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Rhysling winners!

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association has announced the winners of the 42nd annual Rhysling Awards for best speculative poems of the year. The winners were selected in two categories, Long Form and Short Form Poems, which were nominated by the members of the organization. From 67 publications. 77 poems in the Short Form category and 49 poems in the Long Form category were reviewed for almost 16 weeks by the membership, which includes award-winning educators, scholars, and poets from a diverse range of literary traditions and specializations. This year, the membership selected the following winners:

SHORT

First Place
“Taking, Keeping” • Jessica J. Horowitz • Apparition Lit 5

Second Place
“when my father reprograms my mother {” • Caroline Mao • Strange Horizons, Fund Drive

Third Place (tie)
“Creation: Dark Matter Dating App” • Sandra Lindow • Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine July/Aug, and 
“The Day the Animals Turned to Sand” • Tyler Hagemann • Amazing Stories, Spring 2019

LONG

First Place
“Heliobacterium daphnephilum” • Rebecca Buchanan • Star*Line 42.3

Second Place
“The Cinder Girl Burns Brightly” • Theodora Goss • Uncanny 28

Third Place
“Ode to the Artistic Temperament” • Michael H. Payne • Silver Blade 42
and 
“The Macabre Modern” • Kyla Lee Ward • The Macabre Modern and Other Morbidities (P'rea Press)

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Rhysling voting going on right now. https://sfpoetry.com/rhysling.html

Bragging rights for best speculative poetry of the year are on the line. If you are a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association, please read the anthology and vote. It matters to the poets whose work was nominated, but it matters to all of us, because this award represents our field to the rest of the world. I hope for the best turnout ever!

Please vote.

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Rhysling voting

To SFPA members:   everyone should have the 2020 anthology. Please read it and vote for your favorites. This award is important, especially to the poets whose beautiful work was nominated. I'm sure that all of you will find poems you think are worthy of this award.                                                                                              

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The 2020 Rhysling anthology!

(cover by Hal Tenny)

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Rhyslinging all day yesterday, and more today. seeing lots of great poems--keep the nominations coming!

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A note about Rhysling nominations:

They should be sent to rhysling@sfpoetry.com, not to me.

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The Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association has chosen me to be this year's Rhysling chair. If you are a member, you have the opportunity to nominate the best speculative poems first published in 2019. We are starting late, so please do this as soon as you can. Go to sfpoetry.com for info.

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Poems first published in 2019, and Rhysling eligible [https://sfpoetry.com/rhysling.html]. Does not include poems in Star*line; SFPA members have those.

a match made in heaven, trouble among the stars 4
all but one asleep, Nook 241st contest, honorable mention, 5 July
and silently vanish away, polu texni 29-apr 2019
could’ve been a gerbil, Kaleidotrope spring 2019
crossing over, Eye to the Telescope 31
day of the mother, tales from the moonlit path
even their fish, Kaleidotrope winter 2019
flunking witch school with a bang, Spaceports and spidersilk apr 2019
invitation, polu texni 27-may 2019
last holiday at financial aid, polu texni 23-dec 2019
moving up, Eye to the Telescope 33
soul feather, Eye to the Telescope 34
that’s dr. vampire to you, Veil; journal of darker musings
the third shoe, co-author Ann K. Schwader, Eye to the Telescope 32
to sleep perchance to wake, polu texni 18 mar 2019
we love this dragon, Spaceports and spidersilk jan 2019
wind walker, polu texni nov 11 2019
woman delivers ex-husband’s illegitimate babies, Awen 106 Nov 2019

Many of these poems can be read free online. Any others you want to see, SFPA members, just ask me.


Dreams and Nightmares 111-113. All poems eligible. SFPA members: I'll send you pdfs of any of those issues you don't have.

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Today is the Rhysling voting deadline http://sfpoetry.com/rhysling.html @sfpoetry

Members of the SFPA: Vote for the best poems of 2018!

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I have a blank-verse sonnet at polutexni.com

I recently sold 5 short poems to the first issue of Random Planets.

Spring's in full swing in Alabama.

And, this year's Rhysling Anthology is almost done.

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This is the last day of the Rhysling nomination period. Nominations have been flooding in, and I am falling behind on responding to nominators and contacting poets. I should be able to catch up on everything this weekend. So many really great poems!

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SFPA members: Friday is the last day to nominate poems for the Rhysling award (http://sfpoetry.com/rhysling.html). This award is for the best speculative poems of 2008. If you are not a member, join now and nominate your favorites! http://sfpoetry.com/join.html

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It looks like I will be editing the Rhysling anthology of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association. Apparently some plans fell through at the last minute, so I am taking over  about a month behind schedule. I hope that people will cut me some slack because of this, but I should soon get up to speed. This is a unique award in literature: members of the organization nominate poems, published in the previous year, which are then published in an anthology that is distributed to every member. Thus every member can read  all of the nominated poems and every poet gets a fair shot at winning the award. Watch this space for more information,  but if you want to get involved and are not a member of the Association, join now: http://sfpoetry.com/rhysling.html

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These are my poems that are eligible this year for nomination for the Rhysling award of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association. The first group also are eligible for the Dwarf Stars award. Some other poems are eligible, but I like these best. If you are a member of the Association, and you would like to see the poems for nomination purposes, let me know.

Very Short Poems

“always intended,” Scifaikuest Nov. print

“changeling,” Star*Line 41.1

“at the expat school,” Scifaikuest, Feb. print

“condensation,” Scifaikuest, May print

“crystals of nitrogen,” Scifaikuest Nov. print

“freezer bags bulging,” Scifaikuest Feb. online

“fresh footprints,” Scifaikuest Aug. online

“half-elven girl,” Scifaikuest Nov. online

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways!, Dreams and Nightmares blog, Dec. 6

“Jack’s 7 league boots,” Scifaikuest Feb. print

“on each lunar peak,” Star*line 41.3

“red dust,” Scifaikuest Feb. print

“red dust dunes,” Scifaikuest Nov. print

“taut red sails,” Scifaikuest Aug. print

“the cocoon whispers,” Scifaikuest May print

“the last woman,” Scifaikuest Feb. print

“we must have been blind,” Star*Line 41.3

“young dawgs,” Scifaikuest Feb. online

Short Poems

Animatronic Aliens, Star*Line 41.1

Après le Deluge, Illumen, summer

“death from space,” Scifaikuest Aug. 18 print

Dispersal, Star*Line 41.3

“e for effort,” Star*Line 41.3

Entanglement (with Kendall Evans), Entanglement (chapbook)

“just out of sight,” (with Ann K. Schwader), Scifaikuest May print

Keep On Til Morning, Star*Line 41.1

New Stars, Star*Line 4141

On Mercury, Not One of Us 60

Perimeter, Outposts of Beyond January

Pick Up the Phone, Outposts of Beyond Oct.

Polar Thaw, Cyaegha 20

Reflections of You, Silver Blade 39

Sacraments of an Old World, Scifaikuest Nov. print

Some God Had to Be the Real McCoy, The Fib Review 29

The Once and Future Colony, The Martian Wave 2018

The Steadfast Heart, The Fib Review 30

The Unforgotten Shore, Scifaikuest Feb. print

The Werewolf Books a Trip to Mars, Bloodbond Nov.

Velocities (with Kendall Evans), The Martian Wave 2018

Word, Chrome Baby 70

Long Poems

“it took some time,” (with Ann K. Schwader), Devilfish Review #20

Memories of the Minotaur (with Kendall Evans), Entanglement (chapbook)

The Sisterhood of the Iron Wing (with W. Gregory Stewart), Eldritch Science fall

The Stars Are Not Eternal (with Kendall Evans), Entanglement (chapbook)

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Rhysling Award

http://sfpoetry.com/rhysling.html

For the best speculative poetry of 2018

All poems in Dreams and Nightmares 108-110 are eligible


https://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com/2018/01/dn-108-contents.html

https://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com/2018/05/053118d.html

https://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com/2018/10/102118.html


If you want to nominate, and are missing any of these issues, let me know. I'll send you a pdf.

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Won recent poetry nook contest.

Fascinating discussion on sfpanet diving into the reasons rhysling-winning poems are so successful. Talking about John M. Ford's "Camelot Station " masterpiece.

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In the very near future, the long out-of-print chapbook, Nightship to Never, by me and Kendall Evans, will be available as an e-book. Available now, our brand-new chapbook, Entanglement,  both in print and as an ebook. This one will be eligible for the Elgin award next year. Both of these chapbooks feature collaborative science fiction and fantasy poetry. Finally, we have a collaborative poem in this year's Rhysling anthology, which I think you will really like.

Entanglement print $9; paypal jopnquog@gmail.com; check, 1300 Kicker Rd., Tuscaloosa AL 35404.

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I have been invited to contribute an Afterword to The Alchemy of Stars II, a volume containing Rhysling winners and Dwarf Stars winners since 2005. I regard this as a major honor. And by the way,  you can still buy The Alchemy of Stars from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association; there are a few copies left.

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Trying to convince my local university library to take all my duplicate Star*lines & Rhyslings, on the grounds that they contain work by an Alabama author. If they say no, I happen to know that the University of West Alabama library is actively  collecting SF...without the benefit of funds.

I also discovered that the Birmingham Arts Journal has apparently published three of my poems. I don't recall sending them any, but I might have.  I will investigate further.

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This week: 2 sales to Scifaikuest, wrote a few poems, Metastable Systems nominated for the Elgin, sales of that book picking up, new library floor at home. Now I get to put everything back!

Lifetime Dreams & Nightmares subscriptions ($39 pdf; $99 print) include all available back issues, and all proceeds go to Doctors Without Borders.  Paypal to jopnquog at gmail dot com.

Looking ahead, SFPA members can get pdfs of Dreams & Nightmares 105-107 and a file of my own eligible poems, free, for Rhysling-nomination purposes. And, cancer treatment starts Monday.