The 2013 Rhysling Awards
Poetry Planet 2013 Rhysling Award Showcase Podcast, read by Diane Severson
| Short Poem Category
First Place Second Place Third Place |
 |
Long Poem Category
First Place Second Place Third Place—Tie “The Time Traveler’s Weekend” by
Adele Gardner |
53 members voted: voting breakdown
Winner Biographies and Photos
The 2013 Rhysling Anthology:
The Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Poetry of 2012
 |
|
Editor and Rhysling Chair: John C. Mannone |
Short Poems first published in 2012 (70 nominations)
10 Things To Know About Staple Removers • Ian Hunter
• Star*Line 35.2
2001 • G.O. Clark • Space & Time 117
Absent Fiends • Marcie Lynn Tentchoff • Star*Line 35.2
Beachhead • Marge Simon and Michael Fosburg
• The Fifth Dimension December 2012
bell, book and candle • Gwynne Garfinkle • Strange Horizons 3/26/12
Biosentimentality • Anna Journey • Blackbird: An Online Journal of Literature and the Arts, Fall 2012, Vol. 11, No. 2
Blind Obedience • Dennis M. Lane • Eye to the Telescope 4
Bliss • F.J. Bergmann • Tendrils & Tentacles, group ed. (Speculative Technologies, 2012)
Blueshift • Sonya Taaffe • Goblin Fruit Autumn 2012
Burning Down Woods on a Snowy Evening • James S. Dorr • Star*Line 35.4
Burnt Lyric • Sofia Samatar • Goblin Fruit Summer 2012
The Cat Star • Terry A. Garey • Lady Poetesses from Hell, ed. Bag Person Press Collective (Bag Person Press)
A Chorus Of Severed Pipes • Kelly Rose Pflug-Back • Goblin Fruit Winter 2012
Claws • F.J. Bergmann • Out of the Black Forest (Centennial Press)
Cognizance: a Triptych • Kurt Macphearson • Star*Line 35.4
Conservatory of Shadows • Jacie Ragan
• Eye to the Telescope 6
The Dark • Michael Fantina
• Weird Fiction Review 3
“dark figure” • Carolyn M. Hinderliter • Scifaikuest 9.4
The Day That the Screens All Died • Ann K. Schwader • Tales of the Talisman 8.1
Dear Fairy-Tale Mother • Sally Rosen Kindred • Through the Gate 1
Dream Train • B.J. Lee
• Beyond Centauri April 2012
Elemental • Jeannine Hall Gailey • Rattle 38
First Context • John Garrison • Eye to the Telescope 5
future history • Joe Haldeman • Asimov’s Science Fiction February 2012
Futurity's Shoelaces • Marge Simon • Balticon 2012 Program Book
The Ghosts of Birds • Helen Marshall • Phantom Drift 2: Valuable Estrangements
Give Me Pluto • Alexandra Seidel
• Strange Horizons 8/13/12
Going Viral
• Mary A. Turzillo
• Star*Line 35.1
Hair • Hel Gurney • Stone Telling 7
I Am Chupacabra • Juan Manuel Perez • Boundless 2012, eds. Vanessa Brown, Daniel Garcia Ordaz, and Illeana Garcia-Spitz (El Zarape Press)
In His Eighty-Second Year • Dominik Parisien • Stone Telling 7
Jörmungandr • Vajra Chandrasekera • Ideomancer 11:4
LOL_ALIENS • Elizabeth Barrette • Star*Line 35.2
The Mermaid's Winter Song • Brittany Warman • inkscrawl 4
The Moon • Sandra Kasturi • Come Late to the Love of Birds (Tightrope Books)
The Moon Tripped • Angel Favazza • Star*Line 35.1
The Music of a Dead World • Bruce Boston • Asimov's Science Fiction August 2012
No Poisoned Comb • Amal El-Mohtar • Apex Magazine April 3, 2012
Nocturne • Linda D. Addison and Stephen M. Wilson • SFPA Halloween webpage
Not a Metaphor but a Lifestyle • Lesley Wheeler • The Receptionist and Other Tales (Aqueduct Press)
Parallax • Adrienne J. Odasso • Stone Telling 7
Pavane • F. J. Bergmann • Asimov's Science Fiction June 2012
Perversity • Stephen D. Rogers • Dreams & Nightmares 92
Prince of Autumn • David Kopaska-Merkel • The Pedestal Magazine 70
Profane Inspiration • Marsheila Rockwell • Cthulhu Haiku, ed. Lester Smith (Popcorn Press)
“a rabid bat” • LeRoy Gorman • Star*Line 35.4
Red Riding Hood Remembers • Andrea Blythe • Linden Avenue Literary Journal 1
Redcap • Gemma Files • Not One of Us 48
Regrets Only • Jeanie Tomasko • Star*Line 35.3
Roc • Sandra Kasturi • Come Late to the Love of Birds (Tightrope Books)
Rossum’s Universal Robot Rebuts • Neil Ellman • Parody 1.1
A sea monster tells his story • David Clink • The Literary Review of Canada July/August 2012
Self-Portrait as a Raccoon • Noel Sloboda • Rattle December 2012
She Walks in Light and Darkness • Elizabeth Barrette • Silver Blade 16
Sister Philomela Heard the Voices of Angels • Megan Arkenberg •
Strange Horizons 8/7/12
Something Super • Mary Alexandra Agner • Eye to the Telescope 3
Stairs Appear in a Hole Outside of Town • John Philip Johnson • Rattle December
2012
Strangers In This Place • Stephen M. Wilson • Cover of Darkness December 2012
Stream of Dead Conscious • John McCarthy • Zombies for a Cure, ed. Angela Charmaine Craig (Elektrik Milk Bath Press)
This time of the year, a UFO casts its probes • Sankar Roy • The Magazine of Speculative Poetry 9.2
Tiger Lily Speaks • Sally Rosen Kindred • Little Patuxent Review 12
Trumpet Vine Love Song • Francesca Forrest • Goblin Fruit Summer 2012
Victory Garden • Samantha Henderson • The House of Forever (Raven Electrick Ink)
Vigor Mortis • C. W. Johnson
• Goblin Fruit Autumn 2012
“we play the lithophones” • dan smith • Cthulhu Haiku, ed. Lester Smith (Popcorn Press)
What Would You Think • Theodora Goss • Mythic Delirium 27
the woman who caught a storm in her hair • Ruby Sara • Goblin Fruit Spring 2012
The Year of Disasters • Sofia Samatar • Bull Spec 7
Zipcar in Heaven • Merav Hoffman • inkscrawl 3
Zombie Poet • Carolyn Clink • Tesseracts Sixteen (Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing)
Long Poems first published in 2012 (40 nominations)
Asteres Planetai • Amal El-Mohtar • Stone Telling 7
Augury • Sandra Kasturi • Come Late to the Love of Birds (Tightrope Books)
Between the Mountain and the Moon
• Rose Lemberg • Strange Horizons 7/2/12
Came the Rogue • Sally Rosen Kindred • Stone Highway Review 2.1
Capgras
• Robert Borski • Dreams & Nightmares 93
Carrington's Ferry • Mike Allen • Strange Horizons • 1/23/12
Casting the Future • Serena Fusek • Star*Line 35.3
The Clock House • Sonya Taaffe • Stone Telling 7
Enter Persephone • Marsheila Rockwell • Lissette’s Tales of the Imagination 2.5
Galatea
• Mary A. Turzillo • Abyss and Apex March 2012
Grandfather
• Dennis M. Lane • The Poring Dark (Terran Dream Archive)
The Horror at Fox Hollow
• Lesley Wheeler • The Receptionist and Other Tales (Aqueduct Press)
In the Beginning Was the Dish • Robert Borski • The Magazine of Speculative Poetry 9.2
Into Flight • Andrew Robert Sutton • Silver Blade 14
The Last Crone on the Moon • C. S. E. Cooney • Goblin Fruit Winter 2012
The Last Wife • by Jennifer Crow • Goblin Fruit Autumn 2012
La Llorana • Margaret Randall • La Llorana Anthology, ed. Deborah Coy et al (Beatlick Press)
Lucubration • Kyla Lee Ward • Avatars of Wizardry, ed. Charles Lovecraft (P'rea Press
Memphis Street Railway Co. v. Stratton: 1915 • Elizabeth McClellan • New Myths June 2012
A Midsummer Night’s Dream • K. C. O’Malley • Lady Poetesses from Hell, ed. Bag Person Press Collective (Bag Person Press)
Mouse Koan • Catherynne M. Valente • Tor.com April 2, 2012
Mushroom Barley Soup: An Invocation • Shira Lipkin • Stone Telling 8
The Necromantic Wine
• Wade German • Avatars of Wizardry, ed. Charles Lovecraft (P'rea Press)
Objectifying Faerie
• Jane Yolen • Asimov's Science Fiction June 2012
Quince
• Samantha Henderson • New Myths September 2012
Rockabye
• Adele Gardner • Dreams & Nightmares 93
Sci Fi Memory • Glen Pape • The Pedestal Magazine 70
Six Random Facts About Halley's Comet
• J.E. Stanley • Star*Line 35.1
Snow by Gaslight • Sandra Kasturi
• Come Late to the Love of Birds (Tightrope Books)
The Still Point of the Turning World • Adrienne J Odasso • Mandragora May 2012
String Theory
• John Philip Johnson • Ad Astra 1
Sweet Mercy, Her Body an Ark of Wild Beasts
• Kelly Rose Pflug-Back • Ideomancer 11.1
Tell Them
• Lauren Banka • qarrtsiluni February 2012
Their Cold Eyes Pierced my Skin • Jenny Blackford • The Pedestal Magazine 70
Thirteen Ways of Looking At and Through Hashish • Bruce Boston • Avatars of Wizardry, ed. Charles Lovecraft (P'rea Press)
The Time Traveler's Weekend • Adele Gardner • Liquid Imagination 15
Tit Tot • Catt Kingsgrave • Goblin Fruit Summer 2012
Tohoku Tsunami • Mary Turzillo • Lovers & Killers (Dark Regions Press, 2012)
we come together we fall apart • Lisa M. Bradley • Stone Telling 7
What the Dragon Said: A Love Story • Catherynne M. Valente • Tor.com April 2012
Nominations per publication (57 publications):
| 1 | |
Abyss & Apex |
| 1 | Apex Magazine | |
4 |
Asimov’s Science Fiction |
|
| 3 | Avatars of Wizardry, ed. Charles Lovecraft (P’rea Press, 2012) | |
| 1 | Balticon 46 Program Book | |
| 1 | Beyond Centauri | |
| 1 | Blackbird | |
| 1 | Boundless, eds. Vanessa Brown, Daniel Garcia Ordaz, and Illeana Garcia-Spitz (El Zarape Press, 2012) | |
| 1 | Bull Spec | |
| 1 | Cover of Darkness | |
| 4 | Come Late to the Love of Birds (Tightrope Books, 2012) | |
| 2 | Cthulhu Haiku & Other Mythos Madness, ed. Lester Smith (Popcorn Press, 2012) | |
| 3 | Dreams & Nightmares | |
| 4 | Eye to the Telescope | |
| 2 | The Fifth Di … | |
| 9 | Goblin Fruit | |
| 1 | The House of Forever (Raven Electrick Ink, 2012) | |
| 2 | Ideomancer | |
| 2 | inkscrawl | |
| 1 | James Gunn’s Ad Astra | |
| 1 | La Llorana Anthology, ed. Deborah Coy et al. (Beatlick Press, 2012) | |
| 2 | Lady Poetesses from Hell, ed. Bag Person Press Collective (Bag Person Press, 2012) | |
| 1 | Linden Avenue Literary Journal | |
| 1 | Liquid Imagination | |
| 1 | Lissette’s Tales of the Imagination | |
| 1 | The Literary Review of Canada | |
| 1 | Little Patuxent Review | |
| 1 | Lovers & Killers (Dark Regions Press, 2012) | |
| 2 | The Magazine of Speculative Poetry | |
| 1 | Mandragora | |
| 1 | Mythic Delirium | |
| 2 | New Myths | |
| 1 | Not One of Us | |
| 1 | Out of the Black Forest (Centennial Press, 2012) | |
| 1 | Parody | |
| 3 | The Pedestal Magazine | |
| 1 | Phantom Drift | |
| 1 | The Poring Dark (Terran Dream Archive, 2012) | |
| 1 | qaartsiluni | |
| 3 | Rattle | |
| 2 | The Receptionist and Other Tales (Aqueduct Press, 2012) | |
| 1 | Scifaikuest | |
| 2 | SFPA Halloween Poetry Reading | |
| 2 | Silver Blade | |
| 1 | Space and Time | |
| 7 | Stone Telling | |
| 11 | Star*Line | |
| 1 | Starship Sofa podcast | |
| 5 | Strange Horizons | |
| 1 | Stone Highway Review | |
| 1 | Tales of the Talisman | |
| 1 | Tendrils & Tentacles, ed. group (Speculative Technologies, 2012) | |
| 1 | Tesseracts Sixteen, ed. Mark Leslie, (Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, 2012) | |
| 1 | Through the Gate | |
| 2 | Tor.com | |
| 1 | Weird Fiction Review | |
| 1 | Zombies for a Cure, ed. Angela Charmaine Craig (Elektrik Milk Bath Press, 2012) |
