Send Us Your Poems Inspired by Horror Films & TV, Literature, Folktales, & Mythology!

We've been getting some awesome poems for our upcoming anthology which will feature poems in response to/inspired by the horror genre. BUT WE WANT MORE!

What is it we're exactly looking for? Check out this fun little poem by Ron Koertge about the Abominable Snowman to get an idea.

The Abominable Snowman

Up here on the forehead of the world, it’s always

cold. On the other hand, there’s very little crime.

My wife and I live in a cave way above the snow

line. It’s a simple life with no distractions to

speak of. There’s lots of foraging. Otherwise

we practice nonchalance. For fun, we leave

footprints and sometimes intriguing scat

a cameraman has to take a close-up of.

There’s always a cameraman, part of a team:

one in a Nessie baseball hat and this time

ardent Nora who wants to be the first woman

to photograph us. She thinks the men have

gone about it all wrong and her notes, pinned

to a glacier, are charming: Help me believe !

And I have fire. Really. In her journal, which I

pilfer while they sleep or hike, Nora’s worried

about her hair. She’s planned an assignation

with a man she met on the plane. Well, well.

Someone handsomer than I, no doubt. Still,

I like her, so I grunt into a tape recorder

before I leave and urinate in a hat, not the one

she planned to wear for her rendezvous in Bhutan,

I hope.

(from Fever, Red Hen Press 2006)

Your poem doesn't have to be a persona poem per se, just take someone or something from the horror genre and put a new spin on it. Think out side the box...or coffin...

Send your poems to: editor@moontidepress as a word doc by midnight July 1st!