Anthology Information
Editor and Rhysling Chair: David Lunde
Layout and Typesetting: Robert Frazier
Cover Photography: Arp 273, a pair of interacting galaxies, NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Cover Design: Mike Allen
Publisher: Science Fiction Poetry Association in cooperation with Raven Electrick Ink
Printing: Lightning Source.
ISBN: 978-0-9819643-4-8

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Rhysling Showcase Podcast
Poetry Planet 2011 Rhysling Award Showcase Podcast, read by Diane Severson
Award Winners
Short Poem Category
First Place: Amal El-Mohtar • “Peach-Creamed Honey” • Honey Month (Papaveria Press, 2010)
Second Place: Karen A. Romanko • “Binary Creation Myth” • Star*Line 33.1
Third Place: C.S.E. Cooney • "Dogstar Men" • Apex Magazine 15
Long Poem Category
First Place: C. S. E. Cooney • “The Sea King’s Second Bride” • Goblin Fruit spring 2010
Second Place: Bruce Boston • “Dark Rains Here and There” • Dark Matters (Bad Moon Books, 2010)
Third Place: Robert Frazier • “Wreck-Diving the Starship” • Dreams and Nightmares 87
All Nominated Poems
Short Poems
- Greg Beatty • “On Keeping Pluto a Planet” • Strange Horizons, 25 January 2010
- F. J. Bergmann • “Chronomancy” • Abandoned Towers, August 2010
- F. J. Bergmann • “Cultural Climate” • Strange Horizons, 1 March 2010
- Bruce Boston • “Lizards and Wind” • Strange Horizons, 17 May 2010
- Rachel Manija Brown • “Minotaur Noir” • Goblin Fruit winter 2010
- Shelly Bryant • “Compelling Outward Flight” • Eunoia Review, October 2010
- Rosalind Casey • "Patience" • MindFlights, March 2010
- G. O. Clark • “Putting Off the Past” • Retro Spec: Tales of Fantasy and Nostalgia (Raven Electrick Ink, 2010)
- C.S.E. Cooney • "Dogstar Men" • Apex Magazine 15
- Jennifer Crow • “Hoarding Light” • Star*Line 33.1
- Jennifer Crow • “An Incomplete Map of Death” • Star*Line 33.5
- Jennifer Crow • “We Took Our Gods” • Mythic Delirium January 2010
- Amal El-Mohtar • “Peach-Creamed Honey” • Honey Month (Papaveria Press, 2010)
- Kendall Evans • “Here We Are/Implied in the Shadows/Cast Upon Saturn’s Atmosphere” • Illumen autumn 2010
- Angel Favazza • “Call of the Wired” • Star*Line 33.5
- Michael Fosburg • “My Own Ending” • Niteblade, March 2010
- Melissa Frederick • “Volcanoes on Io” • Astropoetica spring 2010
- Joshua Gage • “The Shoemaker’s Daughters” • Paper Crow 1.1
- Lyn C. A. Gardner • “Midnight Posture” • Mythic Delirium 23
- Jaimee Hills • “Tonight the Character of Death Will Be Played by Brad Pitt” • Gargoyle 56
- David C. Kopaska-Merkel • “A few stops on the journey” • Brushfires (Sam's Dot Publishing, 2010)
- Geoffrey A. Landis • “Rondel for Apollo 11” • Analog Science Fiction, July 2010
- B. J. Lee • “The Legend of the Flying Dutchman” • Crow Toes Quarterly 4.2
- Rose Lemberg • “Twin-born” • Goblin Fruit, fall 2010
- Sarah Lindsay • “Planet Anhedonia” • Illumen, autumn 2010
- C. S. MacCath • “A Path Without Bones” • Eternal Haunted Summer: Pagan Songs and Tales, spring 2010
- W. S. Merwin • “The Chain to Her Leg” • The New Yorker, December 13, 2010
- Shweta Narayan • “Cave-smell” • Mythic Delirium 22
- Ruth Naylor • "What Mighty Force?" • Beyond Centauri, July 2010
- Adrienne J. Odasso • “The Ghosts of Moody Street” • Dreams and Nightmares 85
- Stephanie Parent • “Tinkerbell” • Goblin Fruit, spring 2010
- Juan Manuel Perez • “Human Fighting Is Illegal” • Star*Line, 33.2
- Kelly Rose Pflug-Back • “My Bones’ Cracked Abacus” • Ideomancer 9.4
- Karen A. Romanko • “Binary Creation Myth” • Star*Line 33.1
- R. Paul Sardanas • “The Black Lotus” • The Order of the Golden Rose (Passion in Print Press, 2010)
- Ann K. Schwader • “The Darkness Whispers (Flagstaff, AZ 1930)” • Retro Spec: Tales of Fantasy and Nostalgia (Raven Electrick Ink, 2010)
- Ann K. Schwader • “Of Ithaca & Ice” • Strange Horizons, 16 August 2010
- Ann K. Schwader • “Quiet In Her Mind” • Strange Horizons, 11 October 2010
- Ann K. Schwader • “Scrapyard Outpost” • Tales of the Talisman 6.1
- Ann K. Schwader • “The Witch in Your Mirror” • Star*Line 33.5
- Marge Simon • “Sightings” • Strange Horizons, March 8, 2010
- Robin Spriggs • “Red Magic” • Diary of a Gentleman Diabolist (Anomalous Books, 2010)
- Sonya Taafe • “In the Earth in Those Days” • Not One of Us, October 2010
- Sonya Taafe • “Anakatabasis” • Hidden, January 2010
- Sonya Taafe • “By the Dog” • The Pedestal Magazine 56
- Sonya Taafe • “Domovoi, I Came Back!” • Stone Telling 1
- Nancy Ellis Taylor • “Genetic Memory Comes to Me” • Poets on Site Tour the World at Ten Thousand Villages, (Poets on Site, 2010)
- Richard L. Tierney • “Yuletide” • Savage Menace and Other Poems of Horror (P’rea Press, 2010)
- Brian Trent • “A Holiday in Necropolis” • Dreams and Nightmares 85
- Patrice M. Wilson • “Images in the Dark” • Poeisis 4
- Stephen M. Wilson • “Imagined World” • Ideomancer 9.2
- Stephen M. Wilson • “I, Cannibal …” • Paper Crow 1.2
- Stephen M. Wilson • “The Conjuror” • Star*Line 33.5
- Jane Yolen • “The Gospel of the Rope” • Mythic Delirium 23
Long Poems
- Mary Alexandra Agner • “Tertiary” • Stone Telling 2
- Tara Barnett • “Star Reservation” • Stone Telling I
- F. J. Bergmann • “Occidental” • Mythic Delirium 23
- Robert Borski • “The Pantheon” • Star*Line 33.5
- Robert Borski • “Bubba” • Strange Horizons, 4 January 2010
- Bruce Boston • “Dark Rains Here and There” • Dark Matters (Bad Moon Books, 2010)
- Lisa Bradley • “The Haunted Girl” • Goblin Fruit fall 2010
- C. S. E. Cooney • “Ere One Can Say It Lightens” • Mythic Delirium 22
- C. S. E. Cooney • “The Sea King’s Second Bride” • Goblin Fruit spring 2010
- Oscar L. Crawford • “My Wings Are Still Forming” • Illumen spring 2010
- Malcolm Deeley • “On the Platform” • Star*Line 33.5
- James S. Dorr • “Eight Top Vampire Hobbies” • Paper Crow 1.1
- Amal El Mohtar • “The Winter Tree” • Stone Telling 2
- Amal El Mohtar and Jessica P. Wick • “Courting Song for Selkies,” Ideomancer 9.2
- Hugh Fox and Eric Greinke • “Beyond Our Control” • The Pedestal Magazine 58
- Robert Frazier • “Wreck-Diving the Starship” • Dreams and Nightmares 87
- Joshua Gage • “Rats” • Mythic Delirium 22
- Lyn C. A. Gardner • “Homecoming” • MindFlights, October 2010
- Theodora Goss • “Ravens” • Goblin Fruit fall 2010
- Samantha Henderson • “The Gabriel Hound” • Stone Telling 1
- irving • “Until the Light Fades” • Niteblade, December 2010
- Deborah P Kolodji and W. Gregory Stewart • “String Stories” • Tales of the Talisman 6.2
- Rich Magahiz • “13 Ways of Looking at a Balrog” • Dreams and Nightmares 85
- Elizabeth R. McClellan • “Anything So Utterly Destroyed” • Apex Magazine 17
- Jaime Lee Moyer • “A poem for no one at all” • Paper Crow 1.2
- Jaime Lee Moyer • “Rain Face” • Mythic Delirium 22
- Kurt Newton • “The Cemetery” • Star*Line 33.5
- Steven L. Peck • “The Five Known Sutras of Mechanical Man” • Tales of the Talisman autumn 2010
- W. C. Roberts •“Stargazers” • Star*Line 33.3
- Charles Saplak • “Dragonskull: Vision of Result” • Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, September 2010
- Robin Spriggs “Blatta Infernalis” • Diary of a Gentleman Diabolist (Anomalous Books, 2010)
- J. E. Stanley • “crossroads” • Paper Crow 1.1
- W. Gregory Stewart and David Kopaska-Merkel • “Seasons of the Worm” • Goblin Fruit winter 2010
- Richard L. Tierney • “Autumn Chill” • Savage Menace and Other Poems of Horror (P’rea Press, 2010)
- Catherynne M. Valente • “Red Engines” • Mythic Delirium 21
- Steve Vernon • “Barren: A Chronicle in Futility” • Chizine 46
- Phoebe Wilcox • “A More Significant Sun” • Illumen autumn 2010