The Science Fiction Poetry Association has announced the full list of nominees for this year’s Rhysling Awards. The winners are typically announced at Readercon, which will be held 14-17 July at the Burlingon Marriott, outside of Boston, Massachusetts. The Rhyslings are divided in “short poem” and “long poem” categories.
This year, there are 56 nominees in the short poem category (one fewer than last year), and 37 nominees in the long poem category (four more than last year). Authors appearing more than once on the ballot include: F.J. Bergman (2 short, 1 long), Robert Borski (2 long), Bruce Boston (1 short, 1 long), C.S.E. Cooney (1 short, 2 long), Jennifer Crow (3 short), Amal El-Mohtar (1 short, 1 long, 1 co-authored long), Joshua Gage (1 short, 1 long), Lyn C.A. Gardner (1 short, 1 long), David C. Kopaska-Merkel (1 short, 1 co-authored long), Jaime Lee Moyer (2 long), Juan Manuel Perez (2 short), Ann K. Schwader (6 short), Sonya Taafe (4 short), and Stephen M. Wilson (3 short).
The full lists of nominees are:
Short Poem Category:
“On Keeping Pluto a Planet” by Greg Beatty (published in Strange Horizons)
“Chronomancy” by F.J. Bergmann (Abandoned Towers)
“Cultural Climate” by F.J. Bergmann (Strange Horizons)
“Lizards and Wind” by Bruce Boston (Strange Horizons)
“Minotaur Noir” by Rachel Manija Brown (Goblin Fruit)
“Compelling Outward Flight” by Shelly Bryant (Eunoia Review)
“Patience” by Rosalind Casey (MindFlights)
“Putting Off the Past” by G.O. Clark (Retro Spec: Tales of Fantasy and Nostalgia)
“Dogstar Men” by C.S.E. Cooney (Apex Magazine)
“Hoarding Light” by Jennifer Crow (Star*Line)
“An Incomplete Map of Death” by Jennifer Crow (Star*Line)
“We Took Our Gods” by Jennifer Crow (Mythic Delirium)
“Peach Creamed Honey” by Amal El-Mohtar (Honey Month)
“Here We Are/Implied in the Shadows/Cast Upon Saturn’s Atmosphere” by Kendall Evans (Illumen)
“Call of the Wired” by Angel Favazza (Star*Line)
“My Own Ending” by Michael Fosburg (Niteblade)
“Volcanoes on Io” by Melissa Frederick (Astropoetica)
“The Shoemaker’s Daughters” by Joshua Gage (Paper Crow)
“Midnight Posture” by Lyn C.A. Gardner (Mythic Delirium)
“Tonight the Character of Death Will Be Played by Brad Pitt” by Jaimee Hills (Gargoyle)
“Welcome Home (The Nebulas Song)” by Janis Ian (Asimov’s Science Fiction)
“A few stops on the journey” by David C. Kopaska-Merkel (Brushfires)
“Rondel for Apollo 11” by Geoffrey A. Landis (Analog Science Fiction and Fact)
“The Legend of the Flying Dutchman” by B.J. Lee (Crow Toes Quarterly)
“Twin-born” by Rose Lemberg (Goblin Fruit)
“Planet Anhedonia” by Sarah Lindsay (Illumen)
“A Path Without Bones” by C.S. MacCath (Eternal Haunted Summer: Pagan Songs and Tales)
“The Chain to Her Leg” by W.S. Merwin (The New Yorker)
“Cave-smell” by Shweta Narayan (Mythic Delirium)
“What Mighty Force?” by Ruth Naylor (Beyond Centauri)
“The Ghosts of Moody Street” by Adrienne J. Odasso (Dreams and Nightmares)
“Tinkerbell” by Stephanie Parent (Goblin Fruit)
“Human Fighting Is Illegal” by Juan Manuel Perez (Star*Line)
“El Codex Chupacabra” by Juan Manuel Perez (And Now the Nightmare Begins: the Horror Zine)
“My Bones’ Cracked Abacus” by Kelly Rose Pflug-Back (Ideomancer)
“Binary Creation Myth” by Karen A. Romanko (Star*Line)
“The Black Lotus” by R. Paul Sardanas (The Order of the Golden Rose)
“The Darkness Whispers (Flagstaff, AZ 1930)” by Ann K. Schwader (Retro Spec: Tales of Fantasy and Nostalgia)
“Of Ithaca & Ice” by Ann K. Schwader (Strange Horizons)
“Quiet In Her Mind” by Ann K. Schwader (Strange Horizons)
“Scrapyard Outpost” by Ann K. Schwader (Tales of the Talisman)
“The Witch in Your Mirror” by Ann K. Schwader (Star*Line)
“Sightings” by Marge Simon (Strange Horizons)
“Red Magic” by Robin Spriggs (Diary of a Gentleman Diabolist)
“In the Earth in Those Days” by Sonya Taafe (Not One of Us)
“Anakatabasis” by Sonya Taafe (Hidden)
“By the Dog” by Sonya Taafe (The Pedestal Magazine)
“Domovoi, I Came Back!” by Sonya Taafe (Stone Telling)
“Genetic Memory Comes to Me” by Nancy Ellis Taylor (Poets on Site Tour the World at Ten Thousand Villages)
“Yuletide” by Richard L. Tierney (Savage Menace and Other Poems of Horror)
“A Holiday in Necropolis” by Brian Trent (Dreams and Nightmares)
“Images in the Dark” by Patrice M. Wilson (Poeisis)
“Imagined World” by Stephen M. Wilson (Ideomancer)
“I, Cannibal…” by Stephen M. Wilson (Paper Crow)
“The Conjuror” by Stephen M. Wilson (Star*Line)
“The Gospel of the Rope” by Jane Yolen (Mythic Delirium)
Long Poem Category:
“Tertiary” by Mary Alexandra Agner (Stone Telling)
“Star Reservation” by Tara Barnett (Stone Telling)
“Occidental” by F.J. Bergmann (Mythic Delirium)
“The Pantheon” by Robert Borski (Star*Line)
“Bubba” by Robert Borski (Strange Horizons)
“Dark Rains Here and There” by Bruce Boston (Dark Matters)
“The Haunted Girl” by Lisa Bradley (Goblin Fruit)
“Ere One Can Say It Lightens” by C.S.E. Cooney (Mythic Delirium)
“The Sea King’s Second Bride” by C.S.E. Cooney (Goblin Fruit)
“My Wings Are Still Forming” by Oscar L. Crawford (Illumen)
“On the Platform” by Malcolm Deeley (Star*Line)
“Eight Top Vampire Hobbies” by James S. Dorr (Paper Crow)
“The Winter Tree” by Amal El-Mohtar (Stone Telling)
“Courting Song for Selkies” by Amal El-Mohtar and Jessica P. Wick (Ideomancer)
“Beyond Our Control” by Hugh Fox and Eric Greinke (The Pedestal Magazine)
“Wreck Diving the Starship” by Robert Frazier (Dreams and Nightmares)
“Rats” by Joshua Gage (Mythic Delirium)
“Homecoming” by Lyn C.A. Gardner (MindFlights)
“Ravens” by Theodora Goss (Goblin Fruit)
“The Gabriel Hound” by Samantha Henderson (Stone Telling)
“Until the Light Fades” by Irving (Niteblade)
“String Stories” by Deborah P Kolodji and W. Gregory Stewart (Tales of the Talisman)
“13 Ways of Looking at a Balrog” by Rich Magahiz (Dreams and Nightmares)
“Anything So Utterly Destroyed” by Elizabeth R. McClellan (Apex Magazine)
“A Poem for no one at all” by Jaime Lee Moyer (Paper Crow)
“Rain Face” by Jaime Lee Moyer (Mythic Delirium)
“The Cemetery” by Kurt Newton (Star*Line)
“The Five Known Sutras of Mechanical Man” by Steven L. Peck (Tales of the Talisman)
“Stargazers” by W.C. Roberts (Star*Line)
“Dragonskull: Vision of Result” by Charles Saplak (Heroic Fantasy Quarterly)
“Blatta Infernalis” by Robin Spriggs (Diary of a Gentleman Diabolist)
“Seasons of the Worm” by W. Gregory Stewart and David Kopaska-Merkel (Goblin Fruit)
“crossroads” by J.E. Stanley (Paper Crow)
“Autumn Chill” by Richard L. Tierney (Savage Menace and Other Poems of Horror)
“Red Engines” by Catherynne M. Valente (Mythic Delirium
“Barren: A Chronicle in Futility” by Steve Vernon (Chizine)
“A More Significant Sun” by Phoebe Wilcox (Illumen)