The 2012 Rhysling anthology
Subtitle: the best science fiction, fantasy, and horror poetry of 2011
By: selected by the Science Fiction Poetry Association ; edited by Lyn C.A. Gardner
Contributors: Agner, Mary Alexandra; Alexa, Camille; Allen, Mike, 1969-; Amundsen, Erik; Arkenberg, Megan; Barrette, Elizabeth; Bell, Dana; Borski, Robert; Boston, Bruce, 1943-; Boucher, Rich; Breiding, G. Sutton (George Sutton), 1950-; Cartwright, Benjamin; Clark, G. O., 1945-; Cooney, C. S. E.; Cottier, P. S.; De La Rosa, Becca; Dorr, James S.; Dumars, Denise; Elster, Martin; Esaias, Timons; Evans, Kendall; Favazza, Angel; Freegard, Janis; Garcia, Tisha; Goldbarth, Albert; Gottl, T. M.; Graham, Neile; Grant, April; Grey, John; Kasturi, Sandra; Kaveney, Roz; Kennedy, Keith; Kindred, Sally Rosen; Kornher-Stace, Nicole; Lee, B. J.; Lemberg, Rose; Leunig, Greg; Lipkin, Shira; MacCath, C. S.; Malcohn, Elissa; Marshall, Helen; McClellan, Elizabeth R.; McDuffie, Dawn; Merriam, Joanne; Ness, Mari; Newton, Kurt; Nickell, Scott; Park, Paul, 1954-; Perez, Juan Manuel; Pratt, Tim, 1976-; Rhei, Sofia; Richards, Matthew; Rihn, Andrew; Russell, Ty; Samatar, Sofia; Sardanas, R. Paul; Schimel, Lawrence; Schwader, Ann K.; Seidel, Alexandra; Sexton, John W.; Sheng, Nancy; Shorb, Michael; Simon, Marge; Spiggs, Robin; Stanley, J. E.; Steidlmayer, Heidy; Stewart, W. Gregory; Sykora, Anna; Taaffe, Sonya; Tolan, James E.; Turzillo, Mary A.; Valente, Catherynne M., 1979-; Vanderhooft, JoSelle; Waite, Anna; Walsh, Caitlin Meredith; Ward, Kyla Lee; Warfield, Gerald; West, Jacqueline; Wilgus, Neal; Wilson, Stephen M.; Winward, Shannon Connor; Woodward, Greer; Xanadu (Ofnguyenfame); Science Fiction Poetry Association
Publisher: Science Fiction Poetry Association; Published in cooperation with Hadrosaur Productions
Published: 2012
Place of publication: [Covina, CA]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9781885093639
Subjects: Speculative poetry; Science fiction poetry; Fantasy poetry; Horror poetry
Other titles: Two thousand twelve Rhysling anthology; Two thousand and twelve Rhysling anthology; Rhysling anthology; Twenty twelve Rhysling anthology
Notes: Publisher's location from p. 175.

Rhysling Award, 2012.

Science Fiction Poetry Association Grand Master Award for Bruce Boston, 1999.
Table of contents: title: Preface : Goodbye and hello, as always / Lyn C.A. Gardner; title: The Rhysling Awards : a brief introduction adapted from Star*Line 12, no. 5-6 (1989); title: Acknowledgments; title: 2012 voting procedures; title: Short poems first published in 2011. Venus to her terraformers / Mary Alexandra Agner ; Young Miss Frankenstein regrets / Camille Alexa ; The lend / Erik Amundsen ; The shipwright's song / Elizabeth Barrette ; Abel / Robert Borski ; The music of robots / Bruce Boston ; Response to Botticelli / Rich Boucher ; Peter and Alice / G.O. Clark ; Fingernails / P.S. Cottier ; World's end / Becca De La Rosa ; Monkey see / James S. Dorr ; Folding money / Denise Dumars ; My unicorn / Martin Elster ; Dark matter / Timons Esaias ; Dragon / Kendall Evans ; Clothes of yesterday / Angel Favazza ; Yayoi Kusama goes to Iceland / Janis Freegard ; In translation / Lyn C.A. Gardner ; Bridges / T.M. Gottl ; The bean-sidhe calls in owl-light / Neile Graham ; The ones outside your door / Neile Graham ; Mr. and Mrs. Goodnight / John Grey ; Ode to the Mongolian Death Worm / Sandra Kasturi ; Fembot / Roz Kaveney ; First loves for the first time / Keith Kennedy ; The witch's heart / Nicole Kornher-Stace ; The tortoise's encounter / B.J. Lee ; Love in the quantum era / Greg Leunig ; The library, after / Shira Lipkin ; When I arrived, this is what she said / C.S. MacCath ; Down cycles / Elizabeth R. McClellan ; Thank God for Proust / Dawn McDuffie ; Love in the time of alien invasion / Joanne Merriam ; Nuclear stockpile janitor / Kurt Newton ; Response to Poe's "Sonnet; title: To science" / Scott Nickell ; Vanity / Juan Manuel Perez ; Lion heart / Tim Pratt ; The magic walnut / Sofia Rhei ; trans. Lawrence Schimel ; Ravel : an etymology / Matthew Richards ; The physics major agrees to take the English major stargazing / Andrew Rihn ; The seas of time / Ty Russell ; Luna Satyricon / R. Paul Sardanas and Tisha Garcia ; the more space / Ann K. Schwader ; Past human / Ann K. Schwader ; Lanterns / Alexandra Seidel ; slit sea cucumber / John W. Sexton ; The human guest / Marge Simon ; Visitors / Marge Simon ; The elusive language of purple birds / Robin Spriggs ; Grendel's mother ; Heidy Steidlmayer ; idiointerventionist (or, "but I interrupt myself") / W. Gregory Stewart ; Dead hotels / Anna Sykora ; Taking the auspices / Sonya Taaffe ; Red grown / James E. Tolan ; Graffiti tree / Mary Turzillo ; Moving to Enceladus / Mary Turzillo ; To the ancients, the sea was a dangerous place / Anna Waite ; The kite / Kyla Lee Ward ; A greater moon / Gerald Warfield ; Escaping the dawn / Jacqueline West ; A modest suggestion / Neal Wilgus ; Angel's den / Stephen M. Wilson ; Christogenesis / Stephen M. Wilson ; Closure / Greer Woodward; title: Long poems first published in 2011. The king of cats, the queen of wolves / Mike Allen, Sonya Taaffe, and Nicole Kornher-Stace ; Desfixion / Erik Amundsen ; The curator speaks in the department of dead languages / Megan Arkenberg ; The cathedral of the Michaelangelines / Elizabeth Barrette ; Welcomed cast outs / Dana Bell ; Gavage / Robert Borski ; Surreal fortune / Bruce Boston ; Letter from the golden age / g. sutton breiding ; Terraforming Mars / Benjamin Cartwright ; The 25-cent rocket : one-quarter of the way to the stars / G.O. Clark and Kendall Evans ; Postcards from Mars / C.S.E. Cooney ; The chant of the black cats / Lyn C.A. Gardner ; The witch girl / Lyn C.A. Gardner ; Summary : kinetic vs. potential / Albert Goldbarth ; Wallpaper / April Grant ; Wendy Darling has bad dreams / Sally Rosen Kindred ; In the third cycle / Rose Lemberg ; The changeling's lament / Shira Lipkin ; The last dragon slayer / Elissa Malcohn ; Beautiful monster / Helen Marshall ; Skeleton leaves : a collection / Helen Marshall ; The walking man goes looking for the sons of John : six cantos / Elizabeth R. McClellan ; Tender aliens / Joanne Merriam ; Snowmelt / Mari Ness ; Ragnarok / Paul Park ; Girl hours / Sofia Samatar ; A masquerade in four voices / Alexandra Seidel ; Guan Yin in the garden / Nancy Sheng ; Ahura Mazda / Michael Shorb ; Speaking to the hangman is not permitted / J.E. Stanley ; The legend of the emperor's space suit (a tale of consensus reality) / Mary Turzillo ; The melancholy of mechagirl / Catherynne M. Valente ; The secret of being a cowboy / Catherynne M. Valente ; Blood, snow, birch and underworld / JoSelle Vanderhooft ; Initiation / Caitlin Meredith Walsh ; The soldier's return / Kyla Lee Ward ; All Souls' Day / Shannon Connor Winward ; Ribbons of the sun / Greer Woodward ; Mood of mind (I); title: Tu bi hi xa / Xanadu (Ofnguyenfame); title: The Rhysling Award winners 1978-2012; title: How to join the SFPA.