Award Winners

All Nominated Poems

Short Poems

• Diane Ackerman • Cranial Sacral • Poetry 182.6, Sept. 2003.
• Mike Allen • How I Will Outwit the Time Thieves • Strange Horizons, Dec. 2003.
• Bruce Boston • To Feel the Cold • Dreams and Nightmares 64, Jan. 2003.
• G.O. Clark • When She Dances • Talebones 27, Dec. 2003.
• Roger Dutcher • Just Distance • Tales of the Unanticipated 24, July 2003.
• Jeremy Gottwig • Warm Thick Beer • Mythic Delirium 9, Summer/Fall 2003.
• John Grey • Night of the Living Dead • Star*Line 26.4, July/Aug. 2003.
• Elizabeth Henderson • Winter in the Tropic of Cancer • Astropoetica 1, Fall 2003.
• L.A. Story Houry • Basement World • Passion Fruit and Other Loops (Sam's Dot Publishing, 2003).
• Tracina Jackson-Adams • Hands Tell All • The Modern Art Cave (Sam's Dot Publishing, 2003).
• David C. Kopaska-Merkel • the length of a candle • Mythic Delirium 8, Winter/Spring 2003.
• Sandra Lindow • Nursery Ghosts • Raven Electrick, June 2003.
• April Lott • Isis • Dreams and Nightmares 64, Jan. 2003.
• David Lunde • What It Comes Down To • Asimov's Science Fiction 27.3, March 2003.
• Maureen McHugh • Alternate History • Asimov's Science Fiction 27.8, Aug. 2003.
• Nathan Parker • Tomatoes Cannot Tolerate Frost • The Metastatic Whatnot 1, Fall 2003.
• Karen R. Porter • She • Not One of Us 30, Sept. 2003.
• Jessy Randall • The Seductiveness of the Memory Hole • The Magazine of Speculative Poetry 6.2, Autumn 2003.
• Mark Rudolph • Tarot Cards and UFOs • Strange Horizons, Oct. 2003.
• Lucy Cohen Shmeidler • "Observe the Month of Spring" • The Magazine of Speculative Poetry 6.1, Spring 2003.
• Marge Simon • Language of Scorpions • The Pedestal Magazine, June–Aug. 2003.
• Sonya Taaffe • Storm Gods of the Connecticut River Valley • Star*Line 26.1, Jan./Feb. 2003.
• John Teehan • What to Do When an Alien Spacecraft Lands and the Visitors Come Out to Greet You • Star*Line 26.3, May/June 2003.
• Ian Watson • Memory Man • Asimov's Science Fiction 27.7, July 2003.

Long Poems

• Mike Allen • Death of the Father • Petting the Time Shark and Other Poems (DNA Publications, 2003).
• Bruce Boston • The Crow Is Dismantled in Flight • (Miniature Sun Press, 2003).
• Richard Chwedyk • Rich and Pam Go to Fermilab and Later See a Dead Man • Strange Horizons, March 2003.
• Erin Donahoe • Beast • Beast (Sam's Dot Publishing, 2003).
• Theodora Goss • Octavia Is Lost in the Hall of Masks • Mythic Delirium 8, Winter/Spring 2003.
• Charlee Jacob • Hugo Schizophrenica • (Miniature Sun Press, 2003).
• David C. Kopaska-Merkel • The Mad Scientist Has All the Time in the World • Mythic Delirium 9, Summer/Fall 2003.
• Sandra Lindow • Morning Becomes the Milkman • The Magazine of Speculative Poetry 6.2, Autumn 2003.
• Tim Pratt • Clutch Purse • The Modern Art Cave (Sam's Dot Publishing, 2003).
• Tobias Seamon • Quasimodo Takes the Grand Tour • Strange Horizons, Sept. 2003.
• Vandana Singh • A Portrait of the Artist • Strange Horizons, July 2003.
• Steve Sneyd • A Price of Course Worth Paying • Dreams and Nightmares 64, Jan. 2003.
• Sonya Taaffe • Green Fuses • Dreams and Nightmares 64, Jan. 2003.
• Sonya Taaffe • Harlequin, Lonely • Star*Line 26.4, July/Aug. 2003.
• Jamie Wasserman • The Prince Revisited • The Magazine of Speculative Poetry 6.2, Autumn 2003.
• James F. Yockey • What If • Strange Horizons, June 2003.