Speculative Love Poems
Call for Speculative Poetry about Love
Speculative Love Poems
Love is the primordial principle the basis of our being. When it informs our doing, we experience transcendent eternities of deep now, immersive beauty overarching joy. Love is the foundation of all things. This Anthology seeks submissions of no more than three poems on love from/ through/in the realm of the speculative love. Love is manifested in many forms and we seek those traverse, engage, occupy the speculative.
Speculative poetry is an ever widening expanse of verse creation, embracing elements of science fiction, fantasy, fairytales, horror, and more. Our earliest encoded storytelling was verse tales of the imagined. Verse was the first vehicle to convey our imaginations through the dark and to the heavens. Speculative poetry is ancient of days, older than the flood, and as new as tomorrow with roots in Gilgamesh, the Odyssey, the Ramayana, and Beowulf as well as the many mythologies and folklore that populate our world.
By speculative we mean those poems that present the unreal as real. Speculative is the umbrella term for various categories/genres of literature including: alternate history, astropoetry, cryptids, cyberfunk, cyberpunk, dystopian, fabulism, fairytales, fantasy, folklore, futurism, horror, magic, monsters, mythology, occult, paranormal, robots, science fiction, shifters, slipstream, solar punk, solar funk, space opera, superheroes, supernatural, sword and sorcery, sword and soul, steam funk, steam punk, time travel, post-apocalyptic & weird. It all poetics forms. and one called scifaiku.
Speculative Love Poems
Love is the primordial principle the basis of our being. When it informs our doing, we experience transcendent eternities of deep now, immersive beauty overarching joy. Love is the foundation of all things. This Anthology seeks submissions of no more than three poems on love from/ through/in the realm of the speculative love. Love is manifested in many forms and we seek those traverse, engage, occupy the speculative.
Speculative poetry is an ever widening expanse of verse creation, embracing elements of science fiction, fantasy, fairytales, horror, and more. Our earliest encoded storytelling was verse tales of the imagined. Verse was the first vehicle to convey our imaginations through the dark and to the heavens. Speculative poetry is ancient of days, older than the flood, and as new as tomorrow with roots in Gilgamesh, the Odyssey, the Ramayana, and Beowulf as well as the many mythologies and folklore that populate our world.
By speculative we mean those poems that present the unreal as real. Speculative is the umbrella term for various categories/genres of literature including: alternate history, astropoetry, cryptids, cyberfunk, cyberpunk, dystopian, fabulism, fairytales, fantasy, folklore, futurism, horror, magic, monsters, mythology, occult, paranormal, robots, science fiction, shifters, slipstream, solar punk, solar funk, space opera, superheroes, supernatural, sword and sorcery, sword and soul, steam funk, steam punk, time travel, post-apocalyptic & weird. It all poetics forms. and one called scifaiku.
· Submissions open May 1-August 15, 2025
· Submit no more than 4 unpublished, speculative poems to speculativelove@gmail.com
· No previously published poems (see notes)
Submission Format
· One-inch margins, 12 point or larger type (no TNR)
· Name and e-mail address on every page of poem.
· Name of file should be your name and title of poem.
· Send each poem as a separate file.
· Send files as attachment in .doc or .docx to speculativelove@gmail.com.
Payment: all included will receive one copy of the paperback. (Estimated value, $25 including shipping and handling). The anthology will be published as a paperback and e-Book in 2025.
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Notes:.
Please send only speculative poetry, no longer than 40 lines. Please send only speculative poetry.
Mere metaphor does not a speculative poem make; mere simile does not a speculative poem make. All poetic forms are welcome.
*Published works are those published in: online journals, magazines, anthologies, eBooks, eChapbooks, eNewspapers, Hardcopy journals, magazines, anthologies, books, chapbooks, newspapers, pamphlets
Rights sought: exclusive print publishing rights for two years after date of publication, enhanced e-book and electronic rights to use work in audio or video features about the anthology.
We announce early in hopes that you will create something for the anthology.Work sent outside the submission window will not be considered
