Anthology Information
Editor and Rhysling Chair: Lyn C. A. Gardner
Layout and Typesetting: Robert Frazier
Cover Photography: T. A. Rector/University of Alaska–Anchorage, H. Schweiker/WIYN and National Optical Astronomy Observatory/Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy/National Science Foundation
Cover Design: David Lee Summers
Publisher: Science Fiction Poetry Association in cooperation with Hadrosaur Productions
ISBN: 978-1-885093-63-9
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Rhysling Showcase Podcast
Poetry Planet 2012 Rhysling Award Showcase Podcast, read by Diane Severson
Award Winners
Short Poem Category
First Place: Shira Lipkin • "The Library, After" • Mythic Delirium
Second Place: Erik Amundsen • "The Lend" • Stone Telling
Third Place: Lyn C. A. Gardner • "In Translation" • Tales of the Talisman
Long Poem Category
First Place: Megan Arkenberg • "The Curator Speaks in the Department of Dead Languages" • Strange Horizons
Second Place: G. O. Clark and Kendall Evans • "The 25-Cent Rocket: One-Quarter of the Way to the Stars" • Dreams & Nightmares
Third Place: Mary Turzillo • "The Legend of the Emperor's Space Suit (A Tale of Consensus Reality)" • New Myths
Chair and Winner Biographies
Megan Arkenberg is a student in Wisconsin who, after next semester, will hopefully be able to call herself a teacher. Her short stories have recently appeared in Asimov's, Lightspeed, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and her poetry has been published in Strange Horizons, Ideomancer, and dozens of other places. She procrastinates by editing the fantasy e-zine Mirror Dance and the historical fiction e-zine Lacuna.
Shira Lipkin's poetry and short fiction have been published in Apex Magazine, Stone Telling, Chizine, Interfictions 2, Mythic Delirium, and other wonderful magazines and anthologies. She lives in Boston with her family and the requisite cats, most of whom also write. She also fights crime with the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center, does six impossible things before breakfast, and would like a nap now.
Erik Amundsen. (no bio provided)
G. O. Clark is the author of ten poetry collections, the most recent, White Shift, 2012, and a short-story collection, The Saucer Under My Bed & Other Stories, 2011, both from Sam's Dot Publishing. He won the Asimov's Readers Award for poetry in 2001, and was a Stoker Award nominee in 2012. He lives in Davis, CA.
More than 250 poems by Kendall Evans have been published in various sf, fantasy, and horror magazines and anthologies. He is the author of a book-length dramatic poem, The Rings of Ganymede, for which he is currently seeking a publisher.
(Photo at Condor Science Fiction convention by Kenn Bates.)
Lyn C. A. Gardner keeps company with five feline friends. Her first poetry collection, Dreaming of Days in Astophel, is available from Sam's Dot Publishing. Her first cat, Tino, actually did type "Nio" on her laptop one day. From his vantage on her shoulders, he purred feline wisdom while she wrote and helped to shape "In Translation."
Mary Turzillo (no bio or photo provided)
All Nominated Poems
76 members voted on 64 short poems and 39 long poems.
Short Poems
- Mary Alexandra Agner • "Venus to Her Terraformers" • The Scientific Method (Parallel Press, 2011)
- Camille Alexa • "Young Miss Frankenstein Regrets" • ChiZine
- Erik Amundsen • "The Lend" • Stone Telling
- Elizabeth Barrette • "The Shipwright's Song" • Torn World
- Robert Borski • "Abel" • The Magazine of Speculative Poetry
- Bruce Boston • "The Music of Robots" • Asimov’s Science Fiction
- Rich Boucher • "Response to Botticelli" • The Rag
- G. O. Clark • "Peter and Alice" • Space and Time
- P. S. Cottier • "Fingernails" • ChiZine
- Becca De La Rosa • "World's End" • Goblin Fruit
- James S. Dorr • "Monkey See" • Space and Time
- Denise Dumars • "Folding Money" • Mythic Delirium
- Martin Elster • "My Unicorn" • MindFlights
- Timons Esaias • "Dark Matter" • Strange Horizons
- Kendall Evans • "Dragon" • The Tin Men and Other Poems, by Kendall Evans and David C.
- Kopaska-Merkel (Sam’s Dot Publishing, 2011)
- Angel Favazza • "Clothes of Yesterday" • Star*Line
- Janis Freegard • "Yayoi Kusama goes to Iceland" • Eye to the Telescope
- Lyn C. A. Gardner • "In Translation" • Tales of the Talisman
- T. M. Göttl • "Bridges" • Franklin-Christoph Poetry Contest
- Neile Graham • "The Bean-Sidhe Calls in Owl-Light" • Goblin Fruit
- Neile Graham • "The Ones Outside Your Door" • Goblin Fruit
- John Grey • "Mr. and Mrs. Goodnight" • Tales of the Talisman
- Sandra Kasturi • "Ode to the Mongolian Death Worm" • ChiZine
- Roz Kaveney • "Fembot" • Silence, Exile, and Crumpets
- Keith Kennedy • "First Loves for the First Time" • Niteblade
- Nicole Kornher-Stace • "The Witch's Heart" •
- B. J. Lee • "The Tortoise's Encounter" •
- Greg Leunig • "Love in the Quantum Era" • Strange Horizons
- Shira Lipkin • "The Library, After" • Mythic Delirium
- C. S. MacCath • "When I Arrived, This Is What She Said" • Goblin Fruit
- Elizabeth R. McClellan • "Down Cycles" • Apex Magazine
- Dawn McDuffie • "Thank God for Proust" • Bulky Pick Up Day (Finishing
- Line Press, 2011)
- Joanne Merriam • "Love in the Time of Alien Invasion" • The Magazine of Speculative Poetry
- Kurt Newton • "Nuclear Stockpile Janitor" • Dreams & Nightmares
- Scott Nickell • "Response to Poe's 'Sonnet—To Science'" • Abyss & Apex
- Juan Manuel Perez • "Vanity" • Star*Line
- Tim Pratt • "Lion Heart" • Apex Magazine
- Sofía Rhei, translated by Lawrence Schimel • "The Magic Walnut" • Mythic Delirium
- Matthew Richards • "Ravel: An Etymology" • Star*Line
- Andrew Rihn • "The Physics Major Agrees to Take the English Major Stargazing" • Astropoetica
- Ty Russell • "The Seas of Time" • Silver Blade
- R. Paul Sardanas and Tisha Garcia • "Luna Satyricon" • Beneath an Elegant Moon (Passion in Print Press, 2011)
- Ann K. Schwader • "the more space" • Eye to the Telescope
- Ann K. Schwader • "Past Human" • Strange Horizons
- Alexandra Seidel • "Lanterns" • Jack-o’-Spec: Tales of Halloween and Fantasy (Raven Electrick Ink, 2011)
- John W. Sexton • "slit sea cucumber" • microcosms
- Marge Simon • "The Human Guest" • The BSFan (Baltimore Science Fiction Society, 2011)
- Marge Simon • "Visitors" • The Mad Hattery (Elektrik Milk Bath Press, 2011)
- Robin Spriggs • "The Elusive Language of Purple Birds" • Platform
- Heidy Steidlmayer • "Grendel's Mother" • Poetry
- W. Gregory Stewart • "idiointerventionist (or, 'but I interrupt myself')" • Tales of the Talisman
- Anna Sykora • "Dead Hotels" • Not One of Us
- Sonya Taaffe • "Taking the Auspices" • inkscrawl
- James E. Tolan • "Red Grown" • In the Garden of the Crow (Elektrik Milk Bath Press, 2011)
- Mary Turzillo • "Graffiti Tree" • Star*Line
- Mary Turzillo • "Moving to Enceladus" • Stone Telling
- Anna Waite • "To the ancients, the sea was a dangerous place" • The Chocolate Chip Country: Adventures in Writing, Cooking, and Living
- Kyla Lee Ward • "The Kite" • The Land of Bad Dreams (P’rea Press, 2011)
- Gerald Warfield • "A Greater Moon" • New Myths
- Jacqueline West • "Escaping the Dawn" • Cover of Darkness (Sam’s Dot Publishing, 2011)
- Neal Wilgus • "A Modest Suggestion" • The InterdiMENSionAl Journal
- Stephen M. Wilson • "Angel's Den" • Paper Crow
- Stephen M. Wilson • "Christogenesis" • Paper Crow
- Greer Woodward • "Closure" • Illumen
Long Poems
- Mike Allen, Sonya Taaffe, and Nicole Kornher-Stace • "The King of Cats, the Queen of Wolves" • Apex Magazine
- Erik Amundsen • "Desfixion" • Jabberwocky
- Megan Arkenberg • "The Curator Speaks in the Department of Dead Languages" • Strange Horizons
- Elizabeth Barrette • "The Cathedral of the Michaelangelines" • Burning Tree Press Magazine
- Dana Bell • "Welcomed Cast Outs" • Tales of the Talisman
- Robert Borski • "Gavage" • Dreams & Nightmares
- Bruce Boston • "Surreal Fortune" • Strange Horizons
- g. sutton breiding • "Letter from the Golden Age" • Star*Line
- Benjamin Cartwright • "Terraforming Mars" • Abyss & Apex
- G. O. Clark and Kendall Evans • "The 25-Cent Rocket: One-Quarter of the Way to the Stars" • Dreams & Nightmares
- C. S. E. Cooney • "Postcards from Mars" • Stone Telling
- Lyn C. A. Gardner • "The Chant of the Black Cats" • Jack-o’-Spec: Tales of Halloween and Fantasy (Raven Electrick Ink, 2011)
- Lyn C. A. Gardner • "The Witch Girl" • Goblin Fruit
- Albert Goldbarth • "Summary: Kinetic vs. Potential" • New Letters
- April Grant • "Wallpaper" • Strange Horizons
- Sally Rosen Kindred • "Wendy Darling Has Bad Dreams" • Strange Horizons
- Rose Lemberg • "In the Third Cycle" • Strange Horizons
- Shira Lipkin • "The Changeling's Lament" • Stone Telling
- Elissa Malcohn • "The Last Dragon Slayer" • Mythic Delirium
- Helen Marshall • "Beautiful Monster" • Paper Crow
- Helen Marshall • Skeleton Leaves: A Collection (Kelp Queen Press, 2011)
- Elizabeth R. McClellan • "The Walking Man Goes Looking for the Sons of John: Six Cantos" • Apex Magazine
- Joanne Merriam • "Tender Aliens" • The Magazine of Speculative Poetry
- Mari Ness • "Snowmelt" • Goblin Fruit
- Paul Park • "Ragnarok" • Tor.com
- Sofia Samatar • "Girl Hours" • Stone Telling
- Alexandra Seidel • "A Masquerade in Four Voices" • Stone Telling
- Nancy Sheng • "Guan Yin in the Garden" • Goblin Fruit
- Michael Shorb • "Ahura Mazda" • The Pedestal
- J. E. Stanley • "Speaking to the Hangman Is Not Permitted" • Rapid Eye Movement (Crisis Chronicles Press, 2011)
- Mary Turzillo • "The Legend of the Emperor's Space Suit (A Tale of Consensus Reality)" • New Myths
- Catherynne M. Valente • "The Melancholy of Mechagirl" • Mythic Delirium
- Catherynne M. Valente • "The Secret of Being a Cowboy" • Stone Telling
- JoSelle Vanderhooft • "Blood, Snow, Birch and Underworld" • Scheherezade’s Bequest
- Caitlin Meredith Walsh, "Initiation" • Niteblade
- Kyla Lee Ward • "The Soldier's Return" • The Land of Bad Dreams (P’rea Press, 2011)
- Shannon Connor Winward • "All Souls' Day" • Jack-o’-Spec: Tales of Halloween and Fantasy (Raven Electrick Ink, 2011)
- Greer Woodward • "Ribbons of the Sun" • Silver Blade
- Xanadu (Ofnguyenfame) • "Mood of Mind (I)—Tu Bi Hi Xa" • Jones AV
Nominations per Periodical
| Number of Nominations | Periodical Name |
|---|---|
| 2 | Abyss & Apex |
| 5 | Apex Magazine |
| 1 | Asimov’s Science Fiction |
| 1 | Astropoetica |
| 1 | Beyond Centauri |
| 1 | Burning Tree Press Magazine |
| 3 | ChiZine |
| 3 | Dreams & Nightmares |
| 2 | Eye to the Telescope |
| 7 | Goblin Fruit |
| 1 | Illumen |
| 1 | inkscrawl |
| 1 | Jabberwocky |
| 1 | Jones AV |
| 1 | The InterdiMENSionAl Journal |
| 4 | The Magazine of Speculative Poetry |
| 1 | microcosms |
| 1 | MindFlights |
| 5 | Mythic Delirium |
| 1 | New Letters |
| 1 | New Myths |
| 2 | Niteblade |
| 1 | Not One of Us |
| 3 | Paper Crow |
| 1 | The Pedestal |
| 1 | Platform |
| 1 | Poetry |
| 1 | The Rag |
| 1 | Scheherazade’s Bequest |
| 2 | Silver Blade |
| 2 | Space and Time |
| 7 | Stone Telling |
| 5 | Star*Line |
| 8 | Strange Horizons |
| 4 | Tales of the Talisman |