The official archives of the

The 2005 Rhysling Awards

Science Fiction Poetry Association Grand Master Award: Robert Frazier

Biographies and Photos: http://www.sfpoetry.com/photos2005.html

The 2005 Rhysling Anthology:
The Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Poetry of 2004

Editor and Rhysling Chair: Drew Morse             Layout and Typesetting: Mike Allen             Cover Art and Design: Tim Mullins             Printing: Fidlar Doubleday Inc.             Published by the Science Fiction Poetry Association and Dark Regions Press             ISBN: 1-888993-51-0

Short Poems First Published in 2004

      Awards Key
            First Place winner
            Second Place winner
            Third Place winner
            More than one poem with the same color code within a category indicates a tie.

• Mike Allen • The Asteroid Painter • Dreams and Nightmares 67 (June 2004).
• Mike Allen • The Best of All Probable Worlds • Dreams and Nightmares 66 (February 2004).
• Mike Allen • Strange Cargo • Strange Horizons (December 6, 2004).
• Greg Beatty • No Ruined Lunar City • Abyss & Apex 11 (October 2004).
• Ruth Berman • Seating Chart • The Magazine of Speculative Poetry 6.4 (Autumn 2004).
• Leah Bobet • Her Hero • Strange Horizons (March 22, 2004).
• Bruce Boston, Heavy Weather • Asimov’s Science Fiction 28.8 (August 2004).
• Judith Boyer • I am the Ugly Stepsister • Dreams and Nightmares 68 (July 2004).
• G.O. Clark • Family Tree • The Pedestal Magazine 25 (December 2004).
• Jennifer de Guzman • Carnival • Strange Horizons (January 19, 2004).
• Roger Dutcher • Bolts of Memory • Dreams and Nightmares 66 (February 2004).
• John Garrison • Her Master’s Whereabouts • Fables 7.3 (Autumn 2004).
• John Grey • Wizard Turns His Wife into a Frog • Star*Line 27.3 (May/June 2004).
• Marci Rae Johnson • Red Shirt • Full Unit Hookup 5 (Spring 2004).
• Wesley Lambert • Six Breaths • Hadrosaur Tales (March 2004).
• Robin M. Mayhall • Mother of Atlantis • Strange Horizons (August 23, 2004).
• Pam McNew • Rural Blessings • Strange Horizons (November 15, 2004).
• David Memmott • The Oculist Builds Glass Eyes to Refocus His Grief • The Magazine of Speculative Poetry 6.3 (Spring 2004).
• Joy Oestreicher • To Catch the Light • Star*Line 27.6 (November/December 2004).
• Terrie Leigh Relf • A Poet On Board • Illumen 1 (October 2004).
• Thomas D. Reynolds • How to Survive on a Distant Planet • Strange Horizons (May 3, 2004).
• Karen A. Romanko • Witch, You Say • In Raven’s Runes, Sam’s Dot Publishing, 2004.
• Charles M. Saplak • The Submergence and Re-Emergence of John Starkey • Dreams and Nightmares 67 (June 2004).
• Ann K. Schwader • Diving Xibalba • Dreams and Nightmares 68 (July 2004).
• Ann K. Schwader • Rich & Strange • Strange Horizons (December 13, 2004).
• Ann K. Schwader • Through a Lens Vaguely (Mars ’03) • Astropoetica 2.1 (Winter 2004).
• Marge Simon • The Seasons of Death • The Pedestal Magazine 21 (April 2004).
• Sonya Taaffe • Daughters of the Ash-Tree • Not One of Us 32 (October 2004).
• Sonya Taaffe • An Eclipse of Raven • Dreams and Nightmares 68 (July 2004).
• Marcie Lynn Tentchoff • The Spice of Life • Decompositions (November 2004).
• Mikal Trimm • The Clockmaker’s Wife • Star*Line 27.5 (September/October 2004).
• roibeárd uí-neíll • elementary scientific theism • The Magazine of Speculative Poetry 6.3 (Spring 2004).
• Scott H. Urban • Plastered • Raven Electrick (October 2004).
• Catherynne M. Valente • Gingerbread • In Music of a Proto-Suicide, J*A*M Pie Press, 2004.
• William John Watkins • Thank-You Note to Sandra from the Anti-Matter Universe • Raven Electrick (June 2004).
• Ian Watson • In Praise of Spam • Star*Line 27.2 (March/April 2004).
• Frida Westford • Lamia • Star*Line 27.5 (September/October 2004).
• Jane Yolen • Musings About Seth • Mythic Delirium 10 (Winter/Spring 2004).

Long Poems First Published in 2004

      Awards Key
            First Place winner
            Second Place winner
            Third Place winner
            More than one poem with the same color code within a category indicates a tie.

• Mike Allen • The Night Watchman Dreams His Rounds at the REM Sleep Factory • Dreams and Nightmares 69 (October 2004).
• Elizabeth Barrette • The Poltergeist of Polaris • The Pedestal Magazine 24 (October 2004).
• Greg Beatty • The Other Sleeping Beauties • Strange Horizons (November 22, 2004).
• John Borneman • Gargoyle • Abyss & Apex 11 (October 2004).
• Bruce Boston • The Changing of the Flesh • Star*Line 27.4 (July/August 2004).
• Christine Butterworth-McDermott • Flounder • Tales of the Unanticipated 25 (August 2004).
• Joe R. Christopher • Interiors and Exteriors • In The Classical World II, The Laocoön Press, 2004.
• G.O. Clark • The Smile • Star*Line 27.2 (March/April 2004).
• Gary Every • Azurite Mine • Mythic Delirium 11 (Summer/Fall 2004).
• Larry Hammer • Her First Affair • Abyss & Apex 10 (July 2004).
• L.A. Story Houry • Blue Teardrops • Illumen 1 (October 2004).
• Charlee Jacob • Craft and the Artificial Satellite • In The Desert, Dark Regions Press, 2004.
• Andrew Joron and Robert Frazier • Uncompressed Rituals • In Synergy SF: New Science Fiction, Ed. George Zebrowski, Five Star, 2004.
• David C. Kopaska-Merkel • Quietly Stealing the Sun • Illumen 1 (October 2004).
• F. Korn • Winter • The Iconoclast 87 (2004).
• Claudia C. McGivney • Homicide • Wicked Hollow 8 (May 2004).
• Tim Pratt • Making Monsters • Strange Horizons (July 19, 2004).
• Tim Pratt • Soul Searching • Strange Horizons (July 12, 2004).
• Harold Renisch • Stirk • Chizine 21 (2004).
• Heather Shaw • Old Gods, New Rules • Star*Line 27.3 (May/June 2004).
• Mary Sheffield • string theory • The Magazine of Speculative Poetry 6.3 (Spring 2004).
• Catherynne M. Valente • Vitia Capitalis • In Music of a Proto-Suicide, J*A*M Pie Press, 2004.
• Bud Webster • Three Observations Upon the Discovery that Water Once Existed on Mars • Mythic Delirium 11 (Summer/Fall 2004).

Short poem nominee not included in the anthology:

• Derek Walcott • [Time, that gnaws at bronze lions and dolphins] • Poetry 184.5 (Sept. 2004) and in The Prodigal, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004.