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CASSONDRA WINDWALKER READS FROM POETRY SHOWCASE IX

CASSONDRA WINDWALKER READS FROM POETRY SHOWCASE IX

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Cassondra Windwalker reads a haunting poem “Conflagration,” one of the featured poems in HWA Showcase volume IX.

If you haven’t purchased your copy yet, it’s just one click away. Better yet, collect the whole series! Reviews and shares are always welcome.

Cassondra Windwalker is the author of the gothic horror HOLD MY PLACE, as well as the upcoming work of dark magical realism LOVE LIKE A CEPHALOPOD. Presently writing full-time from the coast of southern Alaska, she pretends at the poetry of small things and the languages of birds, beasts, and things with roots. She enjoys connecting …

M LOPES da SILVA READS FROM POETRY SHOWCASE IX

M LOPES da SILVA READS FROM POETRY SHOWCASE IX

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M Lopes da Silva reads a frighteningly approriate poem “there’s a haunted pornographic magazine in the woods,” one of the featured poems in HWA Showcase volume IX.

If you haven’t purchased your copy yet, it’s just one click away. Better yet, collect the whole series! Reviews and shares are always welcome.

M Lopes da Silva (he/they/she) is a non-binary and bisexual author from Los Angeles. They write pulp and poetry, and sometimes the two get mixed up together. Their queer Californian horror fiction has been published or is forthcoming from In Somnio: A Collection of Modern Gothic Horror …

MEGHAN ARCURI READS FROM POETRY SHOWCASE IX

MEGHAN ARCURI READS FROM POETRY SHOWCASE IX

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Meghan Arcuri reads her heartbreaking and poignant poem “How Do I Tell Her?,” one of the featured poems in HWA Showcase volume IX.

If you haven’t purchased your copy yet, it’s just one click away. Better yet, collect the whole series! Reviews and shares are always welcome.

Meghan Arcuri is a Bram Stoker Award®-nominated author. Her work can be found in various anthologies, including Borderlands 7 (Borderlands Press), Madhouse (Dark Regions Press), Chiral Mad, and Chiral Mad 3 (Written Backwards). She is currently the Vice President of the Horror Writers Association. Prior to writing, she taught high school …

TEEL JAMES GLENN READS FROM POETRY SHOWCASE IX

TEEL JAMES GLENN READS FROM POETRY SHOWCASE IX

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A chilling reading of “Homebound” by Teel James Glenn from the recently released HWA Showcase volume IX.

If you haven’t purchased your copy yet, it’s just one click away. Better yet, collect the whole series! Reviews and shares are always welcome.

Teel James Glenn has killed hundreds and been killed more times–on stage and screen as he has traveled the world as a stuntman, swordmaster, storyteller, actor, and haunted house barker.

His poetry and short stories have been printed in over two hundred publications including Weird Tales, Horror & Hope, A Woman Unbecoming, Space & Time…

GENEVE FLYNN READS FROM POETRY SHOWCASE IX

GENEVE FLYNN READS FROM POETRY SHOWCASE IX

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Geneve Flynn gives a wonderful reading of her poem “spoon against bone,” one of the featured poems in HWA Showcase volume IX.

If you haven’t purchased your copy yet, it’s just one click away. Better yet, collect the whole series! Reviews and shares are always welcome.

Geneve Flynn is an award-winning speculative fiction editor, author, and poet. She is the co-editor of Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women (with Lee Murray). The anthology won the 2020 Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson Awards and shortlisted for the British Fantasy, Aurealis, and Australian Shadows Awards.

Geneve was assistant editor for …

GORDON LINZNER READS FROM POETRY SHOWCASE IX

GORDON LINZNER READS FROM POETRY SHOWCASE IX

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To kick of the HWA Poetry Showcase readings we have a genuine New Yorker! Gordon Linzner will be reading his series of haiku “Triptych of Terror.”

If you haven’t purchased your copy yet, it’s just one click away. Better yet, collect the whole series! Reviews and shares are always welcome.

Gordon Linzner is founder and former editor of Space and Time Magazine, and author of three published novels and dozens of short stories in F&SF, Twilight Zone, Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine, and numerous other magazines and anthologies, including Baker Street Irregulars II, Release the …

POETRY SHOWCASE HISTORY FROM AN EARLY ADOPTER

POETRY SHOWCASE HISTORY FROM AN EARLY ADOPTER

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by Angela Yuriko Smith

Were it not for Peter Adam Salomon and the HWA Showcase series he started, I might not be still poeting today. Our community is particularly kind to dark poets. From founding National Dark Poetry Day to be celebrated every October 7th (also a gift from Salomon, by the way) to getting the latest Poetry Showcase up in lights on Times Square NYC (thanks to current president John Palisano), the HWA brings the love to our scribblers of verse.

Over the next few weeks the poets of HWA will be sharing their work from the Showcase in …

STEPHANIE M. WYTOVICH ON POETRY IN THE DARK

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by Angela Yuriko Smith

Today I’d like to welcome Stephanie M. Wytovich to the HWA Poetry Blog with an interview about her own work and Writing Poetry in the Dark, just released from Raw Dog Screaming Press. Writing Poetry in the Dark “brings together some of the most successful contemporary genre poets to discuss topics related to creating dark and fantastical poetry.” Compiled specifically for and about speculative poetry, some of the best poets join forces to offer advice and insight in this guide. It’s a pleasure to share this interview from one of the most respected names in dark …

CELEBRATING DARK POETRY DAY

Edgar Allen Poe’s ink ceased to flow 174 years ago today and dark poets everywhere honor his legacy on this National Day of Recognition. October 7, the day Edgar Allan Poe died, is National Dark Poetry Day. Originated in 2018 by HWA Poetry Showcase founder Peter Adam Salomon, himself an accomplished poet with three poetry collections and a Bram Stoker Award®-nominated novelist. Peter’s work has been performed by The Radiophonic Workshop on BBC Radio 6.

“Dark poetry has existed for centuries,” said Peter Adam Salomon. “One of the oldest surviving works of literature is the Epic of Gilgamesh, which dates …

MEET POET TIMOTHY P. FLYNN

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The HWA has a rich tradition of dark poetry even before the late Peter Adam Salomon founded both the acclaimed Poetry Showcase series and National Dark Poetry Day, celebrated every year on October 7, the day Edgar Allan Poe died. The HWA poetry blog is proud to share poets of all experience levels that write dark things with poetic flourish. From that rich vein, I’m proud to share an interview with Timothy P. Flynn, winner of of the 2021 HWA Dark Poetry Scholarship, as interviewed by Angela Yuriko Smith.

MEET POET TIMOTHY P. FLYNN

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