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My Flights of Foundry 2025 Recap!

| October 6, 2025

This year at Flights of Foundry, I was a workshop presenter, moderator, panelist, poetry challenge co-leader, and support staff. It was a ton of work but also, as always, a ton of fun! On Friday, I kicked off the poetry challenge with a co-working and sharing session. Then I led my Intro to Speculative Poetry […]

My Flights of Foundry 2025 Schedule

| September 15, 2025

Flights of Foundry is coming up on September 26-28, and I’ve got my schedule for the weekend! I’m noting both the convention hours and the PDT times for my events; if you’re not in PDT, you can use the “Time” part of the program to convert the convention hours to your time zone! Friday, September […]

Flights of Foundry 2024 Quick Recap, Day 3

| October 28, 2024

Catherine Tavares posted her recap of what she attended at Flights of Foundry immediately after the convention. I took a little longer to collect some of my thoughts and notes, but I hope you enjoy! (You can find my previous recaps here.) I’m going to have to do mine in chunks by day, so this post just covers […]

Flights of Foundry 2024 Quick Recap, Day 2 (second half)

| October 21, 2024

Catherine Tavares posted her recap of what she attended at Flights of Foundry immediately after the convention. I took a little longer to collect some of my thoughts and notes, but I hope you enjoy! (You can find my previous recaps here.) I’m going to have to do mine in chunks by day, so this […]

Speculative Poetry at Flights of Foundry

| June 12, 2023

I spoke on a couple of panels about poetry at Flights of Foundry, specifically ones on form poetry and the history of speculative poetry, along with teaching a workshop as an introduction to speculative poetry. Form poetry is a huge topic, one I’ve been tackling here with my slow reading of Stephen Fry’s The Ode Less […]