The 2013 Rhysling Votes
Short Poems First Published in 2012 (70 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. 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).
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 |