| | SHORT POEM |
| 2011 | "Peach-Creamed Honey", Amal El-Mohtar
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| 2010 | "To Theia", Ann K. Schwader
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| 2009 | "Song for an Ancient City", Amal El-Mohtar
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| 2008 | "Eating Light", F. J. Bergmann
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| 2007 | "The Graven Idol's Godheart", Rich Ristow
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| 2006 | "The Strip Search", Mike Allen
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| 2005 | "No Ruined Lunar City", Greg Beatty
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| 2004 | "Just Distance", Roger Dutcher
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| 2003 | "Potherb Gardening", Ruth Berman
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| 2002 | "We Die As Angels", William John Watkins
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| 2001 | "My Wife Returns As She Would Have It", Bruce Boston
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| 2000 | "Grimoire", Rebecca Marjesdatter
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| 1999 | "Confessions of a Body Thief", Bruce Boston
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| 1998 | "Explaining Frankenstein To His Mother", John Grey
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| 1997 | "Day Omega", W. Gregory Stewart
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| 1996 | "Future Present: A Lesson in Expectation", Bruce Boston
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| 1995 | "Skin of Glass", Dan Raphael
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| 1994 | "Spacer's Compass", Bruce Boston
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| (tie) | "Flight Is For Those Who Have Not Yet Crossed Over", Jeff VanderMeer
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| 1993 | "Will", Jane Yolen
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| 1992 | "Song of the Martian Cricket", David Lunde
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| 1991 | "Eighteen Years Old, October Eleventh", Joe Haldeman
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| 1990 | "Epitaph for Dreams", G. Sutton Breiding
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| 1989 | "Salinity", Robert Frazier
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| 1988 | "Rocky Road to Hoe", Suzette Haden Elgin
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| (tie) | "The Nightmare Collector", Bruce Boston
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| 1987 | "A Dream of Heredity", John Calvin Rezmerski
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| (tie) | "Before the Big Bang", Jonathan V. Post
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| 1986 | "The Neighbor's Wife", Susan Palwick
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| 1985 | "For Spacers Snarled in the Hair of Comets", Bruce Boston
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| 1984 | "Two Sonnets", Helen Ehrlich
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| 1983 | "In Computers", Alan P. Lightman
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| 1982 | "On the Speed of Light", Raymond DiZazzo
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| 1981 | "Meeting Place", Ken Duffin
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| 1980 | "The Migration of Darkness", Peter Payack
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| (tie) | "Encased in the Amber of Eternity", Robert Frazier
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| 1979 | "Story Books and Treasure Maps", Steve Eng
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| (tie) | "Fatalities", Duane Ackerson
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| 1978 | "The Starman", Duane Ackerson
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| (tie) | "Corruption of Metals", Sonya Dorman
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| 1978 | "Asleep in the Arms of Mother Night", Andrew Joron
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| | LONG POEM |
| 2011 | "The Sea King's Second Bride", C. S. E. Cooney
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| 2010 | "In the Astronaut Asylum", Kendall Evans & Samantha Henderson
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| 2009 | "Search", Geoffrey A. Landis
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| 2008 | "The Seven Devils of Central California", Catherynne M. Valente
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| 2007 | "The Journey to Kailash", Mike Allen
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| 2006 | "The Tin Men", Kendall Evans & David C. Kopaska-Merkel
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| 2005 | "Soul Searching", Tim Pratt
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| 2004 | "Octavia Is Lost in the Hall of Masks", Theodora Goss
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| (tie) | "Matlacihuatl's Gift", Sonya Taaffe
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| 2003 | "Epochs in Exile: A Fantasy Trilogy", Charles Saplak & Mike Allen
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| 2002 | "How to Make a Human", Lawrence Schimel
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| 2001 | "January Fires", Joe Haldeman
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| 2000 | "Christmas (after we all got time machines)", Geoffrey A. Landis
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| 1999 | "egg horror poem", Laurel Winter
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| 1998 | "why goldfish shouldn't use power tools", Laurel Winter
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| 1997 | "Spottings UFOs While Canning Tomatoes", Terry Garey
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| 1996 | "Variants of the Obsolete", Marge Simon
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| 1995 | "Pilot, Pilot", David Lunde
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| 1994 | "Basement Flats", W. Gregory Stewart & Robert Frazier
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| 1993 | "To Be from Earth", William Daciuk
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| 1992 | "The button, and what you know", W. Gregory Stewart
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| 1991 | "The Aging Cryonicist in the Arms of His Mistress Contemplates the Survival of the Species While the Phoenix Is Consumed by Fire", David Memmott
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| 1990 | "dear spacemen", Patrick McKinnon
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| (tie) | "In the Darkened Hours", Bruce Boston
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| 1989 | "Winter Solstice, Camelot Station", John M. Ford
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| 1988 | "White Trains", Lucius Shepard
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| 1987 | "Daedalus", W. Gregory Stewart
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| 1986 | "Shipwrecked on Destiny Five", Andrew Joron
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| 1985 | "A Letter from Caroline Herschel", Siv Cederling
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| 1984 | "Saul's Death", Joe Haldeman
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| 1983 | "Your Time and You", Adam Cornfield
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| 1982 | "The Well of Baln", Ursula K. Le Guin
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| 1981 | "On Science Fiction", Thomas M. Disch
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| 1980 | "The Sonic Waterfall of Primes", Andrew Joron
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| 1979 | "For the Lady of a Physicist", Michael Bishop
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| 1978 | "The Computer Iterates the Greater Trumps", Gene Wolfe
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| | GRAND MASTER POET |
| 2010 | Jane Yolen
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| 2008 | Ray Bradbury
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| 2005 | Robert Frazier
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| 1999 | Bruce Boston
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