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Seattle Worldcon 2025Hello, fellow travelers!Now that we are swiftly entering the finalist voting stage of the Hugo Awards, continuing to pair the early speculative tools for reading with more deeper analytical resources is still in order, so in that vein we’re going to converse about how speculative poetry wrestles with deeply sociopolitical thematic matter.To open this discussion, it makes sense to mention that, just as when we’re reading fiction, we are consistently aware that “politics” in the media sense does not mean art extolling right-versus-left ideological identity but instead an examination of the fact that various invisible parts of our lives are constructed by a myriad of forces of power and status that define the ways in which we navigate the world and relate to the finite parts of it we inhabit. Obviously this implies that very little art, if any, isn’t in the realm of the political, but it also means that works that actively observe some of those power and status states can help us imagine ways to improve unhealthy political realities and put more productive ones in order.One of my favorite examples of this is a piece we’ve discussed earlier. Elizabeth McClellan’s “‘Getting Winterized: A Guide for Rural Living” has observations of class and power built into both its initial setting and its core conflict. Despite being such a close piece about a specific moment in its imagined history, it is asking a very high-concept question at its core: How does this seemingly natural phenomenon that is destroying our books affect rural citizens more differently than urban ones, and how can they strive to survive those circumstances?<blockquote>In our house damage is slight. We are resigned to seasons, didn’t need the reassurances, reminders, advice meant for the general public. It’s only called an emergency now, since they migrated into the cities en masse—</blockquote>That question comes with a lot of interesting sociopolitical implications: For one, the poem presents a preparedness for wilderness attacks that is a custom for country folks in ways that those in the city struggle to learn. For another, the bookbear attacks in the poem open a vast new area of law that seems to limit not only people’s protections against harm but also their protections of speech:<blockquote>Last year in Wyoming a man shot one, a tourist who left six books on how to be successful in his cabin, found them feeding, panicked, grabbed his handgun.The jury went easy on him— four years with good behavior.I couldn’t believe he shot it, said the jury foreman to the press, later, but I believe he didn’t mean it in his heart.</blockquote>Returning to another poem we’ve looked at already, Terese Mason Pierre’s “<a href="https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/in-stock-images-of-the-future-everything-is-white/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">In Stock Images of the Future, Everything is White</a>” opens with positing that even the seemingly neutral-to-good improvements we imagine as signs of science fiction’s powerful future may dilute the ability of the Caribbean region to maintain its identity:<blockquote>I don’t want flying cars. I want my language back.</blockquote>What I adore most about this poem is how it turns those clashing images of futuristic modernity and authentic Caribbean-ness into an illustration of the ways technology would try to replicate it for the benefit of foreigners but to the chagrin of those living there, as well as the ways that those locals relate to their space and their own bodies as a result:<blockquote>Someone beside me regrows their limb. I try, but I’m stopping myself, and I want to go backward in time immediately. There’s another word for lost, but I can’t remember.</blockquote>As you keep reading and exploring the wide world of speculative poetry, consider the ways in which some of those poems may be speaking very immediately to a relationship to a place, the dynamics of power that exist there, what its speculative elements may say about the present or the future of those relationships, and how we can possibly imagine more equitable futures through that poem’s vantage point.As exercise, take the time to read Rachelle Saint Louis’ “<a href="http://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/poetry/manman-ak-pitit/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Manman ak Pitit</a>,” published in the 2023 Caribbean SFF Special issue of Strange Horizons, and Najah Hussein Musa’s “<a href="http://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/poetry/bethlehem/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bethlehem</a>,” published in the same outlet’s Palestinian Special Issue in 2021. As with your last reading exercise, this is homework, but I very well can’t grade you on it. My hope is that you see the value in reading deeply and testing your discoveries as you read.Until next time, may tomorrow and your good days always rhyme!<a href="https://seattlein2025.org/2025/03/31/con-verse-speculative-poetry-and-the-politics-of-place/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://seattlein2025.org/2025/03/31/con-verse-speculative-poetry-and-the-politics-of-place/</a><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://seattlein2025.org/tag/speculative-poetry/" target="_blank">#SpeculativePoetry</a>

Seattle Worldcon 2025Con-Verse: Speculative Poetry and the Politics of Place: Continuing to pair the early speculative tools for reading with more deeper analytical resources is still in order, so in that vein we’re going to converse about how speculative poetry wrestles with deeply sociopolitical thematic matter. … (<a href="https://social.seattle.wa.us/tags/SpeculativePoetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpeculativePoetry</a>)Full post: <a href="https://seattlein2025.org/2025/03/31/con-verse-speculative-poetry-and-the-politics-of-place/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://seattlein2025.org/2025/03/31/con-verse-speculative-poetry-and-the-politics-of-place/</a>

Shantell PowellI'll be reading an excerpt from my horror story "The Tupilaq" this Saturday at 18:00 EST for the book launch of Iridescence. This anthology is a collection of speculative poetry and fiction by BIPOC authors. Come check us out! <a href="https://www.kinsmanquarterly.org/events" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.kinsmanquarterly.org/events</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/BookLaunch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BookLaunch</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/SpeculativeFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpeculativeFiction</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/SpeculativePoetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpeculativePoetry</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bookstodon</a>

Of Bookish Things~ observations of the city’s muse and mystery~The city’s muse and mystery, a knowing fox, gazes at those lost in a wilderness, made of rainbows rising from oil-slicked pools. Her rooftop was the wings of an angel, amid the lost wilderness of the city’s drone. It dons a masque made of a pirate’s flag. Keeps history’s severed hand between its legs in an acid rain. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Art</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/DigitalArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DigitalArt</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Photography</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ProsePoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ProsePoem</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Dreams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Dreams</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Phantasmagoria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Phantasmagoria</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Poetry</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ProsePoetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ProsePoetry</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/SpeculativePoetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpeculativePoetry</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Surreal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Surreal</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/SurrealPoetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SurrealPoetry</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Surrealism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Surrealism</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/WordCollagePoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordCollagePoem</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/WordCollage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordCollage</a><a href="https://impliedspaces.wordpress.com/2025/03/24/observations-of-the-citys-muse-and-mystery/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://impliedspaces.wordpress.com/2025/03/24/observations-of-the-citys-muse-and-mystery/</a>

Seattle Worldcon 2025Hello, fellow travelers!Thank you all again for your nominations for this year’s Hugo Awards! Yes, I am going to keep thanking you the entire time—your commitment to reading widely in this field of ours has a chance to make this year’s Best Poem special award a true revolution in the history of the awards. While the awards administration team is doing their part, we should keep acquainting ourselves with some of the standout poets in this wonderful genre, so this week we’re chatting with SFPA Grand Master and editor David C. Kopaska-Merkel!Photo courtesy of David C. Kopaska-MerkelDavid C. Kopaska-Merkel won the 2006 Rhysling Award for best long poem (for a collaboration with Kendall Evans), and edits <a href="http://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Dreams & Nightmares</a> magazine. He has edited Star*line, an issue of Eye To The Telescope, several Rhysling anthologies, co-edited the 2023 Dwarf Stars anthology, and is an SFPA Grandmaster. His poems have been published in Analog, Asimov’s, Strange Horizons, and elsewhere. Some Disassembly Required, a collection of dark speculative poetry, won the 2023 Elgin Award.How did you get into writing speculative poetry?I had been writing speculative fiction for seven or eight years when we were about to have our first child. I decided that because I would have much less free time available I should switch to poetry. It took me a long time to get my sea legs, even after reading a bunch of what had already been published. After about four years (1986) I joined the SFPA (then the Science Fiction Poetry Association) and was introduced pretty quickly to what was out there, including what was then winning the Rhysling Awards.What do you enjoy about speculative poetry?Speculative writing has always been my cup of tea; a lot of children’s literature is quite obviously speculative. The stories I liked best were certainly that way. Stories like The Runaway Robot by Lester Del Ray, and The Hobbit, which does contain speculative poetry, Where the Wild Things Are, any of the illustrated poems by Dr. Seuss, and many others. Speculative literature explores worlds that are far more exciting and variable than the real world. And let’s face it, there could be something hiding in the woods; why not a gremlin, unicorn, alien, or elf? I started reading speculative literature at five and didn’t look back.One of the things I like best about poetry is how you can pack so much into a relatively small number of words. This applies to speculative poetry as well as any other kind. I write poems of different lengths, but I am more and more attracted to senryu and similar forms, which are nearly the ultimate in concision.As a past administrator of the SFPA Rhysling Awards, what are your feelings about poetry slowly gaining wider award recognition—including at this year’s Hugo Awards?I think it’s exciting! For a long time it seemed like poetry was only the province of poets, even within the genre, and that nobody paid much attention. This, even though hundreds of speculative poets also write fiction. Some of the greats, like Jane Yolen, Roger Zelazny, and Clark Ashton Smith, write or wrote both. If you don’t read poetry but you attend Worldcon, you will certainly have the chance to be exposed to it, and in no inconspicuous way! Poetry packs a punch, but a lot of people don’t know it yet.As an SFPA Grand Master, magazine editor, and Rhysling Anthology editor, what have you noticed about the speculative poetry genre’s growth up to this moment?I have no mind-blowing insights, I’m afraid, but I’ve noticed a progressive increase in the proportion of women winning speculative poetry awards and in the proportion of highly-rated poems being horror poems. I don’t know whether these two trends are related! I have noticed the first trend in the SFPA awards (I don’t know about other groups like the Horror Writers Association). I have also noticed more women submitting good speculative poetry to Dreams and Nightmares. Possibly related to this, more people today are taking intimate looks at the subject(s), rather than the more detached views we used to see. These are not new trends, but they continue. Racial and cultural diversity are also definitely increasing, though it’s harder to quantify this through manuscript submissions. I view all of this very positively.What is your favourite poem you’ve read recently?I hate the entire concept of favorites, and not just in poetry—in anything! I do have a favorite flavor of ice cream, but even there I really have an array of similar flavors that I like equally well. Jamocha almond fudge from Baskin-Robbins and Mudslide from Tillamook are up there! In the context of poetry, I actually can give you an answer. A week ago I finished reading Mary Soon Lee’s massive The Sign of the Dragon. This is a book-length tale written in poems. Collectively they are incredibly wonderful. Is it cheating to answer the question with a book, rather than an individual poem? So be it. I’m not an emotional person, but my eyes teared up in a few spots. Read David’s poem <a href="http://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/poetry/an-open-letter-to-our-astronauts/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">“An Open Letter to Our Astronauts” here</a>.That’s all for this week! Although nominations have ended, I hope that you have been inspired enough to keep digging into the wonderful speculative poetry that is being written this year and in years prior. Who knows—you may have to keep your favourite verses in mind for next year’s award season! Feel free to share the wonderful poetry you’ve been discovering with us on social media or in the comments so we can delight in your reading!Until next time, may tomorrow and your good days always rhyme!<a href="https://seattlein2025.org/2025/03/24/con-verse-chatting-with-david-c-kopaska-merkel/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://seattlein2025.org/2025/03/24/con-verse-chatting-with-david-c-kopaska-merkel/</a><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://seattlein2025.org/tag/david-c-kopaska-merkel/" target="_blank">#DavidCKopaskaMerkel</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://seattlein2025.org/tag/speculative-poetry/" target="_blank">#SpeculativePoetry</a>

Seattle Worldcon 2025Con-Verse: Chatting with David C. Kopaska-Merkel: We should keep acquainting ourselves with some of the standout poets in this wonderful genre, so this week we’re chatting with SFPA Grand Master and editor David C. Kopaska-Merkel! … (<a href="https://social.seattle.wa.us/tags/DavidCKopaskaMerkel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DavidCKopaskaMerkel</a> <a href="https://social.seattle.wa.us/tags/SpeculativePoetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpeculativePoetry</a>)Full post: <a href="https://seattlein2025.org/2025/03/24/con-verse-chatting-with-david-c-kopaska-merkel/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://seattlein2025.org/2025/03/24/con-verse-chatting-with-david-c-kopaska-merkel/</a>

Shantell PowellI wrote a prose poem tonight as part of my homework for a course I'm taking on ghost stories. My piece is called "My Ghost Penis," and I like it. I'll betcha someone will want to publish it. It was inspired by "Your Ghost Boyfriend Wants What's Best for You." <a href="https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/your-ghost-boyfriend-wants-whats-best-for-you" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/your-ghost-boyfriend-wants-whats-best-for-you</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Writing</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AmWriting</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/GhostStories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GhostStories</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Poetry</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/SpeculativeFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpeculativeFiction</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/SpeculativePoetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpeculativePoetry</a>

Of Bookish ThingsEldritch Friday: Shadows Over AmuricaMouthHistory has been buried and forgotten. The seeds of fear take root in our bodies, making us anxious and depressed. Fear takes root in our hearts and prevents us from acknowledging true things.<a href="https://c.im/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Art</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Culture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Culture</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Dadaism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Dadaism</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Dadaist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Dadaist</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/DigitalArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DigitalArt</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Eldritch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Eldritch</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/EldritchDadaism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EldritchDadaism</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/EldritchFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EldritchFriday</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/HPLovecraft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HPLovecraft</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Memes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Memes</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ProsePoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ProsePoem</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialMedia</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/SpeculativePoetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpeculativePoetry</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/WeirdTales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WeirdTales</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/WordCollagePoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordCollagePoem</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/WordCollage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WordCollage</a><a href="https://impliedspaces.wordpress.com/2025/03/21/eldritch-friday-shadows-over-amuricamouth/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://impliedspaces.wordpress.com/2025/03/21/eldritch-friday-shadows-over-amuricamouth/</a>

Stelliform PressIn case you missed Trinity's BIPOC Writing Circle & OCAD Emerging Writer's Reading Series at Glad Day Bookshop, here's a couple pics from the evening. Thank you to all who came out to hear some fabulous writers!<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/canlit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#canlit</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/canadianpoetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#canadianpoetry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/canadian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#canadian</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/speculativepoetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#speculativepoetry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/narrativepoetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#narrativepoetry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/seedbeetle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#seedbeetle</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/mahailasmith" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mahailasmith</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ecofiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ecofiction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/sciencefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookstodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a>

Seattle Worldcon 2025Hello, fellow travelers!I do believe thanks are in order! So many of you have answered the call and nominated your favorite poetry for the Best Poem category. I am so excited to see what finalists emerge from your suggestions. Now that we have enough early-stage tools to discuss what makes poetry speculative, it’s a good time to prepare you for reading the finalist works by considering something just a little bit more complex: what is the poem confronting that is valuable for us?Just as in your favorite stories, we read poems because they help us relate to the real world or challenge our place in it. It’s not all about how the work uses figures of speech in speculative patterns, but about how the poem uses those speculative patterns to question or wrestle with the world and its parts. Looking at how speculative poems approach common themes in fiction may help you dig even deeper than before, and find parts of the poems that cling even closer to your mind.One common shared thematic space between fiction and poetry is our relationship to our bodies, or our bodies’ relationship with other people’s bodies. If there’s anything a poem adores, it’s bringing a lens close on the body. Fiction is similarly concerned with how characters are gendered, sexualized, racialized, and classed by their bodies, but the brevity of the poetic form allows the poet to be very particular about the subjective and objectified body, observing it finely as both subject and object.There are so many rich speculative tools that help poetry communicate this. One regular one is use of reverse personification and reverse anthropomorphism where, instead of giving human traits to objects or creatures, a poem applies inanimate or creature-specific traits to a work’s human persona.Franny Choi’s Elgin Award-winning collection Soft Science opens with the very provocatively titled “<a href="https://poems.poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/turing-test/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Turing Test</a>,” and its equally arresting first lines:<blockquote>// this is a test to determine if you have consciousness // do you understand what I am saying</blockquote>This piece, alongside other similarly-named poems in the collection, uses several strongly bound elements, chief among them the “Turing Test” framing’s inherent attachment to language as a means of consciousness and to the cultural sexualisation of feminized robots, to posit questions to the about whether the poem’s persona is in fact conscious—an observation less about the epistemological and more about the sociopolitical trend of registering less thought, reason, and value to the ideas and efforts of feminine bodies.In “<a href="https://theoffingmag.com/backoftheenvelope/quantum-distributions-sarah-baartman/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">quantum distributions for Sarah Baartman</a>,” Lena Blackmon not only seeks to return dignity to one of history’s starkest examples of misgynoir, but to use Baartman’s very body to re-gift that dignity to countless other Black women whose bodies are doubly othered and exploited, by applying space metaphors that both reveal the depth of Black feminine beauty and the reckless means by which men seek to investigate their bodies:<blockquote>here is what is true: a black body radiator be a star that Rayleigh Jeans Law fails to approximate black bodies be emitting spectral radiance but those white men act like they ain’t ever seen us i mean who gave men permission to approximate the black body? to contain us? how have men deluded themselves that they are close enough to touch us? why must they demand black bodies self-sacrifice in ultraviolet?</blockquote>Now that (we hope) you’re finding it easier to read speculative poetry—and hopefully doing so more often!—by applying the tools discussed in earlier columns, try applying them alongside deeper reading for themes like these to reveal new perspective on what the poems are trying to speculate about, what questions they ask, and what answers may lie in their reading.You should now be well-equipped to dig into more poetry and discover similar questions about the body in them. Kailee Pedersen’s “<a href="https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/nymph/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Nymph</a>,” published this January in Uncanny Magazine, is a very strong recent example. Without saying more, I ask you all to read it and think deeply about what it has to say or ask about the bodies of its persona and other characters. Consider this homework. You have nothing to prove to me, but my hope is that as you keep flexing this muscle you will read more deeply, and poetry will become even more stimulating for you.Until next time, may tomorrow and your good days always rhyme!<a href="https://seattlein2025.org/2025/03/17/con-verse-speculative-poetry-and-the-body/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://seattlein2025.org/2025/03/17/con-verse-speculative-poetry-and-the-body/</a><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://seattlein2025.org/tag/speculative-poetry/" target="_blank">#SpeculativePoetry</a>

Seattle Worldcon 2025Con-Verse: Speculative Poetry and The Body: Now that we have enough early-stage tools to discuss what makes poetry speculative, it’s a good time to consider something just a little bit more complex: what is the poem confronting that is valuable for us? … (<a href="https://social.seattle.wa.us/tags/SpeculativePoetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpeculativePoetry</a>)Full post: <a href="https://seattlein2025.org/2025/03/17/con-verse-speculative-poetry-and-the-body/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://seattlein2025.org/2025/03/17/con-verse-speculative-poetry-and-the-body/</a>

Seattle Worldcon 2025Hello, fellow travelers!As you are reading this post, you are currently a mere five days away from the deadline for nominations for the Hugo Awards! As you are slowly plugging in your final selections for categories—including the 2025 Special Hugo Award for Best Poem—I just wanted to check in one last time about the importance of this category, not only for the awards itself but also the importance of you being able to be a part of this historical moment for the fandom of this genre that we love so much. Consider this a breakdown of not just the avenues to read your way into speculative poetry but also as an encouragement as to why you should.One of the things I and many other poets have been championing for the last few months, and surely even for years beyond this, is that the base assumptions that limit our engagement with poetry are not the fault of poetry being inherently difficult, but rather because we have been taught that it is. In reading spaces, this is a double-edged sword—there is this idea that poetry is supposed to be esoteric or challengingly wrought (both being assumptions about the words your favourite writers use) in order to be truly worth reading, but that means that once a poem starts feeling like it’s going over your head, it’s easy to give up, to even argue that the work is verbose for its own sake, too absorbed in its own sound to be worth reading.I imagine that even among many readers who are excited as many poets are for this Worldcon’s focus on poetry as a part of our great genre, this blade has been swinging over their reading heads like the Sword of Damocles. I am here to tell you that—well, not that the sword is not there, but that you can read without thinking about it. I am here to tell you that even in the places where those assumptions are true, which are too rare to think about anyway, there is still a wealth of places for you to journey into poetry in a way that moves and strikes you.“Con-Verse” has been a place to discuss tools to learn how to read complex speculative elements into verse because I truly believe that you have all the other tools necessary to engage with poetry deeply. The majority of fans didn’t need to go to a university literature or science course to see the value of rewarding your favourite novel or related work—and in the same vein, the ability to read yourself into poetry is also a skill you know innately and practice often, arguably one you’ve been rehearsing more often since you were a child, every time you think about the seemingly silly or dark stakes of your favourite childhood nursery rhyme or keep time to your current pop-song earworm. This segment of the blog does not exist to say, “You poor soul, you don’t know how to read a poem—but I will take you as an apprentice!” It exists to say, “How dare the world rob you of a magic you’ve been performing from the depths of your bones! You must prove them wrong.”This is also important because, beyond the rocket statues themselves, the awards ballot is in its own way a reminder that we are still invested deeply in these forms of creativity in this genre. It matters that poetry has a chance in this year’s awards because, in a landscape where short fiction outlets are often struggling to remain afloat and, among them, very few publish poetry while the ones that do are making a healthy and responsible effort to keep that section as equitably competitive as their prose, fans are saying, “Poetry is worth reading—and worth celebrating—and we can do it ourselves.” The double-edged sword is very good at telling fans that only “smart” people, people who “get” poetry, are fit to comment on what poetry is good.Good news: That’s you! I promise! In a lot of ways, it’s more you than those who say poetry is too smart to be common art. And I can think of very few awards that value the perspective of fans in the assessment of poetry, for all the reasons I’ve cited above, which is one of those many small things I love about this genre of ours.So today is not about giving you a reading tool. Today is just giving you fire. Read anything. Go hunting. In these last few days, let no poem slip past your gaze.If you’ve been still looking for places to catch up and explore poems you haven’t already gotten to, here are some recommendations to go foraging if they aren’t already a regular part of your reading diet:<ul><li>the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association has two magazines, <a href="https://sfpoetry.com/starline.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Star*Line</a> and <a href="http://eyetothetelescope.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Eye To The Telescope</a>, the latter of which is available online and both of which are available for subscription. Plus, this is technically cheating, but if you want to know what association members are already considering as worthy of rewarding, <a href="https://www.sfpoetry.com/ra/rhyscand.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">the longlist for this year’s Rhysling Awards have just been released</a>, which gives a good sense of what poetry is catching the eye of poets themselves. (Although, again, I promise you can trust your own instincts just as well!);</li><li>magazines like <a href="http://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/poetry/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Strange Horizons</a>, <a href="http://uncannymagazine.com/type/poetry/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Uncanny</a>, <a href="https://apparitionlit.com/category/poetry/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Apparition</a>, <a href="https://www.radonjournal.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Radon Journal</a>, <a href="https://www.abyssapexzine.com/category/poetry/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Abyss & Apex</a>, and <a href="https://smallwondersmag.com/issues/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Small Wonders</a> have their content available online for your perusal, so if you’re looking for outlets you haven’t read yet or still trying to work your way all the way back to January of last year, there is a lot of poetry free for you to find; and</li><li>other outlets like <a href="https://fiyahlitmag.com/product-category/issues/2024-issues/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">FIYAH</a>, <a href="https://solarpunkmagazine.com/product-category/issues/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Solarpunk Magazine</a>, <a href="https://fandsf.com/current.htm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Fantasy & Science Fiction</a>, and <a href="https://augursociety.org/subscribe/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Augur</a> are mostly available offline via purchase or subscription—and are well worth your investment to explore their 2024 catalogs, not only because many of those poems are just as intriguing as those of their counterparts but also because buying copies is how they pay their poetry rates.</li></ul>If you are already deep into completing your ballot, I thank you for adding your voice to this genre award’s shouting about the value of poetry. If you are still reading, I still wish you a wonderful time plumbing the depths of the form and finding the thing that will truly stick with you this year. I hope that not only now but also throughout the year and especially when we meet in Seattle, that poetry keeps widening your eyes and your heart. I can’t wait to see what our community’s combined tastes reveal.Until next time, may tomorrow and your good days always rhyme!<a href="https://seattlein2025.org/2025/03/10/con-verse-two-reasons-to-trust-your-own-poetic-sense/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://seattlein2025.org/2025/03/10/con-verse-two-reasons-to-trust-your-own-poetic-sense/</a><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://seattlein2025.org/tag/speculative-poetry/" target="_blank">#SpeculativePoetry</a>

Seattle Worldcon 2025Con-Verse: Two Reasons To Trust Your Own Poetic Sense: Consider this a breakdown of not just the avenues to read your way into speculative poetry but also as an encouragement as to why you should. … (<a href="https://social.seattle.wa.us/tags/SpeculativePoetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpeculativePoetry</a>)Full post: <a href="https://seattlein2025.org/2025/03/10/con-verse-two-reasons-to-trust-your-own-poetic-sense/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://seattlein2025.org/2025/03/10/con-verse-two-reasons-to-trust-your-own-poetic-sense/</a>

Shantell PowellMy poem "Nuliajuk and the Birds" has been published by Strange Horizons. <a href="http://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/poetry/nuliajuk-and-the-birds/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">http://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/poetry/nuliajuk-and-the-birds/</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/PoetryCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoetryCommunity</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/IndigenousCreatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IndigenousCreatives</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/SpeculativePoetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpeculativePoetry</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poem</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Speculative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Speculative</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WritingCommunity</a>

Seattle Worldcon 2025Hello, fellow travelers!As you are reading this week’s issue of Con-Verse, you have less than two weeks left to <a href="https://seattlein2025.org/wsfs/hugo-awards/how-to-nominate/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">nominate your favourite works for this year’s Hugo Awards</a>—which includes the 2025 Special Hugo Award for Best Poem! Let this serve as a penultimate reminder to get your favorite poems in! At this point, we’ve been building up our muscles in finding ways to approach poems that intrigue and challenge us.Today, let’s consider yet another one of those reading tools: considering pop culture as an element of the speculative. Now, you may ask, “How come just being a nerdy or geeky thing makes something speculative? Isn’t that just the same ‘just put a robot in it’ treatment you said didn’t necessarily make a poem speculative, Brandon?” Well, the fact that our nerdy and geeky things are generally speculative notwithstanding, there is in fact something deeper going on in a metaphorical sense: Namely, what those speculative things represent can be a way into a deeper poetic observation being made, one that is often compared to not only the speculative element of that pop culture reference but also to its use in narrative overall.Our relationship with genre narratives as portrayals of theme has been pretty much a fact of our identity as nerds and geeks, down to the fact that we recurrently make comparisons between the protagonists of Greek epics and the caped heroes of our favourite comics or the fact that humanities scholars have observed the <a href="https://www.upress.umn.edu/9780816628551/monster-theory/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">startling similarity horror films have to the fairy tales</a> of our youth in terms of dispensing strong allegories about surviving the threats of modern life. That leaves not only those elements themselves but also the very storytelling we do about them as fertile ground for exploring our relationship to both the truths of those stories and the ways we tell them.Take, for instance, one of my favourite poems from Danez Smith, “<a href="https://youtu.be/5BXRENTIqRg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Dinosaurs in the Hood</a>.” The narrative is simple, a pitch for a kickass movie about … you guessed it: dinosaurs showing up in the hood. Early on, it is on its face a very funny, earnest poem about how cool it would be for Black audiences to get a sci-fi action-comedy about saving their neighbourhood from dinosaurs, but as it continues it asks more intriguing questions about the assumptions Hollywood makes about the portrayal of both rugged action-adventure heroes and the experiences of Black people. It ultimately returns to a point that is both salient and hilarious: Those assumptions could be easily dispelled if you just played it straight and put dinosaurs in the hood.Kazumi Chin’s “<a href="https://youtu.be/Pa6C-Cuo84M" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Homeland Security Arrests Godzilla Without Reading Him His Miranda Rights as ‘White Christmas’ Fills the Air</a>” is a very image-laden piece, but its (literally) largest symbol is juxtaposed against so many images of American pop culture to make larger points about neocolonialism and Western cultural hegemony through an Asian-American lens. It is not just a poem “about” Godzilla—it is a poem about how we watch Godzilla, how we listen to Bing Crosby, and even how we drink Coca-Cola.Media poems like this are very critical as a matter of course. They give the reader a way into challenging their perception of the tropes and images that have become ubiquitous in our modern day, especially when the poems are removed from the past traditions of the recurring fantasy imagery of early poetic writing and very strongly place themselves in the present. As you’re reading for the Hugos, consider not only what the placement of a particular pop culture object says on its own thematically but also what the poem perhaps tries to question about how we read that pop culture object. It may be symbolic in an overtly speculative sense, but it could also serve as a metonym for a community or audience, a particular cultural phenomenon, or a historical event. What does it say, then, when that image is in conflict with something else, being compared to surrounding mundane images, or behaving in ways that don’t resemble its real-world counterpart?If you come across a potentially speculative media poem, what is it saying about the ways in which we read and re-portray some of the popular elements of our genre? Is it asking us to be more discerning or critical? Is it pointing out something previously unchallenged or even unknown about the symbolic attachments we have to certain popular franchises?I trust that the media poems you do read as you’re digging into 2024 poetry for the Hugo Awards will be stimulating and intriguing. Maybe one will even have something to say in a new and inspiring way about a modern genre franchise you already enjoy !Again, time is ticking before <a href="https://seattlein2025.org/wsfs/hugo-awards/how-to-nominate/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">nominations for the Hugos</a> close, so don’t hesitate to put poetry in the category for the 2025 Special Hugo Award for Best Poem as we come hurtling ever closer to the deadline!Until next time, may tomorrow and your good days always rhyme!<a href="https://seattlein2025.org/2025/03/03/con-verse-pop-culture-as-speculation-in-verse/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://seattlein2025.org/2025/03/03/con-verse-pop-culture-as-speculation-in-verse/</a><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://seattlein2025.org/tag/speculative-poetry/" target="_blank">#SpeculativePoetry</a>

Seattle Worldcon 2025Con-Verse: Pop Culture as Speculation in Verse: At this point, we’ve been building up our muscles in finding ways to approach poems that intrigue and challenge us. Today, let’s consider yet another one of those reading tools: considering pop culture as an element of the speculative. … (<a href="https://social.seattle.wa.us/tags/SpeculativePoetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpeculativePoetry</a>)Full post: <a href="https://seattlein2025.org/2025/03/03/con-verse-pop-culture-as-speculation-in-verse/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://seattlein2025.org/2025/03/03/con-verse-pop-culture-as-speculation-in-verse/</a>

Seattle Worldcon 2025Hello, fellow travelers!I hope you’ve been inspired and intrigued by our Con-Verse posts so far—as we slowly grow your list of poets to read and share ways to dig into their work, our goal is that you start to gradually work your way into the wider world of genre poetry and discover something truly engaging for you. This week’s poetry chat is with the inimitable former president of the SFPA and an ambassador of speculative poetry, Bryan Thao Worra!Courtesy of Bryan Thao WorraBryan Thao Worra was the President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association (2016–2022) and has since served in the capacity of a speculative poetry ambassador. A Lao American writer, he holds over 20 awards for his writing and community leadership. He is the author of nine books. His writing appears internationally in Australia, Canada, Scotland, Germany, France, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand, Korea, Pakistan, and the U.S. in over 100 publications. He represented the nation of Laos at the 2012 London Summer Games Poetry Parnassus, the 2019 Smithsonian Asian American Literature Festival, the Library of Congress, the 25th Singapore Writers Festival, and the inaugural SEA LIT Writers Festival. He was the 2022 Poet Laureate of the NecronomiCon Providence convention. His writing is cited in over nine international textbooks, including the 2012 edition of the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics and Wenying Xu’s Historical Dictionary of Asian American Literature and Theater, and numerous academic papers. His retrospective collection <a href="https://sahtu.press/books/american-laodyssey" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">American Laodyssey</a> will be released by Sahtu Press in April 2025.How did you get into writing speculative poetry?Speculative poetry was always finding me first. From “The Raven” to “Jabberwocky,” “The Wendigo” [by Ogden Nash], or “Ozymandias,” or bits about a ring or things that were not dead which could lie eternal. Over the last year or so ahead of my new collection, I looked at my juvenalia and was surprised and yet not surprised at how much of [my] early poetry drew upon myths and the science fictional rather than the “realistic” and documentary or confessional forms that were in vogue at the time. There weren’t many models for Asian American verse, especially for Lao refugees in diaspora at the time, so it was easier for me to compose a poem relating to an alien or the post-apocalypse than a Grecian urn or the joys of white picket fences and middle-class aspirations in the Midwest.What about speculative poetry do you enjoy?I appreciate the ambition of speculative poetry and its ability to show up in surprising spaces. A good poem is a bit of time traveler, appearing and reappearing at different moments in your life, in part and in whole. Sometimes in the pages of a book or the beginning of a Ghostbusters movie. Maybe a bathroom stall or the ceilings of a national library. Speculative poetry gets us back to poetry’s deepest roots and dreams, recalibrating language to tap into the soul, the imagination, the mysteries in life that can’t be so readily expressed or predicted by an AI algorithm. It is constantly inventive, and it is not satisfied with merely what is [or] what has been, but probes what if, what might be. How can we not find that compelling?You are the recent former President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association and served during the establishment of November as Speculative Poetry Month. What do you see as the value of initiatives like this?It’s much like the monolith in Arthur C. Clarke’s classic 2001, where the very act of presenting something intentionally created, even as simple as a rectangle can encourage agency and imagination. That we could in fact make our own holidays, recognize our own milestones and temporal base camps for those who come after us to consider what they would like to see in such organizations and events. To take risks and build community and many ways for poets of all paths to add something to the grand table and push the boundaries of our outermost sense of what is possible.You are also a consistent ambassador for speculative poetry, regularly attending cons and other literary events to promote the art form. What does the future of poetry look like in these spaces?Presently most organizers are consigning us to the fringes of the schedule, and I’ve found them to be gracious without high expectations. But that’s where speculative poets tend to bring their A-game, like a particular space amoeba or tardigrade. Give us an unused room, an impossible hour, [and] a few cocktail napkins, and you’ll be surprised who shows up, what games and ideas emerge and spark and ignite. To make room for a poem and the poets amid every other thing going on is to buy yourself a bit of a break from FOMO and to introduce a bit of a wild card into your convention experience that few others will have. There’s value in that.What is your favourite poem you’ve read recently?Jack Mitchell’s “Odyssey of Star Wars” has been the epic poem that I’ve found compelling over the last few years or so because I found it wonderful at a technical level, but [also] important for us as speculative poets in an age of so many intellectual properties trying to be monetized modern myths. We have long been having a conversation on how America is such a movie culture, waiting for books to become films or a streaming series. But of course the good writers wonder: How many movies have you watched [while] thinking, that could be a great book? Few ask if a movie could become a great poem. Mitchell’s “Odyssey of Star Wars” had me wondering what could happen if we had a poetic response and retelling of Star Wars in such a way that years from now, we turn to the verse version as the preeminent iteration of the story, however unlikely. At one point, Shakespeare went around and retold several well-known stories in theater form that we’ve all but forgotten the root tales, and so my curiosity has been piqued.What are you looking forward to at Seattle Worldcon? (Other than poetry, of course!)‘m old-fashioned about such things. I look for the emerging artists and creators to see if I can spot who might become the next big thing, and I look for the elders who might not be with us much longer, to hear their stories, their sense of the field, and once in a while if you’re really attentive, their secrets to making it as a creator, a human in this strange cosmos. I’m also looking forward to sneaking off site to <a href="https://open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Open Books</a>, the country’s only poetry-only bookstore, the <a href="https://www.wingluke.org" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Wing Luke Asian American museum</a>, the <a href="https://seattleglobalist.com/2015/04/10/bruce-lee-grave-seattle-landmark-global-attraction/34662" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">grave of Bruce Lee</a>, and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fremont_Troll" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Fremont Troll</a>, who will be very disappointed if you don’t say hello. Oh, and a really good cup of coffee, of course. Read <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/142856/ecce-monstro" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bryan’s poem “Ecce Monstro”</a> at Poetry Foundation.That’s all for this week! Hopefully, during the last few weeks you’ve already started exploring the world of speculative poetry as a reader for yourself. If you’ve been reading 2024 poetry for the Best Speculative Poem award at the Hugos, hopefully you’re slowly building a big list of poems that definitely deserve a rocket! But here’s a question for those now reading their way into the field: What speculative poem published within these first few weeks of 2025 has caught your eye so far? Share them in the comments or in a post sharing this week’s Con-Verse on social media so other people can find out and read it!Until next time, may tomorrow and your good days always rhyme!<a href="https://seattlein2025.org/2025/02/24/con-verse-chatting-with-bryan-thao-worra/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://seattlein2025.org/2025/02/24/con-verse-chatting-with-bryan-thao-worra/</a><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://seattlein2025.org/tag/bryan-thao-worra/" target="_blank">#BryanThaoWorra</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://seattlein2025.org/tag/speculative-poetry/" target="_blank">#SpeculativePoetry</a>

Seattle Worldcon 2025Con-Verse: Chatting with Bryan Thao Worra: This week’s poetry chat is with the inimitable former president of the SFPA and an ambassador of speculative poetry, Bryan Thao Worra! … (<a href="https://social.seattle.wa.us/tags/BryanThaoWorra" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BryanThaoWorra</a> <a href="https://social.seattle.wa.us/tags/SpeculativePoetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpeculativePoetry</a>)Full post: <a href="https://seattlein2025.org/2025/02/24/con-verse-chatting-with-bryan-thao-worra/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://seattlein2025.org/2025/02/24/con-verse-chatting-with-bryan-thao-worra/</a>

Of Bookish ThingsA Dadaist Speculative Prose Poem in Two Parts ~ a Dadaist reflection on current world conditions and a <a href="https://c.im/tags/Dadaist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Dadaist</a> inspired piece of <a href="https://c.im/tags/SpeculativeFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpeculativeFiction</a> Part Two: confusing contusions cyphers fanatically <a href="https://c.im/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Art</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Collage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Collage</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/CollageArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CollageArt</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/DigitalArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DigitalArt</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/DigitalCollage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DigitalCollage</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Dadaism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Dadaism</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Dada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Dada</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/SpeculativePoetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpeculativePoetry</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ProsePoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ProsePoem</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Poetry</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/AsemicArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AsemicArt</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/AsemicWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AsemicWriting</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/AsemicText" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AsemicText</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/AsemicPostcard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AsemicPostcard</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Music</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Postcard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Postcard</a><a href="https://asemictarot.wordpress.com/2025/02/22/confusing-contusions-cyphers-fanatically/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://asemictarot.wordpress.com/2025/02/22/confusing-contusions-cyphers-fanatically/</a>

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