Anthology Information
Editor and Rhysling Chair: John C. Mannone
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: 978-1-885093-70-7
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Rhysling Showcase Podcast
Poetry Planet 2013 Rhysling Award Showcase Podcast, read by Diane Severson
Award Winners
Short Poem Category
First Place: The Cat Star • Terry A. Garey • Lady Poetesses from Hell, ed. Bag Person Press Collective (Bag Person Press)
Second Place: Futurity's Shoelaces • Marge Simon • Balticon 2012 Program Book
Third Place: Sister Philomela Heard the Voices of Angels • Megan Arkenberg • Strange Horizons 8/7/12
Long Poem Category
First Place: Into Flight • Andrew Robert Sutton • Silver Blade 14
Second Place: String Theory • John Philip Johnson • Ad Astra 1
Third Place: (tie) The Time Traveler's Weekend • Adele Gardner • Liquid Imagination 15
Third Place (tie): The Necromantic Wine • Wade German • Avatars of Wizardry, ed. Charles Lovecraft (P'rea Press)
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.
Terry A. Garey's poetry has been published in many journals and anthologies, including Dodeca, Uranus, Star*Line, Asimov's, Weird Tales, The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Raw Sacks, Paper Bag Writer, Dreams and Nightmares, Women en Large, and Burning With A Vision. She has edited poetry for Janus, Tales of the Unanticipated, and is the editor (with Eleanor Arnason) of Time Gum, and also Time Frames: an anthology of speculative poetry. She lives in Minneapolis, MN with a librarian, two cats, and more books than she can count. She is a founding member of Lady Poetesses From Hell.
Andrew Robert Sutton was born and raised in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He attended Michigan State University where he studied both telecommunications and the written word. His heart has been torn between his love of cutting-edge technologies and traditional art forms ever since. His articles on the history of technology and its impact on business have appeared in over forty publications, including newspapers, magazines, and numerous blogs. "Into Flight" is his first foray into poetry.
Marge Simon's works appear in publications such as Bête Noire, Niteblade, DailySF Magazine, Silver Blade, and Dreams & Nightmares. She edits a column for the HWA Newsletter and serves as Chair of the Board of Trustees. She has won the Strange Horizons Readers Choice Award, the Bram Stoker Award™(2008, 2012), the Rhysling Award and the Dwarf Stars Award. Collections: Like Birds in the Rain, Unearthly Delights, The Mad Hattery, Vampires, Zombies & Wanton Souls, and Dangerous Dreams. Member HWA, SFWA, SFPA. margesimon.com
John Philip Johnson has had work in, or forthcoming in, Dreams & Nightmares, Mythic Delirium, Strange Horizons, Rattle, Southern Poetry Review, and Daily Science Fiction, among other places, besides James Gunn's Ad Astra where this poem first appeared. He reviews for Star*Line and elsewhere, and just recently earned a master's degree in English, with a thesis of science fictional poetry, from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. His astro-engineering work at Raytheon is still classified, but let's just say —"
Adele Gardner's poetry collection, Dreaming of Days in Astophel, is available from Sam's Dot Publishing. Adele's stories and poems have appeared in Daily Science Fiction, Legends of the Pendragon, The Doom of Camelot, Penumbra, Scheherazade's Façade, Strange Horizons, Mythic Delirium, Goblin Fruit, and New Myths, among others. In 2012, Adele chaired the Rhysling Awards for the Science Fiction Poetry Association. Currently cataloging librarian for a public library, Adele is also literary executor for father, Delbert R. Gardner. Please visit gardnercastle.com
All Nominated Poems
53 members voted on 70 short poems and 40 long poems from 57 publications.
Short Poems
- 10 Things To Know About Staple Removers • Ian Hunter • Star*Line 35.2
- 2001 • G.O. Clark • Space & Time 117
- Absent Fiends • Marcie Lynn Tentchoff • Star*Line 35.2
- Beachhead • Marge Simon and Michael Fosburg • The Fifth Dimension December 2012
- bell, book and candle • Gwynne Garfinkle • Strange Horizons 3/26/12
- Biosentimentality • Anna Journey • Blackbird: An Online Journal of Literature and the Arts, Fall 2012, Vol. 11, No. 2
- Blind Obedience • Dennis M. Lane • Eye to the Telescope 4
- Bliss • F.J. Bergmann • Tendrils & Tentacles, group ed. (Speculative Technologies, 2012)
- Blueshift • Sonya Taaffe • Goblin Fruit Autumn 2012
- Burning Down Woods on a Snowy Evening • James S. Dorr • Star*Line 35.4
- Burnt Lyric • Sofia Samatar • Goblin Fruit Summer 2012
- The Cat Star • Terry A. Garey • Lady Poetesses from Hell, ed. Bag Person Press Collective (Bag Person Press)
- A Chorus Of Severed Pipes • Kelly Rose Pflug-Back • Goblin Fruit Winter 2012
- Claws • F.J. Bergmann • Out of the Black Forest (Centennial Press)
- Cognizance: a Triptych • Kurt Macphearson • Star*Line 35.4
- Conservatory of Shadows • Jacie Ragan • Eye to the Telescope 6
- The Dark • Michael Fantina • Weird Fiction Review 3
- “dark figure” • Carolyn M. Hinderliter • Scifaikuest 9.4
- The Day That the Screens All Died • Ann K. Schwader • Tales of the Talisman 8.1
- Dear Fairy-Tale Mother • Sally Rosen Kindred • Through the Gate 1
- Dream Train • B.J. Lee • Beyond Centauri April 2012
- Elemental • Jeannine Hall Gailey • Rattle 38
- First Context • John Garrison • Eye to the Telescope 5
- future history • Joe Haldeman • Asimov’s Science Fiction February 2012
- Futurity's Shoelaces • Marge Simon • Balticon 2012 Program Book
- The Ghosts of Birds • Helen Marshall • Phantom Drift 2: Valuable Estrangements
- Give Me Pluto • Alexandra Seidel • Strange Horizons 8/13/12
- Going Viral • Mary A. Turzillo • Star*Line 35.1
- Hair • Hel Gurney • Stone Telling 7
- I Am Chupacabra • Juan Manuel Perez • Boundless 2012, eds. Vanessa Brown, Daniel Garcia Ordaz, and Illeana Garcia-Spitz (El Zarape Press)
- In His Eighty-Second Year • Dominik Parisien • Stone Telling 7
- Jörmungandr • Vajra Chandrasekera • Ideomancer 11:4
- LOL_ALIENS • Elizabeth Barrette • Star*Line 35.2
- The Mermaid's Winter Song • Brittany Warman • inkscrawl 4
- The Moon • Sandra Kasturi • Come Late to the Love of Birds (Tightrope Books)
- The Moon Tripped • Angel Favazza • Star*Line 35.1
- The Music of a Dead World • Bruce Boston • Asimov's Science Fiction August 2012
- No Poisoned Comb • Amal El-Mohtar • Apex Magazine April 3, 2012
- Nocturne • Linda D. Addison and Stephen M. Wilson • SFPA Halloween webpage
- Not a Metaphor but a Lifestyle • Lesley Wheeler • The Receptionist and Other Tales (Aqueduct Press)
- Parallax • Adrienne J. Odasso • Stone Telling 7
- Pavane • F. J. Bergmann • Asimov's Science Fiction June 2012
- Perversity • Stephen D. Rogers • Dreams & Nightmares 92
- Prince of Autumn • David Kopaska-Merkel • The Pedestal Magazine 70
- Profane Inspiration • Marsheila Rockwell • Cthulhu Haiku, ed. Lester Smith (Popcorn Press)
- “a rabid bat” • LeRoy Gorman • Star*Line 35.4
- Red Riding Hood Remembers • Andrea Blythe • Linden Avenue Literary Journal 1
- Redcap • Gemma Files • Not One of Us 48
- Regrets Only • Jeanie Tomasko • Star*Line 35.3
- Roc • Sandra Kasturi • Come Late to the Love of Birds (Tightrope Books)
- Rossum’s Universal Robot Rebuts • Neil Ellman • Parody 1.1
- A sea monster tells his story • David Clink • The Literary Review of Canada July/August 2012
- Self-Portrait as a Raccoon • Noel Sloboda • Rattle December 2012
- She Walks in Light and Darkness • Elizabeth Barrette • Silver Blade 16
- Sister Philomela Heard the Voices of Angels • Megan Arkenberg • Strange Horizons 8/7/12
- Something Super • Mary Alexandra Agner • Eye to the Telescope 3
- Stairs Appear in a Hole Outside of Town • John Philip Johnson • Rattle December
- 2012
- Strangers In This Place • Stephen M. Wilson • Cover of Darkness December 2012
- Stream of Dead Conscious • John McCarthy • Zombies for a Cure, ed. Angela Charmaine Craig (Elektrik Milk Bath Press)
- This time of the year, a UFO casts its probes • Sankar Roy • The Magazine of Speculative Poetry 9.2
- Tiger Lily Speaks • Sally Rosen Kindred • Little Patuxent Review 12
- Trumpet Vine Love Song • Francesca Forrest • Goblin Fruit Summer 2012
- Victory Garden • Samantha Henderson • The House of Forever (Raven Electrick Ink)
- Vigor Mortis • C. W. Johnson • Goblin Fruit Autumn 2012
- “we play the lithophones” • dan smith • Cthulhu Haiku, ed. Lester Smith (Popcorn Press)
- What Would You Think • Theodora Goss • Mythic Delirium 27
- the woman who caught a storm in her hair • Ruby Sara • Goblin Fruit Spring 2012
- The Year of Disasters • Sofia Samatar • Bull Spec 7
- Zipcar in Heaven • Merav Hoffman • inkscrawl 3
- Zombie Poet • Carolyn Clink • Tesseracts Sixteen (Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing)
Long Poems
- Asteres Planetai • Amal El-Mohtar • Stone Telling 7
- Augury • Sandra Kasturi • Come Late to the Love of Birds (Tightrope Books)
- Between the Mountain and the Moon • Rose Lemberg • Strange Horizons 7/2/12
- Came the Rogue • Sally Rosen Kindred • Stone Highway Review 2.1
- Capgras • Robert Borski • Dreams & Nightmares 93
- Carrington's Ferry • Mike Allen • Strange Horizons • 1/23/12
- Casting the Future • Serena Fusek • Star*Line 35.3
- The Clock House • Sonya Taaffe • Stone Telling 7
- Enter Persephone • Marsheila Rockwell • Lissette’s Tales of the Imagination 2.5
- Galatea • Mary A. Turzillo • Abyss and Apex March 2012
- Grandfather • Dennis M. Lane • The Poring Dark (Terran Dream Archive)
- The Horror at Fox Hollow • Lesley Wheeler • The Receptionist and Other Tales (Aqueduct Press)
- In the Beginning Was the Dish • Robert Borski • The Magazine of Speculative Poetry 9.2
- Into Flight • Andrew Robert Sutton • Silver Blade 14
- The Last Crone on the Moon • C. S. E. Cooney • Goblin Fruit Winter 2012
- The Last Wife • by Jennifer Crow • Goblin Fruit Autumn 2012
- La Llorana • Margaret Randall • La Llorana Anthology, ed. Deborah Coy et al (Beatlick Press)
- Lucubration • Kyla Lee Ward • Avatars of Wizardry, ed. Charles Lovecraft (P'rea Press
- Memphis Street Railway Co. v. Stratton: 1915 • Elizabeth McClellan • New Myths June 2012
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream • K. C. O’Malley • Lady Poetesses from Hell, ed. Bag Person Press Collective (Bag Person Press)
- Mouse Koan • Catherynne M. Valente • Tor.com April 2, 2012
- Mushroom Barley Soup: An Invocation • Shira Lipkin • Stone Telling 8
- The Necromantic Wine • Wade German • Avatars of Wizardry, ed. Charles Lovecraft (P'rea Press)
- Objectifying Faerie • Jane Yolen • Asimov's Science Fiction June 2012
- Quince • Samantha Henderson • New Myths September 2012
- Rockabye • Adele Gardner • Dreams & Nightmares 93
- Sci Fi Memory • Glen Pape • The Pedestal Magazine 70
- Six Random Facts About Halley's Comet • J.E. Stanley • Star*Line 35.1
- Snow by Gaslight • Sandra Kasturi • Come Late to the Love of Birds (Tightrope Books)
- The Still Point of the Turning World • Adrienne J Odasso • Mandragora May 2012
- String Theory • John Philip Johnson • Ad Astra 1
- Sweet Mercy, Her Body an Ark of Wild Beasts • Kelly Rose Pflug-Back • Ideomancer 11.1
- Tell Them • Lauren Banka • qarrtsiluni February 2012
- Their Cold Eyes Pierced my Skin • Jenny Blackford • The Pedestal Magazine 70
- Thirteen Ways of Looking At and Through Hashish • Bruce Boston • Avatars of Wizardry, ed. Charles Lovecraft (P'rea Press)
- The Time Traveler's Weekend • Adele Gardner • Liquid Imagination 15
- Tit Tot • Catt Kingsgrave • Goblin Fruit Summer 2012
- Tohoku Tsunami • Mary Turzillo • Lovers & Killers (Dark Regions Press, 2012)
- we come together we fall apart • Lisa M. Bradley • Stone Telling 7
- What the Dragon Said: A Love Story • Catherynne M. Valente • Tor.com April 2012
Nominations per Periodical
| Number of Nominations | Periodical Name |
|---|---|
| 1 | Abyss & Apex |
| 1 | Apex Magazine |
| 4 | Asimov’s Science Fiction |
| 3 | Avatars of Wizardry, ed. Charles Lovecraft (P’rea Press, 2012) |
| 1 | Balticon 46 Program Book |
| 1 | Beyond Centauri |
| 1 | Blackbird |
| 1 | Boundless, eds. Vanessa Brown, Daniel Garcia Ordaz, and Illeana Garcia-Spitz (El Zarape Press, 2012) |
| 1 | Bull Spec |
| 1 | Cover of Darkness |
| 4 | Come Late to the Love of Birds (Tightrope Books, 2012) |
| 2 | Cthulhu Haiku & Other Mythos Madness, ed. Lester Smith (Popcorn Press, 2012) |
| 3 | Dreams & Nightmares |
| 4 | Eye to the Telescope |
| 2 | The Fifth Di … |
| 9 | Goblin Fruit |
| 1 | The House of Forever (Raven Electrick Ink, 2012) |
| 2 | Ideomancer |
| 2 | inkscrawl |
| 1 | James Gunn’s Ad Astra |
| 1 | La Llorana Anthology, ed. Deborah Coy et al. (Beatlick Press, 2012) |
| 2 | Lady Poetesses from Hell, ed. Bag Person Press Collective (Bag Person Press, 2012) |
| 1 | Linden Avenue Literary Journal |
| 1 | Liquid Imagination |
| 1 | Lissette’s Tales of the Imagination |
| 1 | The Literary Review of Canada |
| 1 | Little Patuxent Review |
| 1 | Lovers & Killers (Dark Regions Press, 2012) |
| 2 | The Magazine of Speculative Poetry |
| 1 | Mandragora |
| 1 | Mythic Delirium |
| 2 | New Myths |
| 1 | Not One of Us |
| 1 | Out of the Black Forest (Centennial Press, 2012) |
| 1 | Parody |
| 3 | The Pedestal Magazine |
| 1 | Phantom Drift |
| 1 | The Poring Dark (Terran Dream Archive, 2012) |
| 1 | qaartsiluni |
| 3 | Rattle |
| 2 | The Receptionist and Other Tales (Aqueduct Press, 2012) |
| 1 | Scifaikuest |
| 2 | SFPA Halloween Poetry Reading |
| 2 | Silver Blade |
| 1 | Space and Time |
| 7 | Stone Telling |
| 11 | Star*Line |
| 1 | Starship Sofa podcast |
| 5 | Strange Horizons |
| 1 | Stone Highway Review |
| 1 | Tales of the Talisman |
| 1 | Tendrils & Tentacles, ed. group (Speculative Technologies, 2012) |
| 1 | Tesseracts Sixteen, ed. Mark Leslie, (Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, 2012) |
| 1 | Through the Gate |
| 2 | Tor.com |
| 1 | Weird Fiction Review |
| 1 | Zombies for a Cure, ed. Angela Charmaine Craig (Elektrik Milk Bath Press, 2012) |