The 2017 Rhysling Awards
Short Poem Category
First Place Second Place Third Place (tie) “Richard Feynman’s Commute” “The Box of Dust and Monsters” |
Long Poem Category
First Place Second Place Third Place |
110 members voted
Winner Biographies and Photos
The 2017 Rhysling Anthology:
The Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Poetry of 2016
Editor and Rhysling Chair: David C. Kopaska-Merkel $15.95 + $4 U.S. shipping; $11 Canada; $17 international). E-mail the treasurer for postage costs on multiple copies. $4 .pdf. Payable by PayPal to SFPATreasurer@gmail.com
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Short Poems (99 poems) |
“3D printer” • Francis Wesley Alexander • Scifaikuest November |
“Absentation” • Lesley Wheeler • Thrush Poetry Journal, November |
“Adolescence” • Ken Poyner • Star*Line 39.4 |
“After” • Herb Kauderer • Asimov's SF November/December |
“Always the Black and White Keys” • Corrine De Winter • Horror Writers Association Poetry Showcase Vol. III, ed. David E. Cowen |
“Antagonist” • F.J. Bergmann • Spectral Realms 5 |
“appendage sale” • Susan Burch • Star*Line 39.2 |
“The Architect of Bonfires” • Tonya Liburd • Space & Time 127 |
“The Ash Manifesto” • Rose Lemberg • Strange Horizons 10 October |
“At the Robot National Convention” • Alan Ira Gordon • Star*Line 39.3 |
“The Bird Prince” • John W. Sexton • Faerie Magazine Summer |
“The birds forget to sing” • Carl Mayfield • Abbey 147 |
“Black Bull of Norroway” • Jane Yolen • Goblin Fruit Winter |
“Bones Knock in the House” • Mary McMyne • Rose Red Review 18 |
“Bottle Cast Upon A Dry Sea” • G.O. Clark • Asimov’s Science Fiction February |
“The Box of Dust and Monsters” • Beth Cato • Devilfish Review 17 |
“A Bug in the System” • Anton Cancre • Quick Shivers about Bugs (Cosmonomic Multimedia) |
“Build a Rocketship Contest: Alternative Class A Instructions and Suggestions” • Wendy Rathbone • Asimov's SF January |
“Christmas on Mars” • Carolyn M. Hinderliter • Scifaikuest Vol. XIII, No. 4 |
“Classification of Folktales” • Margaret Wack • Strange Horizons |
“The Dark between the Stars” • G.O. Clark • Star*Line 39.4 |
“Death Rides USAir At Night” • Jane Yolen • Parody 5:1 |
“Descent of the Composer” • Airea D. Matthews • Poem-a-Day October 24, Academy of American Poets |
“The Doppelgänger and the Ghost” • Lev Mirov • Eye to the Telescope 22 |
“Dorothy Delivered” • Kathleen A. Lawrence • Altered Reality Magazine 1 |
“Exotic Heads Trimmed Neatly” • John Reinhart • Eye to the Telescope 21 |
“Falling (A Part)” • Alexandra Erin • medium.com June 8 |
“The Fantasy of Hans Christian Andersen” • KH van Berkum • Strange Horizons February 8 |
“Feles Alieni Vere Sunt” • Neile Graham • Devilfish Review 17 |
“*For Quick Sale*” • Greer Woodward • Lupine Lunes, ed. Lester Smith (Popcorn Press) |
“Foreign Policy” • David Barber • Star*Line 39.3 |
“The Frog” • K. Cassandra O’Malley • The Well of Changes (Bag Person Press) [reprint permission unavailable] |
“George Tecumseh Sherman’s Ghosts” • Marge Simon • Silver Blade 32 |
“The Genius” • Sara Backer • Mithila Review 3 |
“The Giantess’s Dream” • Ada Hoffman • Twisted Moon 1 |
“Glastonbury, 1994” • P.S. Cottier • Project 365 + 1 June 29 |
“Godzilla vs. King Kong” • James S. Dorr • Dreams and Nightmares 103 |
“History Teacher” • Gary Every • Star*Line 39.4 |
“How far does night have to fall?” • F.J. Bergmann • The Future Fire 38 |
“I Left My Heart in San Francisco. I Left Yours Somewhere in Colorado …” • Matt Betts • Underwater Fistfight (Raw Dog Screaming Press) |
“Ink” • Akua Lezli Hope • Yellow Chair Review, Horror Issue, October |
“Invocation of Diana” • K.A. Opperman • Eternal Haunted Summer Summer |
“The Last Woman on Earth” • Mary Stone • Amethyst Arsenic 6:1 |
“Learning the History of War” J.J. Steinfeld • Star*Line 39.3 |
“Less than Human” • Marge Simon • You, Human (Dark Regions Press) |
“The Long Run” • Neil Gaiman • Uncanny November/December |
“Loose String” E. Kristin Anderson • Coe Review 47.1 |
“Love in the Time of Apocalypse” • Ann Thornfield-Long • Silver Blade 31 |
“Machine Testimonial 2” • Margaret Rhee • Mission at Tenth |
“Marginalia on Eiruvin 45b” • Bogi Takács • Bracken Magazine 2 |
“Martian Garden” • John Philip Johnson • The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction July/August 2016 |
“Memorial” • Tim Jones • New Sea Land (Makaro Press) |
“The Memory Machines” • Jane Williams • The Pedestal Magazine 79 |
“My Corpse, My Groom” • Ashley Dioses • The Audient Void: A Journal of Weird Fiction and Dark Fantasy 1 |
“My Pet Alien” • Dennis Caswell• Rattle Fall |
“A Natural History of Snow” • David Clink • The Role of Lightning in Evolution (Kelp Queen Press, CZP) |
“Nothing Goes Away” • A.J. Odasso • The New England Review of Books |
“Of My Wounds, There Are Many” • Stephanie M. Wytovich • Sanitarium Magazine 48 |
“The Old Ones Gather” • Terrie Leigh Relf • Scifaikuest May |
“One Canoe” • Shari Caplan • Nonbinary Review 11: Anne of Green Gables |
“Orpheus” • Ace G. Pilkington • The Horror Zine June |
“Past Imperfect” • Deborah L. Davitt • Poetry Quarterly Summer |
“The Persecution of Witches” • Ali Trotta • Uncanny 11 |
“The Phosphorescent Fungi” • D. L. Myers • Spectral Realms 4 |
“Portrait of the Captain with Small Waiting Objects” • T.D. Walker • Recompose 2 |
“Propagation” • Layla Al-Bedawi • Strange Horizons 18 April |
“Quack” • Neal Wilgus • Dreams and Nightmares 104 |
“Quasar” • Triin Paja • Cleaver 14 |
“Returning” • Mary Soon Lee • The Open Mouse May 6 |
“Richard Feynman’s Commute” • Jon Wesick • The Were-Traveler December 21 |
“Riding the Dark” B.J. Lee • Frostfire Worlds February |
“Rusalka” • Jane Yolen • Mythic Delirium 3.1 |
“Salome’s New King” • Terry Miller • Devolution Z: The Horror Magazine 10 |
“Sappho and the Woman of Starlight” • John W. Sexton • Eternal Haunted Summer Winter |
“Selkie” • E. Kristin Anderson • Faerie Magazine Summer |
“Skin” • Alice Fanchiang • Liminality 10 |
“Song of the Encantado” • Jeremy Paden • Apex Magazine 83 |
“Space Opera” • Vince Gotera • Altered Reality Magazine 1 |
“The Sparrows in Her Hair” • Hester J. Rook • Strange Horizons 18 July |
“Spoiler Alert” • Matt Betts • Underwater Fistfight (Raw Dog Screaming Press) |
“The Spook Tree” • Cindy O’Quinn • Blood Moon Rising Magazine 66 |
“Star Dust” • Josh Brown • Illumen 25 |
“Stellar Quake” • John C. Mannone • The New England Journal of Medicine 375:1305 |
“Supercomputer Spends the Night” • Danielle Zaccagnino • Weirderary 4 |
“Sutekh From The Throne” • Denise Dumars • Horror Writers Association Poetry Showcase Vol. III, ed. David E. Cowen |
“Terran Mythology” Shannon Connor Winward • Analog Science Fiction and Fact October |
“This Rat” • Anne Carly Abad • Chrome Baby 48 |
“To Live In The Zombie Apocalypse” • Burlee Vang • Poem-A-Day December 20 |
“To the Girl Who Ran Through Crop Circles” • Karen J. Weyant • Strange Horizons 18 August |
“Until Dawn” • Michael H. Hanson • Poetic Hustles 2 (Black Freighter Productions) |
“La Villa de Sirenia” • Jack Ralls • Star*Line 39.4 |
“Well, Water, Stars” • Adele Gardner • Silver Blade 32 |
“What Wants Us” • Karolina Fedyk • Star*Line 39.2 |
“Why Elephants No Longer Communicate in Greek” • Timons Esaias • Why Elephants No Longer Communicate in Greek (Concrete Wolf) |
“Widening Gyre” • A.J. Odasso • Not A Drop anthology (Beautiful Dragons Press) |
“Witch Lord of the Hunt” • Ashley Dioses • Eternal Haunted Summer, Spring |
“The woman on the bus encounters time dilation” • Daniel R. Jones • Altered Reality Magazine |
“World's Tiniest Human” • Muriel Leung • The Adroit Journal 16 |
Long Poems (55 poems) |
“Adam’s Rendezvous with Dante” • John C. Mannone • Last Darn Rites Anthology (Whitesboro Writers, 2016) |
“Alice-Ecila” • Steph Post • Nonbinary Review 10: Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass |
“At Issue, the Miramo” • Ken Poyner • Dreams and Nightmares 103 |
“Best of” • Sarah Ann Winn • Found Poetry Review: Bowietry |
“The Blind Elephants of Io” • Karen Bovenmyer • Shortest Day, Longest Night (Arachne Press) |
“The Butterflies of Traxl IV” • John Reinhart • The Pedestal Magazine 79 |
“The Chinese Pirate Ching Shih Plays Go With a Hooded Opponent” • Kendall Evans • Abyss & Apex 59 |
“Cobblestone Dragon” • Herb Kauderer • Polu Texni July 11 |
“Dame Evergreen” • Rebecca Buchanan • Faerie Magazine Winter |
“The Dark Lord’s Diary” • Lee S. Hawke • Star*Line 39.1 |
“Data Mine” • Alexandra Erin • medium.com October 24 |
“The Death of the Horse” • Beth Cato • Remixt Magazine 1:8 |
“Defender Prime” • A.C. Spahn • Outposts of Beyond July |
“Elegy for Iain Banks” • Vince Gotera • Star*Line 39.3 |
“Exploratory Colony 454—15th May, 2052” • Lore Bernier • Eye to the Telescope 20 |
“First Lesson” • Mary Soon Lee • Silver Blade 30 |
“For Lonnie” • Holly Walrath • Liminality 9 |
“Further” • F.J. Bergmann • Lovecraft eZine 38 |
“Getting Winterized: A Guide To Rural Living” • Elizabeth R. McClellan • Angels of the Meanwhile April |
“god-date” • Brandon O'Brien • Uncanny 9 |
“The Great Unknown” • Bruce Boston and Alessandro Manzetti • Illumen Spring |
“Houses of the Living, Houses of the Dead” • Jenny Blackford • Ipswich Poetry Feast International Poetry Competition, Highly Commended |
“I Will Be Your Grave” • Tlotlo Tsamaase • Strange Horizons 7 November |
“Im Wald” • Sandi Leibowitz • Mythic Delirium 3.2 |
“In Defence of Science” • David Clink • The Role of Lightning in Evolution (Kelp Queen Press, CZP) |
“The Inconceivable Shape” • Simon Smith • Chrome Baby 45 |
“Interview with a 22nd-Century Sex Worker” • Darren Lipman • Strange Horizons 4 July |
“The Journeymaker to Keddar (II)” • Rose Lemberg • Marginalia to Stone Bird (Aqueduct Press) |
“Legend of the Albino Pythons and the Bloody Child” • Bruce Boston & Alessandro Manzetti • Polu Texni 18 April |
“The Leviathans of Europa” • Christina Sng • Polu Texni 10 October |
“The Lies You Learned” • S. Qiouyi Lu • Liminality 7 |
“little stomach” • Charlotte Geater • Strange Horizons 26 September |
“Luminous Decay” • Robert Frazier • Dreams and Nightmares 103 |
“Morning During Migration Season” • Beth Cato • Star*Line 39.4 |
“Not Like This” • Mary Soon Lee • Apex Magazine August 4 |
“Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas Lost at Sea, 1527” • Lisa M. Bradley • Strange Horizons 3 October [reprint permission declined] |
“Phoenix Fire, Tabula Rasa” • Kim Eun-byeol • Stone Telling 13 |
“The Poem Gardens of the Ascari” • Rohinton Daruwala • Strange Horizons 13 June |
“Revolution (1764–1783)” • Holly Lyn Walrath • Abyss & Apex 58 |
“The Rime of the Eldritch Mariner” • Adam Bolivar • Spectral Realms 5 |
“The Robot by the Fireplace” • Ken Poyner • Eye to the Telescope 20 |
“Rose Child” • Theodora Goss • Uncanny 13 |
“Sargasso Sea” • A.J. Odasso • Remixt Magazine 1:1 |
“The Starlet Who Married A Monster” • Robert Borski • Lupine Lunes, ed. Lester Smith (Popcorn Press) |
“Storm Miners” • Deborah L. Davitt • Blue Monday Review August |
“Surviving a Canadian Poem” • David Clink • The Role of Lightning in Evolution (Kelp Queen Press, CZP) |
“Talk to the Machines” • Johan Jönsson • Dreams and Nightmares 104 |
“Thirteen Ways to See a Ghost” • Shannon Connor Winward • 2016 SFPA Poetry Contest |
“To the weaver, from the woman who slew Bakunawa” • M. Sereno • Stone Telling 13 |
“Väinämöinen Sings” • Jennifer Lawrence • Eternal Haunted Summer Winter |
“We Shall Meet in the Star-Spackled Ruins” • Wendy Rathbone • 2016 SFPA Poetry Contest |
“Were-” • Naru Dames Sundar • Liminality Summer |
“Werewolf” • K.A. Opperman • Spectral Realms 4 |
“When Coyote Called Down the Stars” • Aaron Vlek • The Were-Traveler December 21 |
“When the Gunman Comes” • Edith Hope Bishop • Mythic Delirium 2.3 |
Nominations per publication (80 publications):
1 | Abbey | |
2 | Abyss & Apex | |
1 | The Adroit Journal | |
3 | Altered Reality Magazine | |
1 | Amethyst Arsenic | |
1 | Analog | |
1 | Angels of the Meanwhile | |
2 | Apex Magazine | |
3 | Asimov’s Science Fiction | |
1 | The Audient Void | |
1 | Blood Moon Rising Magazine | |
1 | Blue Monday Review | |
1 | Bracken Magazine | |
2 | Chrome Baby | |
1 | Cleaver | |
1 | Coe Review | |
2 | Devilfish Review | |
1 | Devolution Z: The Horror Magazine | |
5 | Dreams and Nightmares | |
4 | Eternal Haunted Summer | |
4 | Eye to the Telescope | |
3 | Faerie Magazine | |
1 | Found Poetry Review | |
1 | Frostfire Worlds | |
1 | The Future Fire | |
1 | Goblin Fruit | |
2 | Horror Writers Association Poetry Showcase Vol. III | |
1 | The Horror Zine | |
2 | Illumen | |
1 | Ipswich Poetry Feast International Poetry Competition | |
1 | Last Darn Rites Anthology (Whitesboro Writers) | |
4 | Liminality | |
1 | Lovecraft eZine | |
2 | Lupine Lunes (Popcorn Press) | |
1 | The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | |
1 | Marginalia to Stone Bird (Aqueduct Press) | |
2 | medium.com | |
1 | Mission at Tenth | |
1 | The Mithila Review | |
3 | Mythic Delirium | |
1 | The New England Journal of Medicine | |
1 | The New England Review of Books | |
1 | New Sea Land (Makaro Press) | |
2 | Nonbinary Review | |
1 | Parody | |
2 | The Pedestal Magazine | |
1 | Project 365 + 1 | |
1 | The Open Mouse | |
1 | Outposts of Beyond | |
1 | Parody | |
2 | Poem-A-Day | |
1 | Poetic Hustles | |
1 | Poetry Quarterly | |
3 | Polu Texni | |
1 | Quick Shivers about Bugs (Cosmonomic Multimedia) | |
1 | Rattle | |
1 | Recompose | |
2 | Remixt Magazine | |
3 | The Role of Lightning in Evolution (CZP) | |
1 | Rose Red Review | |
1 | Sanitarium Magazine | |
3 | Scifaikuest | |
2 | SFPA Poetry Contest | |
1 | Shortest Day, Longest Night (Arachne Press) | |
4 | Silver Blade | |
1 | Space & Time | |
3 | Spectral Realms | |
11 | Star*Line | |
2 | Stone Telling | |
11 | Strange Horizons | |
1 | Thrush Poetry Journal | |
1 | Twisted Moon | |
4 | Uncanny | |
2 | Underwater Fistfight (Raw Dog Screaming Press) | |
1 | Weirderary | |
1 | The Well of Changes (Bag Person Press) | |
2 | The Were-Traveler | |
1 | Why Elephants No Longer Communicate in Greek (Concrete Wolf) | |
1 | Yellow Chair Review | |
1 | You, Human (Dark Regions Press) |