The 2010 Rhysling Awards
Short Poem Category First Place Second Place Third Place |
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Long Poem Category
First Place Second Place Third Place |
2010 SFPA Grand Master Award: Jane
Yolen
Winner Biographies and Award Photos
The 2010 Rhysling Anthology:
The Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Poetry of 2009
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Editor and Rhysling Chair: Jamie Lee
Moyer Layout and Typesetting: Jon Stout Cover Photography: The Cat’s Eye Nebula, NASA, ESA, HEIC, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) Cover Design: Mike Allen & Jon Stout Publisher: Science Fiction Poetry Association in cooperation with Raven Electrick Ink Printing: Lightning Source. ISBN: 978-0-9819643-2-4 $12.95 + $4 U.S. shipping; $11 Canada; $17 international). E-mail the treasurer for postage costs on multiple copies. Payable by PayPal to SFPATreasurer@gmail.com |
Short Poems First Published in 2009
Duane Ackerson • Outfoxed • Dreams and Nightmares 82, January 2009.
Duane
Ackerson •
The Bermuda Triangle • Star*Line, July/August 2009.
Mary Alexandra Agner • Wishes for Godmothers • Illumen, Autumn 2009.
Mike Allen • Ascending • Strange
Horizons, January 2009.
Elizabeth Barrette • Fallen Gardens • Apex Magazine, April 2009.
Elizabeth Barrette • The Dreamgod • Star*Line, November/December
2009.
Elizabeth Barrette • The Mummy Child • Star*Line, September/October
2009.
Greg Beatty • eventual, I • Cinema Spec: Tales of Hollywood
and Fantasy (Raven
Electrick Ink, 2009).
Elizabeth Bennefeld • Endings • Star*Line, July/August
2009.
F. J. Bergmann • Exobiology II • Asimov's Science Fiction, July 2009.
Paula Berman • Clotho Visits the Local Yarn Store • Twist
Collective, November
2009.
Matt Betts • Godzilla's Better Half • Star*Line, November/December
2009.
Robert Borski • Scent & Sensibility • Doorways Magazine 8, April 2009.
Bruce Boston
and Marge Simon • The Time Traveler Takes His Nth Lover at a Point of Departure
• Strange Horizons, January 2009.
Rachel
Manija Brown • Nine Views of the Oracle • Abyss & Apex, Fourth Quarter 2009.
G. O. Clark • Millennial Mass • Mythic Delirium 20, Winter/Spring 2009.
David Clink • The Airships Take Us, Even As We Blow Out The Last Candle • ChiZine 40.
Malcolm Deeley • Outward, Through the Inner Worlds • Star*Line, January/February
2009.
Bryan D. Dietrich • Edgar Allan Poe • Asimov's Science
Fiction, November
2009.
Amal El-Mohtar
and Jessica Paige Wick • Apple Jack Tangles the Maidy Lac with a Red, Red Ribbon
• Mythic Delirium 20, Winter/Spring 2009.
Angel
Favazza • Joy Ride • Star*Line, March/April, 2009.
Francesca Forrest • The Qin Golem • Not
One of Us 41, April 2009.
Robert Frazier and Andrew Joron •Cities in Fog • Strange
Horizons, November 2009.
Jeannine Hall Gailey •
Rapunzel Considers the Desert • Cabinet des Fees 8, September 2009.
Neil Gaiman • Conjunctions • Mythic
Delirium 20, Winter/Spring 2009.
Lyn C. A. Gardner • God's Cat • Sybil's Garage 6, May 2009.
Wade German • From Tindalos • Space and Time 109, Winter 2009.
Larry Hammer • At Death's Door • Ideomancer, June 2009.
Carolyn M. Hinderliter • parental pride • Scifaikuest, August 2009.
David C. Kopaska-Merkel • Online Edition
hillbilly invasion • Sloth Jockey, January
7, 2009.
Nicole Kornher-Stace • The Changeling Always Wins • Goblin
Fruit, Spring 2009.
Michael Kriesel • Fungi from Yuggoth • Barbaric Yawp 13.4, October
2009.
Geoff Landis • Earthrise, Viewed from Meridiani, Sol 687 • Sol
687, Best Poem,
January 2009.
Sandra J. Lindow • Finding the God Particle • Strange Horizons, December
2009.
John C. Mannone • Layers of Man • Liquid Imagination 4,
Fall 2009.
Sharon Mock • Alexander von Humboldt Visits the Moon • Lunar Maria
Poetry Contest, September 2009.
George Moore • Triangulation • Astropoetica 7.1, Spring 2009.
Kristine Ong Muslim • Conrad, in the Autopsy Room • Dreams
and Nightmares 83,
May 2009.
Kristine Ong Muslim • The Tree of Forgiveness • Paper Crow, March 2009.
Shweta Narayan • Apsara • Goblin
Fruit, Summer 2009.
Shweta Narayan • The Bears Are Working • Goblin Fruit, Winter
2009.
James B. Nicola • Particles and Planets • The Lyric, Fall 2009.
Mark Rich • It Snowed • The Magazine of Speculative Poetry 8.4, Spring
2009.
Marsheila Rockwell • Nonrenewable Resources • Star*Line, July/August
2009.
Marsheila Rockwell • Of Amaranth and Honey • Paper Crow, September 2009.
Charles Saplak • Laments of the Lucid Dreamer • Paper Crow, September
2009.
Ann K. Schwader • To Theia • Strange Horizons, September
2009.
Meliors Simms • Two Kinds of Time • Voyagers: Science Fiction
Poetry from New Zealand, eds. Mark Pirie and Tim Jones (Interactive Press,
2009).
Marge Simon • For a Few Coins,
I Draw you a Picture • Star*Line, November/December 2009.
J. E. Stanley • Cabaret • Asimov's Science Fiction, March 2009.
J. E.
Stanley • City of Bridges • Sybil's Garage 6, May 2009.
David Lee Summers •
A Tale of Three Worlds • Private International Review of Photographs and Texts, Summer 2009.
Suzanne Sykora • On Its Own • Niteblade, March 2009.
Sonya Taaffe •
The Chymical Marriage • Strange Horizons, August 2009.
Marcie Lynn Tentchoff • Owner's Manual • Tales
of the Talisman, Spring 2009.
Marcie Lynn Tentchoff •
The Bookseller's Tale • Illumen, Spring 2009.
Stephen
M. Wilson • The Men All Pause (a poem on Global Warming) • Poet's Espresso, May 2009.
Marly
Youmans • Self-Portrait as Dryad, No. 7 • Words of Power, December 2009.
Long Poems First Published in 2009
Mary Alexandra Agner • The Glass Ship • Illumen, Autumn 2009.
Mike Allen, Kendall Evans, & David C. Kopaska-Merkel • Rattlebox III • Strange
Horizons, July 2009.
John Amen • Rampage • At The Threshold Of Alchemy (Presa Press, 2009).
Lana Hechtman Ayers • The First Story • Hot Metal Press, Spring
2009.
Elizabeth Barrette • How the Aztecs Conquered Cortez • Vampyr
Verse, ed. Lester Smith (Popcorn
Press, 2009).
Penny-Anne Beaudoin • The Magician's Assistant • Doorways
Magazine 8, April
2009.
Emma Bolden • The Witch's Burning • Guernica, July 2009.
Robert Borski • Sweet Tooth • Strange Horizons, June 2009.
Bruce Boston • Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Vulture • Farrago's
Wainscot, October
2009.
G. Sutton Breiding • Postcards from Mars • Star*Line July/August 2009.
Shelly Bryant • Manipulation • Scifaikuest, May 2009.
Rosalind Casey • Custody • Goblin Fruit, Spring 2009.
C.S.E. Cooney & Nicole Kornher-Stace • Other Difficulties • Goblin
Fruit: Demon Lovers and Other Difficulties, July 2009.
Bryan D. Dietrich •
Prince • The Mayo Review, Print Edition 2009.
Kendall Evans
& Samantha Henderson • In the Astronaut Asylum • Mythic Delirium 20,
Winter/Spring 2009.
Kendall Evans & David C. Kopaska-Merkel • Corrected Maps
of Your City • Night
Ship to Never (Diminuendo Press, 2009).
Kendall Evans & Stephen M. Wilson • The Little
Sea Maid • The Book
of Tentacles, eds. Scott Virtes & Edward Cox (Sam's
Dot Publishing, 2009).
Gemma Files • The Drowned Town • Goblin Fruit, Summer 2009.
Joshua Gage • Snow, Blood, Night • New Myths, June 2009.
Delbert R. Gardner • The Meek Shall Inherit • Goblin Fruit, Summer 2009.
Robert K. Gardner • Creation Myth • Illumen, Autumn 2009.
Rose Lemberg • Godfather Death • Goblin Fruit, Fall 2009.
Shira Lipkin • When Her Eyes Open • Lone Star Stories, February 2009.
Alex Dally MacFarlane • Beautifully Mutilated, Instantly Antiquated • Goblin
Fruit, Summer 2009.
Kurt MacPhearson • Joanie the Jammer • Tales of the Talisman 5.2, Autumn
2009.
Jaime Lee Moyer • Nightfall • Star*Line, January/February
2009.
Olga Pavlinova Olenich • Medea of Melbourne • Cordite Poetry
Review 3.10:
Epic, December 2009.
J. C. Runolfson • Lifestory • Ideomancer, March 2009.
J. C. Runolfson • O.D. • Goblin Fruit, Winter 2009.
Lucien E. G. Spelman • Family Jaunt • Niteblade, June 2009.
W. Gregory Stewart • My grandfather's watch fob • Dreams
and Nightmares 83,
May 2009.
Neal Wilgus • Daylight Savings • Dreams and Nightmares 84, September
2009.