Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Special thanks to all the contributors and subscribers who have helped Dark Metre survive its first year of publication.

Hope to see you all back in 2012.

Best Wishes

Katy

Dark Metre - Issue 10 Now Live

Dark Metre issue 10 is now live featuring horror poetry by John Hayes and Andrew J. Wilson. Swing by and enjoy the zombies and werewolves lurking in this months issue and don't forget to head other to the contributors websites to see what else they're up to.

Why not leave a comment below if you have enjoyed this issue?

Have a great Sunday

Katy Bennett

Press Release - Vamps (A retrospective) by James S. Dorr

VAMPS (A RETROSPECTIVE) is an 84-page trade paperback featuring poetry by multi-time Rhysling finalist James S. Dorr on vampires and things vampiric. With illustrations by Marge B. Simon, VAMPS (A RETROSPECTIVE) consists of 75 poems, about a third of which are published here for the first time, with subjects including Max Schreck; Bela Lugosi; “Guillemette” (née Mina Murray); the vampiress Annchuck; the Instrument Maker; crows; krakens (with blood on their beaks); Nikki (who flies); the Night Child; the Birdcatchers; jazz music; dancing; tourists in Europe (“he had a tendency to change the subject when I asked him what he did. Eurotrash, I suppose”); vampire hobbies: runners, swimmers, baseball fans, dates gone bad; from Ancient Greece; to the 1,000,000 Credit Galactic Lottery. All this and more can be obtained from Sam's Dot Publishing for only about the cost of a pizza (with blood sausage for a topping, of course -- in this case $7.00 with $3.00 shipping in the US; a, um, bit more to Canada and overseas).

Click here to find out more about James S. Dorr.

Dark Metre - Issue 9 Now Live

Issue 9 of Dark Metre has been emailed out to all the subscribers and is now live here. This month features First in the Moon by Richard Lung and Prayer by Lida Broadhurst.

I'm still open to submissions:

Issue 10 - filled - due out on 06/11/11
Issue 11 - filled - due out on 04/12/111
Issue 12 - filled - due out on 01/01/12
Issue 13 - still open - due out on 05/02/12

Don't forget to use the subscribe box on the right hand side of this blog so you don't miss an issue. Email addresses are never shared with 3rd parties and are solely used to email you the newsletter.

Enjoy the halloween season

Dark Metre is now open to submissions

Good morning all,

Once again I'm open to horror poetry submissions. I'm reading for issues 10 - 13. Check the guidelines tab at the top for full info and the current issue with poetry by Anna Sykora and S. C. Virtes can be read here.

Issue 8 will go live tomorrow and will feature poetry by James Dorr and Stephen M. Wilson.

Have a good weekend

Katy Bennett

Dark Metre issue 7 now live

Dark Metre issue 7 is now live. Hop over to the current issue to read horror poetry by Anna Sykora and S. C. Virtes.

There's no writing prompt this month, I'm rethinking how I do those.

Also a heads up that I'll be reopening to submissions on the 2nd September 2011

Enjoy your day

Now Closed To Submissions

Dark Metre is now closed to submissions, I expect to reopen again the beginning of September 2011. For those of you still waiting to hear on subs I'll be contacting you all very soon.

Thanks to everyone who has shown an interest in this publication.