Anthology Information
Editor and Rhysling Chair: Charles Christian
Book Design: F.J. Bergmann
Cover Image: M. Wayne Miller, mwaynemiller.com
Publisher: Science Fiction Poetry Association
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All Award Winners
Short Poem Category
First Place: “Time Travel Vocabulary Problems” • Ruth Berman • Dreams and Nightmares 100
Second Place: “Tech Support for the Apocalypse” • F. J. Bergmann • Dreams and Nightmares 101
Third Place (tie): “An Introduction to Alternate Universes: Theory and Practice” • Sandra J. Lindow • Gyroscope Review 16:1
Long Poem Category
First Place (tie): “It Begins With A Haunting” • Krysada Panusith Phounsiri • Dance Among Elephants (Sahtu Press)
First Place (tie): “Keziah” • Ann K. Schwader • Dark Energies (P'rea Press)
Second Place: “Chronopatetic” • F. J. Bergmann • Dreams and Nightmares 100
Third Place (tie): from “Sunspots” • Simon Barraclough • Poetry, December 2015
Third Place (tie): "The White Planet” • Albert Goldbarth • Boulevard 31:1
Chair and Winner Biographies
Ruth Berman’s poetry and fiction have appeared in many sf/fantasy, general, and literary magazines and anthologies. Her novel Bradamant’s Quest was published by FTL Publications. She was one of the contributors to Lady Poetesses from Hell (Bag Person Press Collective). Her translation of two fairy tales by 18th-century writer Louise Cavelier Levesque, “The Prince of the Aquamarines” & “The Invisible Prince,” was published by Aqueduct Press (Seattle, WA), and her translation of “Trilby” and other fantasies by Charles Nodier, by Black Coat Press (Encino CA). She is a previous winner of the SFPA's Rhysling (2003) and Dwarf Stars (2006) Awards
Krysada Phounsiri is a Lao American born in Huay Xai, Laos. He immigrated to the U.S. at age two where he lived in Southeast San Diego. He began writing poetry at age 11, but fell in love with poetry when he attended UC Berkeley. He is a Physics/Astrophysics double major, with a minor in Creative Writing. He is a professional dancer who has competed and performed internationally through the dance form known as Breaking. He is also an avid photographer. His work has appeared previously in publications such as the Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement and the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center’s national photo project “A Day In the Life of Asian America”. His recent series "Beauty Beyond Scars" is featured in various blogs/content sites including The Getty and The Phoblographer. He debuted his first book of poetry in April 2015, titled Dance Among Elephants. The book is a poetic journey of identity, family, homeland, love, and dance.
Ann K. Schwader is the author of seven poetry collections: Dark Energies (P'rea Press, 2015), Twisted in Dream (Hippocampus Press, 2011), Wild Hunt of the Stars (Sam's Dot Publishing, 2010), In the Yaddith Time (Mythos Books, 2007), Architectures of Night (Dark Regions Press, 2003), The Worms Remember (Hive Press, 2001), and Werewoman (Nocturnal Publications, 1990). She lives and writes in suburban Colorado. She won the Rhysling Award for the Short Poem in 2010
F.J. Bergmann won the Rhysling Award for the Short Poem in 2008 and the Long Poem in 2015. She edits Star*Line and is the poetry editor of Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, the managing editor of MadHat Press, and publisher of Taraxia Press.
Sandra J. Lindow has seven poetry collections and 24 Rhysling nominations. She is Vice President of the Science Fiction Poetry Association and defender of her backyard against marauding woodchucks.
Simon Barraclough is the author and editor of several books, including Sunspots (Penned in the Margins, 2015), Laboratorio (Sidekick Books, 2015), Neptune Blue (Salt Publishing, 2011), and Bonjour Tetris (Penned in the Margins, 2010).
Albert Goldbarth has won the National Book Critics Circle award for Saving Lives (2001) and Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology (1991), the only poet to receive the honor two times. [1] He also won the Mark Twain Award for Humorous Poetry, awarded by the Poetry Foundation, in 2008. Goldbarth is a fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
All Nominated Poems
95 members voted on 73 short poems and 44 long poems from 61 publications.
Short Poems
- “Abandonarium” • Stacey Balkun • Devilfish Review 13
- “Hard Being A God” • David Barber • Star*Line 38.4
- “Tech Support for the Apocalypse” • F. J. Bergmann • Dreams and Nightmares 101
- “Time Travel Vocabulary Problems” • Ruth Berman • Dreams and Nightmares 100
- “The Astronaut’s Heart” • Robert Borski • Asimov’s SF, September
- “Forever Tracking” • Bruce Boston • Grievous Angel, May
- “Aboard the Transport Tesoro” • Lisa M. Bradley • Uncanny 7
- ‘hell-bent’ • Susan Burch • Grievous Angel, February
- “Fried Okra” • Beth Cato • Tales of the Talisman 10.4
- “Elegy for WLC” • David Clink • The Dalhousie Review 94:3
- “Portrait” • David Clink • OnSpec Magazine, Winter
- “The Sun Never Rises” • Michael Coolen • Latchkey Tales 2.6
- “Secondary Ghosts” • P. S. Cottier • Australian Poetry Journal 5:2
- “Pleistocene Park, Mammoth Steppe, Siberia” • Mark Danowsky • Star*Line 38.4
- “Worlds in Collision” • Bryan D. Dietrich • Farrago’s Wainscot, 2015
- “Ligeia” • Ashley Dioses • Spectral Realms 2
- “On The Other Hand” • James Dorr • Grievous Angel, August
- “Why Have We Not Been Visited?” • Martin Elster • The Asses of Parnassus, 11/30/15
- “Institutional Memory” • Alexandra Erin • Star*Line 38.1
- “The Argument Box” • JD Fox • Abyss & Apex 55
- “The Boats” • Adele Gardner • Abyss & Apex 56
- “The More It Changes …” • Delbert R. Gardner • Songs of Eretz Poetry Review
- “Couples Therapy” • Howie Good • The Los Angeles Review of Los Angeles 10
- “Robot Agonistes” • Alan Ira Gordon • The Magazine Of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Jan/Feb
- “How Eternal Night Was Created” • Vince Gotera • The Syzygy Poetry Journal 1:2
- “Gaunt” • Charles Gramlich • The Pedestal Magazine 76
- “Reversed Polarities” • Nin Harris • Strange Horizons, 6/1/15
- “Mummies” • Richard Hedderman • Rattle 49
- “Glinda's Dilemma” • Gloria Heffernan • Parody 4:1
- “Selenites” • John Philip Johnson • The Pedestal Magazine 76
- “Kraken” • Tim Jones • Interstellar Award
- “Moth and Memory” • Sandra Kasturi • Postscripts to Darkness 6
- “Venice Letting Go” • Sandra Kasturi • Postscripts to Darkness 6
- “hard copy” • Herb Kauderer • Asimov’s Science Fiction, August
- “luddite’s dream” • Herb Kauderer • Star*Line 38.4
- “The Changeling’s Gambit” • Sasha Kim • Strange Horizons, 9/14/15
- “re-entry heat” • Deborah P Kolodji • Mariposa 32
- “The Only Time Machine” • David C. Kopaska-Merkel • Sub- Saharan Magazine
- “Rip Van Winkle On Mars” • David C. Kopaska-Merkel • The Martian Wave, 2015
- “Post-Apocalyptic Toothbrush” • Betsy Ladyzhets • Strange Horizons, 6/29/15
- “Ode to Dorothy Gale” • Jenna Lê • Nonbinary Review 4
- “Flora and Fauna” • James Frederick Leach • HWA Poetry Showcase Volume II
- “The Dreaded Dreadnoughtus” • B.J. Lee • Frostfire Worlds, November
- “The Washerwoman’s Daughter” • Mary Soon Lee • Crowned: The Sign of the Dragon: Book 1 (Dark Renaissance Books)
- “Postlude” • Nolan Liebert • Zetetic: A Record of Unusual Inquiry, October
- “B'resheet” • Julia Burns Liberman • Strange Horizons, 10/7/15
- “An Introduction to Alternate Universes: Theory and Practice” • Sandra J. Lindow • Gyroscope Review 16:1
- “Under the Cancer Tree ” • Sandra J. Lindow • Tales of the Talisman 10.4
- “Four Chambers” • Shira Lipkin • Mythic Delirium, September
- “Challenger” • Bronwyn Lovell • Strange Horizons, 6/8/15
- “It Came to Pass” • Mark Mansfield • Star*Line 38.3
- “The Subtle Arts of Chemistry” • Elizabeth R. McClellan • New Myths, March
- “The Woman Sings Her Marriage Into Being” • Lev Mirov • Through the Gate 7
- “Bone-House” • A.J. Odasso • Liminality 4
- “Transition Metal” • A.J. Odasso • My Dear Watson: The Very Elements of Poetry (Beautiful Dragons Press)
- “In Fits of Wildest Dreaming” • K. A. Opperman • Spectral Realms 3
- “The Palace of Phantasies” • K. A. Opperman • The Crimson Tome (Hippocampus Press)
- “Requiem” • Matt Quinn • Eye to the Telescope 16
- “Lola” • Gabby Reed • Strange Horizons 7/20/15
- “Attack of the Saurus” • John Reinhart • Star*Line 38.4
- “Lot’s Wife” • Michelle Scalise-Piccirilli • HWA Poetry Showcase Volume II
- “He Promised Me The Moon” • Marge Simon • Abyss & Apex 55
- “Serving the Blind Girl” • Marge Simon • Silver Blade 28
- “Before I Kill You (An Arch-Villainelle)” • David Sklar • Stone Telling 12
- “The Case of Trying Too Hard” • Steve Sneyd • Monomyth 57
- “raven speaks” • Michael Spring • Absinthe Poetry Review 2
- “buried pet turtles” • David Lee Summers • Zen of the Dead, ed. Lester Smith (Popcorn Press)
- “Origami Crane/Light-Defying Spaceship” • Naru Dames Sundar • Liminality 5
- “Philomela in Seven Movements” • Natalia Theodoridou • Mythic Delirium, June
- “An Unrequited Process Loops” • Marie Vibbert • Asimov's Science Fiction, February 2015
- “The Sun Ships” • Steven Withrow • Eye to the Telescope 16
- “Crater Conundrum Pizza” • Greer Woodward • 2015 SFPA Poetry Contest Winners
- “Passenger Seat” • Stephanie Wytovich • An Exorcism of Angels (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
Long Poems
- “Toujours Il Coûte Trop Cher” • Mike Allen & C.S.E. Cooney • Spectral Realms 3
- “I Dreamed a World” • Colleen Anderson • Polu Texni, 3/2/15
- “Season of the Ginzakura” • Ryu Ando • Strange Horizons, 7/13/15
- “Seasons in a Moon Ocean” • Daniel Ausema • Dreams and Nightmares 100
- from “Sunspots” • Simon Barraclough • Poetry, December 2015
- “Chronopatetic” • F. J. Bergmann • Dreams and Nightmares 100
- “Resonance Redux” • Bruce Boston • Resonance Dark and Light (Eldritch Press)
- “Black Momma-faces” • Angela Brown • Silver Blade 28
- “Dali's Apostles” • David E. Cowen • The Horror Zine, December 2015
- “The Comet Elm” • Martin Elster • 2015 SFPA Poetry Contest Winners
- “Observations from the Black Ball Line Between Deimos and Callisto” • Alexandra Erin • The Martian Wave, 2015
- “A Brief History of Human Evolution” • Gary Every • Tales of the Talisman 10.4
- “Actaeon” • Alice Fanchiang • Strange Horizons, 11/11/15
- “Deliverance” • Adele Gardner • Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, 6/28/15
- “The White Planet” • Albert Goldbarth • Boulevard 31:1
- “Letter to Zelazny from Olympus Mons” • Vince Gotera • The Syzygy Poetry Journal 1:2
- “Artist Signature” • Susan Gray • Lunar Mission One, 10/16/15
- “Illusions of Man” • Deborah Guzzi • Silver Blade 26
- “Thirteen Ways of Looking at Blackbeard” • Ed Higgins • Parody 4:1
- “Drowned City” • Ruth Jenkins • Liminality 3
- “Typhon & Echidna: A Love Story” • Sandra Kasturi • Gods, Memes and Monsters: A 21st Century Bestiary, ed. Heather J. Wood (Stone Skin Press)
- “Dragonslayer” • Mary Soon Lee • Crowned: The Sign of the Dragon: Book 1 (Dark Renaissance Books)
- “Training: Stances” • Mary Soon Lee • Crowned: The Sign of the Dragon: Book 1 (Dark Renaissance Books)
- “archival testimony fragments / minersong” • Rose Lemberg • Uncanny 2
- “Long Shadow” • Rose Lemberg • Strange Horizons, 9/3/15
- “And then the stars …” • Mack W. Mani • The Pedestal Magazine 76
- “Interiora II” • Alessandro Manzetti • Eden Underground (Crystal Lake Publishing)
- “Et je ne pleurais jamais les larmes cicatrisantes magiques; c'est seulement un mensonge joli: Aarne-Thompson Index No. 310” • Elizabeth R. McClellan • Niteblade 31
- “Changeling” • Lynette Mejia • Liminality 6
- “An Unexpected Guest” • Lev Mirov • Liminality 5
- "Poetry Set: Red Wire, Monsters, Slipknot” • A.J. Odasso • SWAMP Writing 17
- “Halloween” • K. A. Opperman • The Crimson Tome (Hippocampus Press)
- “It Begins With A Haunting” • Krysada Panusith Phounsiri • Dance Among Elephants (Sahtu Press)
- “O Dervish of the Restless Heart” • Saba Syed Razvi • Nonbinary Review 6
- “The Coming Dark” • Wendy Rathbone • Star*Line 38.2
- “ugly bags of mostly water” • Yann Rousselot • Dawn of the Algorithm (Inkshares)
- “The Noble Torturer” • Sofia Samatar • Bluestockings Magazine, 7/28/15
- “Keziah” • Ann K. Schwader • Dark Energies (P'rea Press)
- “Adarna” • M. Sereno • Strange Horizons, 12/21/15
- “Twenty Years” • Christina Sng • New Myths 32
- “The Woman in the Coffee Shop” • Christina Sng • Lontar: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction 5
- “The Iterative Nature of the Magical Discovery Process” • Bogi Takács • Through the Gate, March
- “A Love in Twelve Feathers” • Shveta Thakrar • Strange Horizons, 10/19/15
- “A Butterfly in Carcosa” • DJ Tyrer • Yellow Leaves 8
Nominations per Publication
| Number of Nominations | Publication Name |
|---|---|
| 1 | Absinthe Poetry Review |
| 3 | Abyss & Apex |
| 3 | Asimov’s Science Fiction |
| 1 | The Asses of Parnassus |
| 1 | Australian Poetry Journal |
| 1 | Bluestockings Magazine |
| 1 | Boulevard |
| 2 | The Crimson Tome (Hippocampus Press) |
| 3 | Crowned: The Sign of the Dragon: Book 1 (Dark Renaissance Books) |
| 1 | The Dalhousie Review |
| 1 | Dance Among Elephants (Sahtu Press) |
| 1 | Dark Energies (P'rea Press) |
| 1 | Dawn of the Algorithm (Inkshares) |
| 1 | Devilfish Review |
| 4 | Dreams and Nightmares |
| 1 | Eden Underground (Crystal Lake Publishing) |
| 1 | An Exorcism of Angels (Raw Dog Screaming Press) |
| 2 | Eye to the Telescope |
| 1 | Frostfire Worlds |
| 1 | Gods, Memes and Monsters: A 21st Century Bestiary, ed. Heather J. Wood (Stone Skin Press) |
| 3 | Grievous Angel |
| 1 | Gyroscope Review |
| 2 | HWA Poetry Showcase Volume II |
| 1 | The Horror Zine |
| 1 | Interstellar Award |
| 1 | Latchkey Tales |
| 5 | Liminality |
| 1 | Lontar: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction |
| 1 | The Los Angeles Review of Los Angeles |
| 2 | The Magazine Of Fantasy & Science Fiction |
| 1 | Mariposa |
| 2 | The Martian Wave |
| 1 | Monomyth |
| 1 | My Dear Watson: The Very Elements of Poetry (Beautiful Dragons Press) |
| 1 | Mythic Delirium |
| 2 | New Myths |
| 1 | Niteblade |
| 2 | Nonbinary Review |
| 1 | OnSpec Magazine |
| 2 | Parody |
| 3 | The Pedestal Magazine |
| 1 | Polu Texni |
| 2 | Postscripts to Darkness |
| 1 | Rattle |
| 1 | Resonance Dark and Light (Eldritch Press) |
| 2 | SFPA Poetry Contest Winners |
| 3 | Silver Blade |
| 2 | Songs of Eretz Poetry Review |
| 2 | Spectral Realms |
| 7 | Star*Line |
| 1 | Stone Telling |
| 11 | Strange Horizons |
| 1 | Sub-Saharan Magazine |
| 1 | SWAMP Writing |
| 2 | The Syzygy Poetry Journal |
| 2 | Tales of the Talisman |
| 2 | Through the Gate |
| 2 | Uncanny |
| 1 | Yellow Leaves |
| 1 | Zen of the Dead, ed. Lester Smith (Popcorn Press) |
| 1 | Zetetic: A Record of Unusual Inquiry |