The 2012 Rhysling Awards
Poetry Planet 2012 Rhysling Award Showcase Podcast, read by Diane Severson
| Short Poem Category
First Place Second Place Third Place |
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Long Poem Category
First Place Second Place Third Place |
76 members voted: the vote breakdown
Winner Biographies and Award Photos
The 2012 Rhysling Anthology:
The Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Poetry of 2011
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Editor and Rhysling Chair: Lyn C. A.
Gardner |
Short Poems First Published in 2011
Mary Alexandra Agner • "Venus to Her Terraformers" • The Scientific Method (Parallel Press, 2011)
Camille Alexa • "Young Miss Frankenstein Regrets" • ChiZine
Erik Amundsen • "The Lend" • Stone Telling
Elizabeth Barrette • "The Shipwright's Song" • Torn World
Robert Borski • "Abel" • The Magazine of Speculative Poetry
Bruce Boston • "The Music of Robots" • Asimov’s Science Fiction
Rich Boucher • "Response to Botticelli" • The Rag
G. O. Clark • "Peter and Alice" • Space and Time
P. S. Cottier • "Fingernails" • ChiZine
Becca De La Rosa • "World's End" • Goblin Fruit
James S. Dorr • "Monkey See" • Space and Time
Denise Dumars • "Folding Money" • Mythic Delirium
Martin Elster • "My Unicorn" • MindFlights
Timons Esaias • "Dark Matter" • Strange Horizons
Kendall Evans • "Dragon" • The Tin Men and Other Poems, by Kendall Evans and David C.
Kopaska-Merkel (Sam’s Dot Publishing, 2011)
Angel Favazza • "Clothes of Yesterday" • Star*Line
Janis Freegard • "Yayoi Kusama goes to Iceland" • Eye to the Telescope
Lyn C. A. Gardner • "In Translation" • Tales of the Talisman
T. M. Göttl • "Bridges" • Franklin-Christoph Poetry Contest
Neile Graham • "The Bean-Sidhe Calls in Owl-Light" • Goblin Fruit
Neile Graham • "The Ones Outside Your Door" • Goblin Fruit
John Grey • "Mr. and Mrs. Goodnight" • Tales of the Talisman
Sandra Kasturi • "Ode to the Mongolian Death Worm" • ChiZine
Roz Kaveney • "Fembot" • Silence, Exile, and Crumpets
Keith Kennedy • "First Loves for the First Time" • Niteblade
Nicole Kornher-Stace • "The Witch's Heart" •
B. J. Lee • "The Tortoise's Encounter" •
Greg Leunig • "Love in the Quantum Era" • Strange Horizons
Shira Lipkin • "The Library, After" • Mythic Delirium
C. S. MacCath • "When I Arrived, This Is What She Said" • Goblin Fruit
Elizabeth R. McClellan • "Down Cycles" • Apex Magazine
Dawn McDuffie • "Thank God for Proust" • Bulky Pick Up Day (Finishing
Line Press, 2011)
Joanne Merriam • "Love in the Time of Alien Invasion" • The Magazine of Speculative Poetry
Kurt Newton • "Nuclear Stockpile Janitor" • Dreams & Nightmares
Scott Nickell • "Response to Poe's 'Sonnet—To Science'" • Abyss & Apex
Juan Manuel Perez • "Vanity" • Star*Line
Tim Pratt • "Lion Heart" • Apex Magazine
Sofía Rhei, translated by Lawrence Schimel • "The Magic Walnut" • Mythic Delirium
Matthew Richards • "Ravel: An Etymology" • Star*Line
Andrew Rihn • "The Physics Major Agrees to Take the English Major Stargazing" • Astropoetica
Ty Russell • "The Seas of Time" • Silver Blade
R. Paul Sardanas and Tisha Garcia • "Luna Satyricon" • Beneath an Elegant Moon (Passion in Print Press, 2011)
Ann K. Schwader • "the more space" • Eye to the Telescope
Ann K. Schwader • "Past Human" • Strange Horizons
Alexandra Seidel • "Lanterns" • Jack-o’-Spec: Tales of Halloween and Fantasy (Raven Electrick Ink, 2011)
John W. Sexton • "slit sea cucumber" • microcosms
Marge Simon • "The Human Guest" • The BSFan (Baltimore Science Fiction Society, 2011)
Marge Simon • "Visitors" • The Mad Hattery (Elektrik Milk Bath Press, 2011)
Robin Spriggs • "The Elusive Language of Purple Birds" • Platform
Heidy Steidlmayer • "Grendel's Mother" • Poetry
W. Gregory Stewart • "idiointerventionist (or, 'but I interrupt myself')" • Tales of the Talisman
Anna Sykora • "Dead Hotels" • Not One of Us
Sonya Taaffe • "Taking the Auspices" • inkscrawl
James E. Tolan • "Red Grown" • In the Garden of the Crow (Elektrik Milk Bath Press, 2011)
Mary Turzillo • "Graffiti Tree" • Star*Line
Mary Turzillo • "Moving to Enceladus" • Stone Telling
Anna Waite • "To the ancients, the sea was a dangerous place" • The Chocolate Chip Country: Adventures in Writing, Cooking, and Living
Kyla Lee Ward • "The Kite" • The Land of Bad Dreams (P’rea Press, 2011)
Gerald Warfield • "A Greater Moon" • New Myths
Jacqueline West • "Escaping the Dawn" • Cover of Darkness (Sam’s Dot Publishing, 2011)
Neal Wilgus • "A Modest Suggestion" • The InterdiMENSionAl Journal
Stephen M. Wilson • "Angel's Den" • Paper Crow
Stephen M. Wilson • "Christogenesis" • Paper Crow
Greer Woodward • "Closure" • Illumen
Long Poems First Published in 2011
Mike Allen, Sonya Taaffe, and Nicole Kornher-Stace • "The King of Cats,
the Queen of Wolves" • Apex Magazine
Erik Amundsen • "Desfixion" • Jabberwocky
Megan Arkenberg • "The Curator Speaks in the Department
of Dead Languages" • Strange Horizons
Elizabeth Barrette • "The Cathedral of the Michaelangelines" • Burning Tree Press Magazine
Dana Bell • "Welcomed Cast Outs" • Tales of the Talisman
Robert Borski • "Gavage" • Dreams & Nightmares
Bruce Boston • "Surreal Fortune" • Strange Horizons
g. sutton breiding • "Letter from the Golden Age" • Star*Line
Benjamin Cartwright • "Terraforming Mars" • Abyss & Apex
G. O. Clark and Kendall Evans • "The 25-Cent Rocket:
One-Quarter of the Way to the Stars" • Dreams & Nightmares
C. S. E. Cooney • "Postcards from Mars" • Stone Telling
Lyn C. A. Gardner • "The Chant of the Black Cats" • Jack-o’-Spec: Tales of Halloween and Fantasy (Raven Electrick Ink, 2011)
Lyn C. A. Gardner • "The Witch Girl" • Goblin Fruit
Albert Goldbarth • "Summary: Kinetic vs. Potential" • New Letters
April Grant • "Wallpaper" • Strange Horizons
Sally Rosen Kindred • "Wendy Darling Has Bad Dreams" • Strange Horizons
Rose Lemberg • "In the Third Cycle" • Strange Horizons
Shira Lipkin • "The Changeling's Lament" • Stone Telling
Elissa Malcohn • "The Last Dragon Slayer" • Mythic Delirium
Helen Marshall • "Beautiful Monster" • Paper Crow
Helen Marshall • Skeleton Leaves: A Collection (Kelp Queen Press, 2011)
Elizabeth R. McClellan • "The Walking Man Goes Looking for the Sons of
John: Six Cantos" • Apex Magazine
Joanne Merriam • "Tender Aliens" • The Magazine of Speculative Poetry
Mari Ness • "Snowmelt" • Goblin Fruit
Paul Park • "Ragnarok" • Tor.com
Sofia Samatar • "Girl Hours" • Stone Telling
Alexandra Seidel • "A Masquerade in Four Voices" • Stone Telling
Nancy Sheng • "Guan Yin in the Garden" • Goblin Fruit
Michael Shorb • "Ahura Mazda" • The Pedestal
J. E. Stanley • "Speaking to the Hangman Is Not Permitted" • Rapid Eye Movement (Crisis Chronicles Press, 2011)
Mary Turzillo • "The Legend of the Emperor's Space
Suit (A Tale of Consensus Reality)" • New Myths
Catherynne M. Valente • "The Melancholy of Mechagirl" • Mythic Delirium
Catherynne M. Valente • "The Secret of Being a Cowboy" • Stone Telling
JoSelle Vanderhooft • "Blood, Snow, Birch and Underworld" • Scheherezade’s Bequest
Caitlin Meredith Walsh, "Initiation" • Niteblade
Kyla Lee Ward • "The Soldier's Return" • The Land of Bad Dreams (P’rea Press, 2011)
Shannon Connor Winward • "All Souls' Day" • Jack-o’-Spec: Tales of Halloween and Fantasy (Raven Electrick Ink, 2011)
Greer Woodward • "Ribbons of the Sun" • Silver Blade
Xanadu (Ofnguyenfame) • "Mood of Mind (I)—Tu Bi Hi
Xa" • Jones AV
Nominations per periodical:
| 2 | |
Abyss & Apex |
| 5 | Apex Magazine | |
1 |
Asimov’s Science Fiction |
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| 1 | Astropoetica | |
| 1 | Beyond Centauri | |
| 1 | Burning Tree Press Magazine | |
| 3 | ChiZine | |
| 3 | Dreams & Nightmares | |
| 2 | Eye to the Telescope | |
| 7 | Goblin Fruit | |
| 1 | Illumen | |
| 1 | inkscrawl | |
| 1 | Jabberwocky | |
| 1 | Jones AV | |
| 1 | The InterdiMENSionAl Journal | |
| 4 | The Magazine of Speculative Poetry | |
| 1 | microcosms | |
| 1 | MindFlights | |
| 5 | Mythic Delirium | |
| 1 | New Letters | |
| 1 | New Myths | |
| 2 | Niteblade | |
| 1 | Not One of Us | |
| 3 | Paper Crow | |
| 1 | The Pedestal | |
| 1 | Platform | |
| 1 | Poetry | |
| 1 | The Rag | |
| 1 | Scheherazade’s Bequest | |
| 2 | Silver Blade | |
| 2 | Space and Time | |
| 7 | Stone Telling | |
| 5 | Star*Line | |
| 8 | Strange Horizons | |
| 4 | Tales of the Talisman |
