The Speculative Sundays Poetry Reading Series is presenting three, free, speculative poetry readings
for November, Speculative Poetry Month.
The poets and dates are:
November 9
Angel Leal
Lori Lopez
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About the Poets November 9 Angel Leal (they/them/she) is a Latine, trans/nonbinary writer who likes to write sad, weird poems. Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in Strange Horizons, Uncanny, The Deadlands, Heartlines Spec, and elsewhere. They’ve been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, the Rhysling Award, and are a co-admin of CALAMITOUS, a queer sci-fi and fantasy writing group. Lori R. Lopez wears various hats as a Speculative and Dark Poet, Horror and Fantasy Author, abstract Artist (in that she is abstract, not her Art), Songstress, and Reclusive Activist for animals and children. Growing up, Lori roamed graveyards and conducted funerals for dead birds, squirrels, insects and spiders. Her offbeat books include The Dark Mister Snark, Leery Lane, An Ill Wind Blows, Darkverse: The Shadow Hours, Odds & Ends, and The Fairy Fly.Among other honors, in 2023 Lori won Third Place for the Long Category of the SFPA Poetry Contest for “Wake Unto Death”. Her Poetry Collection Darkverse was nominated for an Elgin Award and a Finalist in the Kindle Book Awards. Poems “Crop Circles” and “Nocturnal Embers” were nominated for the Rhysling Award in 2020, “Social Graces” and “The Whistle Stop” in 2021, “Biting Sarcasm” in 2022, “The Whippoorwill” and “If Houses Could Talk” in 2023, “Had She Lived” in 2024. Poems “The Maw” and “creatures of the macabre” received Editor’s Choice Awards. While serving in the U.S. Navy as a Journalist, Lori was nominated for The American Spirit Honor Medal. Stories and verse have appeared in The Sirens Call, The Horror Zine, Space & Time, Spectral Realms, JOURN-E, Weirdbook, Oddball Magazine, Bewildering Stories, Dreams & Nightmares, Impspired, Altered Reality, Aphelion, and anthologies such as California Screamin’ (the Foreword Poem); HWA Poetry Showcases II, III, V, VI, and IX; Rhysling Anthologies, Under Her Eye, The Weird Cat, Shunned Houses, Journals Of Horror; Grey Matter Monsters; Dead Harvest; Fearful Fathoms I; Terror Train I and II; Trickster’s Treats #3; Speculations III (Weird Poets Society); and In Darkness We Play. Active member of the Horror Writers Association, Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association, and Lewis Carroll Society Of North America.Visit the Fairy Fly Entertainment Website Lori shares with her two talented sons, and their YouTube Channel @FairyFly. They have started a Folk Band called The Fairyflies.