PSNY Virtual Workshop: Speculative Poetry

An all-levels generative virtual workshop with poet P.C. Verrone!

Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror are often seen as the realms of fiction, but there is a wide world of poetry within these genres. What makes a poem “speculative?” What can be gained by situating poetry within these genres? In this workshop, we will examine the forms, features, conventions, and diversity of Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror poetry, reading poems by Marie Brennan, Josua Whitehead, Angela Liu, and others. We will generate work that celebrates the fantastic, uncanny, and futurist while exploring the unique doors that are opened by writing poetry within speculative genres.

About the Instructor: P.C. VERRONE's work has appeared in FIYAH, Nightmare, PodCastle, Permanent Record: Poetics Towards the Archive, and numerous other anthologies. He has received the Otherwise Award, Bridport Prize, Tin House Residency, and won the WNDB Black Creatives Revisions Workshop. His plays have been developed and produced across the United States. He graduated from Harvard College and holds an MFA in creative writing from Rutgers University–Newark. His debut novel RABBIT, FOX, TAR is forthcoming from Catapult in 2026. He lives with his husband and their LabraDane, Apollo.

**This workshop will take place on Zoom.**