The 2011 Rhysling Vote Breakdown
Short Poems First Published in 2010 (56 poems)Members are allowed to vote for and rank three poems per division. First choices are given 5 points, second 3 points, and third 1 point. 91 members voted.
Poem | First | Second | Third | Total |
Greg Beatty • “On Keeping Pluto a Planet” | 3 | 3 | 18 | |
F. J. Bergmann • “Chronomancy” | 1 | 3 | ||
F. J. Bergmann • “Cultural Climate” | 2 | 2 | ||
Bruce Boston • “Lizards and Wind” | 3 | 1 | 10 | |
Rachel Manija Brown • “Minotaur Noir” | 2 | 1 | 3 | 18 |
Shelly Bryant • “Compelling Outward Flight” | 1 | 2 | 7 | |
Rosalind Casey • "Patience" | 1 | 1 | ||
G. O. Clark • “Putting Off the Past” | 1 | 6 | 2 | 25 |
C.S.E. Cooney • "Dogstar Men" | 2 | 5 | 2 | 27 |
Jennifer Crow • “Hoarding Light” | 2 | 10 | ||
Jennifer Crow • “An Incomplete Map of Death” | 2 | 10 | ||
Jennifer Crow • “We Took Our Gods” | 2 | 1 | 7 | |
Amal El-Mohtar • “Peach-Creamed Honey” | 3 | 4 | 2 | 29 |
Kendall Evans • “Here We Are/Implied in the Shadows/Cast Upon Saturn’s Atmosphere” | 2 | 10 | ||
Angel Favazza • “Call of the Wired” | 2 | 10 | ||
Michael Fosburg • “My Own Ending” | 2 | 1 | 7 | |
Melissa Frederick • “Volcanoes on Io” | 1 | 3 | 1 | 15 |
Joshua Gage • “The Shoemaker’s Daughters” | 1 | 3 | 8 | |
Lyn C. A. Gardner • “Midnight Posture” | 3 | 3 | ||
Jaimee Hills • “Tonight the Character of Death Will Be Played by Brad Pitt” | 1 | 3 | ||
Janis Ian • “Welcome Home (The Nebulas Song)” eliminated—first published 2009 |
7 | 3 | 2 | 46 |
David C. Kopaska-Merkel • “A few stops on the journey” | 1 | 1 | 2 | 10 |
Geoffrey A. Landis • “Rondel for Apollo 11” | 1 | 1 | 4 | 15 |
B. J. Lee • “The Legend of the Flying Dutchman” | 1 | 3 | 14 | |
Rose Lemberg • “Twin-born” | 2 | 1 | 13 | |
Sarah Lindsay • “Planet Anhedonia” | 3 | 1 | 1 | 19 |
C. S. MacCath • “A Path Without Bones” | 1 | 1 | 6 | |
W. S. Merwin • “The Chain to Her Leg” | 2 | 2 | 5 | 21 |
Shweta Narayan • “Cave-smell” | 1 | 3 | 8 | |
Naylor, Ruth • "What Mighty Force?" | 0 | |||
Adrienne J. Odasso • “The Ghosts of Moody Street” | 1 | 1 | ||
Stephanie Parent • “Tinkerbell” | 2 | 2 | 8 | |
Juan Manuel Perez • “Human Fighting Is Illegal” | 1 | 2 | 8 | 19 |
Juan Manuel Perez • “El Codex Chupacabra” eliminated—first published 2009 |
16 | 80 | ||
Kelly Rose Pflug-Back • “My Bones’ Cracked Abacus” | 3 | 3 | 18 | |
Karen A. Romanko • “Binary Creation Myth” | 4 | 2 | 2 | 28 |
R. Paul Sardanas • “The Black Lotus” | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 |
Ann K. Schwader • “The Darkness Whispers (Flagstaff, AZ 1930)” | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
Ann K. Schwader • “Of Ithaca & Ice” | 2 | 3 | 2 | 21 |
Ann K. Schwader • “Quiet In Her Mind” | 3 | 1 | 18 | |
Ann K. Schwader • “Scrapyard Outpost” | 1 | 2 | 2 | 13 |
Ann K. Schwader • “The Witch in Your Mirror” | 1 | 5 | 20 | |
Marge Simon • “Sightings” | 3 | 3 | 1 | 25 |
Robin Spriggs • “Red Magic” | 2 | 10 | ||
Sonya Taaffe • “In the Earth in Those Days” | 3 | 3 | 1 | 25 |
Sonya Taaffe • “Anakatabasis” | 1 | 2 | 1 | 12 |
Sonya Taaffe • “By the Dog” | 1 | 1 | ||
Sonya Taaffe • “Domovoi, I Came Back!” | 2 | 1 | 7 | |
Nancy Ellis Taylor • “Genetic Memory Comes to Me” | 1 | 1 | 6 | |
Richard L. Tierney • “Yuletide” | 1 | 1 | 6 | |
Brian Trent • “A Holiday in Necropolis” | 2 | 2 | 8 | |
Patrice M. Wilson • “Images in the Dark” | 1 | 3 | ||
Stephen M. Wilson • “Imagined World” | 4 | 12 | ||
Stephen M. Wilson • “I, Cannibal …” | 1 | 1 | 6 | |
Stephen M. Wilson • “The Conjuror” | 4 | 20 | ||
Jane Yolen • “The Gospel of the Rope” | 1 | 6 | 1 | 24 |
TOTAL VOTES | 91 | 82 | 78 |
Long Poems First Published in 2010 (37 poems)
POEM | First | Second | Third | Total |
Mary Alexandra Agner • “Tertiary” | 2 | 1 | 1 | 14 |
Tara Barnett • “Star Reservation” | 5 | 3 | 2 | 36 |
F. J. Bergmann • “Occidental” | 2 | 2 | 2 | 18 |
Robert Borski • “The Pantheon” | 2 | 2 | ||
Robert Borski • “Bubba” | 4 | 4 | ||
Bruce Boston • “Dark Rains Here and There” | 11 | 3 | 2 | 66 |
Lisa Bradley • “The Haunted Girl” | 4 | 4 | 2 | 34 |
C. S. E. Cooney • “Ere One Can Say It Lightens” | 1 | 3 | 1 | 15 |
C. S. E. Cooney • “The Sea King’s Second Bride” | 8 | 9 | 4 | 71 |
Oscar L. Crawford • “My Wings Are Still Forming” | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 |
Malcolm Deeley • “On the Platform” | 2 | 1 | 7 | |
James S. Dorr • “Eight Top Vampire Hobbies” | 3 | 8 | 2 | 41 |
Amal El Mohtar • “The Winter Tree” | 7 | 3 | 24 | |
Amal El Mohtar and Jessica P. Wick • “Courting Song for Selkies” | 4 | 4 | 4 | 36 |
Hugh Fox and Eric Greinke • “Beyond Our Control” | 2 | 10 | ||
Robert Frazier • “Wreck-Diving the Starship” | 6 | 6 | 3 | 51 |
Joshua Gage • “Rats” | 3 | 1 | 4 | 22 |
Lyn C. A. Gardner • “Homecoming” | 1 | 2 | 4 | 15 |
Theodora Goss • “Ravens” | 4 | 2 | 6 | 32 |
Samantha Henderson • “The Gabriel Hound” | 3 | 2 | 2 | 23 |
irving • “Until the Light Fades” | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 |
Deborah P Kolodji and W. Gregory Stewart • “String Stories” | 2 | 1 | 3 | 16 |
Rich Magahiz • “13 Ways of Looking at a Balrog” | 1 | 3 | ||
Elizabeth R. McClellan • “Anything So Utterly Destroyed” | 3 | 1 | 1 | 19 |
Jaime Lee Moyer • “A poem for no one at all” | 1 | 1 | 8 | |
Jaime Lee Moyer • “Rain Face” | 1 | 1 | ||
Kurt Newton • “The Cemetery” | 3 | 3 | ||
Steven L. Peck • “The Five Known Sutras of Mechanical Man” | 3 | 1 | 2 | 20 |
W. C. Roberts •“Stargazers” | 2 | 1 | 1 | 14 |
Charles Saplak • “Dragonskull: Vision of Result” | 2 | 3 | 19 | |
Robin Spriggs “Blatta Infernalis” | 3 | 1 | 16 | |
W. Gregory Stewart and David Kopaska-Merkel • “Seasons of the Worm” | 1 | 1 | 8 | |
J. E. Stanley • “crossroads” | 1 | 1 | ||
Richard L. Tierney • “Autumn Chill” | 1 | 1 | 2 | 10 |
Catherynne M. Valente • “Red Engines” | 2 | 4 | 5 | 27 |
Steve Vernon • “Barren: A Chronicle in Futility” | 1 | 3 | 8 | |
Phoebe Wilcox • “A More Significant Sun” | 1 | 2 | 1 | 12 |
TOTAL VOTES | 83 | 78 | 75 |