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
Angela Acosta, Ph.D. (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of South Carolina. She is a 2022 Dream Foundry Contest for Emerging Writers Finalist and 2022 Somos en Escrito Extra-Fiction Contest Honorable Mention. Her Rhysling and Best of the Net nominated poetry has appeared in Heartlines Spec, Worlds of Possibility, Apparition Lit, Radon Journal, and The Sprawl Mag. She is author of the Elgin nominated poetry collections Summoning Space Travelers (Hiraeth Publishing, 2022) and A Belief in Cosmic Dailiness (Red Ogre Review, 2023). She has published articles on Spanish modernism in Persona Studies, Ámbitos Feministas, and Feminist Modernist Studies.