Airdate: 1 December 2022
David C. Kopaska-Merkel, a retired paleontologist, has been writing speculative poetry and fiction since the 1970s. He won the 2006 Rhysling award for best long poem (for a collaboration with Kendall Evans), and edits Dreams & Nightmares magazine (since 1986).
He has edited Star*line, an issue of Eye To The Telescope, and several Rhysling anthologies, David C Kopaska-Merkel has served as president of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association , and is an SFPA Grandmaster. His poems (more than 1200 of them) have been published in Asimov’s, Strange Horizons, Night Cry, Kaleidotrope, and more than 200 other venues.
Some Disassembly Required, his latest collection of dark poetry, is out from from Diminuendo Press (available from the author and from Amazon). @DavidKM on twitter. Blog: https://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com/
Poems read by Diane Severson.