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2022 Rhysling Nominated Short Poems Reading #2

The second of three readings of the short poems nominated for the Rhysling Awards will be held on May 20, 2022 from 7:00 to 8:15 pm EDT live on Facebook via Zoom. tinyurl.com/Rhysling2

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.

The last reading of the nominated short poems in the Rhysling anthology will be held on June 6, 2022 from 7 to 8 p.m. EDT. The readings, hosted by Akua Lezli Hope, are free and open to the public. For further information, contact SFPA Secretary Brian F. Garrison at sfpasecretary@gmail.com.

May 20, 2022
7:00 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

About the SFPA

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association was founded in 1978 (as the Science Fiction Poetry Association) to bring together poets and readers interested in science fiction, fantasy, horror, science, and surrealistic poetry. Find more information on the SFPA awards, publications, and programs at www.sfpoetry.com.