February is Parsec’s time for poetry. Please join us this month as we’re joined by three illustrious poets who will regale us with their prose, their stories, and hopefully you’ll come prepared with some poetry of your own that you’ll be willing to share! Our guests this month are Luiza Flynn-Goodlett, Amelia Gorman, and Brandon O’Brien.
Date: Saturday, Feb 21, 2026
Time: 1:00 – 3:30 pm [EST]
Location: Zoom ONLY. (Zoom room opens at 12:45pm)
You will need to register for the zoom meeting before 12:pm the day of the event.
Free to attend and open to the Public!
Please note that this is a new zoom registration link as of January 2026
Luiza Flynn-Goodlett (she/her) is the author of Mud in Our Mouths (Northwestern University Press, 2025) and Look Alive (Cowles Poetry Book Prize, Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2021), along with numerous chapbooks, most recently Lossland (forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press). Her poetry can be found in Poetry Northwest, Third Coast, The Common, and elsewhere. She serves as a poetry editor for the Whiting Award–winning LGBTQIA2S+ literary journal and press Foglifter.
Brandon O’Brien is a writer, performance poet, teaching artist, and tabletop roleplaying game designer from Trinidad and Tobago. His work has been shortlisted for the 2014 and 2015 Small Axe Literary Competitions and the 2020 Ignyte Award for Best in Speculative Poetry, and is published in Uncanny Magazine, Fireside Magazine, Strange Horizons, and New Worlds, Old Ways: Speculative Tales from the Caribbean. He is the former Poetry editor of the Hugo Award-winning magazine FIYAH: A Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction. His debut poetry collection, Can You Sign My Tentacle?, available from Interstellar Flight Press, is the winner of the 2022 Elgin Award. He was also recently named Poet Laureate of the 2025 World Science Fiction Convention in Seattle, Washington–the first Poet Laureate Guest of Honor in the convention’s history.
Amelia Gorman lives in Eureka where she spends her free time exploring tidepools and redwoods with her dogs and foster dogs. Her fiction has appeared in Nightscript 6 and Cellar Door from Dark Peninsula Press. You can read some of her poetry in Vastarien, Utopia Science Fiction, and Strange Horizons. She has two Elgin winning chapbooks, Field Guide to Invasive Species of Minnesota (Interstellar Flight Press) and The Worm Sonnets (Quarter Press).
