SPEC.SUNDAYS POETRY READING ANGELA ACOSTA & ALICIA HILTON

Описание: The last in the Speculative Sundays Poetry Reading Series for Speculative Poetry Month11/23/2025 7 to 8 pm est presented live on Facebook Via Zoom hosted by Akua Lezli Hope.

POET Bios


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, Shoreline of Infinity, Apparition Lit, Radon Journal, and Space & Time. 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). Her chapbook Fourth Generation Chicana is now available with Dancing Girl Press.

Alicia Hilton is an author, editor, attorney, professor, and former FBI Special Agent. Her poetry has been nominated for the Rhysling Award and the Dwarf Stars Award. Her work has appeared in Breakwater Review, Eastern Iowa Review, Gamut, Litro, Modern Haiku, Mslexia, Stoneboat Literary Journal, Strange Horizons, The Quarter(ly), Vastarien, Year’s Best Hardcore Horror Volumes 4, 5 & 6, and elsewhere. Her website is https://aliciahilton.com. Follow her on Twitter @aliciahilton01 and Bluesky @aliciahilton.bsky.social.

Sponsors
The series was made possible, in part, by an Artist Development grant from The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes funded by the Community Foundation of Elmira-Corning and the Finger Lakes, Inc. and by Poets & Writers with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts. This year 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 enables us to be here. Thank you .

Inaugurated in September 2020, the series seeks to remediate the lack of presentations of speculative poetry by its living creators. Now in its 6th year, The Speculative Sundays Poetry Reading Series has presented over 50 hour-long events including over 80 poet readings.
 
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 EXAMPLES
Speculative poetry includes alternate history, APOCALYPTIC, astropoetry, cryptids, cyberfunk, cyberpunk, dystopian, fabulism, fairytales, fantasy, folklore, futurism, horror, magic, monsters, mythology, occult, paranormal, post-apocalyptic, 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, UTOPIAN, and weird. It uses all poetic forms plus one of its own 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 THE SPECULATIVE POETRY YOUTUBE CHANNEL AND LIST OF PAST POETS IS ON OUR WEB SITE.