Rhysling Nominations
The nominations for this year’s Rhysling Awards for poetry have been announced.
Short Poems
- Greg Beatty, “On Keeping Pluto a Planet”
- F. J. Bergmann, “Chronomancy”
- F. J. Bergmann, “Cultural Climate”
- Bruce Boston, “Lizards and Wind”
- Rachel Manija Brown, “Minotaur Noir”
- Shelly Bryant, “Compelling Outward Flight”
- Rosalind Casey, “Patience”
- G. O. Clark, “Putting Off the Past”
- C.S.E. Cooney, “Dogstar Men”
- Jennifer Crow, “Hoarding Light”
- Jennifer Crow, “We Took Our Gods”
- Jennifer Crow, “An Incomplete Map of Death”
- Amal El-Mohtar, “Peach Creamed Honey”
- Kendall Evans, “Here We Are/Implied in the Shadows/Cast Upon Saturn’s Atmosphere”
- Angel Favazza, “Call of the Wired”
- Michael Fosburg, “My Own Ending”
- Melissa Frederick, “Volcanoes on Io”
- Joshua Gage, “The Shoemaker’s Daughters”
- Lyn C. A. Gardner, “Midnight Posture”
- Jaimee Hills, “Tonight the Character of Death Will Be Played by Brad Pitt”
- Janis Ian, “Welcome Home (The Nebulas Song)”
- David C. Kopaska-Merkel, “A few stops on the journey”
- Geoffrey A. Landis, “Rondel for Apollo 11″
- B. J. Lee, “The Legend of the Flying Dutchman”
- Rose Lemberg, “Twin-born”
- Sarah Lindsay, “Planet Anhedonia”
- C. S. MacCath, “A Path Without Bones”
- W. S. Merwin, “The Chain to Her Leg”
- Shweta Narayan, “Cave-smell”
- Ruth Naylor, “What Mighty Force?”
- Adrienne J. Odasso, “The Ghosts of Moody Street”
- Stephanie Parent, “Tinkerbell”
- Juan Manuel Perez, “Human Fighting Is Illegal”
- Juan Manuel Perez, “El Codex Chupacabra”
- Kelly Rose Pflug-Back, “My Bones’ Cracked Abacus”
- Karen A. Romanko, “Binary Creation Myth”
- R. Paul Sardanas, “The Black Lotus”
- Ann K. Schwader, “The Witch in Your Mirror”
- Ann K. Schwader, “Scrapyard Outpost”
- Ann K. Schwader, “Quiet In Her Mind”
- Ann K. Schwader, “Of Ithaca & Ice”
- Ann K. Schwader, “The Darkness Whispers (Flagstaff, AZ 1930)”
- Marge Simon, “Sightings”
- Robin Spriggs, “Red Magic”
- Sonya Taafe, “In the Earth in Those Days”
- Sonya Taafe, “Anakatabasis”
- Sonya Taafe, “By the Dog”
- Sonya Taafe, “Domovoi, I Came Back!”
- Nancy Ellis Taylor, “Genetic Memory Comes to Me”
- Richard L. Tierney, “Yuletide”
- Brian Trent, “A Holiday in Necropolis”
- Patrice M. Wilson, “Images in the Dark”
- Stephen M. Wilson, “Imagined World”
- Stephen M. Wilson, “I, Cannibal…”
- Stephen M. Wilson, “The Conjuror”
- Jane Yolen, “The Gospel of the Rope”
Long Poem
- Mary Alexandra Agner, “Tertiary”
- Tara Barnett, “Star Reservation”
- F. J. Bergmann, “Occidental”
- Robert Borski, “The Pantheon”
- Robert Borski, “Bubba”
- Bruce Boston, “Dark Rains Here and There”
- Lisa Bradley, “The Haunted Girl”
- C. S. E. Cooney, “Ere One Can Say It Lightens”
- C. S. E. Cooney, “The Sea King’s Second Bride”
- Oscar L. Crawford, “My Wings Are Still Forming”
- Malcolm Deeley, “On the Platform”
- James S. Dorr, “Eight Top Vampire Hobbies”
- Amal El Mohtar, “The Winter Tree”
- Amal El Mohtar and Jessica P. Wick, “Courting Song for Selkies”
- Hugh Fox and Eric Greinke, “Beyond Our Control”
- Robert Frazier, “Wreck Diving the Starship”
- Joshua Gage, “Rats”
- Lyn C. A. Gardner, “Homecoming”
- Theodora Goss, “Ravens”
- Samantha Henderson, “The Gabriel Hound”
- Irving, “Until the Light Fades”
- Deborah P Kolodji and W. Gregory Stewart, “String Stories”
- Rich Magahiz, “13 Ways of Looking at a Balrog”
- Elizabeth R. McClellan, “Anything So Utterly Destroyed”
- Jaime Moyer, “A Poem for no one at all”
- Jaime Moyer, “Rain Face”
- Kurt Newton, “The Cemetery”
- Steven L. Peck, “The Five Known Sutras of Mechanical Man”
- W. C. Roberts, “Stargazers”
- Charles Saplak, “Dragonskull: Vision of Result”
- Robin Spriggs, “Blatta Infernalis”
- W. Gregory Stewart and David Kopaska-Merkel, “Seasons of the Worm”
- J. E. Stanley, “crossroads”
- Richard L. Tierney, “Autumn Chill”
- Catherynne M. Valente, “Red Engines”
- Steve Vernon, “Barren: A Chronicle in Futility”
- Phoebe Wilcox, “A More Significant Sun”