Speculative Sundays Reading Speculative Poetry Month Katherine Quevedo and Joshua Gage 11:16:2025

Описание: Speculative Sundays Poetry Reading for Speculative Poetry: Month with Poets Katherine Quevedo and Joshua Gage

About the Poets

Katherine Quevedo was born and raised near Portland, Oregon, where she works as an analyst and lives with her husband and two sons. Her poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Rhysling Award, received an honorable mention in the Helen Schaible International Sonnet Contest, and been longlisted for the Kingdoms in the Wild Annual Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in Asimov’s, Apparition Literary Magazine, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, Old Moon Quarterly, The Sprawl Mag, HWA Poetry Showcase, and elsewhere. Her mini-chapbook, The Inca Weaver’s Tales, is available from Sword & Kettle Press and traverses a fabled landscape inspired by Ecuadorian and Peruvian folklore. Find her at www.katherinequevedo.com.

Joshua Gage is an ornery curmudgeon from Cleveland. He is the editor of The Ohio Haiku Anthology, the first collection of haiku by Ohio poets in over twenty years. He currently co-edits the horror poetry journal Otoroshi Journal with his life partner, Lori A Minor. His newest chapbook, blips on a screen, is available on Cuttlefish Books. He is a graduate of the Low Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at Naropa University. He has a penchant for Pendleton shirts, Ethiopian coffee, and any poem strong enough to yank the breath out of his lungs.

About the Series

The Speculative Sundays Poetry Reading Series, launched on September 13, 2020 by Akua Lezli Hope, features speculative poets presenting their world-reshaping work.

Now completing its sixth year, The Speculative Sundays Poetry Reading Series has presented over 50 hour-long events including more than 80 poet readings.
Readings are broadcast live on Facebook via Zoom and all are recorded.

The Series enables creators of the genre of speculative poetry to be seen and heard worldwide, live or through recordings. The exposure not only grows the audience but grows the community of possibility through the aural experience of poetry. An aural encounter with poetry by its creators is a different experience with the words on the page. These free readings expand engagement and return a once familiar pleasure to the world.

The Speculative Sundays Poetry Reading Series was created by author, editor, designer and artist Akua Lezli Hope, inspired by the energy and community of ConZealand. “Hearing and seeing creators from all over the world was transformative. I hope this series will inspire people to listen to these word wielders and, after listening, to seek their wondrous works. The possibility for bedazzlement and a deep and lasting engagement is at hand.”

The series was made possible, in part, by the Artist Development grant program administered by The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes and funded by the Community Foundation of Elmira- Corning and the Finger Lakes, Inc. It was later funded, in part, by Poets & Writers with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the New York State Legislature. In 2025, the Statewide Community Regrant program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes supports the Series.

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, romantasy, 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 on Speculative Sundays Poetry Reading Series’ youtube channel: https://tinyurl.com/specpovids.

The list of past poets is at https://www.speculativepoetry.com/spe...