The Ghettobirds
speculative poetry by Bryant O'Hara

The Ghettobirds
Details Forthcoming
​Publication in 2021

    Learn More
The Ghettobirds presents thirty works of speculative poetry that celebrate the ability of humanity to adapt to, surpass, and possibly transcend its environment and its origins.

Sprinkled throughout this Afrofuturist collection are a series of recurring characters called the Ghettobirds, cybernetic beings created out of a technological singularity event that occurs in a slum. These beings exist to help humanity change itself so that, in time, it will have the capacity to leave its home world.

Author Bryant O’Hara works with a love of both the natural and the artificial world, and uses rhythm and cadence to compress thought into images of just how strange our experiences can become as we learn to shape—and be shaped by—both worlds.
Picture
About the Author

Bryant O'Hara was born in Long Beach, California, the son of a Marine Corps technician from Heflin, Alabama and a data entry clerk from Decatur, Georgia, both of whom instilled a love of music, art, technology, and the pursuit of knowledge. He received dual degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Humanities from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1993. His poetry has been published in Pandemic Atlanta 2020, Star*Line Magazine, and Eyedrum Periodically, as well as recognized in the Science Fiction Poetry Association’s Poetry Contest, long form division. Bryant is a member of the Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity and the Science Fiction Poetry Association, and is an ordained minister in the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. He lives in Stone Mountain, Georgia, with his wife Alice, two out of seven children, and one out of five grandchildren.
Literature Titles from FEP:

¿Cómo Hacer Preguntas? or How To Make Questions: 69 Instructional Poems in English by Daniel Hales

The Splooge Factory poetry by Christina Springer

Ambushing the Void short stories by James McAdams

Stealing: A Novel in Dreams by Shelly Brivic

Right Guy, Wrong Time novel by Louise MacGregor ​(forthcoming)

Ere the Cock Crows by Jens Bjørneboe (forthcoming)
​
Winter in Bellapalma by Jens Bjørneboe (forthcoming)

​Yearning for the Sea by Esther Seligson (forthcoming)

​Street Smart Series of Short Fiction for People on the Go