Dreams and Nightmares

Dreams and Nightmares is a speculative and fantastic poetry zine edited by David C. Kopaska-Merkel.

Dreams and Nightmares was launched in the mid-1980s (the fifth issue is dated May 1986) and, as of 2012, is still being published, having surpassed ninety issues.

Poets have included Duane Ackerson, Mike Allen (Mythic Delirium), Anastasia Andersen, Ivan Arguelles, Michael Arnzen, Rane Arroyo, Blythe Ayne, Lee Ballentine, Lee Barwood, John M. Bennett, Nancy Bennett, F.J. Bergmann (Star*Line), Ruth Berman, Tippi N. Blevins, Leah Bobet, Robert Borski, Harry Bose (Alba), Bruce Boston, Donna Taylor Burgess (The Blue Lady), Lida Broadhurst, Cathy Buburuz (Champagne Horror), C. Darren Butler (A Theater of Blood, Magic Realism), Alan Catlin, Mary E. Choo, G.O. Clark, Michael R. Collings, J.L. Comeau, Gary William Crawford (Night Songs), Judson Crews, Vonnie Crist, Jennifer Crow, Keith Allen Daniels, Andrew Darlington (Ludd's Mill), Holly Day, Corrine De Winter, Erin Donahoe, Kevin Donihe (Bare Bone), J.W. Donnelly, James S. Dorr, Denise Dumars, Roger Dutcher (Uranus, The Magazine of Speculative Poetry), Scott Edelman, Rhonda Eikamp, Timons Esaias, Kendall Evans, Gary Every, Janet Fox (Scavenger's Newsletter), Robert Frazier (Speculative Poetry Review, Star*Line), Chris Friend, Joey Froehlich, Tom Galusha, Andrei Dorian Gheorghe, Scott E. Green, John Grey, John Francis Haines (Handshake), Lawrence Harding, K.S. Hardy, Samantha Henderson, Jon Hodges (Wicked Hollow), Dwight E. Humphries, Charlee Jacob, Bonita Kale, Herb Kauderer, Millea Kenin (Owlflight), Eileen Kernaghan, Deborah P. Kolodji, David C. Kopaska-Merkel, Lisa Kucharski, Geoffrey A. Landis, Lisa Lepovetsky, Richard L. Levesque, D.F. Lewis, Sandra Lindow, David Lunde, Elissa Malcohn (Star*Line), Robert Randolph Medcalf Jr. (Apogee), David Memmott (Ice River), Errol Miller, Mario Milosevic, Edward Mycue, Kurt Newton, Joy Oestreicher, Karen R. Porter, Stan Proper, Joe Pulver, Jacie Ragan, Dan Raphael, Wendy Rathbone, Janet P. Reedman, Dee Rimbaud, Uncle River (Xizquil), Bruce Holland Rogers, Karen R. Romanko, John B. Rosenman (SPWAO Newsletter), Mark E. Rudolph, Marina Lee Sable, Wayne Allen Sallee, Charles M. Saplak, Lawrence Schimel, Ann K. Schwader, Darrell Schweitzer (Procrastination), Alexandra Seidel, Marge B. Simon (Star*Line), Bobbi Sinha-Morey, Gloundan Smorpian, Steve Sneyd (Data Dump), Christina Sng (Macabre), Maryanne K. Snyder, Alan Stewart, W. Gregory Stewart, Sue Storm, Kiel Stuart, Sonya Taaffe, Brandon W. Totman (Contortions), Mikal Trimm, Mary A. Turzillo, JoSelle Vanderhooft, Scott C. Virtes (Sycophant), D.M. Vosk, Bobby G. Warner, William John Watkins, Ian Watson, Nathan Whiting, Neal Wilgus, Thomas Willoch, Mary Winter, t. Winter-Damon, Billy Wolfenbarger, Ree Young, Jonathan Yungkans, and many others.