StarBurst! Speculative Poetry for Women's History Month Presents L. Marie Wood

Описание: The Speculative Sundays Reading Series returned in 2026 with StarBurst!, presenting speculative poets every Sunday in Women’s History Month from 7 to 8 p.m. E.T.

The event was free and open to the public, live on Facebook via Zoom

March 8 L. Marie Wood

After the introduction and poetry reading, the poet engaged in conversation with the host and answers questions from the audience.

About the Poet

Celebrated psychological horror author L. Marie Wood is the winner of multiple awards including the Bram Stoker Award®, the Golden Stake Award for Literature, and the International Impact Book Award. She is also a MICO Award-winning screenwriter, an Elgin Award finalist poet, an accomplished essayist, and a playwright. Wood is the President of the Horror Writers Association, the founder of the Speculative Fiction Academy, an English and Creative Writing professor, as well as a horror scholar. Learn more at www.lmariewood.com


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.