Worlds of Possibility —Poetry is free until the 20th of August!
Get your free ebook before August 21st!
Worlds of Possibility has always been excited about speculative poetry. Because I let two full years pass before making the second anthology, I realized we have enough wondrous poems to fill their own volume, and I wanted to pull them all out and celebrate them together. I’ve also included illustrations for some of them. Where art has been commissioned specifically for Worlds of Possibility, the initial image in any given piece is credited, and you can see more about each of the artists in the “About the Contributors” section. If you see images that have no credit, it is because they are designed by me using stock art. To the best of my knowledge, I do not use AI ever.
This year, 2025, there is a special award for poetry in the Hugo Awards ceremony, and I think that’s really cool! I can’t attend Worldcon myself this year, but I wanted to mark the occasion by offering this anthology of all the Worlds of Possibility poems collected since August of 2023 to everyone at the same time that Worldcon is happening. Three of the poets featured in this anthology — Marie Brennan, Angela Liu, and Mari Ness — are Hugo finalists for the poetry category this year! Congratulations to all of them, and to everyone reading, I hope you enjoy seeing more of their work!
These poems represent many authors, styles, and subjects. Sometimes they take on difficult things like grief, but all of them also contain some element of hope, happiness, resilience, or comfort. To reflect the abundance of styles and subjects in this volume, I commissioned custom cover art by Grace Chadwick, who makes beautiful and comforting art as well as art that explores difficult things. In this case, she has given us an elven space lady, cupping a group of planets against a starry purple sky. She is inviting you to go from earth to space to fairyland and beyond in these poems!
To get your free ebook copy, visit this link before August 21st! After that, the ebook will be available for sale at the regular price of $4.99. A hardcover is also coming a little bit later.
All Best,
Julia Rios
