Welcome to the eleventh showcase of 2017 Rhysling Award-nominated poets. Their poetry can be found in full in the Anthology (which if you are a member, you will receive and if you are not, you may
purchase a PDF or order the print anthology now), but we will link to the nominated poems here where possible.
Here are six more poets and their nominated poems:
Denise Dumars • “Sutekh From The Throne” •
Horror Writers Association Poetry Showcase Vol. III, ed. David E. Cowen (unavailable online)
Alexandra Erin • “
Data Mine” • medium.com October 24 • & • “
Falling (A Part)” • medium.com June 8
Timons Esaias • “
Why Elephants No Longer Communicate in Greek” •
Why Elephants No Longer Communicate in Greek (Concrete Wolf)
Terrie Leigh Relf • “The Old Ones Gather” •
Scifaikuest, May (unavailable online)
Margaret Rhee • “Robot Testimonial Z” •
Mission at Tenth
Hester J. Rook • “
The Sparrows in Her Hair” •
Strange Horizons 18 July
Throughout her prolific writing career
Denise Dumars has written and published poetry, short stories, articles, and reviews in journals such as
Terra Incognita, Cinefantastique, and
Talebones. She is a columnist for
Star*Line, the journal of the
Science Fiction Poetry Association, and a peer reviewer for
Coreopsis: A Journal of Myth and Theater. She has also published two collections of short stories; two non-fiction books, including
The Dark Archetype (with Lori Nyx), and numerous chapbooks of poetry, the most recent of which is
Letting in the Dark (Yellow Bat Press). Denise teaches a variety of English courses in Southern California colleges.
http://denisedumars.com/
Alexandra Erin is a poet, humorist, author, and satirist. She is an author, a poet, a thinker, and a trans woman. She was born in Nebraska, she now makes her home in Maryland. Beginning late in 2014, she began a career as a speculative poet. Her works have been published in
Star*Line, Stone Telling, and
Devilfish Review among others. Her best known work can be found by typing “batman, superman, Aladdin” into an image search engine.
www.alexandraerin.com/
Timons Esaias lives in Pittsburgh, in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood, with his wife who is a physician. He writes satire, speculative fiction, poetry, and the occasional essay. His work has appeared in over a dozen different countries, and fifteen languages. He has been a finalist for the British Science Fiction Award (1998) and the Rhysling Award (5 nominations, Third Place 1997), and he won the Asimov's Readers' Award for Poetry (2005). He is a member of the
Pittsburgh Poetry Exchange; a Member Demeritus of the
Worldwrights; and a certified Rogue in Lair #1 of the
Rascals, Rogues & Rapscallions. He is Adjunct Faculty at Seton Hill University, primarily in the Masters Program for
Writing Popular Fiction.
http://timonsesaias.com/
Terrie Leigh Relf has been on staff at a variety of independent presses, most recently,
Alban Lake Publishing. In addition to being an active member of
HWA, she is a lifetime member of the
SFPA. To date, she has over 1,000 publishing credits that include non-fiction, fiction, and poetry. Her genre work has appeared in a variety of print and online publications, including several anthologies and collaborative projects such as
Confessions: A Nightmare in Five Acts, edited by
Joshua Gage, and
On the Brink of Never: An Anthology of Apocalyptic Poetry, edited by
David C. Kopaska-Merkel.
https://tlrelf.wordpress.com/
Margaret Rhee is the author of the chapbook
Yellow (Tinfish Press, 2011). With Ching-In Chen and Debbie Yee, she co-edited
Here is A Pen: An Anthology of West Coast Kundiman Poets (Achiote Press, 2010) and with Oliver Bendorf and other queer poets, she co-edited
Glitter Tongue: Queer and Trans Love Poems (2012). She served as managing editor of
Mixed Blood, a literary journal of innovative poetics and race at the University of California, Berkeley. She has received fellowships from the Squaw Valley Poetry Workshop and Kundiman. In 2012, she was featured in
Hyphen Magazine’s The Descendants, a profile of the next generation of Asian American poets and writers.
https://www.pw.org/content/margaret_rhee
Hester J. Rook is an itinerant Australian with an unhealthy obsession with myth, dead languages, and the circus. She spends a lot of time writing speculative fiction and upside down on a trapeze – not usually at the same time. She is one of the editors behind
Twisted Moon, and she has work in
Strange Horizons, Apex Magazine, Liminality Magazine, Through the Gate and elsewhere.
@kitemonster https://hesterjrook.wordpress.com/