The Rhysling Awards are an annual award given for the best science fiction, fantasy, or horror poem of the year. Also variously called science fiction poetry or SF poetry or fantastic poetry, speculative poetry is to Poetry roughly what Speculative Unlike most literary awards, which are named for the creator of the award, the subject of the award, or a noted member of the field, the Rhyslings are named for a character in a science fiction story: the blind poet Rhysling, in Robert A. Heinlein's short story The Green Hills of Earth. Robert Anson Heinlein (July 7 1907 – May 8 1988 was an American Novelist and Science fiction Writer. " The Green Hills of Earth " is a Science fiction Short story by Robert A The award is given in two categories: "Best Long Poem", for works of 50 or more lines, and "Best Short Poem", for works of 49 or fewer lines.
The nominees for each year's Rhysling Awards are chosen by the members of the Science Fiction Poetry Association. The Science Fiction Poetry Association was established in 1978 by Suzette Haden Elgin to bring together poets and readers interested in science fiction poetry Each member may nominate one work for each of the categories. The nominated works are then compiled into an anthology called The Rhysling Anthology, and members of the Association then vote on the final winners.
Best Long Poem winners and finalists
1978
- Winner: Gene Wolfe "The Computer Iterates the Greater Trumps"
1979
- Winner: Michael Bishop "For the Lady of a Physicist"
1980
- Winner: Andrew Joron "The Sonic Flowerfall of Primes"
1981
- Winner: Thomas M. Disch "On Science Fiction"
1982
- Winner: Ursula K. Le Guin "The Well of Baln"
1983
- Winner: Adam Cornford "Your Time and You: A Neoprole's Dating Guide"
1984
- Winner: Joe Haldeman "Saul's Death: Two Sestinas"
1985
- Winner: Siv Cedering "A Letter from Caroline Herschel (1750-1848)"
1986
- Winner: Andrew Joron "Shipwrecked on Destiny Five"
1987
- Winner: W. Gregory Stewart "Daedalus"
1988
- Winner: Lucius Shepard "White Trains"
1989
- Winner: (tie): Bruce Boston "In the Darkened Hours" ; John M. Ford "Winter Solstice, Camelot Station"
1990
- Winner: Patrick McKinnon "dear spacemen"
1991
- Winner: David Memmott "The Aging Cryonicist in the Arms of His Mistress Contemplates the Survival of the Species While the Phoenix Is Consumed by Fire"
1992
- Winner: W. Gregory Stewart "the button and what you know"
1993
- Winner: William J. Gene Wolfe (born May 7, 1931, New York New York) is an American Science fiction and Fantasy writer Michael Lawson Bishop (born November 12, 1945 in Lincoln Nebraska) is an award-winning American Writer. Andrew Joron is an American writer of Experimental poetry. He currently lives in Berkeley, California. Thomas Michael Disch ( February 2 1940 – c July 4 2008) was an American Science fiction author and Poet Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (ˈɝsələ ˈkroʊbɚ ləˈgwɪn (born October 21, 1929) is an American author Joe William Haldeman is an American Science fiction author. Life and work Haldeman was born in 1943 in Oklahoma City Oklahoma Siv Cedering ( February 5, 1939 &ndash November 17, 2007) was a Swedish-American Poet, Writer, and Artist Andrew Joron is an American writer of Experimental poetry. He currently lives in Berkeley, California. W Gregory Stewart (born 1950 in Toronto) is a poet most associated with speculative fiction Lucius Shepard (born August 21 1947, Lynchburg Virginia, though stories and articles published under his name from 1952-1955 in Collins Magazine indicate Bruce Boston (born 1943 is an American Speculative fiction writer and poet who was born in Chicago and grew up in Southern California. John Milo "Mike" Ford ( April 10, 1957 &ndash September 25, 2006) was an American Science fiction and Fantasy W Gregory Stewart (born 1950 in Toronto) is a poet most associated with speculative fiction Daciuk "To Be from Earth"
1994
- Winner: W. Gregory Stewart and Robert Frazier "Basement Flats: Redefining the Burgess Shale"
1995
- Winner: David Lunde "Pilot, Pilot"
1996
- Winner: Margaret B. Simon "Variants of the Obsolete"
1997
- Winner: Terry A. W Gregory Stewart (born 1950 in Toronto) is a poet most associated with speculative fiction Robert Alexander Frazier (b 1951 Ayer Massachusetts) is an American writer of Speculative poetry and fiction, as well as an impressionist painter on Marge Simon (born 1942 is an American artist and a writer of Speculative poetry and fiction. Garey "Spotting UFOs While Canning Tomatoes"
1998
- Winner: Laurel Winter "why goldfish shouldn't use power tools"
1999
- Winner: Bruce Boston "Confessions of a Body Thief"
2000
- Winner: Geoffrey A. Landis "Christmas (after we all get time machines)"
2001
- Winner: Joe Haldeman "January Fires"
2002
- Winner: Lawrence Schimel "How to Make a Human"
2003
- Winner: (tie): Charles Saplak and Mike Allen "Epochs in Exile: A Fantasy Trilogy" ; Sonya Taaffe "Matlacihuatl's Gift"
2004
- Winner: Theodora Goss "Octavia Is Lost in the Hall of Masks"
2005
- Winner: Tim Pratt "Soul Searching"
2006
- Winner: Kendall Evans and David C. Laurel Winter (born Laurel Anne Hjelvik in Columbus Montana on April 22, 1959) is an author of fantasy science fiction and poetry Bruce Boston (born 1943 is an American Speculative fiction writer and poet who was born in Chicago and grew up in Southern California. Geoffrey A Landis works as a scientist and writer of Science fiction. Joe William Haldeman is an American Science fiction author. Life and work Haldeman was born in 1943 in Oklahoma City Oklahoma Lawrence Schimel (b October 16, 1971) is an American Science fiction and Fantasy writer translator and anthologist whose work frequently Mike Allen (born 1969 is an American Editor and Writer of Speculative fiction and poetry. Sonya Taaffe is a Massachusetts-based author of short fiction and poetry Theodora Goss is a Hungarian American writer of Fantasy short stories. Tim Pratt (December 12 1976 is a Science fiction and Fantasy writer and poet Kopaska-Merkel "The Tin Men"
2007
- Winner: Mike Allen "The Journey to Kailash"
Best Short Poem winners and finalists
1978
- Winner: (tie): Duane Ackerson "The Starman" ; Andrew Joron "Asleep in the Arms of Mother Night" ; Sonya Dorman "Corruption of Metals"
1979
- Winner:(tie): Duane Ackerson "Fatalities" ; Steve Eng "Storybooks and Treasure Maps"
1980
- Winner: (tie): Robert Frazier "Encased in the Amber of Eternity" ; Peter Payack "The Migration of Darkness"
1981
- Winner: Ken Duffin "Meeting Place"
1982
- Winner: Raymond DiZazzo "On the Speed of Sight"
1983
- Winner: Alan P. Lightman "In Computers"
1984
- Winner: Helen Ehrlich "Two Sonnets"
1985
- Winner: Bruce Boston "For Spacers Snarled in the Hair of Comets"
1986
- Winner: Short Poem: Susan Palwick "The Neighbor's Wife"
1987
- Winner: (tie): Jonathan V. Mike Allen (born 1969 is an American Editor and Writer of Speculative fiction and poetry. Duane Ackerson (born 1942 is an American writer of Speculative poetry and fiction. Andrew Joron is an American writer of Experimental poetry. He currently lives in Berkeley, California. Sonya Dorman ( 1924 - February 14 2005) is the working name of Sonya Dorman Hess. Duane Ackerson (born 1942 is an American writer of Speculative poetry and fiction. Robert Alexander Frazier (b 1951 Ayer Massachusetts) is an American writer of Speculative poetry and fiction, as well as an impressionist painter on Alan Lightman is a Physicist, Novelist and Essayist born in Memphis Tennessee in 1948 Bruce Boston (born 1943 is an American Speculative fiction writer and poet who was born in Chicago and grew up in Southern California. Susan Palwick is an American Science fiction and Fantasy writer who began her career by publishing "The Woman Who Saved the World" for Post "Before the Big Bang: News from the Hubble Large Space Telescope" ; John Calvin Rezmerski "A Dream of Heredity"
1988
- Winner: (tie): Bruce Boston "The Nightmare Collector" ; Suzette Haden Elgin "Rocky Road to Hoe"
1989
- Winner: Short Poem: Robert Frazier "Salinity"
1990
- Winner: G. Bruce Boston (born 1943 is an American Speculative fiction writer and poet who was born in Chicago and grew up in Southern California. Suzette Haden Elgin is an American Science fiction Author. She founded the Science Fiction Poetry Association, and is considered an important Robert Alexander Frazier (b 1951 Ayer Massachusetts) is an American writer of Speculative poetry and fiction, as well as an impressionist painter on Sutton Breiding "Epitaph for Dreams"
1991
- Winner: Joe Haldeman "Eighteen Years Old, October Eleventh"
1992
- Winner: David Lunde "Song of the Martian Cricket"
1993
- Winner: Jane Yolen "Will"
1994
- Winner: (tie): Bruce Boston "Spacer's Compass" ; Jeff VanderMeer "Flight Is for Those Who Have Not Yet Crossed Over"
1995
- Winner: Dan Raphael "Skin of Glass"
1996
- Winner: Bruce Boston "Future Present: A Lesson in Expectation"
1997
- Winner: W. Gregory Stewart "Day Omega"
1998
- Winner: John Grey "Explaining Frankenstein to His Mother"
1999
- Winner: Laurel Winter "egg horror poem"
2000
- Winner: Rebecca Marjesdatter "Grimoire"
2001
- Winner: Bruce Boston "My Wife Returns as She Would Have It"
2002
- Winner: William John Watkins "We Die as Angels"
2003
- Winner: Ruth Berman "Potherb Gardening"
2004
- Winner: Roger Dutcher "Just Distance"
2005
- Winner: Greg Beatty "No Ruined Lunar City"
2006
- Winner: Mike Allen "The Strip Search"
2007
- Winner: Rich Ristow "The Graven Idol's Godheart"
External links
- Official list of Rhysling Award winners
- SFPA Rhysling Anthology
- The Alchemy of Stars: Rhysling Award Winners Showcase
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