science fiction and fantasy poetry association
Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association
2005 Rhysling Anthology and Award

Anthology Information

Rhysling Chair: Drew Morse

Layout and Typesetting: Mike Allen

Cover Art and Design: Tim Mullins

Publisher: Science Fiction Poetry Association and Dark Regions Press

Printing: Fidlar Doubleday Inc.

ISBN: 1-888993-51-0

The 2005 anthology was also published in hardcover with the cover below:

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Award Winners

Short Poem Category

First Place: Greg Beatty • No Ruined Lunar City • Abyss & Apex 11 October 2004.

Second Place: Mikal Trimm • The Clockmaker’s Wife • Star*Line 27.5, Sept/Oct 2004.

Third Place: Ann K. Schwader • Rich & Strange • Strange Horizons 12/13/04.

Long Poem Category

First Place: Tim Pratt • Soul Searching • Strange Horizons 7/12/04.

Second Place: Tim Pratt • Making Monsters • Strange Horizons 7/19/04.

Third Place: Tim Pratt • Soul Searching • Strange Horizons 7/12/04.

All Nominated Poems

Short Poems

  • Mike Allen • The Asteroid Painter • Dreams and Nightmares 67, June 2004.
  • Mike Allen • The Best of All Probable Worlds • Dreams and Nightmares 66, February 2004.
  • Mike Allen • Strange Cargo • Strange Horizons, December 6, 2004.
  • Greg Beatty • No Ruined Lunar City • Abyss & Apex 11 October 2004.
  • Ruth Berman • Seating Chart • The Magazine of Speculative Poetry 6.4, Autumn 2004.
  • Leah Bobet • Her Hero • Strange Horizons 3/22/04.
  • Bruce Boston, Heavy Weather • Asimov’s Science Fiction 28.8, August 2004.
  • Judith Boyer • I am the Ugly Stepsister • Dreams and Nightmares 68, July 2004.
  • G.O. Clark • Family Tree • The Pedestal Magazine 25, December 2004.
  • Jennifer de Guzman • Carnival • Strange Horizons 1/19/04.
  • Roger Dutcher • Bolts of Memory • Dreams and Nightmares 66, February 2004.
  • John Garrison • Her Master’s Whereabouts • Fables 7.3, Autumn 2004.
  • John Grey • Wizard Turns His Wife into a Frog • Star*Line 27.3, May/June 2004.
  • Marci Rae Johnson • Red Shirt • Full Unit Hookup 5, Spring 2004.
  • Wesley Lambert • Six Breaths • Hadrosaur Tales, March 2004.
  • Robin M. Mayhall • Mother of Atlantis • Strange Horizons 8/32/04.
  • Pam McNew • Rural Blessings • Strange Horizons 11/15/04.
  • David Memmott • The Oculist Builds Glass Eyes to Refocus His Grief • The Magazine of Speculative Poetry 6.3, Spring 2004.
  • Joy Oestreicher • To Catch the Light • Star*Line 27.6, Nov/Dec 2004.
  • Terrie Leigh Relf • A Poet On Board • Illumen 1, October 2004.
  • Thomas D. Reynolds • How to Survive on a Distant Planet • Strange Horizons 5/3/04.
  • Karen A. Romanko • Witch, You Say • In Raven’s Runes (Sam’s Dot Publishing, 2004).
  • Charles M. Saplak • The Submergence and Re-Emergence of John Starkey • Dreams and Nightmares 67, June 2004.
  • Ann K. Schwader • Diving Xibalba • Dreams and Nightmares 68, July 2004.
  • Ann K. Schwader • Rich & Strange • Strange Horizons 12/13/04.
  • Ann K. Schwader • Through a Lens Vaguely (Mars ’03) • Astropoetica 2.1, Winter 2004.
  • Marge Simon • The Seasons of Death • The Pedestal Magazine 21, April 2004.
  • Sonya Taaffe • Daughters of the Ash-Tree • Not One of Us 32, October 2004.
  • Sonya Taaffe • An Eclipse of Raven • Dreams and Nightmares 68, July 2004.
  • Marcie Lynn Tentchoff • The Spice of Life • Decompositions, November 2004.
  • Mikal Trimm • The Clockmaker’s Wife • Star*Line 27.5, Sept/Oct 2004.
  • roibeárd uí-neíll • elementary scientific theism • The Magazine of Speculative Poetry 6.3, Spring 2004.
  • Scott H. Urban • Plastered • Raven Electrick, October 2004.
  • Catherynne M. Valente • Gingerbread • Music of a Proto-Suicide (J*A*M Pie Press, 2004).
  • William John Watkins • Thank-You Note to Sandra from the Anti-Matter Universe • Raven Electrick, June 2004.
  • Ian Watson • In Praise of Spam • Star*Line 27.2, March/April 2004.
  • Frida Westford • Lamia • Star*Line 27.5, Sept/Oct 2004.
  • Jane Yolen • Musings About Seth • Mythic Delirium 10, Winter/Spring 2004.

Long Poems

  • Mike Allen • The Night Watchman Dreams His Rounds at the REM Sleep Factory • Dreams and Nightmares 69 October 2004.
  • Elizabeth Barrette • The Poltergeist of Polaris • The Pedestal Magazine 24, October 2004.
  • Greg Beatty • The Other Sleeping Beauties • Strange Horizons 11/22/04.
  • John Borneman • Gargoyle • Abyss & Apex 11, October 2004.
  • Bruce Boston • The Changing of the Flesh • Star*Line 27.4, July/Aug 2004.
  • Christine Butterworth-McDermott • Flounder • Tales of the Unanticipated 25, August 2004.
  • Joe R. Christopher • Interiors and Exteriors • In The Classical World II (The Laocoön Press, 2004).
  • G.O. Clark • The Smile • Star*Line 27.2, March/April 2004.
  • Gary Every • Azurite Mine • Mythic Delirium 11, Summer/Fall 2004.
  • Larry Hammer • Her First Affair • Abyss & Apex 10, July 2004.
  • L.A. Story Houry • Blue Teardrops • Illumen 1, October 2004.
  • Charlee Jacob • Craft and the Artificial Satellite • In The Desert (Dark Regions Press, 2004).
  • Andrew Joron and Robert Frazier • Uncompressed Rituals • Synergy SF: New Science Fiction, Ed. George Zebrowski (Five Star, 2004).
  • David C. Kopaska-Merkel • Quietly Stealing the Sun • Illumen 1, October 2004.
  • F. Korn • Winter • The Iconoclast 87, 2004.
  • Claudia C. McGivney • Homicide • Wicked Hollow 8, May 2004.
  • Tim Pratt • Making Monsters • Strange Horizons 7/19/04.
  • Tim Pratt • Soul Searching • Strange Horizons 7/12/04.
  • Harold Renisch • Stirk • ChiZine 21, 2004.
  • Heather Shaw • Old Gods, New Rules • Star*Line 27.3, May/June 2004.
  • Mary Sheffield • string theory • The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, 6.3 Spring 2004.
  • Catherynne M. Valente • Vitia Capitalis • Music of a Proto-Suicide (J*A*M Pie Press, 2004).
  • Bud Webster • Three Observations Upon the Discovery that Water Once Existed on Mars • Mythic Delirium 11, Summer/Fall 2004.

Poems Not Included in Anthology

  • Derek Walcott • [Time, that gnaws at bronze lions and dolphins] • Poetry 184.5, Sept. 2004 and in The Prodigal (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004).
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