SpecPoVerse is a magazine dedicated to speculative poetry, a mode that employs the instruments of fantasy, horror, and science fiction to interrogate the real. The journal's general submissions call is open to poets working across these genres, without restriction as to form, length, or theme beyond the speculative frame. There is no submission fee, and the deadline is fixed: October 31, 2026. The magazine operates online and remotely, which means accepted work will reach a readership distributed across geographies rather than a single physical locality. For the poet, the terms are straightforward. This is not a contest with a prize purse; it is a magazine reading for publication. What the journal offers is editorial attention and a venue for work that might otherwise sit uneasily between literary and genre readerships. Speculative poetry has a long lineage—from Dante's cosmological architecture to the weird fictions of Clark Ashton Smith and the contemporary verse of poets like Jane Yolen and Theodora Goss—but it remains underrepresented in mainstream literary magazines. SpecPoVerse positions itself within that gap. The curatorial vision, as implied by the call, is plural: fantasy, horror, and science fiction are not treated as a single mood but as distinct traditions with their own rhetorics. A poem of secondary-world invention, a poem of cosmic dread, and a poem of technological extrapolation each require different formal decisions. The editors appear to be reading for work that understands those distinctions and uses them with intention. There is no stated preference for narrative over lyric, traditional over experimental, or short over long. The absence of a fee and the extended deadline suggest a reading process that values access and deliberation over volume.