The 2011 Rhysling Awards

The 2011 Rhysling Vote Breakdown

Members are allowed to vote for and rank three poems per division. First choices are given 5 points, second 3 points, and third 1 point. 91 members voted.

Short Poems First Published in 2010 (56 poems)
Poem First Second Third Total
Greg Beatty • “On Keeping Pluto a Planet” 3   3 18
F. J. Bergmann • “Chronomancy”   1   3
F. J. Bergmann • “Cultural Climate”     2 2
Bruce Boston • “Lizards and Wind”   3 1 10
Rachel Manija Brown • “Minotaur Noir” 2 1 3 18
Shelly Bryant • “Compelling Outward Flight” 1   2 7
Rosalind Casey • "Patience"     1 1
G. O. Clark • “Putting Off the Past” 1 6 2 25
C.S.E. Cooney • "Dogstar Men" 2 5 2 27
Jennifer Crow • “Hoarding Light” 2     10
Jennifer Crow • “An Incomplete Map of Death” 2     10
Jennifer Crow • “We Took Our Gods”   2 1 7
Amal El-Mohtar • “Peach-Creamed Honey” 3 4 2 29
Kendall Evans • “Here We Are/Implied in the Shadows/Cast Upon Saturn’s Atmosphere” 2     10
Angel Favazza • “Call of the Wired” 2     10
Michael Fosburg • “My Own Ending”   2 1 7
Melissa Frederick • “Volcanoes on Io” 1 3 1 15
Joshua Gage • “The Shoemaker’s Daughters” 1   3 8
Lyn C. A. Gardner • “Midnight Posture”     3 3
Jaimee Hills • “Tonight the Character of Death Will Be Played by Brad Pitt”   1   3
Janis Ian • “Welcome Home (The Nebulas Song)”
eliminated—first published 2009
7 3 2 46
David C. Kopaska-Merkel • “A few stops on the journey” 1 1 2 10
Geoffrey A. Landis • “Rondel for Apollo 11” 1 1 4 15
B. J. Lee • “The Legend of the Flying Dutchman” 1 3   14
Rose Lemberg • “Twin-born” 2 1   13
Sarah Lindsay • “Planet Anhedonia” 3 1 1 19
C. S. MacCath • “A Path Without Bones” 1   1 6
W. S. Merwin • “The Chain to Her Leg” 2 2 5 21
Shweta Narayan • “Cave-smell” 1   3 8
Naylor, Ruth • "What Mighty Force?"       0
Adrienne J. Odasso • “The Ghosts of Moody Street”     1 1
Stephanie Parent • “Tinkerbell”   2 2 8
Juan Manuel Perez • “Human Fighting Is Illegal” 1 2 8 19
Juan Manuel Perez • “El Codex Chupacabra”
eliminated—first published 2009
16     80
Kelly Rose Pflug-Back • “My Bones’ Cracked Abacus” 3   3 18
Karen A. Romanko • “Binary Creation Myth” 4 2 2 28
R. Paul Sardanas • “The Black Lotus” 1 1 1 9
Ann K. Schwader • “The Darkness Whispers (Flagstaff, AZ 1930)”   1 1 4
Ann K. Schwader • “Of Ithaca & Ice” 2 3 2 21
Ann K. Schwader • “Quiet In Her Mind” 3 1   18
Ann K. Schwader • “Scrapyard Outpost” 1 2 2 13
Ann K. Schwader • “The Witch in Your Mirror” 1 5   20
Marge Simon • “Sightings” 3 3 1 25
Robin Spriggs • “Red Magic” 2     10
Sonya Taaffe • “In the Earth in Those Days” 3 3 1 25
Sonya Taaffe • “Anakatabasis” 1 2 1 12
Sonya Taaffe • “By the Dog”     1 1
Sonya Taaffe • “Domovoi, I Came Back!”   2 1 7
Nancy Ellis Taylor • “Genetic Memory Comes to Me” 1   1 6
Richard L. Tierney • “Yuletide” 1   1 6
Brian Trent • “A Holiday in Necropolis”   2 2 8
Patrice M. Wilson • “Images in the Dark”   1   3
Stephen M. Wilson • “Imagined World”   4   12
Stephen M. Wilson • “I, Cannibal …” 1   1 6
Stephen M. Wilson • “The Conjuror” 4     20
Jane Yolen • “The Gospel of the Rope” 1 6 1 24
TOTAL VOTES 91 82 78  


Long Poems First Published in 2010 (37 poems)
POEM First Second Third Total
Mary Alexandra Agner • “Tertiary” 2 1 1 14
Tara Barnett • “Star Reservation” 5 3 2 36
F. J. Bergmann • “Occidental” 2 2 2 18
Robert Borski • “The Pantheon”     2 2
Robert Borski • “Bubba”     4 4
Bruce Boston • “Dark Rains Here and There” 11 3 2 66
Lisa Bradley • “The Haunted Girl” 4 4 2 34
C. S. E. Cooney • “Ere One Can Say It Lightens” 1 3 1 15
C. S. E. Cooney • “The Sea King’s Second Bride” 8 9 4 71
Oscar L. Crawford • “My Wings Are Still Forming” 1 1 1 9
Malcolm Deeley • “On the Platform”   2 1 7
James S. Dorr • “Eight Top Vampire Hobbies” 3 8 2 41
Amal El Mohtar • “The Winter Tree”   7 3 24
Amal El Mohtar and Jessica P. Wick • “Courting Song for Selkies” 4 4 4 36
Hugh Fox and Eric Greinke • “Beyond Our Control” 2     10
Robert Frazier • “Wreck-Diving the Starship” 6 6 3 51
Joshua Gage • “Rats” 3 1 4 22
Lyn C. A. Gardner • “Homecoming” 1 2 4 15
Theodora Goss • “Ravens” 4 2 6 32
Samantha Henderson • “The Gabriel Hound” 3 2 2 23
irving • “Until the Light Fades” 1 1 1 9
Deborah P Kolodji and W. Gregory Stewart • “String Stories” 2 1 3 16
Rich Magahiz • “13 Ways of Looking at a Balrog”   1   3
Elizabeth R. McClellan • “Anything So Utterly Destroyed” 3 1 1 19
Jaime Lee Moyer • “A poem for no one at all” 1 1   8
Jaime Lee Moyer • “Rain Face”     1 1
Kurt Newton • “The Cemetery”     3 3
Steven L. Peck • “The Five Known Sutras of Mechanical Man” 3 1 2 20
W. C. Roberts •“Stargazers” 2 1 1 14
Charles Saplak • “Dragonskull: Vision of Result” 2 3   19
Robin Spriggs “Blatta Infernalis 3   1 16
W. Gregory Stewart and David Kopaska-Merkel • “Seasons of the Worm” 1 1   8
J. E. Stanley • “crossroads”     1 1
Richard L. Tierney • “Autumn Chill” 1 1 2 10
Catherynne M. Valente • “Red Engines” 2 4 5 27
Steve Vernon • “Barren: A Chronicle in Futility” 1   3 8
Phoebe Wilcox • “A More Significant Sun” 1 2 1 12
TOTAL VOTES 83 78 75  

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