Anthology Information
Rhysling Chair: Lida Broadhurst
Editor: David C. Kopaska-Merkel
Cover Image: Marge Simon
Back Cover Art: Morgan L. Kopaska-Merkel
Publisher: Science Fiction Poetry Association and Stone Lightning Press
Note: The 1998 Rhysling anthology also includes nominated poems from the 1997 award.
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Award Winners
Short Poem Category
First Place: John Grey • Explaining Frankenstein to His Mother • Star*Line, Vol. 20 Issue 3, 1997
Second Place: Charlee Jacob • Shaman • The Catbird Seat, Issue 1, 1997
Third Place (tie): Timons Esaias • It’s All Time-Machines, She Said • Star*Line, Vol. 20 Issue 5, 1997
Third Place (tie): Sandra Kasturi • On Reading Bradbury • Tesseracts 6, Tesseract Books, 1997
Long Poem Category
First Place: Laurel Winter • why goldfish shouldn’t use power tools • Asimov’s Science Fiction, Dec. 1997
Second Place: Charlee Jacob • Ghost Ships • Asylums and Labyrinths, Nov. 1997
Runner-up: James S. Dorr • Medusa’s Daughter • Star*Line, Vol. 20 Issue 3, 1997
All Nominated Poems
Short Poems
- Marion Arenas • Warning to the Younger Sisters • The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Spring 1997
- Timons Esaias • It’s All Time-Machines, She Said • Star*Line, Vol. 20 Issue 5, 1997
- John Grey • Explaining Frankenstein to His Mother • Star*Line, Vol. 20 Issue 3, 1997
- Rhys Hughes • Monkey from a Cannon • Nasty Piece of Work, Issue 5, 1997
- Charlee Jacob • Shaman • The Catbird Seat, Issue 1, 1997
- Andrew Joron • The Weatherman • The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Spring 1997
- Sandra Kasturi • On Reading Bradbury • Tesseracts 6, Tesseract Books, 1997
- Carol D. Page • California • Star*Line, Vol. 20 Issue 1, 1997
- Kathryn Rantala • Email • ALBA, Sept. 1997
- Wendy Rathbone • This Dream We Lumber In • Talebones, Summer 1997
- Clélie Rich • lunary • Tesseracts 6, Tesseract Books, 1997
- Margaret Ballif Simon • Sourdough Bread • Tales of the Unanticipated, Issue 18, 1997
Long Poems
- Mike Allen • Gears • Space & Time, Issue 87, 1997
- James S. Dorr • Medusa’s Daughter • Star*Line, Vol. 20 Issue 3, 1997
- Charlee Jacob • Ghost Ships • Asylums and Labyrinths, Nov. 1997
- David Memmott • The Grounded Astronaut Forgoes His Pension for the Gift of Prophecy But Learns Time Does Not Flow in One Direction • The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Spring 1997
- Rhea Rose • whistling women • Tesseracts 6, Tesseract Books, 1997
- Laurel Winter • why goldfish shouldn’t use power tools • Asimov’s Science Fiction, Dec. 1997