights,” “Actual Plateau,” “Peak Uchronia,” and “The Song That Plays At the Beginning of Dark at DREAM POP JOURNAL.
Big Echo: Critical Science Fiction is back with the Big Echo Anthology, a collection of work from the website’s many issues. Included here is PMG’s story “Plexaure” from Issue 1! ORDER HERE.
Big Echo: Critical Science Fiction published a chapbook of interviews, including PMG’s with Andrew Joron. ANDREW JORON IS AWESOME READ A NEW PIECE FROM HIM HERE.
Some poems from Lost City were reprinted at WINTERMUTE LIT this summer!
New work from PMG in the latest issue of HALF MYSTIC JOURNAL! Check out PMG’s contributor essay for the issue here.
Thanks to Christopher Cokinos for including Lost City Hydrothermal Field in Essay Daily’s quarantine roundup!
PMG’s new essay about salvation, AI, and a visit to the Tyringham Shaker Settlement Historic District is featured in Big Echo: Critical Science Fiction. Read “On Reverence” HERE.
Read “Horizon Event,” a new poem published in the latest issue of SO & SO alongside work from fellow OS pals Joanna C. Valente and Richard Lucyshyn.
Read “Atlas of Guam,” a new poem published in the latest issue of ABYSS&APEX.
LONG DISTANCE POISON’s newest record features an essay by PMG! LDP’s “Astro Topoi” is a vinyl release from UK label Deep Distance Recordings. Read about it over at HOUDINI MANSIONS.
Thanks to Joanna C. Valente for including the poem “Tristan Da Couch” from LCHF in their latest poetry roundup at BROKELYN.
Read PMG's review of Ursula K. Le Guin's posthumous collection So Far So Good HERE.
Read PMG’s short story “Tropical Premises” in MOTHERBOARD.
Read some poems from LCHF in YES POETRY.
Check out the latest issue of BIG ECHO: CRITICAL SCIENCE FICTION - PMG guest edited this special speculative poetics issue, which features an interview with Andrew Joron and new work from Johannes Heldén, Joanna C. Valente, ELÆ [Lynne DeSilva-Johnson], Kenning JP García, Ching-In Chen, and others.