BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT UID:3@sandbox.sfwa.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260124T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260124T120000 DTSTAMP:20260111T125848Z URL:https://sandbox.sfwa.org/events/speculative-poetry-open-mic/ SUMMARY:Speculative Poetry Open Mic DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n \;\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHost: Gwynne Garfinkle\n Featured Poet: Linda D. Addison\, SFPA Grand Master\n\nThe SFWA Poetry Com mittee hosts a quarterly open mic for our poets. This is an unrecorded mee tup where we share our work with each other. You are welcome to read works in progress or published work in the privacy of Zoom.\n\nAt the half hour \, our feature will be introduced and read for twenty minutes. This will b e recorded and available on the events page to view. Bring a poem or two t o read\, hear our featured poet\, and hang out afterwards.\n\nLinda D. Add ison is the award-winning author of five collections\, including The Pla ce of Broken Things\, written with Alessandro Manzetti\, &\; How To R ecognize A Demon Has Become Your Friend\, and a recipient of the HWA Life time Achievement Award. She is the first African-American recipient of the HWA Bram Stoker Award®\, co-editor of Sycorax’s Daughters\, an antho logy of horror fiction &\; poetry by African- American women\, poetry e ditor of Space &\; Time Magazine since 2000\, and editor of the 2018  Rhysling Anthology and the HWA StokerCon Anthology 2019. Her work has made frequent appearances over the years on the honorable mention list fo r Year’s Best anthology. She has a B.S. in Mathematics from Carnegie-Mel lon University and currently lives in Arizona. Addison is a founding membe r of the writer’s group Circles in the Hair (CITH)\, and a member of HWA \, SFWA and SFPA.\n\n\n\n \;\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \;\n\n\n\n\nhttps ://events.sfwa.org/events/speculative-poetry-open-mic-5/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://sandbox.sfwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2026 /01/Copy-of-Poetry-Logo-1.png CATEGORIES:Poetry Committee,SFWA Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR