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Dreams and Nightmares update. I didn't get subscriber copies of 117 mailed last week as I hoped, but they are ready to go out.

I am reading submissions today and will get it down to no more than a handful by the end of the day. I am reading for 119, which is due out in September of this year. 118 is full of poetry, though I could use a few more filler illustrations. 119 is almost full already.

Print copies are five dollars each, $25 for a six-issue subscription. PDF copies are one dollar each, and I have almost every single issue back to the beginning. If you want all of those, a lifetime PDF subscription including all back issues is $39. A lifetime subscription to the print copies is normally $90, but it's on sale this month for $75. That includes all available back issues, which is roughly a dozen, and it also includes a PDF subscription and back issues. All of these things can be had by sending money via PayPal to jopnquog@gmail.com. If you would rather write a check, make it out to me and mail it to 1300 Kicker Rd., Tuscaloosa, AL 35404. 

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Dreams and Nightmares 115

May, 2020

Contents

Randy Moore, cover

Denny Marshall, Reflections

Anne Carly Abad, Collection Day

Gwynne Garfinkle, Dr. Klein

R. Mac Jones, The Generations Ship Dance

Gerri Leen, Spiral

Lynne Sargent, What Is Grown

Robert Borski, Parabiont

F.J. Bergmann, Secession

Denny Marshall, Prototype

Robert Borski, Unparadoxed

Mari Ness, Circe

Terrie Leigh Relf, Playing Hide-and-Seek With Alien Spores

Denny Marshall, Mars 50,000 BC

Josh Pearce, Lacus Excellentiae

Karl Dandenell, Seven Cups of Landfall

Denny Marshall, The Road Home

Jennifer Crow, The Fall of Paper Gods

Allen K, illo

Rachel Rodman, The Velveteen Kitten

Randy Moore, bacover

David Rogers, Gojira 

DN is published both in print and pdf formats. The print version of this issue will be delayed by Covid-19. The PDF will be available at the end of this month as planned. PDFs of all DNs are $1 each. You can get all past and future issues* in PDF format for $39. If you order the complete set by the end of this month, you get PDFs of The Edible Zoo (children's fantasy poetry) and Luminous Worlds, my 2013 full-lemgth dark poetry collection from Dark Regions Press, edited by Bruce Boston, free. Pay via PayPal to jopnquog@gmail.com.

*10 of the earliest are lost. 

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Contributor copies of Dreams and Nightmares 111--5 more go out Monday, & that's everybody. So if you don't get yours by next Saturday, please let me know. Also, all this momth, back issues are $2.50 each. I have all issues from the last few years, and some older ones. All pdfs of every issue (except 4 or 5 early ones) are $1 each. All pdfs, past & future, for just $39. Paypal to jopnquog@gmail.com; check to David C. Kopaska-Merkel, 1300 Kicker, Tusc. AL 35404. SF, fantasy, & horror poetry since 1986.

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SALE

Dreams and Nightmares 110 was published last month (Contents: https://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com/2018/10/102118.html). DN, first published in 1986, is one of the oldest extant speculative-poetry magazines. Normally, print copies are five dollars and PDF copies are one dollar. For the rest of this month, print copies are $3 each. A lifetime subscription to the print magazine, including all available back issues, is normally $90; now it’s $60. A lifetime subscription to PDFs, including all available back issues (nearly all of them), normally $39, is $20 through December. I prefer payments via PayPal to jopnquog@gmail.com, but a check made out to me, and sent to 1300 Kicker Rd., Tuscaloosa AL 35404 works just fine. And if you want to submit poetry or art, payment for accepted works is $12 on acceptance + 2 copies.

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Sale to Scifaikuest.

Dreams and Nightmares 110, the September issue, is not yet full. However, my inbox is very full, resulting from summer trips, summer illnesses, and general busyness. I did respond to about 35 submissions yesterday (I accepted 2) and plan to knock the rest out by the end of the weekend.

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a couple of minor errors noted on the proof  of dreams and nightmares 109 and I should be able to  send it back to the printer tonight.

Read a collection edited by Edward P Berglund of Cthulhu mythos stories. I believe it is called "Disciples of Cthulhu."Alas, the book started to disintegrate as I read it,, but it was one of the best I have seen; the last story was by Fritz Leiber. Can't go wrong there.

Sold a few poems to star*line.

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Sale to Polu Texni; many rejections. still working on Dreams and Nightmares 109. When I sent the proofs out they didn't actually go, but now they have! still waiting for ill-concealed impatience for spring to finally arrive in earnest. many things are blooming, but it isn't warm yet. I don't call 35°F warm!

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Dreams and Nightmares 109

CONTENTS

Christina Sng, tree, cover

From the Brainstem 
Ann K. Schwader, Advice to Enceladus
Mary Soon Lee, Alien Interview Questions 
Neal Wilgus, House Warming  
F. J. Bergmann, Visitors 
John Paul Brown, A.I.: The Silicon e-Go 
Denny Marshall, From Flying Saucer  
Herb Kauderer, Planetary Lensing 
Deborah P. Kolodji, "nuclear winter" 
Neal Wilgus, Begin Again 
Greg Schwartz, "from inside the morgue"  
Herb Kauderer, Monster, Creature, Human
Deborah P. Kolodji, "we lose ourselves" 
David Barber, Vinland  
F. J. Bergmann, Now, You See It  
Christina Sng, Rapunzel  
Holly Day, Laika 
Joshua Gage, The Night Begins 
John Reinhart, Curse of Waccasassa Lagoon 
Rich Magahiz, Your Color Palette 2018 
Gary Every, Barista Elf  
Ken Poyner, Religious Order 
Denny Marshall, Tower City, bacover





This is the latest issue, out now These poems are mind-blowing--I can't wait for you to read them. $5 print; $1 pdf. You can pick up all past and future issues in pdf form for $39 bucks. I know, I know, but reading 100+ issues full of great poetry will cheer you up. Paypal to jopnquog@gmail.com.
 

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Subxcribe to Dreams and  Nightmares print edition this month ($25/6 issues) and I'll send you at no charge either a pdf of my new poetry collection, Metastable Systems, or 6 digital issues of DN, your choice. Paypal jopnquog at gmail dot com.

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Sale, this week only (through Friday)

Dreams and Nightmares back issues (through 104)

Print copies $2 each, postpaid within US ($4 postpaid outside US)

I have about 10 issues available.

All proceeds will go to Doctors without Borders.

Pay jopnquog@gmail.com via paypal, or check to David Kopaska-Merkel, 1300 Kicker Rd., Tuscaloosa AL 35404.

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Dreams and Nightmares submission update

After a long period of generally being farther behind, sometimes much farther, I have nearly caught up to submissions. Most of what I still have are less than a week old. Also, I have accepted several within the last week.

The January issue (108) is full. I am now reading for the May issue (109), which is about two thirds full at this point.

Tomorrow is the last day for discounted pricing on Dreams and Nightmares subscriptions. Search this blog for "subscriptions" and you will find the initial message, containing all the details, a couple of weeks back.

DN subscriptions 1/2 price thru January

HALF PRICE SUBS THIS MONTH


This is a good time, as every time is a good time, to subscribe to the magazine or to order sample copies. The easiest way is to use PayPal; send payment to jopnquog@gmail.com. The single print copy is five dollars, a single PDF copy is one dollar. A six second issue (two-year) subscription to the print edition is $12. $19 gets you a lifetime PDF subscription, including all back issues (all but two or three of the 104 issues). $45 gets you a lifetime print subscription, including a lifetime PDF subscription and all currently available print back issues (at this point that is about 15 issues). Check to David Kopaska-Merkel, 1300 Kicker, Tusc. AL 35404.

Print DN sale!

Dreams and Nightmares, SF, fantasy, & horror poetry

Now in its 31st year


1/2 price sale! 5 recent issues (chosen by me) for $12.50, paypal to jopnquog@gmail.com! On sale thru Nov. 11th!

Sale on back issues of Dreams and Nightmares

Dreams and Nightmares, the oldest extant speculative poetry magazine (other than Star*line, the journal of the Science Fiction Poetry Association), has been around for 30 years. I have print copies of recent back issues. This week only, through Sunday, these are on sale at half price: $2.50 each, which includes postage and handling. I have multiple copies of issues 96-103. I have a few copies of older issues; ask about those. Buy one copy or a dozen, they are $2.50 each.

Send payment via PayPal to me at jopnquog@gmail.com, or send a check made out to David Kopaska-Merkel, at 1300 Kicker Rd., Tuscaloosa, AL 35404.

Sale of Dreams and Nightmares back issues

Dreams and Nightmares has been around for 30 years, and during that time I have published 103 issues. (Number 104 is at the printer right now.) Over the past three decades I have published hundreds of speculative poets including some of the most well-known, such as Jane Yolen, Bruce Boston, Deborah Kolodji, Robert Frazier, Ann K. Schwader, W Gregory Stewart, and plenty more.

I have a few print copies left of about the last dozen issues, which corresponds to about four years. If you're interested in a copy of the second oldest extant English-language speculative poetry magazine (the Magazine of Speculative Poetry is older) this is your chance! Two dollars by PayPal to jopnquog@gmail.com gets you a copy of a recent issue. If you happen to have copies of any of the last dozen or so issues, tell me which ones, and I'll make sure to give you a different one.

You must do this this week. The last day is this coming Friday, September 23rd.

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here's a coupon code - 3Hekehef - worth 10% off every order you place at www.popcornpress.com between now and Nov. 30.

Includes my new SF poetry chapbook SETI Hits Paydirt

Annual Sale & Charity Fundraiser

2014 charitable donation

Every year during the holiday season I do some kind of deal with Dreams and Nightmares involving charitable donations. This year, I have decided to raise money for Doctors Without Borders. So half of any lifetime subscription to Dreams and Nightmares is going to that remarkable organization. That means if you buy a lifetime digital subscription, $20 of your $39 goes to Doctors Without Borders. If you buy a lifetime print plus digital subscription, $45 of your $90 goes to them.

Subscribe by sending the money via PayPal to jopnquog@gmail.com, or sending a check made out to David C. Kopaska-Merkel, 1300 Kicker Rd., Tuscaloosa, AL 35404.

This is happening now through the end of November. Maybe you want to buy somebody a gift subscription. Here is your chance to deliver great speculative poetry and do good at the same time.

Thank you,
David


But wait, there's more!


All of my books are on sale. This applies to books ordered directly from me, not from the publishers, and they will all be signed. This isn't part of the donation, but it is a sale:

All prices include shipping.

underfoot, the runaway spoon press, 1991, ISBN 0-926935-60-7, 2nd printing. My first book of speculative poetry. ($5)

a round white hole, dbqp press, 1993, my second book of speculative poetry, a few left, ($4)

Separate Destinations (with Kendall Evans), D66 Press, 2005, ISBN 1-892958-02-3, collaborative speculative poetry, a few left, ($6)

Nursery Rhyme Noir, Sam's Dot publishing, ISBN 978-09821068-3-9 (humorous detective stories set in a land where nursery rhyme characters are neighbors and sometimes enemies), 2008, 2nd printing, ($13)

The Simian Transcript, Banana Oil books, flash fiction, 2010, science fiction & fantasy, a wide-ranging collection, with a few copies left, ($7)

The Tin Men (with Kendall Evans), Sam's Dot, more collaborative speculative poetry, 2011, a few left ($8)

The Edible Zoo, Sam's Dot, children's poetry, 2012, the title says it all, these are poems for small children about eating animals. Play tested on my kids. ($9)

Starline back issues on sale

Star*Line SALE: Back issues of any issue available, any quantity, only $1 each including shipping (35.1 - 37.2, plus earlier issues listed at top of http://www.sfpoetry.com/sl/slarchive.html

Going to readings? Conferences? Take some along to give away or sell! (We're trying to reduce extra stock on hand, and generate funds for SFPA.)


Order via PayPal to sfpatreasurer@gmail.com or check to:

SFPA
PO Box 907
Winchester CA 92596