I’m so happy my new poem “C” is included in the latest edition of the online journal Eye to the Telescope, Issue 43: “Light.”
Click on over to the journal to read the poem and all the others. Thanks to editor Jordan Hirsch for including me.
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2021 Rhysling Nominee — Thank you!
I’ve been nominated!
More specifically, my poem, “An Offering,” has been nominated for a 2021 Rhysling Award in the category of long poem by the Science Fiction Poetry Association.
The nominations are anonymous, so thank you to whoever nominated my poem.
One thing this means is that the poem is being republished in the 2021 Rhysling Anthology, edited by Alessandro Manzetti. You can pick up a copy, check out all the other great nominees, and support the work of speculative poets on the SFPA website.
Congrats to all the nominees.
The winners will be announced next month.
2021 Rhysling Awards Eligibility
Hi all,
If you are nominating poetry for this year’s Rhysling awards, here are my eligible poems:
Short poem
“Chaos Theory: The Butterfly Wings Set”
Abridged 0-60: Echoes, Summer 2020, https://www.abridged.zone/echoes-3-chaos-theory-the-butterfly-wings-set
Long poem
“An Offering”
Line of Advance: 2020 Col. Darron L. Wright Memorial Awards, September 2020
Video poem: Mami Wata by Linda Addison
2020 Rhysling Award Winners
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association, of which I am a member, has just 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 (links to the poems included where possible):
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 J. Lindow • Asimov’s SF, July/August, 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)
New poem: ‘A Shooting Star’ in Eye to the Telescope
Thank you to editor Colleen Anderson and Eye to the Telescope for publishing my haiku in Eye to the Telescope Issue 29: The Dark. If you click on the link, you can scroll to the end to read it. The poem is much shorter than even this blog post.
The poem, by the way, was written during my stay at an artist residency in Cadaqués, Spain. So thank you to Catherine and Sergio for making the new poem possible!
SFPA announces 2018 Rhysling Awards
Congratulations to the 2018 Rhysling Award winners!
These are the best speculative poems of 2017, as voted on by members of the Science Fiction Poetry Association (I am a voting member). This was my first time voting for the awards (and my first time being nominated, for the long poem “Instructions for Astronauts.” I enjoyed all these winning poems, and think it’s great that Mary Soon Lee won in both categories, including for a poem published in the same new journal I was published in, Mithila Review.but I still think Brandon O’Brien’s “Birth, Place” from Uncanny Magazine 18 deserves more recognition. You can read it here.
It is especially poignant that the Sara Cleto’s poem was published in the long-time fan favorite journal Mythic Delirium which, after twenty years, closed up shop with its April 2018 issue. The win is a testament to Mike Allen’s vision and talent and hard work.
Out of 83 short poems, and 63 long poems, only three won in each category. Click on the titles for links to the poems to read them. Enjoy!
Short Poem Category
First Place
“Advice to a Six-Year-Old”
Mary Soon Lee • Star*Line 40.2
Second Place
“How to Grieve: A Primer for Witches”
Sara Cleto • Mythic Delirium, May
Third Place
“Gramarye”
F. J. Bergmann • Polu Texni 12/26/17
Long Poem Category
First Place
“The Mushroom Hunters”
Neil Gaiman • Brainpickings 4/26/17
Second Place
“For Preserves”
Cassandra Rose Clarke • Star*Line 40.4
Third Place
“Alternate Genders”
Mary Soon Lee • Mithila Review 9
Thank you, SFPA, for the Rhysling nomination!
My poem “Instructions for Astronauts” has been nominated for a Rhysling Award by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA)!
The poem was originally published in the Mithila Review along with a video produced by Salik Shah that includes my voice reading the poem. The Rhysling nomination means the poem will be published again, this time in The 2018 Rhysling Anthology of all nominated poems.
Michael Janairo 