The Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association’s juries have chosen the 2025 Rhysling Award finalists from the previously announced longlists. 

SHORT POEMS (50 FINALISTS)

• 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
• 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 • Star*Line 47.1
• 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
• Chronoverse • Jeffrey Allen Tobin • Star*Line 47.3
• Colony Xaxbara 4 • Kimberly Kuchar • The Space Cadet Science Fiction Review 2
• Dodging the Bullet • Lisa M. Bradley • Small Wonders 13
• Fractal • Jack Cooper • Poetry News Spring 2024
• from Venus, to Mars • Cailín Frankland • Eye to the Telescope 55
• Generation Ship • Akua Lezli Hope • Star*Line 47.3
• Gravitation is Only a Theory • Alan Katerinsky • Wheeling, Yet Not Free (Written Image Press, July)
• 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
• 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
• Lost Ark • F. J. Bergman • Space & Time Magazine 146
• Make me a sandwich • Marisca Pichette • Star*Line 47.2
• 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 8/19/2024
• Our Combusted Planet • Brian Garrison • Dreams & Nightmares 126
• Pa(i)ncakes •  Dex Drury • Slay and Slay Again! (Sliced Up Press, July)
• 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 5/20/2024
• Space Psychiatry • Anna Cates • Star*Line 47.3
• Things to Remember When Descending Through the Ocean • Sandra Kasturi • Poetry Society Stanza Poetry Competition October
• the time travel body • Angel Leal • Radon Journal 8
• Transhumanist Classroom • Pedro Iniguez • Mexicans on the Moon: Speculative Poetry from a Possible Future (Space Cowboy Books, November)
• 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 9/16/2024
• We Carry Our Ghosts to the Stars • Richard Leis • Star*Line 47.3
• What Dragons Didn’t Do • Mary Soon Lee • Uppagus 6
• The Witch Recalls Her Craft • Angel Leal • Uncanny 60
• You Are a Monster • Beth Cato • Worlds of Possibility August 2024 Issue

LONG POEMS (25 FINALISTS)

• 9n Lives • Mary A. Turzillo • Eccentric Orbits 5 (Dimensionfold Publishing, October)
• The Blackthorn • Mary Soon Lee • Dreams & Nightmares 126
• Body Revolt • Casey Aimer • Strange Horizons 7/29/2024
• Change Your Mind • Gwendolyn Maia Hicks • Small Wonders 16
• 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
• The Fabulous Underwater Panther • Marsheila Rockwell • Blood Quantum & Other Hate Crimes (Fallen Tree Press, July)
• The Final Trick • Angela Liu • Strange Horizons 8/26/2024
• Giant Robot and His Person • Akua Lezli Hope • FIYAH 31
• The High Priestess Writes a Love Letter to The Magician • Ali Trotta • Uncanny 58
• The House of Mulberry Leaves • Ryu Ando • Crow & Cross Keys 2/7/2024
• In Graves Wood • Siân Thomas • Long Poem Magazine 32
• The Last Voyage: Island Relocation Program • Steve Wheat • Radon Journal 8
• Medicine For The Ailing Mortal, as Told in Seven Stories • Silvatiicus Riddle • The Fairy Tale Magazine 5/1/2024
• The Museum of Etymology • F.J. Bergman • Star*Line 47.3
• My Queens Last Gift • Adele Gardner • Dark Dead Things 3
• 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
• Shattered Souls at Heaven’s Gate • Ayòdéjì Israel • The Deadlands 36
• Star Stitcher • A. J. Van Belle • Haven Spec 13
• Watching • Vonnie Winslow Crist • Shivers, Scares, and Chills (Dark Owl Publishing, October)
• We Makes It • J.H. Siegal • Penumbric April 2024 Issue
• What Beautiful Heavens These • Kaya Skovdatter • Strange Horizons 12/23/2024
• When it Really is Just the Wind, and Not a Furious Vexation • Kyle Tran Myrhe • Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day 8/6/2024