Sonder Books Presents: The Open Page
An ongoing poetry and spoken word series in Second Life.
✨ March's Featured Guest
Indigo Starling aka Wendy Van Camp, was Anaheim's Poet Laureate (2022-2024) and a dynamic voice in speculative poetry.
✨ As a bonus, all guests will receive a 50% off coupon toward Indigo's new digital edition release, Quiet Places, Loud Thoughts!
🌿 Sonder Books
Location in Second Life:
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Ancient myths were not just stories. They were poems sung by bards who imagined gods, monsters, and the unknown. In my latest essay, "Myth as a Gateway to the Future," I explore how those early poetic traditions connect directly to the speculative poetry we write today. The symbols may change, but the questions remain the same.
Myth as a Gateway to the Future
an essay by Wendy Van Camp
https://medium.com/p/45535bc48ee8
#PoetryCommunity #writingcommunity #sfpoetry #myth #poetry #writing
Excited to share that my tanka, Synthetics First Tear, has been selected for the SFPA Valentine’s Day Reading
It’s a poem about an AI discovering love and weeping for joy. You can hear it (and other amazing poems!) for free here: https://sfpoetry.org/wp/publications/valentines-day-readings/
The SFPA (Speculative Fiction Poetry Association) celebrates poetry inspired by science fiction & fantasy.
#SFWA Quarterly Poetry Open Mic
Host: Gwynne Garfinkle
Featured Poet: Linda D. Addison
Saturday, January 24th at 11:00am Pacific Time
To find the Zoom link, go to the SFWA Events page for listing. Please do not share the link with the general public.
Zoom event free for members of SFWA or Nebula attendees with an interest in poetry. Bring a poem or two to read, hear our featured poet, and hang out afterwards.
#sfpoetry #poetry #openmic #speculativepoetry #hwa #horrorpoetry
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Horizon 1 A traveller glides voidward, slow,Its compass cracked by silent stress;No axis points the way to go. Across a field of emptinessIt drifts through dust too faint to name,A thought unmoored in wilderness. The stellar winds no longer claimIts fragile fins or fractured guides;All vectors blur to pale ash-flame. It angles where the dark divides,Through lattices of frozen sunsWhose dead light folds in drifting tides. No message hums, no beacon runs;The void consumes the drifting […]ICYMI, The Woodlot published a thoroughly delightful review by Pearl Pirie of Mahaila Smith's SEED BEETLE. If you still haven't picked up your copy, you truly can't miss with this debut collection.
Read the whole review here: https://the-wood-lot.ca/2025/09/29/seed-beetle-poems-by-mahaila-smith-stelliform-press-2025/
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Event Horizons
Horizon 2 A traveller drifts voidward, dark,Its gyro cracked by silent strain;No charted star declares a markNo axis holds a stable plane. Through regions where the vacuum humsIn frequencies no ear could claim,It moves as shattered logic comesA self displaced from former frame. Nebular frost in cobalt ringsCollects along its failing skin;The quiet crush of ancient thingsPressurises the dark within. As gravimetric shadows roll,Predictive paths collapse to dust;No numbers stabilise the […]I’m seeking a young, clever woman, cute enough
to prompt a smile, armed with enough pity for
the dregs of the universe…
—Tracey S. Rosenberg, “The Time Lord’s Job Advertisement”
published in THE FLIGHT OF THE TURTLE: New Writing Scotland 29 (ASL, 2011)
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#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #ScienceFiction #SFpoetry #DoctorWhoDay #DoctorWho
Wha’s Doctor Wha? Wha better kens nor he
that jouks the yetts and rides the birlin wheels
o time and space, shape-shiftin as he reels
through endless versions o reality? …
—James Robertson, “Doctor Wha”
First published in Where Rockets Burn Through (ed. Russell Jones, 2012)
Today, 23 November, is Doctor Who Day!
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Wendy Van Camp
Thorn and Benediction
Stelliform Press
Assoc for Scottish Literature