2023 Rhysling Award Candidates
For poems published in 2022
Nominees will be listed here after the voting deadline of February 15.
Short Poems (102 poems)
  • After the Quest is Over • Lisa Timpf • Eye to the Telescope 46
  • Air Born • Brian U. Garrison • Corvid Queen, November 18
  • Angels • Frances Skene • Polar Starlight 6
  • Anima • Thomas Zimmerman • Pages Literary Journal, November 9
  • Animal House Speech • Dave Chandler • Failed Haiku 83
  • Anodized Titanium • Mary Soon Lee • Eye to the Telescope 44
  • Aswang Shaman Communing with Diwata for the First Time • Vince Gotera • Eye to the Telescope 46
  • Australopithecus • Jessica Lucci • How Can I Steal A Purse (self-published)
  • bathroom chatter • Matteo L. Cerilli • Augur 5.2
  • Beneath Everything The Future Still Exists • Maggie Chirdo • Little Blue Marble: Warmer Worlds, ed. Katrina Archer (Ganache Media)
  • The Best Ambassadors • Adele Gardner • Felis Futura: An Anthology of Future Cats, ed. CB Droege (Manawaker Studio)
  • Big Brother, Little Brother, and the Sea • Geneve Flynn • Space & Time Magazine 142
  • Biophilia • Sarah Grey • Strange Horizons, Fund Drive
  • Bitch Moon • Sarah Grey • Nightmare Magazine 118
  • Bla Jungfrun • Deborah L. Davitt • Strange Horizons, September 26
  • Black Pastoral: On Mars • Ariana Benson • Paranoid Tree 17
  • Blond Dude in a Laundromat • Mary Turzillo • Best of 22 (Ohio Poetry Association)
  • Bone November • Sandra Kasturi • The New Quarterly 164
  • Cassandra as Climate Scientist • Jeannine Hall Gailey • California Quarterly 48:4
  • The Closest Traitor • Richard Magahiz • Mobius: The Journal of Social Change 33:2
  • A Creation Myth • John C. Mannone • Songs of Eretz, Spring
  • Cursed • Lee Murray • The Gargoylicon: Imaginings and Images of the Gargoyle in Literature and Art, ed. Frank Coffman (Mind’s Eye Publications)
  • Dark Neighborhood • Cindy O’Quinn • Chiral Mad 5
  • Dead in Orange Red • Jamal Hodge • Monthly Musings, May 9
  • Derelict Dreams • Bruce Boston • Dreams and Nightmares 121
  • Dinner Plans with Baba Yaga • Stephanie M. Wytovich • Into the Forest: Tales of the Baba Yaga, ed. Lindy Ryan (Black Spot Books)
  • Domestic Tranquility • Brian U. Garrison • Radon Journal 2
  • Doppelganger • James Arthur Anderson • The Horror Zine, Fall
  • Draft • Lavina Blossom • Riddled with Arrows 5.4
  • The Epidemic of Shrink-Ray-Gun Violence Plaguing Our Schools Must End • Pedro Iniguez • Star*Line 45.3
  • Equus Aloft • Sterling Warner • Otoliths, February
  • Exulansis • Silvatiicus Riddle • Liquid Imagination 51
  • Field Notes from the Anthropocene • Priya Chand • Nightmare Magazine 116
  • First Contact • Lisa Timpf • Eye to the Telescope 44
  • Fracking-lution • Linda D. Addison • Hybrid: Misfits, Monsters and Other Phenomena, eds. Donald Armfield & Maxwell I. Gold (Hybrid Sequence Media)
  • The Gargoyle Watches the Rains End • Amelia Gorman • The Gargoylicon: Imaginings and Images of the Gargoyle in Literature and Art, ed. Frank Coffman (Mind’s Eye Publications)
  • Gosh, It’s Too Beautiful to Exist Briefly in a Parallel Planet • Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan • Strange Horizons, November 21
  • Harold and the Blood-Red Crayon • Jennifer Crow • Star*Line 45.1
  • Helianthus • Eva Papasoulioti • Solarpunk Magazine 5
  • Hip Gnomes • PS Cottier • AntipodeanSF 291
  • Hockey Night in Canis Major • Gretchen Tessmer • Kaleidotrope, January
  • Home from the Wizard Wars • Lyri Ahnam • Silver Blade 54
  • The Honorable Iris C. Thaumantos, Presiding • Marsheila Rockwell • Musings of the Muses, eds. Heather & S. D. Vassallo (Brigids Gate Press)
  • How to Build an Altar • Angela Acosta • Halloween SFPA Reading
  • If I Were Human • Marie Vibbert • Star*Line 45.2
  • In Stock Images of the Future, Everything is White • Terese Mason Pierre • Uncanny 46
  • Intergalactic Baba Yaga • Sandra Lindow • Dreams and Nightmares 122
  • It’s Not Utopian If There Are No Fat People • Jordan Hirsch • Utopia Science Fiction, December
  • Jingwei Tries to Fill Up the Sea • Mary Soon Lee • Uncanny Magazine 45
  • A Lacing of Lavender • Carina Bissett • HWA Poetry Showcase IX
  • Laws of Exponents • John Reinhart • NewMyths.com 59
  • Leda Goes To The Doctor • Pankaj Khemka • Carmina Magazine, September
  • Letting Flowers Go • Alexander Etheridge • Liquid Imagination 52
  • Lines to a Martian (Palabras a un habitante de Marte) • Alfonsina Storni, trans. Brittany Hause • Asimov’s Science Fiction, November/December
  • The Long Night • Ryfkah • Eccentric Orbits 3, ed. Wendy Van Camp (Dimensionfold Publishing)
  • Medea leaves behind a letter • FJ Doucet • Star*Line 45.1
  • Medusa • Akua Lezli Hope • The New Verse News, November 18
  • Medusa Bringing Her Children Back Home • Salt • Patreon
  • MetaGender Machine • Linda D. Addison • Black Fire—This Time, ed. Kim McMillon (Aquarius Press)
  • Mind Compression • Madhur Anand • Parasitic Oscillations (Random House)
  • Monitors • David C. Kopaska-Merkel & Kendall Evans • Star*Line 45.1
  • Mother Wicked • Dyani Sabin • Strange Horizons, February 28
  • Near the end, you mother tells you she’s been seeing someone • Shannon Connor Winward • SFPA Poetry Contest
  • Necklace • Carolyn Clink • Frost Zone Zine 6
  • New Planet • Kathy Bailey • Dreams and Nightmares 122
  • Od’s Bodkin • Colleen Anderson • Space & Time Magazine 142
  • Old Soldier, New Love • Vince Gotera • Eye To The Telescope 45
  • On the Limitations of Photographic Evidence in Fairyland • Nicole J. LeBoeuf • Eternal Haunted Summer, Summer Solstice
  • The Optics of Space Travel • Angela Acosta • Eye to the Telescope 43
  • Petrichor • Eva Papasoulioti • Utopia Science Fiction, April/May
  • Pittsburgh Temporal Transfer Station • Alan Ira Gordon • Star*Line 45.2
  • Please Hold • Anna Remennik • NewMyths.com 58
  • Pluto is Not a Planet • Jamal Hodge • SavagePlanets 2:3
  • Pumpkin Ash and Cypress Knees • Katherine Quevedo • Boudin: It Came from the Swamp
  • Raft of the Medusa • Marge Simon • Silver Blade 53
  • Reasons Why You Can’t Go Out to Play Alone • Victoria Nations • HWA Poetry Showcase IX
  • Regarding the Memory of Earth • Angela Acosta • Radon Journal 1
  • Sabbatical Somewhere Warm • Elizabeth R. McClellan • Star*Line 45.4
  • Sector 431B • Jamal Hodge • SavagePlanets 2:3
  • Shipwrecked • Gretchen Tessmer • The Deadlands 12
  • Skies over Carson Sink • Joshua Gage • The Space Cadet Science Fiction Review 1
  • A Spell for Winning Your Personal Injury Lawsuit • Marsheila Rockwell • Dreams and Nightmares 120
  • Starfall • Melissa Ridley Elmes • Spectral Realms 16
  • Status Transcript • Lee Murray • A Woman Unbecoming, eds. Rachel A. Brune & Carol Gyzander (Crone Girls Press)
  • Strange Progeny • Bruce Boston • Hybrid: Misfits, Monsters and Other Phenomena, eds. Donald Armfield & Maxwell I. Gold (Hybrid Sequence Media)
  • Suburban Pitcher Plant, Sarracenia suburbiana • Jay Sturner • Not One of Us 69
  • Tamales on Mars • Angela Acosta • The Sprawl Mag, October
  • Tasted Like Pork • Pankaj Khemka • Ghostlight, Fall
  • Terrible Truths • Linda D. Addison • Daughter of Sarpedon: A Tempered Tales Collection, eds. Heather & S. D. Vassallo (Brigids Gate Press)
  • Time Skip • Alyza Taguilaso • The Deadlands 16
  • Transformation Sequence • Stewart C. Baker • JOURN-E, September
  • The Veil • Anna Cates • Otoliths, February
  • Villagers • Tim Jones • a fine line, Autumn
  • Virgin Mary Meteorology • Patricia Gomes • Muddy River Review, Fall/Winter
  • Warming • Maria Zoccola • Nightmare Magazine 117
  • The Watcher on the Wall • Rebecca Bratten-Weiss • Reckoning 6
  • We Don’t Always Have to Toss Her in the Deep End • Jordan Hirsch • The Future Fire 62
  • Werewolves in Space • Ruth Berman • Dreams and Nightmares 121
  • What Electrons Read • Mary Soon Lee • Simultaneous Times 31
  • What the Old Woman Knows • Melissa Ridley Elmes • Listen to Her UNF, March 23
  • What Wolves Read • Mary Soon Lee • Uppagus 54
  • While Traveling Through Deep Space Aboard a Generation Ship • Terrie Leigh Relf • The Drabbun Anthology, eds. Francis W. Alexander & t. santitoro (Hiraeth Publishing)

Long Poems (70 poems)
  • Ariadne Threads the Labyrinth • Adele Gardner • Dreams and Nightmares 120
  • Barn Cats • Adele Gardner • NewMyths.com 60
  • Beautiful • L. Marie Wood • Under Her Skin, eds. Lindy Ryan & Toni Miller (Black Spot Books)
  • The Birds Singing in the Rocks • Tristan Beiter • Strange Horizons, October 31
  • The Bone Tree • Rebecca Buchanan • Not a Princess, but (Yes) There was a Pea, and Other Fairy Tales to Foment Revolution (Jackanapes Press)
  • CONELRAD 1960 / COVID 2020 • T. D. Walker • Fireside Fiction, June
  • Corvidae • Sarah Cannavo • Liquid Imagination 50
  • Crossing Over • Frank Coffman • Liquid Imagination 52
  • Crow Daughter • Gabriela Avelino • Kaleidotrope, Summer
  • Dark Matter Resume • Lorraine Schein • A Coup of Owls 8
  • Darkness • David E. Cowen • The Hand That Wounds (Weasel Press)
  • The Dead Palestinian Father • Rasha Abdulhadi • Anathema: Spec from the Margins 15
  • Debris • Deborah L. Davitt • The Avenue, May 18
  • Drowning in This Sunken City • Deborah L. Davitt • Strange Horizons, July 3
  • Eidolon Tetratych • Frank Coffman • Spectral Realms 16
  • EMDR • Marsheila Rockwell • Unnerving Magazine 17
  • ex-lovers & other ghosts • Herb Kauderer • Cold & Crisp, eds. Rachael Crawford, Shannon Kauderer, Andy Lee, & Lizette Strait (518 Publishing)
  • field notes from an investigation into the self • Max Pasakorn • Strange Horizons, August 29
  • The First 100 Days • John Reinhart • Star*Line 45.2
  • A Fit Place to Live • David E. Cowen • The Hand That Wounds (Weasel Press)
  • For You Were Strangers in Egypt • Elizabeth R. McClellan • Nightmare Magazine 122
  • From the Ninth Brane • John Mannone • Altered Reality Magazine, February
  • From “Poem without Beginning or End” • Vivek Narayanan • Poetry, May
  • The Frosty Voyage • Adele Gardner • Eye to the Telescope 46
  • Georgia Clay Blood • Beatrice Winifred Iker • Fantasy Magazine 80
  • Ghosting Our Steps • Luke Kernan • Anthropology and Humanism 47:2
  • Halloween Hearts (for Ray Bradbury) • Adele Gardner • Halloween Hearts (Jackanapes Press)
  • Herbaceous Citadel • Avra Margariti • The Fairy Tale Magazine, January 4
  • How to Skin Your Wolf • G. E. Woods • Strange Horizons, December 19
  • I am the Dragon • Elizabeth Fletcher • Spaceports & Spidersilk, October
  • If Houses Could Talk • Lori R. Lopez • The Sirens Call 59
  • Igbo Landing II • Akua Lezli Hope • Black Fire—This Time, ed. Kim McMillon (Aquarius Press)
  • In the Mirror’s Grip • Jeff Young • Eccentric Orbits 3, ed. Wendy Van Camp (Dimensionfold Publishing)
  • In water • Soonest Nathaniel • Stephen A. DiBiase Poetry Prize 2022 Award Finalists
  • Interdimensional Border Town • Lauren Scharhag • Unlikely Stories, August
  • Like Thunder in My Head • Gerri Leen • The Fairy Tale Magazine, April
  • Lines of Non-Extension • Janis Anne Rader • Consilience, Autumn
  • Living in Rubble • Gerri Leen • Eccentric Orbits 3, ed. Wendy Van Camp (Dimensionfold Publishing)
  • Locks • Colleen Anderson • Abyss & Apex 84
  • Machine (r)Evolution • Colleen Anderson • Radon Journal 2
  • The Machines Had Accepted Me For So Long • Angel Leal • Radon Journal 2
  • Matches • Rebecca Buchanan • Not a Princess, but (Yes) There was a Pea, and Other Fairy Tales to Foment Revolution (Jackanapes Press)
  • A Message From Her Feline Self, Unborn, to Her Cousin, Whose Ancestors Were Once Wolves • Jessica Cho • Fireside Magazine, March
  • Mouth of Mirrors • Maxwell I. Gold • Seize the Press, June 14
  • My Avian Daughter Devours Meteors • Alicia Hilton • Ornithologiae, ed. Mark Beech (Egaeus Press)
  • My Great-Grandmother’s House • Madalena Daleziou • The Deadlands 11
  • On Meeting Kari Solmundarson of Burnt Njal on a Ghost Ship • Amelia Gorman • Nonbinary Review 27
  • One Last Perfect Night • Jill Trade & Joshua St. Claire • The Space Cadet Science Fiction Review 1
  • Persephone in January: A Chant Royal • LindaAnn LoSchiavo • Carmina Magazine, March
  • Photographing Sirens • F. J. Bergmann • SFPA Poetry Contest
  • The Possession • Anna Cates • Otoliths, June
  • Queen of Cups • Crystal Sidell • The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, November/December
  • Questing Done Right: The Goblin Market • Elizabeth R. McClellan • Eternal Haunted Summer, Summer Solstice
  • Resilience • Francesca Gabrielle Hurtado • Reckoning 6
  • The River God Dreams of Death By Water • Ryu Ando • Abyss & Apex 84
  • A Rounded Spell • Alessandro Manzetti • Kubrick Rhapsody (Independent Legions Publishing)
  • Seasonal Meat • Jamal Hodge • Chiral Mad 5
  • The Second Funeral • Kurt Newton • Synkroniciti 4:1
  • Spring, When I Met You (Spring, When I Woke) • Gerri Leen • Dreams and Nightmares 121
  • Team Enrollment • Herb Kauderer • Scifaikuest, November
  • The Thing About Stars • Avra Margariti • The Saint of Witches (Weasel Press)
  • Thirteen Ways to Know You Are a Witch • John C. Mannone • Star*Line 45.4
  • A Tribute to the Ferryman • Ngo Binh Anh Khoa • Eternal Haunted Summer, Winter Solstice
  • tzedek: the wild hunt • Elisheva Fox • Strange Horizons, November 7
  • Uncle Louie’s Farm • Skip Leeds • Pages Literary Journal, August 18
  • Virginia Dare Brooks • Francis Wesley Alexander • The Martian Wave III:1
  • The Whippoorwill • Lori R. Lopez • Spectral Realms 16
  • Who Came from the Woods • Lev Mirov • Strange Horizons, January 3
  • Wings • Jordan Hirsch • The Fairy Tale Magazine, February
  • Zombie Pirate Ghost • Michael H. Payne • Silver Blade 54

Nominations per publication (94 publications):
1   518 Publishing
2   Abyss & Apex
1   Altered Reality Magazine
1   Anathema: Spec from the Margins
1   Anthropology and Humanism
1   Antipodean SF
2   Aquarius Press
1 spacer Asimov’s Science Fiction
1   Augur Magazine
1   The Avenue
2   Black Spot Books
1   Boudin
2   Brigids Gate Press
1   California Quarterly
2   Carmina Magazine
2   Chiral Mad
1   Consilience
1   Corvid Queen
1   A Coup of Owls
1   Crone Girls Press
3   The Deadlands
3   Dimensionfold Publishing
7   Dreams and Nightmares
1   Egaeus Press
3   Eternal Haunted Summer
7   Eye to the Telescope
1   Failed Haiku
3   The Fairy Tale Magazine
1   Fantasy Magazine
1   a fine line
2   Fireside Fiction
1   Frost Zone Zine
1   The Future Fire
1   Ganache Media
1   Ghostlight
1   Hiraeth Publishing
2   HWA Poetry Showcase IX
1   The Horror Zine
1   Hybrid Sequence Media
1   Independent Legions Publishing
3   Jackanapes Press
1   JOURN-E
2   Kaleidotrope
4   Liquid Imagination
1   Listen to Her UNF
1   The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
1   Manawaker Studio
1   The Martian Wave
2   Mind’s Eye Publications
1   Mobius: The Journal of Social Change
1   Monthly Musings
1   Muddy River Poetry Review
1   The New Quarterly
1   The New Verse News
3   NewMyths.com
4   Nightmare Magzine
1   NonBinary Review
1   Not One of Us
1   Ohio Poetry Association
3   Otoliths
2   Pages Literary Journal
1   Paranoid Tree
1   Patreon
1   Poetry
1   Polar Starlight
4   Radon Journal
2   Random House
2   Reckoning
1   Riddled with Arrows
2   SavagePlanets
1   Scifaikuest
1   Seize the Press
1   SFPA Halloween Page
2   SFPA Poetry Contest
3   Silver Blade
1   Simultaneous Times
1   The Sirens Call
1   Solarpunk Magazine
1   Songs of Eretz Poetry Review
2   Space & Time Magazine
2   The Space Cadet Science Fiction Review
1   Spaceports & Spidersilk
3   Spectral Realms
1   The Sprawl Mag
9   Star*Line
1   Stephen A. DiBiase Poetry Prize
10   Strange Horizons
1   Synkroniciti
2   Uncanny
1   Unlikely Stories
1   Unnerving Magazine
1   Uppagus
2   Utopia Science Fiction
3   Weasel Press

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