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2022 Rhysling Nominated Short Poems Readings

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association presents the annual Rhysling Awards, named for the blind poet Rhysling in Robert A. Heinlein’s short story “The Green Hills of Earth.” Apollo 15 astronauts named a crater near their landing site “Rhysling,” which has since become its official name.
Nominees for each year's Rhysling Awards are selected by the membership of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association. For 2022, 103 short poems and 78 long poems were nominated.
There will be three readings of the short poems in the Rhysling anthology presented on May 6, May 20 and June 6, live on Facebook via Zoom from 7 to 8 p.m. EDT. The readings are free and open to the public.
Following is the schedule for the readings, hosted by Akua Lezli Hope.
For further information contact SFPA Secretary Brian F. Garrison at sfpasecretary@gmail.com.

May 6, 2022
6:45 to 8:15 pm EDT

1. “Adam-Ondi-Ahman” • Audrey Zheng 3
2. “Alice” • Anna Cates 4
3. “Anthony of Egypt, Professional Recluse and Patron Saint of Boneyards” • LindaAnn LoSchiavo 5
4. “As We Were Saying Goodnight” • Henry Crawford 7
5. “Aswang Mango: Santiago’s Fantasia” • Vince Gotera 8
6. “A Banquet of Sugar & Tea” • Marge Simon 9
7. “Blood Spells” • Neile Graham 11
8. “The Butterfly Affect” • Linda D. Addison 13
9. “Chernobyl Litany” • Gemma Files 14
10. “Cherry Blossoms (On Mourning a Distant Mother)” • E. F. Schraeder 16
11. “Confessions of a Spaceport AI” • Mary Soon Lee 17
12. “The Conglomerant” • David Davies 18
13. “The Conqueror Worm(Hole)” • Linda D. Addison 20
14. “Cosmic Cooking” • Gretchen Tessmer 22
15. “Crossroads” • Tiffany Morris 24
16. “Curiosity Kills” • Alison Bainbridge 25
17. “Daedalus’s Daughter” • Mary Soon Lee 26
18. [deep space Elvis] • Greer Woodward 27
19. “Dracula Among the Ruins” • Mari Ness 28
20. “Dragonrider” • Marie Vibbert 29
21. “Dragonslayer” • Priya Chand 30
22. “dry land” • Maria Zoccola 32
23. “Dystopia” • Aminath Neena 33
24. “the empires of old” • Robin Wyatt Dunn 34
25. “Even Surrounded by Light, She Disappears” • Lisa Creech Bledsoe 36
26. “Exquisite” • Lee Murray 37
27. “Extrasolar Faeryland” • Avra Margariti 38
28. “Extremophile” • Lauren Scharhag 40
29. “Failed Space Colonists” • Herb Kauderer 41
30. “Field Trip to See the Mermaid” • Beth Cato 42
31. “Find Me” • féi hernandez 43
32. “Flying Horses” • Debasish Mishra 45
33. “Forbidden Haibun: Expand” • Francis W. Alexander 46
34. “The Forbidden Path to Forgetting” • Daniel Ausema 47
35. “Fragment of an Elegy” • Clay Franklin Johnson 48

May 20, 2022
6:45 to 8:15 pm EDT

1. “The Frozen North” • Marcie Lynn Tentchoff 49
2. “Futuristic Funerals” • Dante Novario 50
3. “The Galaxies Have Reversed Their Course and Are Hurtling towards One Another” • Andrea Schlecht 52
4. “Graffiti Goddess” • Noel Sloboda 53
5. “Gravity (some things that fly)” • Geoffrey A. Landis 54
6. “Gris-gris” • Deborah L. Davitt 55
7. “Hallucinations” • Amirah al Wassif 57
8. “Heart Tree” • John Reinhart 58
9. “Home Gravity Physics” • Sandra J. Lindow 59
10. “Home’s Threnody” • Olaitan Humble 60
11. “How Date Nights Bring You Ever Closer (A Forbidden Haibun)” • Terrie Leigh Relf 61
12. “How to Find Yourself Again” • Beth Cato 62
13. “In Corfu” • Irina Moga 64
14. “In Memory Yet Green” • Alan Ira Gordon 65
15. “In the Future We Will Live in Broken Houses” • Sandra Kasturi 66
16. “In the Library Annex” • Bruce Boston 67
17. “Ingenuity” • Deborah P Kolodji 68
18. “Inheritance” • Geneve Flynn 69
19. “Interrupted Journey” • Tim Jones 70
20. “Lights over the Midnight Desert” • David C. Kopaska-Merkel 71
21. “Little Black Box” • Anna Cates 72
22. “Little Red Loves Her Grandma” • Pankaj Khemka 73
23. “A Martian Contemplates Earthrise” • KB Nelson 74
24. “Michelangelo Carves David into Medusa” • Ellie Howard 75
25. “A Monstrous Life Well Lived” • Elizabeth R. McClellan 77
26. “Musée Dupuytren, Paris” • Carolyn Clink 79
27. “No More Prying Eyes” • Maxwell I. Gold 80
28. “Ode” • P. H. Low 82
29. “One of Us” • Louis Rosenberg 83
30. “Orchid Moon” • Lee Murray 84
31. “The Other Crusoe” • David Barber 85
32. “our stitching and unstitching” • Hester J. Rook 86
33. “our translucent bodies” • Devin Miller 87
34. “Pa and the Devil” • Susan E. Wagner 89

June 3, 2022
6:45 to 8:15 pm EDT

1. “Post-Massacre Psych Evaluation” • Abu Bakr Sadiq 90
2. “Princess Cat Robot Space Pirate” • Marie Vibbert 92
3. “The Problem with the Bottling of Troublesome Spirits” • Juleigh Howard- Hobson 93
4. “Prologue: The Late Heavy Bombardment” • Ada Hoffmann 94
5. “Psychopomp” • M. J. Cunniff 96
6. Radiance” • F. J. Bergmann 97
7. “The Reality of Ghosts” • Yilin Wang 98
8. “Reasons to Leave the Path” • Jacqueline West 99
9. “Sea Gods” • Mary Soon Lee 100
10. “Sepulcher of Saints” • Ann K. Schwader 101
11. [shedding photons] • Richard Magahiz 102
12. “Snails” • Denise Dumars 103
13. “Sonnet of the South American Sphinx” • Katherine Quevedo 104
14. “Sport on Mars” • PS Cottier 105
15. “Stratospherics 2” • Akua Lezli Hope 106
16. “Stress Level Test” • Pankaj Khemka 107
17. “Summer Encroaching, Winter Yielding” • Jean-Louis Trudel 108
18. “SustainaCrock” • Rhian Bowley 110
19. “Swipples” • Craig Kurtz 112
20. “Sylvan Succubus” • Joshua Gage 113
21. “Thanks to Stanislav Petrov for Fairytales about Birds” • Elizabeth R. McClellan 114
22. “There can only be one Soul Princess” • Michelle Muenzler 116
23. “The Tiny Goblin” • Ann Wuehler 118
24. “Tons of Liquid Oxygen Buckle Too Late under Strain” • Eugen Bacon 119
25. “Under a Pale Moon” • Mark Meyer 120
26. “Unexpected Malfunction in the Xenobiology Monitoring System
at Arcturus-IV, or Sonnet #1” • Jordan Hirsch 121
27. “Wardrobe Malfunction” • Kyla Lee Ward 122
28. “Warrior over Washington” • Adam Ford 123
29. “Watchmaker” • Carolyn Clink 124
30. “Ways of the Multiverse” • Vincent Miskell 125
31. “What The Time Travellers Stole” • L. X. Beckett 126
32. “What the Weed Whip Wanted” • Sandra J. Lindow 127
33. “When the Martian Wind Blows” • Lauren McBride 129
34. “Witch Flesh” • Stephanie Ellis 130