[5] The SFPA was established as the Science Fiction Poetry Association in 1978 by author and linguist Suzette Haden Elgin.
[11] In addition to publishing poetry and reviews of books released in the relevant genres, Star*Line provides SFPA members and other subscribers with market listings and industry news bulletins.
Past editors include Jean-Paul Garnier, Vince Gotera, F. J. Bergmann, Marge Simon, and founder Suzette Haden Elgin.
[13] In order to broaden the scope of the organization's literary footprint, Eye to the Telescope has a rotating editorship, with a different editor responsible for selecting the theme and contents of each issue of the journal.
[32] Since 1999,[33] the SFPA has intermittently conferred Grand Master status on select poets who "for a period of no fewer than 20 years" have been actively publishing speculative poetry deemed "exceptional in merit, scope, vision and innovation."