Poetry Planet 2013 Elgin & Dwarf Stars Awards Showcase Podcast, read by Diane Severson.

Award Winners

Winner: Basho After Cinderella (iii) • Deborah P Kolodji • Rattle 38

2nd Place: The Hidden • Mary Turzillo • Lovers & Killers (Dark Regions 2012)

3rd Place: Sarcophagus • N. E. Taylor • inkscrawl 3

Table of Contents

• Again Boredom • Lida Broadhurst • Artifact Issue 30, Volume 6
• “alien princess” • Ross Balcom • Scifaikuest, May 2012
• “all that remains” • Lauren Mayhew • tinywords 12.1
• Basho After Cinderella (iii) • Deborah P Kolodji • Rattle 38
• “black marker barter” • John J. Dunphy • Scifaikuest, May 2012
• Bone Song • Anna Sykora • Bête Noire, October 2012
• Book Wyrm • Robert Borski • Asimov’s Science Fiction, April/May 2012
• A Cautionary Note from the Time Thief • Bruce Boston • Silver Blade, December 2012
• Charred • Jeffrey Park • Inorganic (White Knuckle Chaps, 2012)
• Cognizance: a Triptych • Kurt MacPhearson • Star*Line 35.4
• “dark figure” • Carolyn M. Hinderliter • Scifaikuest, May 2012
• Desert Protocol • Ann K. Schwader • inkscrawl 3
• Electric Touch • Angel Favazza • Star*Line 35.1
• “endless weeks” • Melissa Frederick • inkscrawl 3
• “evening sun” • Helen Buckingham • tinywords 12.1
• Fairy Beekeeper • Adrienne J. Odasso • Strange Horizons, December 2012
• “falling star” • Rafał Zabratynski • DailyHaiku, February 2012
• Ghosts • Geoffrey A. Landis • Asimov’s Science Fiction, Oct/Nov 2012
• “the girl stood sideways” • Rich Magahiz • inkscrawl 4
• The Green Man Answers the Classifieds • Sonya Taaffe • inkscrawl 4
• “the half-light of your eyes” • semi • Artifact Issue 30, Volume 6
• The Hidden • Mary Turzillo • Lovers & Killers (Dark Regions 2012)
• “Human Beings from Earth” • David Glen Larson • Beyond Centauri, April 2012
• A Huntsman’s Dilemma • A. B. S. Dudevaunt • Artifact Issue 30, Volume 6
• Let me tell you about dawn • M. Frost • Star*Line 35.1
• The Mermaid’s Winter Song • Brittany Warman • inkscrawl 4
• “murderer’s diary” • Joanne Morcom • Scifaikuest, August 2012
• “our ships” • dan smith • Scifaikuest, May 2012
• Ovid on Climate Change • Eliza Griswold • Poetry, December 2012
• Parade • Brian Rosenberger • Zombies for a Cure, ed. Angela Charmaine Craig (Elektrik
  Milk Bath Press, 2012)
• “particles dancing” • Albert W. Grohmann • Scifaikuest, February 2012
• “petals falling in riotous profusion” • Yunsheng Jiang • Ideomancer, December 2012
• Pregnant With Rapunzel • Laura King • Goblin Fruit Winter 2012
• The Price You Have to Pay • John M. Edwards • Space & Time, Fall 2012
• “reflected moon” • Albert W. Grohmann • Scifaikuest, August 2012
• Regretful Orbits • Sandra Kasturi • Come Late to the Love of Birds (Tightrope Books,
  2012)
• Replacement • Dennis M. Lane • The Poring Dark: 60 Excursions across the Multiverse
  (Terran Dream Archive, 2012)
• The Robot As Engineering Assistant • Ken Poyner • Star*Line 35.1
• “a running train” • Yunsheng Jiang • Scifaikuest, November 2012
• Sarcophagus • N. E. Taylor • inkscrawl 3
• “silence now” • Albert W. Grohmann • Scifaikuest, August 2012
• “Singularity:” • Geoffrey A. Landis • Star*Line 34.3
• Sneezing in Zero-G • Melissa Frederick • Star*Line 35.3
• Tell Me About Passion • John C. Mannone • The Den, February 2012
• “tendrils caress” • David C. Kopaska-Merkel • 7x20, January 2012
• “that card” • assu • Scifaikuest, August 2012
• They Wanted Smaller Government • Mark Danowsky • Mobius: The Journal of Social
  Change 23.3
• Three Alien Koans • Greg Beatty • inkscrawl 3
• “the undead” • David Clink • Crouching Yak, Hidden Emu (The Battered Silicon
  Dispatch Box, 2012)
• “Wanted: octopoid” • David C. Kopaska-Merkel • Cthulhu Haiku (Popcorn Press, 2012)
• While They Sleep • F. J. Bergmann • Café Irreal 42
• “will my full hair” • LeRoy Gorman • Scifaikuest, August 2012
• Wishing It Were Otherwise • Alan Meyrowitz • Diverse Voices Quarterly, December
  2012
• “The world quivers” • José Luis Zárate, tr. Fred W. Bergmann • Star*Line 35.1
• “wormhole opening” • Simon Kewin • 7x20, September 2012
• Yule Night • Chris Friend • Dreams and Nightmares, September 2012
• The Zombie Orchestra • dan smith • Zombies for a Cure, ed. Angela Charmaine Craig
  (Elektrik Milk Bath Press, 2012)

Nominations by Publication

Number of Nominations	Publication Name
2	7x20
3	Artifact
2	Asimov’s Science Fiction
1	Bête Noire
1	Beyond Centauri
1	Café Irreal
1	Come Late to the Love of Birds (Tightrope Books, 2012)
1	Crouching Yak, Hidden Emu (The Battered Silicon Dispatch Box, 2012)
1	Cthulhu Haiku & Other Mythos Madness, ed. Lester Smith (Popcorn Press, 2012)
1	DailyHaiku
1	The Den
1	Diverse Voices Quarterly
1	Dreams & Nightmares
1	Goblin Fruit
1	Ideomancer
7	inkscrawl
1	Inorganic (White Knuckle Chaps, 2012)
1	Lovers & Killers (Dark Regions Press, 2012)
1	Mobius: The Journal of Social Change 23.3
1	Poetry
1	The Poring Dark (Terran Dream Archive, 2012)
1	Rattle
11	Scifaikuest
1	Silver Blade
1	Space and Time
7	Star*Line
1	Strange Horizons
2	Zombies for a Cure, ed. Angela Charmaine Craig (Elektrik Milk Bath Press, 2012)