080816b– Including dreams and nightmares 103 and 104 update

I am going to be alone for a few days, although somebody in my position cannot afford to be left alone, so I really won't be. However, my wife has to go visit her father; he is not doing too well. There is reasonable hope for significant improvement, but at his age, it is best to be proactive about visiting.

All subscriber and contributor copies of dreams and nightmares 103 have now been mailed. If you don't have yours in two weeks, you should definitely let me know.

I have read and responded to most submissions to dreams and nightmares in the last few days. I expect to finish catching up tonight. The next issue, 104, is fall and I am reading for 105. I will begin laying out 104 tonight, or maybe tomorrow, depending on when I finish with submissions.

In the coming days. I also will be posting more trace fossil photographs in this blog. Hope they are not too boring. Conversely, if people would prefer I say more about them when I post the pictures, let me know. And we will be attending a reception & signing books September 9 at the Alabama Museum of Natural History here in Tuscaloosa. The museum is planning to unveil a new exhibit about the trace fossil site at the same time.

Dreams and Nightmares 103-104 update

All contributor copies of 103 will be mailed Monday.

All subscriber copies of 103 have been mailed.

I'll have a Table of Contents for 104 in a few days.

DN 104 will be mailed this year, so poems in 102-104 will be eligible for the Rhysling and Dwarf Stars.

Rhysling & DS awards of SFPA http://sfpoetry.com/index.html

Dreams and Nightmares 103 update

All digital subscribers have now received their copies of the new issue. I will be mailing print copies Monday.

Dreams and Nightmares 103 update

The issue is ready to put in the mail, but I have to scrounge up the money to make that happen. If anyone wanted to subscribe, or even just buy a sample copy, right about now, that would help a lot.

PayPal to jopnquog@gmail.com
print copy $5 (All prices postpaid)
pdf $1
six-issue print subscription $25
lifetime PDF subscription including all back issues $39
lifetime subscription in both formats including all back issues in both formats $90

Or, check made out to David Kopaska-Merkel, sent to 1300 Kicker Rd., Tuscaloosa AL 35404

I haven't done any traditional crowdfunding for several reasons. One of them is that there are a lot of things in this world more urgent than reading poetry. I just don't like to put myself out there in the same marketplace where people are raising money to pay for cancer treatment.

If you can't buy anything right now, I am still going to mail the issue. It will just take a couple more weeks.

DN 103 TOC

Dreams and Nightmares 103

May 2016

CONTENTS

M. Wayne Miller, Yithian Communication .................................... cover
From the Brainstem ................................................................................. 3
Robert Frazier, Luminous Decay .......................................................... 4
Gloundan S., Exposition ........................................................................ 7
Mary Soon Lee, Wolf Moon ................................................................... 8
Heart ......................................................................................................... 9
James S. Dorr, Godzilla vs. King Kong .................................... ............ 10
Lauren McBride, Engagement: Set in Stone ...................................... 11
Justin Holliday, Midnight Sun ........................................................... 12
Ken Poyner, At Issue, The Miramo ...................................................... 13
Bruce Boston, Going Green in the Mutant Rainforest ...................... 15
M. B. Simon, illo for "Going Green in the Mutant
Rainforest" ........................................................................................ 16
Lorraine Schein, The Field of Poppies ................................................ 17
C. R. Harper ................................................................. 17
assu, Alien Lovers ........................................................... 17
Romie Stott, Alien Ginsberg ................................................................ 18
Chris Friend, illo .................................................................................. 18
Ann K. Schwader, Chauvet Redux ....................................................... 19
assu ............................................................................. 19
F. J. Bergmann, The End ...................................................................... 20
Denny Marshall, Presentations ........................................................... 20
assu ......................................................................................................... 20

DN update

102: contrib copies in mail tomorrow
Submissions: most have been responded to
103: started layout
Lifetime subs: $90; incl. all back issues & ditto for pdfs included in that price; $39 for pdfs only; paypal jopnquog@gmail.com

DN update

DN 102 will come back from the printer this week, & should be mailed to subscribers next week. I started laying out 103 today, in hopes of getting back on schedule. I'm reading submissions for 104.