The 2013 Rhysling Awards

The 2013 Rhysling Votes

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. 53 SFPA members voted (not all of them voted in both long and short, and not all voted for all three places in either category).

Short Poems First Published in 2012 (70 poems)
AUTHOR
POEM
1st
2nd
3rd
Total
Adrienne J. Odasso Parallax 1     5
Alexandra Seidel Give Me Pluto   2   6
Amal El-Mohtar No Poisoned Comb 2 1 1.5 14.5
Andrea Blythe Red Riding Hood Remembers 1 1   8
Angel Favazza The Moon Tripped 2   1 11
Ann K. Schwader The Day that the Screens All Died 2 2 1 17
Anna Journey Biosentimentality        
B.J. Lee Dream Train   1   3
Brittany Warman The Mermaid's Winter Song 2   1 11
Bruce Boston The Music of a Dead World 1 3 2 16
C. W. Johnson Vigor Mortis 1     5
Carolyn Clink Zombie Poet 1 1 1 9
Carolyn M. Hinderliter dark figure   1   3
dan smith we play the lithophones 1 1   8
David Clink A sea monster tells his story 1     5
David Kopaska-Merkel Prince of Autumn 2   3 13
Dennis M. Lane Blind Obedience 2   1 11
Dominik Parisien In His Eighty-Second Year 1   2 7
Elizabeth Barrette LOL_ALIENS   3 2 11
Elizabeth Barrette She Walks in Light and Darkness 1 1 2 10
F. J. Bergmann Bliss        
F. J. Bergmann Claws 1 2   11
F. J. Bergmann Pavane        
Francesca Forrest Trumpet Vine Love Song   1   3
G.O. Clark 2001     2 2
Gemma Files Redcap   1   3
Gwynne Garfinkle bell, book and candle 1 1   8
Hel Gurney Hair        
Helen Marshall The Ghosts of Birds 1     5
Ian Hunter 10 Things To Know About Staple Removers   1   3
Jacie Ragan Conservatory of Shadows   1   3
James S. Dorr Burning Down Woods on a Snowy Evening 2 1 3 16
Jeanie Tomasko Regrets Only 1     5
Jeannine Hall Gailey Elemental     1 1
Joe Haldeman future history   2 2 8
John Garrison First Context        
John Philip Johnson Stairs Appear in a Hole Outside of Town 2 2 2 18
John McCarthy Stream of Dead Conscious        
Juan Manuel Perez I Am Chupacabra        
Kelly Rose Pflug-Back A Chorus Of Severed Pipes 1   2 7
Kurt MacPhearson Cognizance: a Triptych   2 2 8
LeRoy Gorman a rabid bat        
Lesley Wheeler Not a Metaphor but a Lifestyle   1   3
Linda D. Addison & Stephen M. Wilson Nocturne   1   3
Marcie Lynn Tentchoff Absent Fiends     2 2
Marge Simon Futurity's Shoelaces 3 2 1 22
Marge Simon and Michael Fosburg Beachhead        
Marsheila Rockwell Profane Inspiration        
Mary A. Turzillo Going Viral 3     15
Mary Alexandra Agner Something Super        
Megan Arkenberg Sister Philomela Heard the Voices of Angels 2 2 2.5 18.5
Merav Hoffman Zipcar in Heaven 1     5
Michael Fantina The Dark 2     10
Neil Ellman Rossum's Universal Robot Rebuts        
Noel Sloboda Self-Portrait as a Raccoon   1 1 4
Ruby Sara the woman who caught a storm in her hair   1   3
Sally Rosen Kindred Dear Fairy-Tale Mother        
Sally Rosen Kindred Tiger Lily Speaks 1 1 1 9
Samantha Henderson Victory Garden   1 1 4
Sandra Kasturi Roc   1 1 4
Sandra Kasturi The Moon 1 1 1 9
Sankar Roy This time of the year, a UFO casts its probes   1 1 4
Sofia Samatar Burnt Lyric 2 2   16
Sofia Samatar The Year of Disasters 1   1 6
Sonya Taaffe Blueshift 1   1 6
Stephen D. Rogers Perversity   2 1 7
Stephen M. Wilson Strangers In This Place 1 1 1 9
Terry A. Garey The Cat Star 5 1 1 29
Theodora Goss What Would You Think   1   3
Vajra Chandrasekera Jörmungandr   1   3
TOTAL VOTES
53
52
48



Long Poems First Published in 2012 (40 poems)
AUTHOR
POEM
1st
2nd
3rd
Total
Adele Gardner Rockabye   2   6
Adele Gardner The Time Traveler's Weekend 4 2 2 28
Adrienne J. Odasso The Still Point of the Turning World 1   1 6
Amal El-Mohtar Asteres Planetai 2 2 1 17
Andrew Robert Sutton Into Flight 9 2 2 53
Bruce Boston Thirteen Ways of Looking At and Through Hashish 2 3 4 23
Catherynne M. Valente Mouse Koan 2 2 1 17
Catherynne M. Valente What the Dragon Said:  A Love Story 3   2 17
Catt Kingsgrave Tit Tot   1 1 4
C. S. E. Cooney The Last Crone on the Moon   1 1 4
Dennis M. Lane Grandfather 3     15
Elizabeth McClellan Memphis Street Railway Co. v. Stratton: 1915 1 1   8
Glen Pape Sci-Fi Memory 2   2 12
J. E. Stanley Six Random Facts About Halley's Comet   3 2 11
Jane Yolen Objectifying Faerie 1 1 3 11
Jennifer Crow The Last Wife   1 1 4
Jenny Blackford Their Cold Eyes Pierced my Skin   3 1 10
John Philip Johnson String Theory 4 4 1 33
K. C. O’Malley A Midsummer Night’s Dream 1 1 1 9
Kelly Rose Pflug-Back Sweet Mercy, Her Body an Ark of Wild Beasts   1 1 4
Kyla Lee Ward Lucubration   3   9
Lauren Banka tell them        
Lesley Wheeler The Horror at Fox Hollow   1 1 4
Lisa M. Bradley we come together we fall apart   2 2 8
Margaret Randall La Llorana 2 2 2 18
Marsheila Rockwell Enter Persephone   1   3
Mary A. Turzillo Galatea 2 3 3 22
Mary Turzillo Tohoku Tsunami 2 2 3 19
Michael Allen Carrington's Ferry   1   3
Robert Borski Capgras     2 2
Robert Borski In the Beginning Was the Dish 1     5
Rose Lemberg Between the Mountain and the Moon 1 2 1 12
Sally Rosen Kindred Came the Rogue 1     5
Samantha Henderson Quince     1  
Sandra Kasturi Augury 1   1 6
Sandra Kasturi Snow by Gaslight 1 2 1 12
Serena Fusek Casting the Future 1 1 2 10
Shira Lipkin Mushroom Barley Soup: An Invocation        
Sonya Taaffe The Clock House 1   1 6
Wade German The Necromantic Wine 5 1   28
TOTAL VOTES
53
51
47

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