Speculative Sundays Poetry Reading for National Disability Pride Month
Join us for a cozy Sunday poetry reading celebrating National Disability Pride Month!
The poets reading is followed by a short Q&A with the audience.
The Speculative Sundays Poetry Reading Series, launched on September 13, 2020, features speculative poets presenting their world-reshaping work. The Speculative Sundays Poetry Reading Series has presented over 42 hour-long events including 56 poet readings. Readings are broadcast live on Facebook via Zoom and all are recorded.
Speculative poetry, ancient of days, older than the flood, the poetry of possibilities, centers the imagined as real. The first recorded human literature was speculative verse: Gilgamesh, the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, the Iliad and Odyssey, and Beowulf, are ancient exemplars. Speculative poetry includes alternate history, astropoetry, cryptids, cyberfunk, cyberpunk, dystopian, fabulism, fairytales, fantasy, folklore, futurism, horror, magic, monsters, mythology, occult, paranormal, robots, science fiction, shifters, slipstream, solar punk, solar funk, space opera, superheroes, supernatural, sword and sorcery, sword and soul, steam funk, steam punk, time travel, post-apocalyptic, and weird. It takes all poetic forms plus one called scifaiku.
From Nursery Rhymes to Edgar Allen Poe’s the Raven, from Puff the Magic Dragon to Zombie Jamboree, we’ve all recited and sung speculative poetry.
Find The Series’ recordings at: https://www.facebook.com/specpo/videos and/or on Speculative Sundays Poetry Reading Series’ youtube channel: https://tinyurl.com/specpovids.