The Science Fiction Poetry Association has announced the full list of nominees for this year’s Rhysling Awards. The winners will be announced at Readercon, which will be held 9-12 July at the Burlingon Marriott, outside of Boston, Massachusetts. The Rhyslings are divided in “short poem” and “long poem” categories.
This year, there are 60 nominees in the short poem category, and 32 nominees in the long poem category. Authors appearing more than once on the ballot include: Mike Allen (2 short, 1 long, and 1 co-authored long), Malcolm Deeley (1 short, 3 long), Amal El-Mohtar (1 short, 1 co-authored long), Joshua Gage (2 short, 1 long), Samantha Henderson (2 short, 1 long), Deborah P. Kolodji (3 short, 1 long), Sandra Lindow (2 short), Terrie Leigh Relf (2 short), Sonya Taaffe (4 short), Marcie Tentchoff (1 short, 1 long), Catherynne M. Valente (3 long, 1 co-authored long), Ian Watson (1 short, 1 co-authored long), and Jessica Paige Wick (1 short, 1 long).
The publications with the greatest numbers of nominees are: Goblin Fruit (7 short, 5 long); Strange Horizons (6 short, 4 long); Mythic Delirium (5 short, 1 long); Lone Star Stories (3 short, 2 long); and Star*Line (4 short).
The full lists of nominees are:
Short Poem Category:
“Frankenstein’s Ice Mirror” by Diana Adams (published in Poemeleon: A Journal of Poetry, Summer 2008)
“So Many Lullabies” by Mary Alexander Agner (Strange Horizons, 17 March 2008)
“The Deceptive Truth” by Brian Aldiss (A Prehistory of Mind, Mayapple Press, 2008)
“Don’t Get Too Close to the Baby” by Francis W. Alexander (Star*Line, July/August 2008)
“Midnight Rendezvous, Philly” by Mike Allen (Goblin Fruit, Summer 2008)
“Return of Zombie Teen Angst” by Mike Allen (Asimov’s Science Fiction, October/November 2008)
“Von Neumann’s Poem” by Aaron Benson (Strange Horizons, 28 July 2008)
“Piece of Mind” by Anthony Bernstein (Zygote in My Coffee, February 2008)
“Dystopian Dusk” by Bruce Boston (Strange Horizons 4 August 2008)
“The Gnomes’ Spectacles” by Chris Burdette (Niteblade Magazine, June 2008)
“Four Haiku Poems on Artificial Intelligence” by Christopher M. Cevasco (Star*line, January/February 2008)
“World’s Oldest Profession 2.0” by G.O. Clark (Star*Line, July/August 2008)
“The Future” by Billy Collins (The New Yorker, 24 February 2008)
“Pygmalion” by Malcolm Deeley (Mythology, November 2008)
“Emile’s Ghosts” by James S. Dorr (Illumen, Spring 2008)
“Songs to an Ancient City” by Amal El-Mohtar (Mythic Delirium, Summer/Fall 2008)
“Songs were washing up” by Francesca Forrest (Scheherezade’s Bequest, September 2008)
“A Taxi Driver on Mars” by Bryn Forley (Awen, August 2008)
“A Mother Speaks” by Joshua Gage (Goblin Fruit, Fall 2008)
“The Illuminator” by Joshua Gage (MindFlights, 5 February 2008)
“Aware for the Woman who Disappears in Silence” by Jeannine Hall Gailey (Mythic Delirium, Winter/Spring 2008)
“Green Willow Wife” by Jeannine Hall Gailey (Poemeleon: A Journal of Poetry, Summer 2008)
“Tammuz to Ishtar” by Delbert R. Gardner (Mythic Delirium, Summer/Fall 2008)
“[faint], Wanting the Mouth of a Lover” by Charles Gramlich (Spec House of Poetry, 2008)
“Collage” by Todd Hanks (Dreams and Nightmares, May 2008)
“Spell” by Samantha Henderson (Goblin Fruit, Fall 2008)
“The Seasons’ Dying” by Samantha Henderson (Goblin Fruit, Summer 2008)
“Animal Rescue” by Deborah P. Kolodji (Lone Star Stories, 1 April 2008)
“Camera Obscura” by Deborah P. Kolodji (Raven Electrick, March 2008)
“Six Miles from Nowhere” by Deborah P. Kolodji (Phantom Seed, Autumn 2008)
“In the Slipstream of the Levee’s Overflow” by David C. Kopaska-Merkel & Kendall Evans (Tales of the Talisman, March 2008)
“Odysseus on the War Train” by Rose Lemberg (Abyss & Apex, Summer 2008)
“Green Cotillions” by Sandra Lindow (Touched by the Gods, Sam’s Dot Publishing, 2008)
“The A.I.’s Table Prayer” by Sandra Lindow (Tales of the Unanticipated, Autumn/Winter 2008)
“The Midwife’s Progress” by Joy Marchand (Goblin Fruit, Summer 2008)
“No Word for Goodbye” by Pam McNew (Sybil’s Garage #5)
“My Addiction” by Edward Morris (Helix SF, April 2008)
“Pavlov’s Best Friend” by Kristine Ong Muslim (Abyss & Apex, July 2008)
“Internet Witch” by Karen L. Newman (Raven Electrick, September 2008)
“Lovers” by Rhonda Parrish (Star*Line, July/August 2008)
“To the Royal Society of Cryptozoologists from the Concerned Daughter of a Member” by Caitlyn Paxson (Goblin Fruit, Winter 2008)
“[eruptions]” by Terrie Leigh Relf (The Shantytown Anomaly, October 2008)
“There, where the universe begins” by Terrie Leigh Relf (Astropoetica, Spring 2008)
“Streamside” by Mark Rich (The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Spring 2008)
“The Invisible Woman Runs for President” by Karen A. Romanko (Strange Horizons, 22 December 2008)
“Bats” by Greg Schwartz (Ashen Eye, March 2008)
“Dear Giant Squid” by Peter Sears (Luge, Cloudbanks Books, 2008)
“The Astronaut’s Return” by Marge Simon (Strange Horizons, 3 November 2008)
“Lunaticus (in D Minor)” by J.E. Stanley (The Ghazal Page, July 2008)
“A Sad, A Southern Face” by Lynn Strongin (Doorways Magazine, Spring 2008)
“Autopoiesis” by Sonya Taaffe (Lone Star Stories, 1 April 2008)
“Cherries in Winter” by Sonya Taaffe (Goblin Fruit, Winter 2008)
“Logos” by Sonya Taaffe (Lone Star Stories, 1 October 2008)
“The Devourer” by Sonya Taaffe (Mythic Delirium, Summer/Fall 2008)
“Some Random Hero” by Marcie Tentchoff (Strange Horizons, 23 June 2008)
“Becoming Fictional” by Jen Valencia (Tales of the Talisman, Autumn 2008)
“In the World” by Sandy Walejko (Wisconsin People and Ideas, Summer 2008)
“Screams” by Ian Watson (Asimov’s Science Fiction, September 2008)
“To the River” by Jessica Paige Wick (Mythic Delirium, Summer/Fall 2008)
“Smells” by Jane Yolen (Doorways Magazine, October 2008)
Long Poem Category:
“Mondrian’s War” by Mike Allen (Strange Horizons, 18 August 2008)
“Zombie Bombs” by Mike Allen & Ian Watson (Helix SF, April 2008)
“Sedna” by C.S.E. Cooney (Goblin Fruit, Winter 2008)
“Wild Over Tombs Does Grow” by C.S.E. Cooney (Doorways Magazine, Spring 2008)
“Tentacle 1” by Camilla DeCarnin (Tales of the Unanticipated, Autumn/Winter 2008)
“Oracle” by Malcolm Deeley (Legends of the Fallen Sky, Sam’s Dot Publishing, 2008)
“Orpheus and Eurydice” by Malcolm Deeley (Mythology, November 2008)
“The Leviathan” by Malcolm Deeley (Legends of the Fallen Sky, Sam’s Dot Publishing, 2008)
“Damascus Divides the Lovers by Zero, or, The City Is Never Finished” by Amal El-Mohtar & Catherynne M. Valente (Lone Star Stories, 1 December 2008)
“Death and Life on Enceladus” by Kendall Evans & David C. Kopaska-Merkel (The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Spring 2008)
“Mrs. Margaret Lovett, Her Book” by Gemma Files (Mythic Delirium, Winter/Spring 2008)
“Isotope Ballerina” by Cornelius Fortune (Tales of the Unanticipated, Autumn/Winter 2008)
“The White Doe of Nara” by Joshua Gage (Goblin Fruit, Summer 2008)
“The Dispossessed” by Lyn C.A. Gardner (Helix SF, Summer 2008)
“Hungry: Some Ghost Stories” by Samantha Henderson (Lone Star Stories, 1 April 2008)
“Reveal” by Linda Hogan (Rounding the Human Corners, Coffee House Press)
“Man’yoshu at Galactic Edge: Poems from the Courtesan” by Deborah P. Kolodji (Dreams and Nightmares, May 2008)
“Search” by Geoffrey A. Landis (Helix SF, October 2008)
“The Night Market” by Beth Langford (Goblin Fruit, Spring 2008)
“Living on Burrowed Time” by Patrick Lawler (Blackbird: An Online Journal of Literature and the Arts, Fall 2008)
“3 Poems Called Cosmic” by JM McDermott (Abyss & Apex, July 2008)
“Disciples of Paradox” by David Memmott (Strange Horizons, 25 February 2008)
“Another Fairy Tale Ending” by Marcy Rockwell (Dreams and Nightmares, September 2008)
“Transformation” by J.C. Runolfson (Strange Horizons, 26 May 2008)
“The Love Song of A. Alhazred Azathoth” by William Browning Spencer (Subterranean Press e-Newsletter
“On Waking” by Marcie Tentchoff Not One of Us, October 2008)
“Lessons in Thermodynamics” by Catherynne M. Valente (Flytrap, June 2008)
“The Ballad of All the Things I Might Have Written” by Catherynne M. Valente (Goblin Fruit, Spring 2008)
“The Girl with Two Skins” by Catherynne M. Valente (Goblin Fruit, Spring 2008)
“The Sea Wife” by JoSelle Vanderhooft (The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Spring 2008)
“How Wizards Duel” by Jessica Paige Wick (Strange Horizons, 12 May 2008)
“Through the Looking-Glass, Darkly” by Stephen Wilson (Hungur: Walpurgis Night, October 2008)