Rhysling nominations

SFPA members. If you want to see a file of my Rhysling eligible poems, for nomination purposes, please let me know.

fundraiser

Tomorrow's last day 2 help me contribute to the East Tuscaloosa Soup Bowl. Buy Nursery Rhyme Noir for $14, get it inscribed, and I give $4 to the Soup Bowl. Sadly, only raised $8 so far.

book news

Proofed "Night Ship to Never" & will send it to Kendall Evans tomorrow.

tanka

planetary ichnology

eroded trackways
on the one large satellite
so very old
if these were our ancestors
we'll never know

assu

new story online

A heart-warming tale of the end of the world. Maybe it's not all THAT heart-warming.

http://www.dailycabal.com/2008/12/small_world.html

my werk online

http://samsdotpublishing.com/scifaikuest/contents.htm

2 scifaiku & 2 tanka, writing as "assu."

nomination time

David C. Kopaska-Merkel, Poetry first published in 2008

These poems and a few others are eligible for nomination for the 2009 Rhysling award. Tell me if you want to see them. (Members of the Science Fiction Poetry Assn can nominate.)


20,000 Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

Alien pets

Boxcar

Cher Amazon

Designation and succession among the gods

Don't know

Death and life on Enceladus

Fragile constructs

In orbital mirrors

Junkyard dog

Monoculture

Mushroom agriculture

Robo-cat

Seasons of their return

Them tricky devils

some haiku and other short poems

tanks 4 the females

one thin dime

it walks it talks
it crawls on its belly
like a reptile
that vaporizes tanks
it wants our women


assu

2007 chapbook available for the first time

The Memory of Persistence

David C. Kopaska-Merkel

August 2007

Naked Snake Press

dark poetry, much of it never before published

Right about when this book came out last summer the publisher ran into difficulties and most copies were not printed. I just got a few copies from the publisher and I can sell five of them postpaid for nine dollars each. Contact me if you are interested.

rl intrudes

sorry I have been more or less absent from here for a few days. Real life in the form of emergency dentist appointments, sick pets, teenagers needing assistance, school plays, meetings to attend, and so on has reared its ugly head.

I am fairly close to caught up on submissions to the magazine and soon I think play out work will begin on issue 82. I'm depending on another person for this, which is why I say "I think".

Poems first published in Dreams and Nightmares issues 79, 80, and 81 appeared in 2008 and are therefore eligible to be nominated for the Rhysling award of the Science Fiction Poetry Association. If you belong, please nominate. If you don't belong, you should think about it. Visit the website here:

http://sfpoetry.com/

in absentia nul nihilo

Which means nothing: I'm not Latin fluent. Been busy, but soon layout starts on issue 82. Remember, DN subscriptions make great presents!

Price increase

Effective 2009:

Subs $25/6 issues($30 outside North America); lifetime sub. $100. Sample copy $5.

Subscribe now for 18/21/90!

DN 82

Laying it out. Target mailing date late January.

a short poem

Out There


Out there, she signed,
& sucked her feeder tube,
we met the other
and the other met us too.


1st publ Y2K Survival Kit, 1999

charity fundraiser

Dreams & Nightmares annual charity fundraiser

Buy an inscribed copy of my new book, Nursery Rhyme Noir (http://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com/2008/11/forthcoming-book-nursery-rhyme-noir.html) for $14 postpaid, and I'll donate $4 to my local soup kitchen: the East Tuscaloosa Community Soup Bowl (http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20070819/NEWS/708190358/1007/RSS&source=RSS). I'll also renew my previous offer: a lifetime subscription to Dreams & Nightmares (http://dreamsandnightmares.interstellardustmites.com/) (including available back issues) for $90, with $25 donated.

Last year I was able to give the Soup Bowl $50. This year I'd like to do better.

a new story

http://www.dailycabal.com/2008/12/quarter_for_your_thoughts.html

destiny