SpecPoVerse, Vol. 1, Issue 3 is LIVE! specpoverse.org/vol-1%2C-iss...

SpecPoVerse is completing its first year of poetry publication with the launch of Vol. 1, Issue 3 just after 12 midnight (2400 hrs) EST tonight: specpoverse.org/vol-1%2C-iss...

@acadialogue.bsky.social So, how would I get a travel fellowship to visit you at your university, perhaps to co-facilitate a cross-cultural speculative poetry workshop or other interesting venture?

I received the wonderful news today that my scifaiku won Second Place in the 2025 Halloween Haiku Challenge. halloweenhorrorhaiku.com Here it is: the witching hour spirits fly in spell-filled night love that never dies

I am proud to announce that my science fiction novel-in-verse, Surrealia, won Second Place in the.2025 Elgin Awards for Best Full-Length Speculative Poetry Book!

SpecPoVerse has recordings of poets readings their poems from Vol. 1, Issues 1 and 2 (more coming for Issue 2). The tonal nuances, the rhythm, and the emotional coloring transform and elevate the poems. Issue 1: specpoverse.org/vol-1%2C-iss... Issue 2: specpoverse.org/vol-1%2C-iss...

Tonight at midnight EST, SpecPoVerse Volume 1 Issue 2 will launch online! This issue contains amazing verse from poets around the world with themes from science fiction, fantasy, horror, and surrealism. As always, SpecPoVerse is free! I hope you enjoy it. specpoverse.org/vol-1%2C-iss...

My poem "Sound healing" is being published in the Sauuti Terrors anthology, pre-orders available at $26.99 for 1/20/2026 launch. The Sauutiverse is an Africancentric cosmology with sound-based magic mixed with science in a solar system with five planets. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/sauu-ti-te...

Selfie with SFPA Grandmaster poet Linda D. Addison who signed my copy of her spectacular poetry book "Everything Endless" (co-authored with the amazing Jamal Hodge)

September 1st is coming up fast! Get your speculative poems ready to submit to SpecPoVerse for Volume 1, Issue 3. specpoverse.org/submission

Sold all my copies of Surrealia at Seattle Worldcon plus more with folks using the QR code on my T-shirt.

@rachel-aaron.bsky.social Just so you know, I'm going to campaign hard to have you invited to Balticon 60 during Memorial Day weekend. Here's the link to Balticon 59. www.balticon.org

@rachel-aaron.bsky.social You might be interested in being a panelist/book signer at the Gaithersburg Book Festival. We have sold fantasy books like The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djeli Clark and Strange Practice by Vivian Shaw. Politics & Prose sells the books. www.facebook.com/share/p/1B3g...

I'm proud that my scifi novel-in-verse, Surrealia, was nominated for the 2025 Elgin Award! #elgin #SFPA Voting ends on 9/15/2025. Wish me luck! www.sfpoetry.com/elgin.html

Book recommendation if you like subversive takes on myths: Wearing the Lion by John Wiswell. Heracles (Hercules) like you've never seen him before. Really fascinating entwined arc of Heracles, the demigod whose name means "glory of Hera," and Hera, who initially despises and curses him.

SpecPoVerse received 196 poetry submissions for Volume 1, Issue 2, coming out 8/31/2025. Check out the wonderful verse in Volume 1, Issue 1: specpoverse.org/vol-1%2C-iss...

Cyberhaunt Nanowraith drifting Quantum dot swarm shimmers swirls Ghost of dead AI Glides through misty Scottish moor Maker’s spirit never found

Listen to the fragrances the cymbal crash of cardamom the bluesy bass of basil sleepy soprano saffron cartwheeling chords of chamomille synesthesia on tap neuroimplant catching the tunes from my spice cabinet

My mom offers me dream play While I lie still in my egg Telepathic teaching tickles We romp with astral fondness Then the bioclock strikes time Emergence exultation Flesh shield ruptured I give savage sentiment Crawling out my first meal I look at the cooling corpse and think, "Thanks, Dad!"

A scifaiku: Cosmos nears its end Sentients almost god-like Hard drive gets refreshed

@micaiahjohnson.bsky.social Great talking to you at #Balticon59 ! I will see your lovely fierceness at #Worldcon ! Keep being your authentic stab-em-with-words self.

A fantastic #Balticon59! I was immersed in the love of my #SFFtribe

Sang my own song for the first time at Friday FILK (sci-fi/fantasy songs) at Balticon 59. My heart didn't explode. My friend Tavair Tapp #sagacioustraveler joined me on chorus. Singing again tonight at 10 pm.

Had a great time at #GBF , The 16th Gaithersburg Book Festival! Sold 11 books, including 7 signed #Surrealia books.

Our first poetry reading at SpecPoVerse! specpoverse.org/readings

Call for speculative poetry submissions to SpecPoVerse, Volume 1, Issue 2! Submit up to three total poems between May 1 and June 30, 2025. specpoverse.org/submission

SpecPoVerse, Volume 1, Issue 1, is launched!! specpoverse.org/vol-1%2C-iss...

SpecPoVerse, Volume 1, Issue 1 launches in 12 days on April 30, 2025! An inauguration event everyone can enjoy! specpoverse.org

The Gaithersburg Book Festival is on Saturday, May 17, 10 am to 6 pm in Gaithersburg, MD. Free entry and free parking. Lots of wonderful authors reading, including great poets. I will also have an Exhibiting Author booth, so please stop by and say hi! www.gaithersburgbookfestival.org

My musical "A Necromancer's Tale" is finished! Lyrics, dialogue, stage directions, and stage scenery descriptions. Now it's time to work with my wonderful musician on the orchestral music to go with the songs.

From "A Necromancer's Tale:" "I am a necromancer I don't defeat death I make shadow puppets of life" - His Sublime Malevolence Necromage Osiris Abara

I have written the lines, stage directions, and lyrics to Scenes 1 and 2 of my musical "A Necromancer's Tale". After murder of his sister Justine, Osiris, a black teenager, discovers that he is a wild (innate) necromancer. Now treated like a monster, Osiris struggles to find meaning, hope, and love.

I should have posted this yesterday, but you can still enjoy speculative Valentine's Day poetry readings over the weekend, including mine, Expressions of Love: sfpoetry.com/valentines/2...

My poem "Wine Tasting on the Planet Ufahamu*" appeared in FIYAH magazine fiyahlitmag.com/issues/issue...

At 12:01 am EST tonight - submissions to SpecPoVerse opens!! Please get those speculative poems in and wow us! specpoverse.org/submission

SpecPoVerse is accepting speculative poetry submissions starting on February 1! We are international and will even publish untranslated poems. specpoverse.org

@karenthepoet.bsky.social I'm melting away stress over anything at work. It's a job, not my soul. Letting it all go.

If you want to help those folks whose homes were destroyed by the horrific LA fires, one way is the donate to World Central Kitchen, providing free meals to those affected. wck.org?gad_source=1...

@rachel-aaron.bsky.social Glad you're on Bluesky! I enjoyed reading Hell of a Witch and gave it an excellent review. I hope you get a chance to read Surrealia, it's like a speculative poetry novel: gnashingteethpublishing.com/books/surrea...

Surrealia #19 elephantine wet eyes float lazily in a broken sky a four-color-theorem patchwork paper mâché clouds drift by on fire as thunder rumbles in our brains soft present enough occasional tears rain down we catch them on our tongues they taste just like the view

Justice Scent of burnt flesh orange rum Stride forth Zinja Bang the drum! Towering on steel rods bare Pierce the clouds and screech the air Half machine and half undead Necromagic techno dread Called to punish wicked deeds Tyrants flee On souls it feeds

Surrealia #16 hop hop hop the microstars sizzle puddles I bend down to watch due to the gravity of the situation - Miguel O. Mitchell, Star*Line, Fall 2023

Kickstarter for SpecPoVerse: An International Journal of Speculative Poetry, via @Kickstarter www.kickstarter.com/projects/ele...

It's launched! I started SpecPoVerse: The International Journal of Speculative Poetry. Open for speculative poetry submissions from 2/1/025 to 3/31/2025 for issue 1 (April 2025). Illustrated poems and non-English poems are welcome! This is global!! specpoverse.org

Anyone interested in helping me to create an online speculative poetry magazine that specifically gathers poems from persons from every country, displaced group, and no-nation-designation? I want the poems in the original language and reviewed by native language speakers. Lots of different voices!

On 11/9/2024, I ran the Speculative Poetry Workshop #specpo for Teens, sponsored by the Maryland Writers Association, #MWA These young folks are very talented!

I had a great time running the Speculative Poetry Workshop at #Capclave. The participants wrote and read scifaikus, cinquains, and prose poems. What a thrill to experience all that creativity!