2003 Rhysling Anthology and Award – Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association

Anthology Information

Rhysling Chair: Mike Allen and Drew Morse

Compiling, Layout, and Printing: Mike Allen

Cover Art: Tim Mullins

Publisher: Science Fiction Poetry Association

Award Winners

Short Poem Category

First Place: Ruth Berman • Potherb Gardening • Asimov’s Science Fiction, Dec. 2002.

Second Place: Mike Allen • A Ghost Story • Weird Tales, Spring 2002.

Third Place: David C. Kopaska-Merkel • meteor shower • The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Spring 2002.

Long Poem Category

First Place (tie): Charles Saplak & Mike Allen • Epochs in Exile: A Fantasy Trilogy • Eotu Ezine, Feb. 2002.

First Place (tie): Sonya Taaffe • Matlacihuatl’s Gift • Dreams & Nightmares 63, 2002.

Second Place: David C. Kopaska-Merkel • Medusa’s Tale • Mythic Delirium 7, 2002.

Third Place: Tyree Campbell • Not One of Us • Sex and the Single Alien (Writer’s Club Press, 2002).

All Nominated Poems

Short Poems

Mike Allen • A Ghost Story • Weird Tales, Spring 2002.
Mike Allen • A Million Layers Removed • Tales of the Unanticipated 23, 2002.
Anastasia Andersen • The Storm Maidens • Raven Electrick, Oct. 2002.
Jim Applegate • Final Whimper • Amaze: The Cinquain Journal, Aug. 2002.
Ruth Berman • Potherb Gardening • Asimov’s Science Fiction, Dec. 2002.
Francis Cartier • On Einstein • Star*Line 25.1, 2002.
G. O. Clark • The Tree • Talebones, Spring 2002.
Erin Donahoe • Like Death • Dreams & Nightmares 62, 2002.
James S. Dorr • Annchuck, by Daylight • Gothic.Net, Aug. 2002.
Chris Ferrier • The Fortune Teller • Weird Tales, Spring 2002.
Robert Frazier • Footnote, from “The Official Guide to Time Travel” • Fantasy & Science Fiction, Oct./Nov. 2002.
Jennifer A. Grier • At the Last • Star*Line 25.3, 2002.
Tracina Jackson-Adams • Seven Pairs of Iron Shoes • Star*Line 25.2, 2002.
Laura Jacobsen • The Watercolor Sky • Star*Line 25.2, 2002.
Rebecca Lu Kiernan • When a Snake Bites You in the Ass • Star*Line 25.3, 2002.
David C. Kopaska-Merkel • meteor shower • The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Spring 2002.
Tim Pratt • A Bestiary: Poor Bahamut • Strange Horizons, April 2002.
Marge Simon • Carnival 2001 • Dark Illuminati, Aug. 2002.
Marge Simon • Old Earth Is the Museum of Genetic Art • The Martian Wave, Sept. 2002.
Marge Simon • Salon de Nadir • Star*Line 25.5, 2002.
Scott Thomas • Buying November • Dark Illuminati, Aug. 2002.
Sheree Renée Thomas • Starry Crown • African Voices, Spring/Summer 2002.
Ian Watson • The Pleasure Surgeons • Dreams & Nightmares 62, 2002.
Ian Watson • Werechihuahua • Mythic Delirium 6, 2002.

Long Poems

Abbi Ball • The Big Bang Cycle • Strange Horizons, June 2002.
Bruce Boston • Film Artifact: A Review • Science Fiction Poetry Review, Jan. 2002.
Bruce Boston • She Was There for Him the Last Time • (Miniature Sun Press, Oct. 2002).
Tyree Campbell • Not One of Us • Sex and the Single Alien (Writer’s Club Press, 2002).
C. A. Conrad • Frank • Strange Horizons, May 2002.
Denise Dumars • Dirge with Jazz Backbeat • Star*Line 25.6, 2002.
Kendall Evans • Mission to a Quantum Asteroid • Mythic Delirium 7, 2002.
Clark Hays • Devosha K. Deeos and the Disks of Eternity • Wicked Hollow 1, 2002.
Charlee Jacob • Doubt • Star*Line 25.5, 2002.
David C. Kopaska-Merkel • Medusa’s Tale • Mythic Delirium 7, 2002.
David C. Kopaska-Merkel • millennial dreams • Dark Illuminati, Aug. 2002.
David C. Kopaska-Merkel • A Voyage to the Moon • Mythic Delirium 6, 2002.
Robert Randolph Medcalf, Jr. • Ice Magic • Strange Horizons, March 2002.
Charles Saplak & Mike Allen • Epochs in Exile: A Fantasy Trilogy • Eotu Ezine, Feb. 2002.
Marge Simon • Another Start on Finite Time • Space and Time 96, 2002.
Sonya Taaffe • Matlacihuatl’s Gift • Dreams & Nightmares 63, 2002.
Laurel Winter • The Intergalactic Host Program • Asimov’s Science Fiction, Oct./Nov. 2002.