Guest Post: Celebrating Poetry at the 2026 Hugo Awards

We are pleased to welcome a guest column by 2025 Worldcon Poet Laureate — and friend of the blog — Brandon O'Brien . He is a writer, performance poet, teaching artist, and game designer from Trinidad and Tobago. His work has been short-listed 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 ,…