The candidates for the Science Fiction Poetry Association’s 2015 Rhysling Award have been announced.
The Rhysling Award is given in two categories. “Best Long Poem” is for poems of 50+ lines, or for prose poems, of 500+ words. “Best Short Poem” is limited to poems of no more than 49 lines, or prose poems of no more than 499 words.
The award candidates are poems published in 2014.
| Short Poems (59 poems) |
| “Worlds Apart” • Mary Alexandra Agner • Polu Texni, March |
| “Main Sequence” • Saira Ali • Mythic Delirium, July |
| “The Delusion of Trees” • David Barber • Eye to the Telescope 14 |
| “Pauli Neutrino Telescope, Antarctica, July 14, 2033” • David Barber • Star*Line 37.2 |
| “Lost” • F.J. Bergmann • Eye to the Telescope 14 |
| “Science Fiction (with apologies to Marianne Moore’s “Poetry”)” • Ruth Berman • Dreams and Nightmares 98 |
| “Maybe Waldo Had Syphilis” • Matt Betts • Tigershark 5 |
| “The Cuckoo’s Bride” • Robert Borski • Dreams and Nightmares 97 |
| “Septuagenarian Flashback” • Bruce Boston • Silver Blade 24 |
| “There Are Signs of Faerie Everywhere” • G. Sutton Breiding • facebook.com/gsuttonbreiding 7/5/14 |
| “Stalking a Wizard” • Michael Canfield • The Pedestal Magazine 74 |
| “Dragon to Centauri” • Beth Cato • Space & Time Magazine 121 |
| “A Work in Progress” • G.O. Clark • Asimov’s Science Fiction, June |
| “Short Forms” • David Clink • Asimov’s Science Fiction, September |
| “After hours at the op shop” • P.S. Cottier • Eureka Street 24:10 |
| “Keziah (Nahab) Mason” • Cardinal Cox • Codex Lilith (pamphlet) |
| “Neuroanatomy Practical” • Tim Craven • Moon City Review 2014 |
| “I Imagine My Mother’s Death” • Bryan D. Dietrich • The Pedestal Magazine 74 |
| “Stephen Hawking” • Bryan D. Dietrich • The Cresset LXXIX:2 |
| “Beware of the Dog” • James S. Dorr • Grievous Angel, 9/11/14 |
| “A Universe” • Timons Esaias • Polu Texni, May |
| “The Peal Divers” • Francesca Forrest • Strange Horizons, 3/17/14 |
| “Extinction” • Joshua Gage • Star*Line 37.3 |
| “Elephants in the Alley” • Terry A. Garey • Cascadia Subduction Zone 3:3 |
| “It’s a Universal Picture” • Gwynne Garfinkle • Mythic Delirium 1.1 |
| “Field Notes” • Lola Haskins • Analog, November |
| “Before You Were a Vampire” • irving • Star*Line 37.3 |
| “After the Changeling Incantation” • John Philip Johnson • Strange Horizons, 2/3/14 |
| “After ‘Dark Matter’” • Herb Kauderer • The Book of Answers (Written Image) |
| “After ‘Signs You’re in Trouble’” • Herb Kauderer • The Book of Answers (Written Image) |
| “Heere ther be Gods” • David Kopaska-Merkel • Star*Line 37.4 |
| “Attic Dust” • Sandi Leibowitz • Silver Blade 21 |
| “Dualities” • Rose Lemberg • Mythic Delirium, October |
| “Landwork” • Rose Lemberg • Goblin Fruit, Spring |
| “Cinderella’s Breast” • Sandra Lindow • Archaeopteryx: The Newman Journal of Ideas 2 |
| “daydreaming” • Lauren McBride • Star*Line 37.3 |
| “Common Language” • Elizabeth R. McClellan • 2014 SFPA Poetry Contest |
| “The Time of Last Scattering” • Lynette Mejía • Star*Line 37.1 |
| “Marvel Word Problems” • P. Andrew Miller • Drawn to Marvel, eds. Marta Ferguson & Bryan Dietrich (Minor Arcana Press) |
| “Odyssey” • Kim L. Neidigh • Outposts of Beyond, July |
| “Queen of Cups” • Adrienne J. Odasso • inkscrawl 7 |
| “Morning Sickness” • Aimee Ogden • Asimov’s Science Fiction, Oct/Nov |
| “At the Dark Matter Zoo” • Simon Petrie • The Stars Like Sand: Australian Speculative Poetry, eds. P.S. Cottier & Tim Jones (Interactive Press) |
| “The Devil Riding Your Back” • Gabby Reed • Liminality 1 |
| “Dark Energized” • Ann K. Schwader • Star*Line 37.3 |
| “Leap” • Grace Seybold • Star*Line 37.1 |
| “Shutdown” • Marge Simon • Qualia Nous, ed. Michael Bailey (Written Backwards) |
| “The Rat Queen” • Noel Sloboda • Pembroke Magazine 46 |
| “Revelation” • Robin Spriggs • The Untold Tales of Ozman Droom (Anomalous Books) |
| “Intimate Universes” • Jason Sturner • Tales of the Talisman 10:1 |
| “A Bulgakov Headache” • Sonya Taaffe • Stone Telling 10 |
| “You Are Here” • Bogi Takács • Strange Horizons, 11/24/14 |
| “Sonnet 65,000,000 BC” • Mary Turzillo • Star*Line 37.1 |
| “Dark Matter Dark Mind” • Peter C. Venable • Parody 3:1 |
| “The Old Time Traveler’s Song” • William John Watkins • Asimov’s Science Fiction, Jan |
| “Cthulhu partners” • Greer Woodward • Halloween Haiku II, ed. Lester Smith (Popcorn Press) |
| “Dare I Keep the Body” • Stephanie Wytovich • Mourning Jewelry (Raw Dog Screaming) |
| “Eventually, You Become Immune” • Stephanie Wytovich • Jamais Vu 1 |
| “Remembering Jean-Paul Sartre” • Jeffrey Zable • Chrome Baby, Bairn 27 |
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| Long Poems (40 poems) |
| “Nothing Writes to Disk” • Kythryne Aisling • Stone Telling 11 |
| “Dearly Beloved” • Mike Allen • Postscripts to Darkness 5 |
| “Six Things the Owl Said” • Megan Arkenberg • Goblin Fruit, Spring |
| “100 Reasons to Have Sex with an Alien” • F.J. Bergmann • 2014 SFPA Poetry Contest |
| “Sea Monster Objects to Term ‘Kaiju’” • Robert Borski • Dreams and Nightmares 99 |
| “Death of the Crossing Guard” • Bruce Boston • Jamais Vu 1 |
| “Una Canción de Keys” • Lisa Bradley • Strange Horizons, 2/24/14 |
| “Rule 44” • Robert Payne Cabeen • Fearworms: Selected Poems (Fanboy Comics) |
| “The Perfect Library” • David Clink • If the World Were to Stop Spinning (Piquant Press) |
| “And I’ll Dance With You Yet, My Darling” • C.S.E. Cooney • Stone Telling 10 |
| “Drawn to Marvel” • Bryan D. Dietrich • Drawn to Marvel, eds. Marta Ferguson & Bryan Dietrich (Minor Arcana Press) |
| “Spelling ‘For Worse’” • Peg Duthie • Goblin Fruit, Winter |
| “Star Song” • Kendall Evans • Analog, July/August |
| “House of Jaguar” • Serena Fusek • Star*Line 37.4 |
| “Row Your Boat Ashore” • Adele Gardner • Songs of Eretz Poetry E-zine 2:2 |
| “Hollow Beats the Night” • Delbert R. Gardner • Songs of Eretz Poetry E-zine 2:1 |
| “The Alchemy” • Neile Graham • Goblin Fruit, Winter |
| “Roman Shade” • April Grant • Strange Horizons, 1/27/14 |
| “Mining Planet” • John Grey • Chrome Baby, Bairn 19 |
| “Saline to Atlantis” • Herb Kauderer • The Book of Answers (Written Image) |
| “Words Not Red” • Herb Kauderer • The Book of Answers (Written Image) |
| “Said Rapunzel to the Wolf” • Sally Rosen Kindred • Goblin Fruit, Winter |
| “Encounter While Waiting for Transport” • David C. Kopaska-Merkel & W. Gregory Stewart • New Myths 26 |
| “Numbers” • Mary Soon Lee • Star*Line 37.2 |
| “The Matter of the Horses” • Mary Soon Lee • Ideomancer 13:4 |
| “The Virgin and the Unicorn” • Mary Soon Lee • Star*Line 37.1 |
| “Braiding” • Sandi Leibowitz • Niteblade, March |
| “The Santa Claus Triptych” • Sandra J. Lindow • Star*Line 37.1 |
| “Butterfly Effect” • John C. Mannone • Tupelo Press 30/30 project |
| “The Man Who Saw the World” • Alessandro Manzetti • Venus Intervention (Kipple Officina Libraria) |
| “A Summoning of Monsters” • Jack Hollis Marr • Liminality 1 |
| “Concerning the Curious Burial Customs of the Witches of Megaira” • Elizabeth R. McClellan • Interfictions 4 |
| “Demands” • Mari Ness • Goblin Fruit, Fall |
| “The Memory-Thief” • Adrienne J. Odasso & Dominik Parisien • Ideomancer 13:2 |
| “Ode to Yon Glizan Orbs, or No?” • Terrie Leigh Relf • Tales of the Talisman 9:4 |
| “The Swooning” • Mark Rich • The Cascadia Subduction Zone 4:4 |
| “Principles of Entropy” • Shelagh M. Rowan-Legg • Abyss & Apex, January |
| “Eolian Conscientia” • Marge Simon & Mary Turzillo • Sweet Poison (Dark Renaissance Press) |
| “Let the Fire Decide” • Sarah Wright • Tales of the Talisman 9:3 |
| “Conservation of Energy” • Alvaro Zinos-Amaro • Apex Magazine, August |
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