The 2005 Rhysling Awards
Short Poem Category First Place Second Place Third Place |
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Long Poem Category
First Place Second Place Third Place |
2005 SFPA Grand Master Award: Robert
Frazier
Winner Biographies and Award Photos
The 2005 Rhysling Anthology:
The Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Poetry of 2004
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Editor and Rhysling Chair: Drew Morse $9.95 + $3 U.S. shipping; $6 Canada; $10 international). E-mail the treasurer for postage costs on multiple copies. Payable by PayPal to SFPATreasurer@gmail.com |
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Short Poems First Published in 2004
Mike Allen The Asteroid Painter Dreams
and Nightmares 67, June 2004.
Mike Allen The Best of All Probable Worlds Dreams
and Nightmares 66, February 2004.
Mike Allen Strange Cargo Strange Horizons, December
6, 2004.
Greg Beatty No Ruined Lunar City Abyss & Apex 11
October 2004.
Ruth Berman Seating Chart The Magazine
of Speculative Poetry 6.4, Autumn 2004.
Leah Bobet Her Hero Strange Horizons 3/22/04.
Bruce Boston, Heavy Weather Asimov’s Science
Fiction 28.8,
August 2004.
Judith Boyer I am the Ugly Stepsister Dreams
and Nightmares 68, July 2004.
G.O. Clark Family Tree The Pedestal Magazine 25, December
2004.
Jennifer de Guzman Carnival Strange Horizons 1/19/04.
Roger Dutcher Bolts of Memory Dreams and
Nightmares 66,
February 2004.
John Garrison Her Master’s Whereabouts Fables 7.3,
Autumn 2004.
John Grey Wizard Turns His Wife into a Frog Star*Line 27.3,
May/June 2004.
Marci Rae Johnson Red Shirt Full Unit Hookup 5, Spring
2004.
Wesley Lambert Six Breaths Hadrosaur Tales, March 2004.
Robin M. Mayhall Mother of Atlantis Strange
Horizons 8/32/04.
Pam McNew Rural Blessings Strange Horizons 11/15/04.
David Memmott The Oculist Builds Glass Eyes to Refocus His Grief The
Magazine of Speculative Poetry 6.3, Spring 2004.
Joy Oestreicher To Catch the Light Star*Line 27.6,
Nov/Dec 2004.
Terrie Leigh Relf A Poet On Board Illumen 1, October
2004.
Thomas D. Reynolds How to Survive on a Distant Planet Strange
Horizons 5/3/04.
Karen A. Romanko Witch, You Say In Raven’s
Runes (Sam’s Dot Publishing, 2004).
Charles M. Saplak The Submergence and Re-Emergence of John Starkey Dreams
and Nightmares 67, June 2004.
Ann K. Schwader Diving Xibalba Dreams and
Nightmares 68, July 2004.
Ann K. Schwader Rich & Strange Strange
Horizons 12/13/04.
Ann K. Schwader Through a Lens Vaguely (Mars ’03) Astropoetica 2.1,
Winter 2004.
Marge Simon The Seasons of Death The Pedestal
Magazine 21, April 2004.
Sonya Taaffe Daughters of the Ash-Tree Not
One of Us 32,
October 2004.
Sonya Taaffe An Eclipse of Raven Dreams
and Nightmares 68, July 2004.
Marcie Lynn Tentchoff The Spice of Life Decompositions, November
2004.
Mikal Trimm The Clockmaker’s Wife Star*Line 27.5,
Sept/Oct 2004.
roibeárd uí-neíll elementary scientific theism The
Magazine of Speculative Poetry 6.3, Spring 2004.
Scott H. Urban Plastered Raven Electrick, October
2004.
Catherynne M. Valente Gingerbread Music
of a Proto-Suicide (J*A*M Pie Press, 2004).
William John Watkins Thank-You Note to Sandra from the Anti-Matter
Universe Raven Electrick, June 2004.
Ian Watson In Praise of Spam Star*Line 27.2, March/April
2004.
Frida Westford Lamia Star*Line 27.5, Sept/Oct
2004.
Jane Yolen Musings About Seth Mythic Delirium 10, Winter/Spring
2004.
Long Poems First Published in 2004
Mike Allen The
Night Watchman Dreams His Rounds at the REM Sleep Factory Dreams
and Nightmares 69 October 2004.
Elizabeth Barrette The Poltergeist of Polaris The
Pedestal Magazine 24, October 2004.
Greg Beatty The Other Sleeping Beauties Strange
Horizons 11/22/04.
John Borneman Gargoyle Abyss & Apex 11, October
2004.
Bruce Boston The Changing of the Flesh Star*Line 27.4,
July/Aug 2004.
Christine Butterworth-McDermott Flounder Tales
of the Unanticipated 25, August 2004.
Joe R. Christopher Interiors and Exteriors In
The Classical World II (The Laocoön Press, 2004).
G.O. Clark The Smile Star*Line 27.2, March/April
2004.
Gary Every Azurite Mine Mythic
Delirium 11,
Summer/Fall 2004.
Larry Hammer Her First Affair Abyss & Apex 10,
July 2004.
L.A. Story Houry Blue Teardrops Illumen 1,
October 2004.
Charlee Jacob Craft and the Artificial Satellite In
The Desert (Dark Regions Press, 2004).
Andrew Joron and Robert Frazier Uncompressed Rituals Synergy
SF: New Science Fiction, Ed. George Zebrowski (Five
Star, 2004).
David C. Kopaska-Merkel Quietly Stealing the Sun Illumen 1,
October 2004.
F. Korn Winter The Iconoclast 87, 2004.
Claudia C. McGivney Homicide Wicked
Hollow 8, May 2004.
Tim Pratt Making Monsters Strange
Horizons 7/19/04.
Tim Pratt Soul Searching Strange
Horizons 7/12/04.
Harold Renisch Stirk ChiZine 21, 2004.
Heather Shaw Old Gods, New Rules Star*Line 27.3,
May/June 2004.
Mary Sheffield string theory The Magazine
of Speculative Poetry, 6.3 Spring 2004.
Catherynne M. Valente Vitia Capitalis Music
of a Proto-Suicide (J*A*M Pie Press, 2004).
Bud Webster Three Observations Upon the Discovery that Water
Once Existed on Mars Mythic Delirium 11, Summer/Fall 2004.
Short poem nominee not included in the anthology:
Derek Walcott [Time, that gnaws at bronze lions and dolphins] Poetry 184.5, Sept. 2004 and in The Prodigal (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004).