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The 2004 Rhysling Anthology and Awards



The 2004 Rhysling Awards


Short Poem Category

Winner

  • Just Distance by Roger Dutcher

    Second Place

  • "Observe the Month of Spring" by Lucy Cohen Schmeidler

    Third Place (tie)

  • How I Will Outwit the Time Thieves by Mike Allen
  • Nursery Ghosts by Sandra Lindow
    		•  Long Poem Category

    Winner

  • Octavia Is Lost in the Hall of Masks by Theodora Goss

    Second Place

  • A Portrait of the Artist by Vandana Singh

    Third Place

  • Hugo Schizophrenica by Charlee Jacob
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    The 2004 Rhysling Anthology:
    The Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Poetry of 2003


    The 2004 Rhysling Anthology             Rhysling Chair: Drew Morse
                Layout and Design: Mike Allen
                Cover Art and Design: Tim Mullins
                Printing: Dark Regions Press
                Published by the Science Fiction Poetry Association
                ISBN: 1-888993-40-5

    Short Poems First Published in 2003

          Awards Key
                First Place winner
                Second Place winner
                Third Place winner
                More than one poem with the same color code within a category indicates a tie.

  • Diane Ackerman • Cranial Sacral • Poetry, Vol. 182, No. 6, Sept. 2003
  • Mike Allen • How I Will Outwit the Time Thieves • Strange Horizons, Dec. 2003
  • Bruce Boston • To Feel the Cold • Dreams & Nightmares, Issue 64, Jan. 2003
  • G.O. Clark • When She Dances • Talebones, Issue 27, Dec. 2003
  • Roger Dutcher • Just Distance • Tales of the Unanticipated, Issue 24, July 2003
  • Jeremy Gottwig • Warm Thick Beer • Mythic Delirium, Issue 9, Summer/Fall 2003
  • John Grey • Night of the Living Dead • Star*Line, Vol. 26, Issue 4, July/Aug. 2003
  • Elizabeth Henderson • Winter in the Tropic of Cancer • Astropoetica, Issue 1, Fall 2003
  • L.A. Story Houry • Basement World • Passion Fruit and Other Loops, Sam's Dot Publishing, 2003
  • Tracina Jackson-Adams • Hands Tell All • The Modern Art Cave, Sam's Dot Publishing, 2003
  • David C. Kopaska-Merkel • the length of a candle • Mythic Delirium, Issue 8, Winter/Spring 2003
  • Sandra Lindow • Nursery Ghosts • Raven Electrick, June 2003
  • April Lott • Isis • Dreams & Nightmares, Issue 64, Jan. 2003
  • David Lunde • What It Comes Down To • Asimov's Science Fiction, Vol. 27, Issue 3, March 2003
  • Maureen McHugh • Alternate History • Asimov's Science Fiction, Vol. 27, Issue 8, Aug. 2003
  • Nathan Parker • Tomatoes Cannot Tolerate Frost • The Metastatic Whatnot, Issue 1, Fall 2003
  • Karen R. Porter • She • Not One of Us, Issue 30, Sept. 2003
  • Jessy Randall • The Seductiveness of the Memory Hole • The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Vol. 6, Issue 2, Autumn 2003
  • Mark Rudolph • Tarot Cards and UFOs • Strange Horizons, Oct. 2003
  • Lucy Cohen Shmeidler • "Observe the Month of Spring" • The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Vol. 6, Issue 1, Spring 2003
  • Marge Simon • Language of Scorpions • The Pedestal Magazine, June-Aug. 2003
  • Sonya Taaffe • Storm Gods of the Connecticut River Valley • Star*Line, Vol. 26, Issue 1, Jan./Feb. 2003
  • John Teehan • What to Do When an Alien Spacecraft Lands and the Visitors Come Out to Greet You • Star*Line, Vol. 26, Issue 3, May/June 2003
  • Ian Watson • Memory Man • Asimov's Science Fiction, Vol. 27, Issue 7, July 2003

    Long Poems First Published in 2003

          Awards Key
                First Place winner
                Second Place winner
                Third Place winner
                More than one poem with the same color code within a category indicates a tie.

  • Mike Allen • Death of the Father • Petting the Time Shark and Other Poems, DNA Publications, 2003
  • Bruce Boston • The Crow Is Dismantled in Flight • Miniature Sun Press, 2003
  • Richard Chwedyk • Rich and Pam Go to Fermilab and Later See a Dead Man • Strange Horizons, March 2003
  • Erin Donahoe • Beast • Beast, Sam's Dot Publishing, 2003
  • Theodora Goss • Octavia Is Lost in the Hall of Masks • Mythic Delirium, Issue 8, Winter/Spring 2003
  • Charlee Jacob • Hugo Schizophrenica • Miniature Sun Press, 2003
  • David C. Kopaska-Merkel • The Mad Scientist Has All the Time in the World • Mythic Delirium, Issue 9, Summer/Fall 2003
  • Sandra Lindow • Morning Becomes the Milkman • The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Vol. 6, Issue 2, Autumn 2003
  • Tim Pratt • Clutch Purse • The Modern Art Cave, Sam's Dot Publishing, 2003
  • Tobias Seamon • Quasimodo Takes the Grand Tour • Strange Horizons, Sept. 2003
  • Vandana Singh • A Portrait of the Artist • Strange Horizons, July 2003
  • Steve Sneyd • A Price of Course Worth Paying • Dreams & Nightmares, Issue 64, Jan. 2003
  • Sonya Taaffe • Green Fuses • Dreams & Nightmares, Issue 64, Jan. 2003
  • Sonya Taaffe • Harlequin, Lonely • Star*Line, Vol. 26, Issue 4, July/Aug. 2003
  • Jamie Wasserman • The Prince Revisited • The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Vol. 6, Issue 2, Autumn 2003
  • James F. Yockey • What If • Strange Horizons, June 2003




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