The Science Fiction Poetry Association has finalized its 2017 Rhysling Award candidates.
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.
SFPA’s F.J. Bergmann confirmed this year’s entries broke all the new records set last year for the highest number of nominated poems the award has ever had (93 short and 60 long), coming from the longest list of publications, 77. Strange Horizons and Star*Line (SFPA’s own newsletter) tied for publishing the most nominees, 11.
| Short Poems (93 poems) |
| “3d printer” • Francis Wesley Alexander • Scifaikuest November |
| “Adolescence” • Ken Poyner • Star*Line 39.4 |
| “After” • Herb Kauderer • Asimov’s SF November/December |
| “Always the Black and White Keys” • Corrine deWinter • Horror Writers Association Poetry Showcase Vol. III, ed. David E. Cowen |
| “Annie&Diana/One Canoe” • Shari Caplan • Nonbinary Review 11: Anne of Green Gables |
| “Antagonist” • F.J. Bergmann • Spectral Realms 5 |
| “appendage sale” • Susan Burch • Star*Line 39.2 |
| “The Architect of Bonfires” • Tonya Liburd • Space & Time 127 |
| “The Ash Manifesto” • Rose Lemberg • Strange Horizons 10 October |
| “At the Robot National Convention” • Alan Ira Gordon • Star*Line 39.3 |
| “The Bird Prince” • John W. Sexton • Faerie Magazine Summer |
| “The birds forget to sing” • Carl Mayfield • Abbey 147 |
| “Black Bull of Norroway” • Jane Yolen • Goblin Fruit Winter |
| “Bones Knock in the House” • Mary McMyne • Rose Red Review 18 |
| “Bottle Cast Upon A Dry Sea” • G.O. Clark • Asimov’s Science Fiction February |
| “The Box of Dust and Monsters” • Beth Cato • Devilfish Review 17 |
| “A Bug in the System” • Anton Cancre • Quick Shivers about Bugs (Cosmonomic Multimedia) |
| “Build a Rocketship Contest: Alternative Class A Instructions and Suggestions” • Wendy Rathbone • Asimov’s SF January |
| “Christmas on Mars” • Carolyn M. Hinderliter • Scifaikuest Vol. XIII, No. 4 |
| “Classification of Folktales” • Margaret Wack • Strange Horizons |
| “The Dark between the Stars” • G.O. Clark • Star*Line 39.4 |
| “Death Rides USAir At Night” • Jane Yolen • Parody 5:1 |
| “Descent of the Composer” • Airea D. Matthews • Poem-a-Day October 24, Academy of American Poets |
| “Doppelgänger and the Ghost” • Lev Mirov • Eye to the Telescope 22 |
| “Dorothy Delivered” • Kathleen A. Lawrence • Altered Reality Magazine 1 |
| “Exotic Heads Trimmed Neatly” • John Reinhart • Eye to the Telescope 21 |
| “Falling (A Part)” • Alexandra Erin • medium.com June 8 |
| “The Fantasy of Hans Christian Andersen” • KH Van Berkum • Strange Horizons February 8 |
| “Feles Alieni Vere Sunt” • Neile Graham • Devilfish Review 17 |
| “*For Quick Sale*” • Greer Woodward • Lupine Lunes, ed. Lester Smith (Popcorn Press) |
| “Foreign Policy” • David Barber • Star*Line 39.3 |
| “The Frog” • K. Cassandra O’Malley • The Well of Changes (Bag Person Press) [reprint permission unavailable] |
| “George Tecumseh Sherman’s Ghosts” • Marge Simon • Silver Blade 32 |
| “The Genius” • Sara Backer • Mithila Review 3 |
| “The Giantess’s Dream” • Ada Hoffman • Twisted Moon 1 |
| “Godzilla vs. King Kong” • James S. Dorr • Dreams and Nightmares 103 |
| “History Teacher” • Gary Every • Star*Line 39.4 |
| “How far does night have to fall?” • F.J. Bergmann • The Future Fire 38 |
| “I Left My Heart in San Francisco. I Left Yours Somewhere in Colorado …” • Matt Betts • Underwater Fistfight (Raw Dog Screaming Press) |
| “Ink” • Akua Lezli Hope • Yellow Chair Review, Horror Issue, October |
| “Invocation of Diana” • K.A. Opperman • Eternal Haunted Summer Summer |
| “The Last Woman on Earth” • Mary Stone • Amethyst Arsenic 6:1 |
| “Learning the History of War” J.J. Steinfeld • Star*Line 39.3 |
| “Less than Human” • Marge Simon • You, Human (Dark Regions Press) |
| “The Long Run” • Neil Gaiman • Uncanny November/December |
| “Loose String” E. Kristin Anderson • Coe Review 47.1 |
| “Love in the Time of Apocalypse” • Ann Thornfield-Long • Silver Blade 31 |
| “Marginalia on Eiruvin 45b” • Bogi Takács • Bracken Magazine 2 |
| “Martian Garden” • John Philip Johnson • The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction July/August 2016 |
| “Memorial (for Jonathan Franzen)” • Tim Jones • New Sea Land (Makaro Press) |
| “The Memory Machines” • Jane Williams • The Pedestal Magazine 79 |
| “My Corpse My Groom” • Ashley Dioses • The Audient Void: A Journal of Weird Fiction and Dark Fantasy 1 |
| “My Pet Alien” • Dennis Caswell• Rattle Fall |
| “A Natural History of Snow” • David Clink • The Role of Lightning in Evolution (Kelp Queen Press, CZP) |
| “Nothing Goes Away” • A.J. Odasso • The New England Review of Books |
| “Of My Wounds, There Are Many” • Stephanie M. Wytovich • Sanitarium Magazine 48 |
| “The Old Ones gather” • Terrie Leigh Relf • Scifaikuest May |
| “Orpheus” • Ace G. Pilkington • The Horror Zine June |
| “Past Imperfect” • Deborah L. Davitt • Poetry Quarterly Summer |
| “The persecution of witches” • Ali Trotta • Uncanny 11 |
| “The Phosphorescent Fungi” • D. L. Myers • Spectral Realms 4 |
| “Propagation” • Layla Al-Bedawi • Strange Horizons 18 April |
| “Quack” • Neal Wilgus • Dreams and Nightmares 104 |
| “Quasar” • Triin Paja • Cleaver 14 |
| “Returning” • Mary Soon Lee • The Open Mouse May 6 |
| “Richard Feynman’s Commute” • John Weswick • The Were-Traveler December 21 |
| “Riding the Dark” B.J. Lee • Frostfire Worlds February |
| “Robot Testimonial Z” • Margaret Rhee • Mission at Tenth |
| “Rusalka” • Jane Yolen • Mythic Delirium 3.1 |
| “Sappho and the Woman of Starlight” • John W. Sexton • Eternal Haunted Summer Winter |
| “Selkie” • E. Kristin Anderson • Faerie Magazine Summer |
| “Skin” • Alice Fanchiang • Liminality 10 |
| “Song of the Encantado” • Jeremy Paden • Apex Magazine 83 |
| “Space Opera” • Vince Gotera • Altered Reality Magazine 1 |
| “The Sparrows in Her Hair” • Hester J. Rook • Strange Horizons 18 July |
| “The Spook Tree” • Cindy O’Quinn • Blood Moon Rising Magazine 66 |
| “Star Dust” • Josh Brown • Illumen 25 |
| “Stellar Quake” • John C. Mannone • The New England Journal of Medicine 375:1305 |
| “Supercomputer Spends the Night” • Danielle Zaccagnino • Weirderary 4 |
| “Sutekh From The Throne” • Denise Dumars • Horror Writers Association Poetry Showcase Vol. III, ed. David E. Cowen |
| “Terran Mythology” Shannon Connor Winward • Analog Science Fiction and Fact October |
| “This Rat” • Anne Carly Abad • Chrome Baby 48 |
| “To Live In The Zombie Apocalypse” • Burlee Vang • Poem-A-Day December 20 |
| “To the Girl Who Ran Through Crop Circles” • Karen J. Weyant • Strange Horizons 18 August |
| “Until Dawn” • Michael H. Hanson • Poetic Hustles 2 (Black Freighter Productions) |
| “La Villa de Sirenia” • Jack Ralls • Star*Line 39.4 |
| “Well, Water, Stars” • Adele Gardner • Silver Blade 32 |
| “Why Elephants No Longer Communicate in Greek” • Timons Esaias • Why Elephants No Longer Communicate in Greek (Concrete Wolf) |
| “Widening Gyre” • A.J. Odasso • Not A Drop anthology (Beautiful Dragons Press) |
| “Witch Lord of the Hunt” • Ashley Dioses • Eternal Haunted Summer Spring |
| “The woman on the bus encounters time dilation” • Daniel R. Jones • Altered Reality Magazine |
| “World’s Tiniest Human” • Muriel Leung • The Adroit Journal 16 |
| Long Poems (60 poems) |
| “Absentation” • Lesley Wheeler • Thrush Poetry Journal November |
| “Adam’s Rendezvous with Dante” • John C. Mannone • Last Darn Rites Anthology (Whitesboro Writers, 2016) |
| “Alice-Ecila” • Steph Post • Nonbinary Review 10: Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass |
| “At Issue, the Miramo” • Ken Poyner • Dreams and Nightmares 103 |
| “Best of” • Sarah Ann Winn • Found Poetry Review: Bowietry |
| “The Blind Elephants of Io” • Karen Bovenmyer • Shortest Day, Longest Night (Arachne Press) |
| “The Butterflies of Traxl IV” • John Reinhart • The Pedestal Magazine 79 |
| “The Chinese Pirate Ching Shih Plays Go With a Hooded Opponent” • Kendall Evans • Abyss & Apex 59 |
| “Cobblestone Dragon” • Herb Kauderer • Polu Texni July 11 |
| “Dame Evergreen” • Rebecca Buchanan • Faerie Magazine Winter |
| “The Dark Lord’s Diary” • Lee S. Hawke • Star*Line 39.1 |
| “Data Mine” • Alexandra Erin • medium.com October 24 |
| “The Death of the Horse” • Beth Cato • Remixt Magazine 1:8 |
| “Defender Prime” • A.C. Spahn • Outposts of Beyond July |
| “Elegy for Iain Banks” • Vince Gotera • Star*Line 39.3 |
| “Exploratory Colony 454—15th May, 2052” • Lore Bernier • Eye to the Telescope 20 |
| “First Lesson” • Mary Soon Lee • Silver Blade 30 |
| “For Lonnie” • Holly Walrath • Liminality 9 |
| “Further” • F.J. Bergmann • Lovecraft eZine 38 |
| “Getting Winterized: A Guide To Winter Living” • Elizabeth R. McClellan • Angels of the Meanwhile April |
| “god-date” • Brandon O’Brien • Uncanny 9 |
| “The Great Unknown” • Bruce Boston and Alessandro Manzetti • Illumen Spring |
| “Houses of the living, houses of the dead” • Jenny Blackford • Ipswich Poetry Feast International Poetry Competition, Highly Commended |
| “I Will Be Your Grave” • Tlotlo Tsamaase • Strange Horizons 7 November |
| “Im Wald” • Sandi Leibowitz • Mythic Delirium 3.2 |
| “In Defence of Science” • David Clink • The Role of Lightning in Evolution (Kelp Queen Press, CZP) |
| “The Inconceivable Shape” • Simon Smith • Chrome Baby 45 |
| “Interview with a 22nd-Century Sex Worker” • Darren Lipman • Strange Horizons 4 July |
| “The Journeymaker to Keddar (II)” • Rose Lemberg • Marginalia to Stone Bird (Aqueduct Press) |
| “Legend of the Albino Pythons and the Bloody Child” • Bruce Boston & Alessandro Manzetti • Polu Texni 18 April |
| “The Leviathans of Europa” • Christina Sng • Polu Texni 10 October |
| “The Lies You Learned” • S. Qiouyi Lu • Liminality 7 |
| “little stomach” • Charlotte Geater • Strange Horizons 26 September |
| “Luminous Decay” • Robert Frazier • Dreams and Nightmares 103 |
| “Morning During Migration Season” • Beth Cato • Star*Line 39.4 |
| “Not Like This” • Mary Soon Lee • Apex Magazine August 4 |
| “Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas Lost at Sea, 1527” • Lisa M. Bradley • Strange Horizons 3 October [reprint permission declined] |
| “Phoenix Fire, Tabula Rasa” • Kim Eun-byeol • Stone Telling 13 |
| “The Poem Gardens of the Ascari” • Rohinton Daruwala • Strange Horizons 13 June |
| “Portrait of the Captain with Small Waiting Objects” • T.D. Walker • Recompose 2 |
| “Revolution” • Holly Lyn Walrath • Abyss & Apex 58 |
| “The Rime of the Eldritch Mariner” • Adam Bolivar • Spectral Realms 5 |
| “The Robot by the Fireplace” • Ken Poyner • Eye to the Telescope 20 |
| “Rose Child” • Theodora Goss • Uncanny 13 |
| “Salome’s New King” • Terry Miller • Devolution Z: The Horror Magazine 10 |
| “Sargasso Sea” • A.J. Odasso • Remixt Magazine 1:1 |
| “Spoiler Alert” • Matt Betts • Underwater Fistfight (Raw Dog Screaming Press) |
| “The Starlet Who Married A Monster” • Robert Borski • Lupine Lunes, ed. Lester Smith (Popcorn Press) |
| “Storm Miners” • Deborah L. Davitt • Blue Monday Review August |
| “Surviving a Canadian Poem” • David Clink • The Role of Lightning in Evolution (Kelp Queen Press, CZP) |
| “Talk to the Machines” • Johan Jönsson • Dreams and Nightmares 104 |
| “Thirteen Ways to See a Ghost” • Shannon Connor Winward • 2016 SFPA Poetry Contest |
| “To the weaver, from the woman who slew Bakunawa” • M. Sereno • Stone Telling 13 |
| “Väinämöinen Sings” • Jennifer Lawrence • Eternal Haunted Summer Winter |
| “We Shall Meet in the Star-Spackled Ruins” • Wendy Rathbone • 2016 SFPA Poetry Contest |
| “Were-” • Naru Dames Sundar • Liminality Summer |
| “Werewolf” • K.A. Opperman • Spectral Realms 4 |
| “What Wants Us” • Karolina Fedyk • Star*Line 39.1 |
| “When Coyote Called Down the Stars” • Aaron Vlek • The Were-Traveler December 21 |
| “When the Gunman Comes” • Edith Hope Bishop • Mythic Delirium 2.3 |
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