Dreams & Nightmares

Founded in January of 1986, making it one of the world’s oldest genre poetry magazines, Dreams & Nightmares publishes science fiction and fantasy poetry.

Dreams & Nightmares #78

Dreams & Nightmares #78 contains ten poems, many of them illustrated. The shortest in the issue is “Still Falling” by Anne K. Schwader, a nine-line piece, vaguely oriental in style. The first stanza grabbed me right from the start:
It’s not only black holes,
you know: all events
have horizons….
Those lines open the poem up […]

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Dreams & Nightmares #77

There are 15 poems in the 77th issue of Dreams & Nightmares, which seems a large number for this publication. As usual, there is a nice mix of fantasy, science fiction, and myth, but for once the poems that most catch my eye are among the more futuristic of those offered.
“Spring in Rutherford County” […]

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Dreams & Nightmares #76

Issue #76 of Dreams & Nightmares contains twelve poems, which rage in size from a three-line haiku to a four-page poetically told myth.
The issue opens with “Till Stars Turn Strange,” a piece of Norse verse by Tom Galusha. Old Norse poetic forms rely as much on very strict alliteration as on meter or […]

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Dreams & Nightmares, Issues 74/75

Dreams & Nightmares issues 74 and 75 appear in one neatly put together double volume. Issue 74 is made up of eleven poems, while issue 75 has eleven poems and one piece of flash fiction.
“Lonely” by Greg Beatty is a love poem…or maybe an anti-love poem. Perhaps it’s best to describe […]

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