2012 Rhysling Awards Winners

The Science Fiction Poetry Association (SFPA) has announced the winners of the annual Rhysling Awards for science fiction, fantasy, and horror poetry, short and long form. This year’s winners are:

Short Poem

First Place
“The Library, After”, Shira Lipkin (Mythic Delirium 6/11)

Second Place
“The Lend”, Erik Amundsen (Stone Telling 9/11)

Third Place
“In Translation”, Lyn C.A. Gardner (Tales of the Talisman Summer ’11)

Long Poem

First Place
“The Curator Speaks in the Department of Dead Languages”, Megan Arkenberg (Strange Horizons 6/27/11)

Second Place
“The 25-Cent Rocket: One-Quarter of the Way to the Stars”, G.O. Clark & Kendall Evans (Dreams and Nightmares 5/11)

Third Place
“The Legend of the Emperor’s Space Suit (A Tale of Consensus Reality)”, Mary Turzillo (New Myths 12/11)

Poems are chosen by the membership of the SFPA, who vote on a list of nominations made by individual members and published in the Rhysling Anthology. Winners are regularly reprinted in the annual Nebula Awards Anthology.