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The 2008 Rhysling Anthology and Awards

2008 Rhysling Winners | Short Poems First Published in 2007 | Long Poems First Published in 2007 | Rhysling Archive

The 2008 Rhysling Anthology:
The Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Poetry of 2007

2008 Rhysling Anthology
Editor and Rhysling Chair: Drew Morse
Layout and typesetting: Mike Allen
Cover design: Mike Allen
Published by: The Science Fiction Poetry Association in cooperation with Prime Books
Printed by: Lightning Source
ISBN: 9 78-0-8095-7349-3

2008 Rhysling Winners

 

Short Poem Category

Long Poem Category

Winner

Eating Light by F.J. Bergmann The Seven Devils of Central California by Catherynne M. Valente

Second Place

Ice Palace by Margaret Atwood In Deepspace Shadows by Kendall Evans

Third Place

The Oracle on River Street by Rachel Swirsky The Engineer by Bryan Dietrich

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Short Poems First Published in 2007

Agner, Mary Alexandra
Be True
Strange Horizons (2/26/07)
Agner, Mary Alexandra
The Marian Lee
Goblin Fruit (Spring 2007)
Allen, Mike  
Giving Back to the Muse
 
Goblin Fruit (Fall 2007)
Armantrout, Rae
Dark Matter
Colorado Review 34.3 (Fall/Winter 2007)
Atwood, Margaret
Ice Palace
The Door (McClelland & Stewart, 2007)
Bergmann, F.J.
Eating Light
Mythic Delirium 17 (Summer/Fall 2007)
Bishop, K.J.
The Crone Meets Her Son (on a battlefield)
Electric Velocipede 13 (Fall 2007)
Borneman, John
If We Had No Moon
Star*Line 30.4 (July/Aug 2007)
Borski, Robert
Mrs. McGregor
Magazine of Speculative Poetry 8.2 (Autumn 2007)
Boston, Bruce
Beyond the Clouds of Paradise
Strange Horizons (11/26/07)
Clark, G.O.
Reservations Suggested
Asimov's SF (September 2007)
Clink, David Livingstone
Falling
On Spec 19.3 [70] (Fall 2007)
Cooley, Holly
After Appomattox
Mythic Delirium 17 (Summer/Fall 2007)
Cooper, Constance
The Cyburbs
2007 SFPA Poetry Contest Winners
Dorr, James S.
Les Fantomes (29 August 2005)
Doorways Magazine 1 (3/07)
Every, Gary
Virgin Dragon Birth
Tales of the Talisman 3.3 (12/07)
Fusek, Serena
Loup garou
Helix 4 (April 2007)
Gailey, Jeannine Hall
Chaos Theory
Magazine of Speculative Poetry 8.1 (Spring 2007)
Gardner, Lyn C.A.
The Golden Age
Abyss & Apex 21 (1st quarter 2007)
Garrott, Lila
How to Hide in a Japanese Print
Mythic Delirium 17 (Summer/Fall 2007)
Green, Timothy
The Amateur Astronomer in Me
Strange Horizons (6/4/07)
Hardy, K.S.
Weightless
Mythic Delirium 17 (Summer/Fall 2007)
Hivner, Christopher
The Night Silent
Niteblade Magazine (December 2007)
Kolodji, Deborah P.
Cellwoman
Star*Line 30.6 (Nov/Dec 2007)
Kolodji, Deborah P.
Poems from the New Symbiont
Scifaikuest 4.3 (February 2007)
Kopaska-Merkel, David C. & Kendall Evans
The Beetles' Dung, The Bird's Blind Eye
Doorways Magazine 3 (Fall 2007)
Larsen, Charles
The Periodic Table
Anthology Twenty-Five (Florida State Poets Association, 2007)
Lee, Yoon Ha
Winter's Keep
Behold the Pirate Pig 4 (December 2007)
Lesher, Shelley
To All My Clones
Dreams and Nightmares 76 (January 2007)
Lindow, Sandra
Heat
Asimov's SF (June 2007)
Lowery, A.E.
Foodstuff
Goblin Fruit (Spring 2007)
McNew, Pam
My Android Bob
Lone Star Stories 23 (October 2007)
McNew, Pam
Ursine Conversation
Lone Star Stories 20 (April 2007)
Morse, Drew
I Can Feel the Drilling
Helix 4 (April 2007)
Moyer, Jaime Lee
Nine days out --
Mythic Delirium 17 (Fall 2007)
Moyer, Jaime Lee
Tales of You
The Sword Review 27 (June 2007)
Nogha, Misha
Valandinne Sings Galdr and Seio
Magpies & Tigers (Wordcraft of Oregon, 2007)
Olson, Norman J.
Time
Nerve Cowboy 24 (Fall 2007)
Robichaud, Daniel R.
my man come back
Goblin Fruit (Fall 2007)
Romanko, Karen A.
They Threw Their Daughters into the Sea
Goblin Fruit (Spring 2007)
Rosenberger, Brian
Menace Anyone
Sporty Spec: Games of the Fantastic (Raven Electrick Ink, 2007)
Roy, Sankar
Be Patient, Don't Try to Open Your Eyes
Magazine of Speculative Poetry 8.2 (Autumn 2007)
Saplak, Charles
Ersatz Man, Walking
Star*Line 30.5 (Sept/Oct 2007)
Saplak, Charles
Next Time Write It Down
Mythic Delirium 16 (Winter/Spring 2007)
Schwader, Ann K.
Given to the Frost
Strange Horizons (12/10/2007)
Schwader, Ann K.
Snowball's Chance
Astropoetica 5.1 (Spring/Summer 2007)
Schwartz, Greg
Night Falls
Bits And Pieces (Spec House of Poetry, June 2007)
Simon, Marge
Skyman's Daughter
Raven Electrick (May 2007)
Stanley, J.E.
Only the Moon
Dark Intervals (vanZeno, 2007)
Swirsky, Rachel
The Oracle on River Street
Goblin Fruit (Summer 2007)
Taaffe, Sonya
Follow Me Home
Lone Star Stories 19 (February 2007)
Taaffe, Sonya
The Windfalls
Lone Star Stories 20 (April 2007)
Traub, Rita Janice
Tribute to an Astronaut
The 2nd Annual SFPA Poetry Contest, 2007: Sonnets (Spec House of Poetry, 2007)
Trimm, Mikal
 
The Envoy
 
Helix 6 (October 2007)
Turzillo, Mary  
Snow after False Spring, Again
 
Your Cat and Other Space Aliens (vanZeno Press, 2007)
Turzillo, Mary  
We Made Poetry
 
Your Cat and Other Space Aliens (vanZeno Press, 2007)
Wilson, Stephen M.  
At the Tsukiji Fish Market
 
Scifaikuest 5.1 (August 2007)
Wright, K. Ceres  
Doomed
 
Star*Line 30.4 (July/Aug 2007)

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Long Poems First Published in 2007

Berman, Ruth
Orpheus Gives Directions to Orphics
Tales of the Unanticipated 28 (Summer 2007)
Bobet, Leah
Three Deaths
Lone Star Stories 21 (June 2007)
Boston, Bruce
Interrogation at City Gate
Illumen 4.1 (Autumn 2007)
Deeley, Malcolm
From the Sea of Fertility
Star*Line 30.1 (Jan/Feb 2007)
Dietrich, Bryan D.
The Engineer
Isotope: A Journal of Literary Nature and Science Writing 5.2 (Fall/Winter 2007)
Evans, Kendall
In Deepspace Shadows
In Deepspace Shadows (Mythic Delirium Books, 2007)
Evans, Kendall
Riddle of the Sphinx
Poetry Red-Shifted In The Eyes of a Dragon (Spec House of Poetry, 2007)
Evans, Kendall
Transit of Jupiter
Magazine of Speculative Poetry 8.1 (Spring 2007)
Evans, Kendall & David C. Kopaska-Merkel
The Last Astronaut
Space and Time 100 (Spring 2007)
Fuller, J. Bruce
28 Blackbirds at the End of the World
Scifaikuest 5.2 (November 2007)
Goldbarth, Albert
To Be Read in 500 Years
Poetry (February 2007)
Goss, Theodora
How Raven Made His Bride
The Coyote Road (Ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Penguin, 2007)
Kopaska-Merkel, David C.
A Sliver of Light in Darkness
The Memory of Persistence (Naked Snake Press, August 2007)
Kopaska-Merkel, David C.
Reanimation Medicale
Ideomancer 6.2 (June 2007)
Mills, Katharine
Seducing the Crone
Goblin Fruit (Summer 2007)
Morse, Drew
First Light of Mars
Illumen 4.1 (Autumn 2007)
Muslim, Kristine Ong
The Most Secret Rooms
The Fifth Dimension (March 2007)
Nogha, Misha
Jaguar Moon
Magpies and Tigers (Wordcraft of Oregon, 2007)
Nogha, Misha
Valadinne the Renegade
Magpies and Tigers (Wordcraft of Oregon, 2007)
Oswald, Alice
Dunt
Spacecraft Voyager (Graywolf Press, 2007)
Pitaniello, Richard
The Spiders in the Sky
Niteblade Magazine (December 2007)
Relf-Discartin, Willow Katsumi & Terrie Leigh Relf
Space Envelopes
Sporty Spec: Games of the Fantastic (Raven Electrick Ink, 2007)
Rockwell, Marsheila
Brothers in Arms
Mythic Delirium 17 (Summer/Fall 2007)
Rockwell, Marsheila
Those Who Wait
Ideomancer 6.3 (September 2007)
Saplak, Charles
Deja Dragon, Damsel Vu
Dreams and Nightmares 78 (September 2007)
Simon, Marge
Private Eden: 2250
Space and Time 101 (Fall 2007)
Taaffe, Sonya
Kameraden Obscure: A Retrospective
Not One of Us 37 (April 2007)
Tentchoff, Marcie Lynn
The Song of the Dragon-Prowed Ships
Illumen 4.1 (Autumn 2007)
Trimm, Mikal
 
To Ride in Service of the King
 
Goblin Fruit (Winter 2007)
Valente, Catherynne
 
The Seven Devils of Central California
 
Farrago's Wainscot (Summer 2007)
Vanderhooft, JoSelle
 
Gleipnir Diaries
 
Mythic Delirium 17 (Summer/Fall 2007)
Vanderhooft, JoSelle
 
Portrait of a Girl in Dress and Boots
 
Star*Line 30.1 (Jan/Feb 2007)
Vanderhooft, JoSelle
 
The Robot's Daughter
 
Helix 6 (October 2007)
Vanderhooft, JoSelle
 
The Tale of the Sands
 
Star*Line 30.3 (May/June 2007)
Wick, Jessica Paige
 
Virgin and the Unicorn
 
The Lorelei Signal (October-December, 2007)
Wilensky, Ben
 
Before the Beginning
 
EDGZ 13 (Winter/Spring 2007)
YellowBoy, Erzebet
 
Eating the Breadcrumbs
 
Mythic Delirium 16 (Winter/Spring 2007)

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