1985 Rhysling Anthology and Award

Anthology Information

Rhysling Chair/Editor: [uncredited]

Cover Image: Robert Frazier

Publisher: Science Fiction Poetry Association

Award Winners

Short Poem Category

First Place: Bruce Boston • For Spacers Snarled in the Hair of Comets • Asimov's Science Fiction, April 1984

Long Poem Category

First Place: Siv Cedering • A Letter from Caroline Herschel (1750-1848) • Science 84, June 1984

All Nominated Poems

Short Poems

  • Hope Athearn • The Twenty-Fifth (found in the archives of Sirius IV) • Asimov's Science Fiction, July 1984
  • Michael Bishop • Independence Day Forever • Fantasy & Science Fiction, July 1984
  • Bruce Boston • For Spacers Snarled in the Hair of Comets • Asimov's Science Fiction, April 1984
  • Anne J. Braude • Launcelot in Winter • Niekas, Issue 27, 1984
  • Helen Ehrlich • For Alfred, Lord Tennyson • Star*Line, Vol. 7 Issue 2, 1984
  • Suzanne Lummis • How It All Began • Idiosyncracies, Illuminati Press, 1984
  • Chuck Oliveros • The Man Who Left Us Behind • Velocities, Issue 3, 1984
  • Jonathan V. Post • The Problem of Pain • Poetry Chapbook 1, Star/Sword Publications, 1984

Long Poems

  • Siv Cedering • A Letter from Caroline Herschel (1750-1848) • Science 84, June 1984
  • Bill Hotchkiss • Audible Lithography • Pudding, Issue 11, 1984
  • Andrew Joron & Robert Frazier • Hominid Voices • Uranus, Issue 4, 1984
  • David Lunde • The Still Point • Asimov's Science Fiction, April 1984
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