The 2004 Rhysling Awards
Short Poem Category First Place Second Place Third Place (tie) |
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Long Poem Category
First Place Second Place Third Place |
The 2004 Rhysling Anthology:
The Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Poetry of 2003
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Rhysling Chair: Drew Morse $7.95 + $2 U.S. shipping; $5 Canada; $8 international). E-mail the treasurer for postage costs on multiple copies. Payable by PayPal to SFPATreasurer@gmail.com |
Short Poems First Published in 2003
Diane Ackerman • Cranial Sacral • Poetry 182.6, Sept. 2003.
Mike Allen • How I Will Outwit the Time Thieves • Strange
Horizons,
Dec. 2003.
Bruce Boston • To Feel the Cold • Dreams and Nightmares 64, Jan.
2003.
G.O. Clark • When She Dances • Talebones 27, Dec. 2003.
Roger Dutcher • Just Distance • Tales of the Unanticipated 24,
July 2003.
Jeremy Gottwig • Warm Thick Beer • Mythic Delirium 9, Summer/Fall
2003.
John Grey • Night of the Living Dead • Star*Line 26.4, July/Aug.
2003.
Elizabeth Henderson • Winter in the Tropic of Cancer • Astropoetica 1,
Fall 2003.
L.A. Story Houry • Basement World • Passion Fruit and Other Loops (Sam's
Dot Publishing, 2003).
Tracina Jackson-Adams • Hands Tell All • The Modern Art Cave (Sam's
Dot Publishing, 2003).
David C. Kopaska-Merkel • the length of a candle • Mythic Delirium 8,
Winter/Spring 2003.
Sandra Lindow • Nursery Ghosts • Raven Electrick,
June 2003.
April Lott • Isis • Dreams and Nightmares 64, Jan. 2003.
David Lunde • What It Comes Down To • Asimov's Science Fiction 27.3,
March 2003.
Maureen McHugh • Alternate History • Asimov's Science Fiction 27.8,
Aug. 2003.
Nathan Parker • Tomatoes Cannot Tolerate Frost • The Metastatic Whatnot 1,
Fall 2003.
Karen R. Porter • She • Not One of Us 30, Sept. 2003.
Jessy Randall • The Seductiveness of the Memory Hole • The Magazine of
Speculative Poetry 6.2, Autumn 2003.
Mark Rudolph • Tarot Cards and UFOs • Strange Horizons, Oct. 2003.
Lucy Cohen Shmeidler • "Observe the Month of Spring" • The
Magazine of Speculative Poetry 6.1, Spring 2003.
Marge Simon • Language of Scorpions • The Pedestal Magazine, June–Aug.
2003.
Sonya Taaffe • Storm Gods of the Connecticut River Valley • Star*Line 26.1,
Jan./Feb. 2003.
John Teehan • What to Do When an Alien Spacecraft Lands and the Visitors
Come Out to Greet You • Star*Line 26.3, May/June 2003.
Ian Watson • Memory Man • Asimov's Science Fiction 27.7, July
2003.
Long Poems First Published in 2003
Mike Allen • Death of the Father • Petting the
Time Shark and Other Poems (DNA Publications, 2003).
Bruce Boston • The Crow Is Dismantled in Flight • (Miniature Sun
Press, 2003).
Richard Chwedyk • Rich and Pam Go to Fermilab and Later See a Dead Man • Strange
Horizons, March 2003.
Erin Donahoe • Beast • Beast (Sam's Dot Publishing, 2003).
Theodora Goss • Octavia Is Lost in the Hall of Masks
• Mythic Delirium 8,
Winter/Spring 2003.
Charlee Jacob • Hugo Schizophrenica • (Miniature
Sun Press, 2003).
David C. Kopaska-Merkel • The Mad Scientist Has All the Time in the World
• Mythic Delirium 9, Summer/Fall 2003.
Sandra Lindow • Morning Becomes the Milkman • The Magazine of Speculative
Poetry 6.2, Autumn 2003.
Tim Pratt • Clutch Purse • The Modern Art Cave (Sam's Dot Publishing,
2003).
Tobias Seamon • Quasimodo Takes the Grand Tour • Strange Horizons,
Sept. 2003.
Vandana Singh • A Portrait of the Artist • Strange
Horizons, July
2003.
Steve Sneyd • A Price of Course Worth Paying • Dreams and Nightmares 64,
Jan. 2003.
Sonya Taaffe • Green Fuses • Dreams and Nightmares 64,
Jan. 2003.
Sonya Taaffe • Harlequin, Lonely • Star*Line 26.4,
July/Aug. 2003.
Jamie Wasserman • The Prince Revisited • The Magazine of Speculative
Poetry 6.2, Autumn 2003.
James F. Yockey • What If • Strange Horizons,
June 2003.