Award Winners

All Nominated Poems

Short Poems

• Bruce Boston • The Evolution of the Death Murals • Asimov's Science Fiction, Sept. 1985
• Michael R. Collings • Sputnik • Naked to the Sun, Starmont House, 1985
• Andrew Darlington • The Flight in the Cave of the Moonbutchers/The Mooncalf • SF Spectrum, Issue 1, 1985
• Ron Ellis • Car Radio • Velocities, Issue 4, 1984
• Steve Eng • Bardicide • Eldritch Tales, Issue 11, 1985
• Michael Finley • The Man in the Air • The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Spring 1985
• B. Buckley Finnegan • Orbiting Structure • Star*Line, Vol. 8 Issue 3, 1985
• Robert Frazier • Perception Barriers • Asimov's Science Fiction, Dec. 1985
• Thomas Ligotti • One Thousand Painful Variations Performed Upon Divers Creatures Undergoing the Treatment of Dr. Moreau, Humanist • Songs of a Dead Dreamer, Silver Scarab Press, 1985
• Richard McMullen • Dracula’s Dentist • Jam To-day, Issue 11, 1985
• Susan Palwick • The Neighbor’s Wife • Amazing, July 1985
• Jonathan V. Post • To the Stars: Love Hypertext • To the Stars: Love Hypertext, Emerald City Press, 1985
• Mark Rich • Post • The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Summer 1985Jane Yolen • Into the Wood • Asimov's Science Fiction, Feb. 1985

Long Poems

• Michael R. Collings • The Last Pastoral • Naked to the Sun, Starmont House, 1985
• Ron Ellis • Neutrino Mantra • Star*Line, Vol. 8 Issue 2, 1985
• Rochelle Lynn Holt • Without Dreams • Prelude to Fantasy, Issue 4, 1985
• Andrew Joron • Shipwrecked on Destiny Five • Asimov's Science Fiction, May 1985
• Elissa Malcohn • Pantoum for a Switched Identity • The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Summer 1985
• Ken Poyner • The Last Day • Jam To-day, Issue 11, 1985
• Peter Viereck • Rogue • The Poetry Review, Sept. 1985t. Winter-Damon • Flickering Blue Extreme • Back Brain Recluse, Issue 4, 1985