2025 Rhysling Award Candidates for poems published in 2024

Items are sorted alphabetically by title, ignoring words like "the" or "a."

99 members nominated 83 short poems and 61 long poems.

Short Poems

• Abstain from Spinning, beauty • Dyani Sabin • Small Wonders 14
• After they blasted your home planet to shrapnel • P. H. Low • Haven Spec 14
• aftermath, in the city. a diary • Peter Roberts • Chrome Baby 133
• Amateur Mycologists • Mariel Herbert • Baubles From Bones 2
• Battle of the Sexless • Colleen Anderson • Bestiary of Blood (Crystal Lake Publishing, October)
• A Black Hole is a Melting Pot That Will Make Us Whole • Pedro Iniguez • Mexicans on the Moon: Speculative Poetry from a Possible Future (Space Cowboy Books, November)
• Bobblehead • Carol Gyzander • Discontinue if Death Ensues (Flame Tree Collections, October)
• Born Against Teeth • Tiffany Morris • Grimm Retold (Speculation Publications, September)
• Brandy Old Fashioned • Amelia Gorman • Eye to the Telescope 53
• Briar Tea Party • Gretchen Tessmer • A Frolic of Fairies (West Avenue Publishing, April)
• Bridge of Grass, Bridge of Suspension • Katherine Quevedo • The Inca Weaver's Tale (Sword & Kettle Press, January)
• Chronoverse • Jeffrey Allen Tobin • Star*Line 47.3
• Colony Xaxbara 4 • Kimberly Kuchar • The Space Cadet Science Fiction Review 2
• Dietary Advice • P. S. Cottier • BFS Horizons 17
• Dodging the Bullet • lisa M. Bradley • Small Wonders 13
• Dragon Flight • Vince Gotera • Dragons & Rayguns (Final Thursday Press, August)
• Dragonette • Wendy Van Camp • Eccentric Orbits 5 (Dimensionfold Publishing, October)
• Dryad's Temple • Colleen Anderson • Journ-E Volume 3, Number 1
• Flyaway • Eva Papasoulioti • Utopia Science Fiction August
• Fractal • Jack Cooper • Poetry News Spring 2024
• from Venus, to Mars • Cailín Frankland • Eye to the Telescope 55
• The Future We Build Today • Jenny Thompson • The Pink Hydra Volume 1, Issue 2
• Generation Ship • Akua Lezli Hope • Star*Line 47.3
• Ghost Land of Giants • linda D. Addison • Folk Horror Short Stories (Flame Tree Press, August)
• Gingerbread • Stephanie M. Wytovich • The Orange & Bee 2
• A Golden Flame/The Beheading of a Ram • Nnadi Samuel • Abyss & Apex 89
• Gravitation is Only a Theory • Alan Katerinsky • Wheeling, Yet Not Free (Written Image Press, July)
• Grendelsong: A Merewif's Lament • Carina Bissett • Mother Knows Best (Black Spot Books, May)
• Here’s Flowers for You • Diana Webb • Contemporary Haibun Online 20.2
• The High Priestess Falls in Love with Death • Ali Trotta • The Deadlands 35
• In the Future, AI Will Make Ofrendas • Felicia Martinez • Asimov's Jan/Feb 2024
• #LANDBACK • Marsheila Rockwell • Blood Quantum & Other Hate Crimes (Fallen Tree Press, July)
• The Last Valkyrie • Pat Masson • Forgotten Ground Regained 2
• The Last Woman • Anna Taborska • Discontinue if Death Ensues (Flame Tree Collections, October)
• Lesson’s End • Brian Hugenbruch • Samjoko Summer 2024
• Let's Pretend It's A Bird • Roger Dutcher • NewMyths 69
• Liminal • ayana walker • Space & Time Magazine 147
• Lost Ark • F. J. Bergman • Space & Time Magazine 146
• Make me a sandwich • Marisca Pichette • Star*Line 47.2
• Menomin’s Dragon • Sandra lindow • Eye to the Telescope 52
• Mourning Person • Anuja Mitra • The Deadlands 33
• New Homestead • Akua Lezli Hope • Sublimation Volume 1, Issue 5
• Notes from a Centaur's Curator • Gwen Sayers • Ghost Sojourn (Southword Editions, April)
• The Oarfish Bride • Amelia Gorman • Baubles From Bones 2
• Odysseus’s Apology to Anticlea • Anastasios Mihalopoulos • lit Magazine 37
• The Old Tradition • Zaynab Iliyasu Bobi • FIYAH 32
• One Bright Moment (International Research Station, Nili Fossae, Mars) • Kate Boyes • SFPA Valentines Day Reading
• One Large Deep Fried Thistle Burr • Jonathan Olfert • Strange Horizons 45523
• Our Combusted Planet • Brian Garrison • Dreams & Nightmares 126
• Pa(i)ncakes • Amabilis O'Hara (as Dex Drury) • Slay and Slay Again! (Sliced Up Press, July)
• Poor Unfortunate Souls • R. Thursday • The Sprawl Mag 2.1
• Questions Asked of the Scrying Sword During the Quest for the Princess • Elis Montgomery • Small Wonders 17
• Ravens • Vonnie Winslow Crist • Shivers, Scares, and Chills (Dark Owl Publishing, October)
• Right to Shelter • Mary Soon Lee • Radon Journal 7
• Rising Star • David C. Kopaska-Merkel • Spectral Realms 21
• Robin's Rest • lisa Timpf • Eye to the Telescope 54
• Sea and Sky • Megan Branning • The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Winter 2024
• Song Through Wires • Jacqueline West • Star*Line 47.4
• Sonnet for the Unbeliever • Paul Chuks • Strange Horizons 45432
• SOS • Simon MacCulloch • Dreams & Nightmares 126
• Space Psychiatry • Anna Cates • Star*Line 47.3
• Speak of the Wolf • Silvatiicus Riddle • SFPA Halloween Reading
• Stargazing • Stewart C. Baker • Eccentric Orbits 5 (Dimensionfold Publishing, October)
• Storm-Stolen • Elena Sunyoung Kang • Carmina Magazine September 2024 Issue
• The Suns in Her Eyes • Deborah L. Davitt • Baubles From Bones 3
• The Tentacular Crown • Bernardo Villela • Psythur 2 (Ravens Quoth Press, December)
• there are no taxis for the dead • Angela liu • Uncanny 58
• Things to Remember When Descending Through the Ocean • Sandra Kasturi • Poetry Society Stanza Poetry Competition October
• Time Lord Thief • Vince Gotera • Altered Reality Journal June
• the time travel body • Angel Leal • Radon Journal 8
• Totality • Mary A. Turzillo • The New Verse News 45390
• Transhumanist Classroom • Pedro Iniguez • Star*Line 47.1
• traveling through breaths • Eva Papasoulioti • Radon Journal 6
• Trinary • Amabilis O’ Hara • Heartlines Spec 4
• Trip Through the Robot • Carolyn Clink & David Clink • Giant Robot Poems (Middle West Press, July)
• Visions of Manhattan • Ian li • Eye to the Telescope 53
• A War of Words • Marie Brennan • Strange Horizons 45551
• We Carry Our Ghosts to the Stars • Richard Leis • Star*Line 47.3
• What Dragons Didn't Do • Mary Soon Lee • Uppagus 6
• Wildlife and Rainforests Inside My Father • Angel Leal • Strange Horizons 45452
• The Witch Recalls Her Craft • Angel Leal • Uncanny 60
• The Woodcutter • Anna Cates • Disabled Tales 45477
• You Are a Monster • Beth Cato • Worlds of Possibility 45505
• You can't just sit there crafting hopefully-viral insta posts and expect a dragon to show up (tl; dnr: how to catch a dragon c. 2024) • Melissa Ridley Elmes • Eccentric Orbits 5 (Dimensionfold Publishing, October)

Long Poems

• 9n lives • Mary A. Turzillo • Eccentric Orbits 5 (Dimensionfold Publishing, October)
• The Baker at the Beggar’s Wedding • Amelia Gorman • Spectral Realms 20
• Battle of the Bards • Frank Coffman • Forgotten Ground Regained 2
• Becoming a Veteran • Herb Kauderer • Distilled from Water (Written Image Press, July)
• The Blackthorn • Mary Soon Lee • Dreams & Nightmares 126
• Body Revolt • Casey Aimer • Strange Horizons 45502
• A Bullock of Special Burden • Denise Dumars • Animal Gnosis (Alien Buddha Press, September)
• Change Your Mind • Gwendolyn Maia Hicks • Small Wonders 16
• Comet, Cow(nota)girl, & A Cry for Cold • Elizabeth R. McClellan • Eco Punk Literary 2
• Defiance by Cake • Beth Cato • Worlds of Possibility August
• Divide By Zero • Michael Bailey • Written Backwards 12/22/24 Post
• Draco Hesperidum • Eric Brown • Eternal Haunted Summer Summer Solstice 2024
• Elemental Scales • Ruth Berman • Star*Line 47.1
• Emily Austenson Brontëbot • Adele Gardner • Star*Line 47.4
• The Fabulous Underwater Panther • Marsheila Rockwell • Blood Quantum & Other Hate Crimes (Fallen Tree Press, July)
• fear of pipes and shallow water • William O. Balmer • Reckoning 8
• The Final Trick • Angela Liu • Strange Horizons 45530
• First Women • Colleen Anderson • Polar Borealis 29
• Five Nights in the Castle • Beth Cato • Penumbric December 2024 Issue
• Giant Robot and His Person • Akua Lezli Hope • FIYAH 31
• Gretel • Nico Martinez Nocito • Grimm Retold (Speculation Publications, September)
• The High Priestess Writes a Love Letter to The Magician • Ali Trotta • Uncanny 58
• Hot Enough to Collapse • Eugen Bacon • Galaxy Science Fiction 263
• The House of Mulberry Leaves • Ryu Ando • Crow & Cross Keys 45329
• I've Seen the Ruby Slippers • Alan Ira Gordon • Pittsburgh and Other Poems (Hiraeth Books, June)
• In Graves Wood • Siân Thomas • Long Poem Magazine 32
• The Keep • Gerri Leen • Eccentric Orbits 5 (Dimensionfold Publishing, October)
• The Large Reckoning • Linda D. Addison • Bestiary of Blood (Crystal Lake Publishing, October)
• The Last Voyage: Island Relocation Program • Steve Wheat • Radon Journal 8
• Life’s Goal • Herb Kauderer • Distilled from Water (Written Image Press, July)
• Longfellow's Mars • John C. Mannone • Sublimation Volume 1, Issue 2
• Max Returns to His Home World • Miguel O. Mitchell • Surrealia (Gnashing Teeth Publishing, August)
• Meat, Bone, and Soul • Beth Cato • Haven Spec 17
• Medicine For The Ailing Mortal, as Told in Seven Stories • Silvatiicus Riddle • The Fairy Tale Magazine 45413
• Melissa • Akua Lezli Hope • Bestiary of Blood (Crystal Lake Publishing)
• The Minotaur in His Maze (after a fragment of Helvius Cinna) • Eric Brown • Carmina Magazine March 2024 Issue
• The Museum of Etymology • F.J. Bergman • Star*Line 47.3
• My Queen's Last Gift • Adele Gardner • Dark Dead Things 3
• One Last Pie in the Face • Michael H. Payne • Silver Blade 58
• The Place Between • Herb Kauderer • Distilled from Water (Written Image Press, July)
• Porphyria’s Lover • Anna Cates • Abyss & Apex 92
• The Price of Becoming a Villain is to Quell One's Kin in a Charade of Pact with The Gods • Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan • The Deadlands 36
• The Reptile Men (Lovecraftiana) • Jose Ángel Conde • Psythur 2 (Ravens Quoth Press, December)
• Second Coming • Nicholas Montemarano • Rattle: Poets Respond 45298
• Second Life • Christina Sng • Feisty Felines and Other Fantastical Familiars (WordFire Press, July)
• Shattered Souls at Heaven’s Gate • Ayòdéjì Israel • The Deadlands 36
• Southern Graves • Allanah Benae • God's Cruel Joke 4
• Spawn Red Meat Arachnid • Chris Panatier • The Deadlands 35
• Star Stitcher • A. J. Van Belle • Haven Spec 13
• The Third Seal • Jamal Hodge • Long Division: Stories of Social Decay, Societal Collapse, and Bad Manners (Bad Hand Books, December)
• Three Acts of Mercy • Megan Diedericks • Sublimation Volume 1, Issue 3
• A Tour of the Blue Palace • Bree Wernicke • Strange Horizons 45452
• Veiling the Statues • Raven Jakubowski • Strange Horizons 45537
• Watching • Vonnie Winslow Crist • Shivers, Scares, and Chills (Dark Owl Publishing, October)
• We Makes It • J.H. Siegal • Penumbric April 2024 Issue
• Weight • ayana walker • Daddies, Demons, and the Dawn (Bookleaf Publishing, February)
• What Beautiful Heavens These • Kaya Skovdatter • Strange Horizons 45649
• What It Tastes Like • Gerri Leen • Eye to the Telescope 53
• When it Really is Just the Wind, and Not a Furious Vexation • Kyle Tran Myrhe • Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day 45510
• XOXO • Hannu Afere • Sahtu Press 9/10/24 Post

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