This year’s Worldcon Poet Laureate, Brandon O’Brien, is starting a weekly column about speculative poetry on the Seattle Worldcon blog.  For the first post, “Con-Verse: Welcome,” he reached out to members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA) for our takes on this expansive type of writing in which anything, truly anything, can happen on the page.  I mean that in the sense of both form and content: the speculative genres open up the content to whatever the imagination provides, and poetry as a form allows pretty much any structure to coalesce on the page. 

Anyway, Brandon’s blog post is a great way to hear from an array of voices and get a solid foundation on speculative poetry.  I based my contribution on some of my previous thoughts from Worldcon 2020.  I think Brandon’s column is due out on Mondays, so keep an eye out for more Con-Verse.