2008 Rhysling Anthology and Award

Anthology Information

Editor and Rhysling Chair: Drew Morse

Layout and Typesetting: Mike Allen

Cover Art and Design: Mark Allen

Publisher: Science Fiction Poetry Association and Dark Regions Press

Printing: Lightning Source

ISBN:  978-0-8095-7349-3

Award Winners

Short Poem Category

First Place: F.J. Bergmann • Eating Light • Mythic Delirium 17 Summer/Fall 2007.

Second Place: Margaret Atwood • Ice Palace • The Door (McClelland & Stewart, 2007).

Third Place: Rachel Swirsky • The Oracle on River Street • Goblin Fruit Summer 2007.

Long Poem Category

First Place: Catherynne Valente • The Seven Devils of Central California • Farrago's Wainscot, Summer 2007.

Second Place: Kendall Evans • In Deepspace Shadows • In Deepspace Shadows (Mythic Delirium Books, 2007).

Third Place: Bryan D. Dietrich • The Engineer • Isotope 5.2, Fall/Winter 2007.

All Nominated Poems

Short Poems

  • Mary Alexandra Agner • Be True • Strange Horizons, 2/26/07.
  • Mary Alexandra Agner • The Marian Lee • Goblin Fruit, Spring 2007.
  • Mike Allen • Giving Back to the Muse • Goblin Fruit, Fall 2007.
  • Rae Armantrout • Dark Matter • Colorado Review 34.3, Fall/Winter 2007.
  • Margaret Atwood • Ice Palace • The Door (McClelland & Stewart, 2007).
  • F.J. Bergmann • Eating Light • Mythic Delirium 17 Summer/Fall 2007.
  • K.J. Bishop • The Crone Meets Her Son (on a battlefield) • Electric Velocipede 13, Fall 2007.
  • John Borneman • If We Had No Moon • Star*Line 30.4, July/Aug 2007.
  • Robert Borski • Mrs. McGregor • Magazine of Speculative Poetry 8.2, Autumn 2007.
  • Bruce Boston • Beyond the Clouds of Paradise • Strange Horizons, 11/26/07.
  • G.O. Clark • Reservations Suggested • Asimov's Science Fiction, September 2007.
  • David Livingstone Clink • Falling • On Spec 19.3 [70] Fall 2007.
  • Holly Cooley • After Appomattox • Mythic Delirium 17, Summer/Fall 2007.
  • Constance Cooper • The Cyburbs • 2007 SFPA Poetry Contest Winners.
  • James S. Dorr • Les Fantômes (29 August 2005) • Doorways Magazine 1, March 2007.
  • Gary Every • Virgin Dragon Birth • Tales of the Talisman 3.3, December 2007.
  • Serena Fusek • Loup garou • Helix 4, April 2007.
  • Lila Gailey • How to Hide in a Japanese Print • Mythic Delirium 17, Summer/Fall 2007.
  • Timothy Green • The Amateur Astronomer in Me • Strange Horizons 6/4/07.
  • K.S. Hardy • Weightless • Mythic Delirium 17, Summer/Fall 2007.
  • Christopher Hivner • The Night Silent • Niteblade, December 2007.
  • Deborah P Kolodji • Cellwoman • Star*Line 30.6, Nov/Dec 2007.
  • Deborah P Kolodji • Poems from the New Symbiont • Scifaikuest 4.3, February 2007.
  • David C. Kopaska-Merkel & Kendall Evans • The Beetles' Dung, The Bird's Blind Eye • Doorways Magazine 3 (Fall 2007).
  • Charles Larsen • The Periodic Table • Anthology Twenty-Five (Florida State Poets Association, 2007).
  • Yoon Ha Lee • Winter's Keep • Behold the Pirate Pig 4, December 2007.
  • Shelley Lesher • To All My Clones • Dreams and Nightmares 76, January 2007.
  • Sandra Lindow • Heat • Asimov's Science Fiction, June 2007.
  • A.E. Lowery • Foodstuff • Goblin Fruit Spring 2007.
  • Pam McNew • My Android Bob • Lone Star Stories 23 October 2007.
  • Pam McNew • Ursine Conversation • Lone Star Stories 20 April 2007.
  • Drew Morse • I Can Feel the Drilling • Helix 4 April 2007.
  • Jaime Lee Moyer • Nine days out— • Mythic Delirium 17 Fall 2007.
  • Jaime Lee Moyer • Tales of You • The Sword Review 27 June 2007.
  • Misha Nogha • Valandinne Sings Galdr and Seio • Magpies & Tigers (Wordcraft of Oregon, 2007).
  • Norman J. Olson • Time • Nerve Cowboy 24 Fall 2007.
  • Daniel R. Robichaud • my man come back • Goblin Fruit Fall 2007.
  • Karen A. Romanko • They Threw Their Daughters into the Sea • Goblin Fruit Spring 2007.
  • Brian Rosenberger • Menace Anyone • Sporty Spec: Games of the Fantastic (Raven Electrick Ink, 2007).
  • Sankar Roy • Be Patient, Don't Try to Open Your Eyes • Magazine of Speculative Poetry 8.2 Autumn 2007.
  • Charles Saplak • Ersatz Man, Walking • Star*Line 30.5, Sept/Oct 2007.
  • Charles Saplak • Next Time Write It Down • Mythic Delirium 16 Winter/Spring 2007.
  • Ann K. Schwader • Given to the Frost • Strange Horizons 12/10/2007.
  • Ann K. Schwader • Snowball's Chance • Astropoetica 5.1 Spring/Summer 2007.
  • Greg Schwartz • Night Falls • Bits And Pieces (Spec House of Poetry, June 2007).
  • Marge Simon • Skyman's Daughter • Raven Electrick May 2007.
  • J.E. Stanley • Only the Moon • Dark Intervals (Van Zeno Press, 2007).
  • Rachel Swirsky • The Oracle on River Street • Goblin Fruit Summer 2007.
  • Sonya Taaffe • Follow Me Home • Lone Star Stories 19 February 2007.
  • Sonya Taaffe • The Windfalls • Lone Star Stories 20 April 2007.
  • Rita Janice Traub • Tribute to an Astronaut • The 2nd Annual SFPA Poetry Contest, 2007: Sonnets (Spec House of Poetry, 2007).
  • Mikal Trimm • The Envoy • Helix 6 October 2007.
  • Mary Turzillo • Snow after False Spring, Again • Your Cat and Other Space Aliens (vanZeno Press, 2007).
  • Mary Turzillo • We Made Poetry • Your Cat and Other Space Aliens (vanZeno Press, 2007).
  • Stephen M. Wilson • At the Tsukiji Fish Market • Scifaikuest 5.1 August 2007.
  • K. Ceres Wright • Doomed • Star*Line 30.4 July/Aug 2007.

Long Poems

  • Ruth Berman • Orpheus Gives Directions to Orphics • Tales of the Unanticipated 28 Summer 2007.
  • Leah Bobet • Three Deaths • Lone Star Stories 21 June 2007.
  • Bruce Boston • Interrogation at City Gate • Illumen 4.1 Autumn 2007.
  • Malcolm Deeley • From the Sea of Fertility • Star*Line 30.1 (Jan/Feb 2007.
  • Bryan D. Dietrich • The Engineer • Isotope 5.2, Fall/Winter 2007.
  • Kendall Evans • In Deepspace Shadows • In Deepspace Shadows (Mythic Delirium Books, 2007).
  • Kendall Evans • Riddle of the Sphinx • Poetry Red-Shifted In The Eyes of a Dragon (Spec House of Poetry, 2007).
  • Kendall Evans • Transit of Jupiter • Magazine of Speculative Poetry 8.1, Spring 2007.
  • Kendall Evans & David C. Kopaska-Merkel • The Last Astronaut • Space and Time 100, Spring 2007.
  • J. Bruce Fuller • 28 Blackbirds at the End of the World • Scifaikuest 5.2, November 2007.
  • Albert Goldbarth • To Be Read in 500 Years • Poetry, February 2007.
  • Theodora Goss • How Raven Made His Bride • The Coyote Road, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling (Penguin, 2007).
  • David C. Kopaska-Merkel • A Sliver of Light in Darkness • The Memory of Persistence (Naked Snake Press, August 2007).
  • David C. Kopaska-Merkel • Réanimation Médicale • Ideomancer 6.2, June 2007.
  • Katharine Mills • Seducing the Crone • Goblin Fruit, Summer 2007.
  • Drew Morse, First Light of Mars • Illumen 4.1, Autumn 2007.
  • Kristine Ong Muslim • The Most Secret Rooms • The Fifth Dimension, March 2007.
  • Misha Nogha • Jaguar Moon • Magpies and Tigers (Wordcraft of Oregon, 2007).
  • Misha Nogha • Valadinne the Renegade • Magpies and Tigers (Wordcraft of Oregon, 2007).
  • Alice Oswald • Dunt • Spacecraft Voyager (Graywolf Press, 2007).
  • Richard Pitaniello • The Spiders in the Sky • Niteblade, December 2007.
  • Willow Katsumi Relf-Discartin & Terrie Leigh Relf • Space Envelopes • Sporty Spec: Games of the Fantastic (Raven Electrick Ink, 2007).
  • Marsheila Rockwell • Brothers in Arms • Mythic Delirium 17, Summer/Fall 2007.
  • Marsheila Rockwell • Those Who Wait • Ideomancer 6.3, September 2007.
  • Charles Saplak • Deja Dragon, Damsel Vu • Dreams and Nightmares 78, September 2007.
  • Marge Simon • Private Eden: 2250 • Space and Time 101, Fall 2007.
  • Sonya Taaffe • Kameraden Obscure: A Retrospective • Not One of Us 37, April 2007.
  • Marcie Lynn Tentchoff • The Song of the Dragon-Prowed Ships • Illumen 4.1, Autumn 2007.
  • Mikal Trimm • To Ride in Service of the King • Goblin Fruit, Winter 2007.
  • Catherynne Valente • The Seven Devils of Central California • Farrago's Wainscot, Summer 2007.
  • JoSelle Vanderhooft • Gleipnir Diaries • Mythic Delirium 17, Summer/Fall 2007.
  • JoSelle Vanderhooft • Portrait of a Girl in Dress and Boots • Star*Line 30.1, Jan/Feb 2007.
  • JoSelle Vanderhooft • The Robot's Daughter • Helix 6, October 2007.
  • JoSelle Vanderhooft • The Tale of the Sands • Star*Line 30.3, May/June 2007.
  • Jessica Paige Wick • Virgin and the Unicorn • The Lorelei Signal, October–December, 2007.
  • Ben Wilensky • Before the Beginning • EDGZ 13, Winter/Spring 2007.
  • Erzebet YellowBoy • Eating the Breadcrumbs • Mythic Delirium 16, Winter/Spring 2007.
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