Preliminary Program Grid for Miguel MitchellThis is the Preliminary program schedule. Miguel Mitchell may or may not actually be on these items, but probably will. However, due to circumstances beyond our control, modifications to the program can occur throughout the convention. |
| Sunday 1:00 pm: Speculative Poetry Reading and Workshop (Ends at: 2:55 pm) Truman Participants:Miguel Mitchell Speculative poetry has been around since humans started telling stories. The ancient epics of Gilgamesh, the Iliad and Odyssey, and Beowulf all contained fantastic monsters and would be classified as speculative poems. Speculative poetry is verse with central themes about science, fantasy, science fiction, horror, supernatural, the weird, the surreal, and sometimes the unclassifiable. In this workshop, we will read and discuss different types of published short and long form speculative poetry. We will also discuss how one publishes in this genre and cover the value of membership in the 45-year-old Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA). The workshop includes writing exercises where, based on a writing prompt, we will each try our hand at writing a three-line, non-rhyming speculative poem called a scifaiku, which each of you (if you are willing) will read aloud, and we will critique with kindness. |
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