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The 1981 Rhysling Anthology and Awards

The 1981 Rhysling Awards

Short Poem Category

Winner

Meeting Place by Ken Duffin

Long Poem Category

Winner

On Science Fiction by Thomas M. Disch

The Rhysling Awards 1981

The 1981 Rhysling Anthology             Cover Art: Karen G. Jollie
            Editor: Robert Frazier
            Published in Star*Line, Vol. 4 Issue 4, July/Aug. 1981

Rhysling Award nominees published in 1980

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

SHORT POEMS

Stephen Gresham • The Mooneyes of Dog Sunday • Amanita Brandy, Issue 1, 1980

Steve Rasnic Tem • The Landed Gentry • Space & Time, Issue 57, 1980

Steve Eng • Flaming Prose • Pandora, Issue 5, 1980

Janet Fox • untitled • Star*Line, Vo. 3 Issue 4, 1980

Ken Duffin • Meeting Place • Asimov's Science Fiction, Nov. 1980

Neil Wilgus • Endtime Rag • Menzia, Nov. 1980

Raymond DiZazzo • Cookers • Uranus, Issue 2, 1980

Frederico Lisci Espino, Jr. • Bionic Adam • International Portland Review, 1980

Roger Zelazny • I Used to Think in Lines That Were Irregular to the Right • When Pussywillows Last in the Catyard Bloomed, Nostrilla Press, 1980

Frederick Mayer • Dead • Eldritch Tales, Issue 7, 1980

Vicki Ann Heydron • The Sacrifice • Wyrd, Issue 8, 1980

Peter Dillingham • Holovision/20-20 • 20/20 Vision, 1980

F. Gwynplain MacIntyre • Improbable Bestiary: The Centaur • Asimov's Science Fiction, Nov. 1980

LONG POEMS

Chad Walsh • The First Two Men (?) from Outer Space • Uranus, Issue 2, 1980

Tom Disch • On Science Fiction • Triquarterly, 1980

Gene Van Troyer • Gonna Laugh Dem Rollin' Bones • The Anthology of Speculative Poetry, 1980

Paul Edwin Zimmer • The Complaint of Agni • Wyrd, Issue 8, 1980

Steven E. McDonald • On Our Holidays • Star*Line, Vol. 3 Issue 2, 1980

Suzette Haden Elgin • Lines on Looking into the Los Angeles Times Book Review Week after Week • Star*Line, Vol. 3 Issue 4, 1980

Nominees not included in the anthology:
Ken Seamon • The Orbital • The Modularist Review, Issue 3, 1980
Neal Wilgus • Balloon to the Center of the Earth • Nyctalops, Jan. 1980
Delores Ele • Haunted Valley • Worlds Lost/The Forgotten, Issue 2, 1980

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