Anthology Information
Rhysling Chair: G.O. Clark
Compiler: David C. Kopaska-Merkel
Design and Printing: Mike Williams
Cover Art: Julia Morgan-Scott
Back Cover Art: Allen Koszowski
Publisher: Science Fiction Poetry Association
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Award Winners
Short Poem Category
First Place: Bruce Boston • My Wife Returns As She Would Have It • Asimov’s Science Fiction, March 2000
Second Place (tie): G. O. Clark • Of Dance Steps and Distances • Icarus Ascending, Oct. 2000
Second Place (tie): Ann K. Schwader • Reflections in a Fading Mir • Mythic Delirium 3, 2000
Third Place: Tracina Jackson-Adams • Persephone Wakening • The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Spring 2000
Long Poem Category
First Place: Joe Haldeman • January Fires • Asimov’s Science Fiction, Jan. 2001
Second Place (tie): James S. Dorr • Maya • Strange Attraction (Bereshith/ShadowLands Press, 2000)
Second Place (tie): David C. Kopaska-Merkel • Valley of Years • Results of a Preliminary Investigation of Electrochemical Properties of Some Organic Matrices (Eraserhead Press, 2000)
Third Place (tie): Bruce Boston • The Lesions of Genetic Sin • (Miniature Sun Press, 2000)
Third Place (tie): Gene van Troyer • Event Horizons • Snow Monkey 2.1, 2000
All Nominated Poems
Short Poems
- Mike Allen • Planeta do Favela • Defacing the Moon (DNA Publications, 2000)
- Bruce Boston • My Wife Returns As She Would Have It • Asimov’s Science Fiction, March 2000
- G. O. Clark • Of Dance Steps and Distances • Icarus Ascending, Oct. 2000
- David Clink • First Contact • Analog Science Fiction and Fact, July/Aug. 2000
- Sandy DeLuca • Sarah • Burial Plot in Sagittarius (Thievin’ Kitty Publications, 2001)
- Denise Dumars • Nehebka • Isis Rising, 2000
- Roger Dutcher • Outbound: Cryogenic Dream Issue 1 • Talebones, Spring 2000
- Timons Esaias • Advice for Our New Galactic Warriors • Fantasy Commentator, Spring 2000
- Timons Esaias • The Last Word • Asimov’s Science Fiction, May 2000
- Albert Goldbarth • untitled • Poetry, July 2000
- Tracina Jackson-Adams • Persephone Wakening • The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Spring 2000
- Mary Soon Lee • Every Other Day of the Year • Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 11/11/00
- Sandra Lindow • The Sibyl Servant • The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Autumn 2000
- Terry McGarry • Terminal Moraine • The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Spring 2000
- Tom Piccirilli • Not Yet of the Flesh • A Student of Hell (Skull Job Productions, 2000)
- John Salonia • The Oort Cloud • Star*Line 23.3, 2000
- Ann K. Schwader • Reflections in a Fading Mir • Mythic Delirium 3, 2000
- Marge Simon • Ebonmadder’s Run • Space & Time 92, 2000
- Bobbi Sinha-Morey • Fairy in Winter • Icarus Ascending, Oct. 2000
- Mary Rudbeck Stanko • Poem for Persephone • Isis Rising, 2000
Long Poems
- Sabina C. Becker • Worldbuilding • Dreams & Nightmares 56, 2000
- Bruce Boston • The Lesions of Genetic Sin • (Miniature Sun Press, 2000)
- Bruce Boston • Tale of the Dream Merchant • Fantasy Commentator, Spring 2000
- James S. Dorr • Maya • Strange Attraction (Bereshith/ShadowLands Press, 2000)
- Roger Dutcher • Virtual Death • Star*Line 23.1, 2000
- Phil Emery • Barley Bree and Autumn • The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Autumn 2000.
- Joe Haldeman • January Fires • Asimov’s Science Fiction, Jan. 2001
- Charlee Jacob • Stalking the Perception • Icarus Ascending, Oct. 2000
- Charlee Jacob • Beds • Flowers from a Dark Star, Dark Regions Press, 2000
- Charlee Jacob • Skin • Perihelion Broadside Series 3 (Miniature Sun Press, 2000)
- David C. Kopaska-Merkel • Valley of Years • Results of a Preliminary Investigation of Electrochemical Properties of Some Organic Matrices (Eraserhead Press, 2000)
- Sandra Lindow • Because We Must • The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Spring 2000
- Kurt Newton • beneath the pale city • The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Autumn 2000
- Richard William Pearce • Pegasus Rose • Mythic Delirium 3, 2000
- Gene van Troyer • Event Horizons • Snow Monkey 2.1, 2000