2006 Halloween Poetry Reading
edited by Liz Bennefeld

hanging around - bennefeld photo
Hanging Around
Liz Bennefeld

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witch's moon - karen a. romanko photo
Witch's Moon
Karen A. Romanko

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shrooms - liz bennefeld photo
Shrooms
Liz Bennefeld

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zombie love - karen a. romanko photo
Zombie Love
Karen A. Romanko

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"Pan de Muerto"
by David Lee Summers
MP3 (430KB)

The poem first appeared in 2004 in Macabre #3, edited by Christina Sng.

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"Witch, You Say"
by Karen A. Romanko
WAV (1.1MB)

First appeared in Raven's Runes: Equations in Time, by Karen A. Romanko, Sam's Dot Publishing, 2004. Poem was a 2005 SFPA Rhysling nominee.

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"Clark the Ripper"
by David C. Kopaska-Merkel
WAV (995KB)

Originally published in Dreams and Nightmares #52 and awarded second place in the 1999 Rhysling competition in the short poem category.

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"Why Zombies Lumber"
by Michael A. Arnzen
MP3 (1.7MB)

"Why Zombies Lumber," © 2005 Michael A. Arnzen. Audio version © 2006 Michael A. Arnzen. First published in Rigormarole: Zombie Poems (Naked Snake Press, 2005).

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"Late"
by C. A. Gardner
MP3 (1.9MB)

"Late," by C. A. Gardner first appeared in Raven Electrick, Halloween Contest Issue, October 2001.

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"Crane's Eye"
by Stephen M. Wilson
MP3 (885KB)

"Crane's Eye" was first published in The Fig Leaf Monthly, Oct. 2006.

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"Waiting"
by Liz Bennefeld
WAV (2.1MB)

"Waiting" (copyright 1978) most recently was included in a self-published collection of Liz Bennefeld's poetry and essays in 1991 and several Internet projects since 1997.

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"Honolulu Halloween"
by Roger E. Naylor
MP3 (1.6MB)

Roger E. Naylor's "Honolulu Halloween" was first published in The Fig Leaf Monthly, Oct. 2006. Read by Stephen M. Wilson. Sound by Incenseman.

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"Diggers"
by Marcie Lynn Tentchoff
WAV (3MB)

"Diggers" was first published in Dreams and Nightmares #64, January 2003.

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"Ghost of the Palace Library"
by Deborah P Kolodji
WAV (1.2MB)

"Ghost of the Palace Library" was first published in Red River Review, November 2000.

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"Illusionist"
by Robin Mayhall
WAV (4.8MB)

This is the first publication of Robin Mayhall's "Illusionist" (October 2006).


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