Starburst! Speculative Poetry Readings for Women’s History Month
The Speculative Sundays Reading Series returns in 2026 with StarBurst!, presenting speculative poets every Sunday in March from 7 to 8 p.m. E.T.
The event is free and open to the public. Tickets may be obtained at EVENTBRITE https://www.eventbrite.com/e/starburst-s...
The poets are:
March 1 Deborah Davitt
March 8 Lisa Marie Wood
March 15 Marie Brennan
March 22 Mary Turzillo
March 29 Angela Acosta
2026 is the seventh year for the Speculative Sundays Poetry Reading Series, having presented 56 hour long events including 88 poet readings since 2020.
This will be the third year of Starburst! which will be broadcast live on Facebook via Zoom.
After the introduction and poetry reading, the poet engages in conversation with the host and answers questions from the audience.
Inaugurated in September 2020, the series seeks to remediate the paucity of presentations of speculative poetry by its living creators. The Speculative Sundays Poetry Reading Series has presented 84 poet readings thus far.
Speculative poetry, the poetry of possibilities, includes alternate history, astropoetry, cryptids, cyberfunk, cyberpunk, dystopia, fairytales, fabulism, fantasy, folklore, futurism, horror, magic, monsters, mythology, occult, paranormal, robots, science fiction, shifters, slipstream, solar punk, space opera, superheroes, supernatural, sword and sorcery, sword and soul, steamfunk, steampunk, time-travel, post-apocalyptic, and weird. It takes all poetic forms plus scifaiku.
About the Poet
Mary A. Turzillo won a Nebula award ("Mars Is to Place for Children" 1999) and two Elgin awards (Sweet Poison, with Marge Simon, 2014, and Lovers & Killers, 2012, solo.) Her novel Mars Girls (Apex) features two young Martian women rescuing themselves from Face-on-Mars crazies. Her purrfectly delicious story collection Cosmic Cats & Fantastic Furballs appeared March 2022 from WordFire. A medal-earning woman épée fencer in the US in her age class, she lives with scientist-author-fencer Geoffrey Landis.