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