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The 2017 Rhysling Anthology

David C. Kopaska-Merkel

First published 2017
Series Rhysling Poetry Awards Anthology
Publisher SFPA
Format Trade Paperback
Type Anthology
Cover art Liu Junwei
Pages xvi+200
Price $15.95
ISBN 9781544713403

  • Data and contents from the publisher's website and Amazon.com 2022-03-06

Page Title Author(s) Type
1 This Rat Anne Carly Abad Poem
2 Propagation Layla Al-Bedawi Poem
3 Selkie E. Kristin Anderson Poem
4 The Genius Sara Backer Poem
5 Antagonist F. J. Bergmann Poem
6 I Left My Heart in San Francisco. I Left Yours Somewhere in Colorado ... Matt Betts Poem
7 Spoiler Alert Matt Betts Poem
8 Star Dust Josh Brown Poem
9 "appendage sale" Susan Burch Poem
10 My Pet Alien Dennis Caswell Poem
11 The Box of Dust and Monsters Beth Cato Poem
12 Bottle Cast Upon a Dry Sea G. O. Clark Poem
13 A Natural History of Snow David Clink Poem
14 Glastonbury, 1994 P. S. Cottier Poem
15 Past Imperfect Deborah L. Davitt Poem
16 My Corpse, My Groom Ashley Dioses Poem
17 Godzilla vs. King Kong James S. Dorr Poem
18 Sutekh from the Throne Denise Dumars Poem
19 Falling (A Part ) Alexandra Erin Poem
20 Why Elephants No Longer Communicate in Greek Timons Esaias Poem
21 History Teacher Gary Every Poem
22 Skin Alice Fanchiang Poem
23 What Wants Us Karolina Fedyk Poem
24 The Long Run Neil Gaiman Poem
26 At the Robot National Convention Alan Ira Gordon Poem
27 Feles Alieni Vere Sunt Neile Graham Poem
28 Until Dawn Michael H. Hanson Poem
29 Ink Akua Lezli Hope Poem
30 Martian Garden John Philip Johnson Poem
31 Memorial Tim Jones Poem
32 After Herb Kauderer Poem
33 Dorothy Delivered Kathleen A. Lawrence Poem
34 Riding the Dark B. J. Lee Poem
35 The Ash Manifesto Rose Lemberg Poem
36 World's Tiniest Human Muriel Leung Poem
37 Stellar Quake John C. Mannone Poem
38 Descent of the Composer Airea D. Matthews Poem
39 Bones Knock in the House Mary McMyne Poem
40 Salome's New King Terry Miller Poem
41 The Doppelgänger and the Ghost Lev Mirov Poem
42 The Phosphorescent Fungi D. L. Myers Poem
43 Widening Gyre A. J. Odasso Poem
44 The Spook Tree Cindy O'Quinn Poem
45 Song of the Encantado Jeremy Paden Poem
46 Quasar Triin Paja Poem
47 Adolescence Ken Poyner Poem
48 La Villa de Sirenia Jack Ralls Poem
49 Exotic Heads Trimmed Neatly John Reinhart Poem
50 "The Old Ones gather" Terrie Leigh Relf Poem
51 The Bird Prince John W. Sexton Poem
52 Sappho and the Woman of Starlight John W. Sexton Poem
53 George Tecumseh Sherman's Ghosts Marge Simon Poem
54 Less Than Human Marge Simon Poem
55 The Last Woman on Earth Mary Stone Poem
56 Love in the Time of Apocalypse Ann Thornfield-Long Poem
58 The Fantasy of Hans Christian Andersen KH van Berkum Poem
59 Classification of Folktales Margaret Wack Poem
60 Portrait of the Captain with Small Waiting Objects T. D. Walker Poem
61 Richard Feynman's Commute Jon Wesick Poem
62 To the Girl Who Ran Through Crop Circles Karen J. Weyant Poem
63 Quack Neal Wilgus Poem
64 The Memory Machines Jane Williams Poem
65 Terran Mythology Shannon Connor Winward Poem
66 Of My Wounds, There Are Many Stephanie M. Wytovich Poem
67 Black Bull of Norroway Jane Yolen Poem
68 Death Rides USAir at Night Jane Yolen Poem
69 Supercomputer Spends the Night Danielle Zaccagnino Poem
71 Further F. J. Bergmann Poem
72 Exploratory Colony 454—15th May, 2052 Lore Bernier Poem
74 When the Gunman Comes Edith Hope Bishop Poem
75 Houses of the Living, Houses of the Dead Jenny Blackford Poem
77 The Rime of the Eldritch Mariner Adam Bolivar Poem
81 The Starlet Who Married a Monster Robert Borski Poem
82 The Great Unknown Bruce Boston & Alessandro Manzetti Poem
86 Legend of the Albino Pythons and the Bloody Child Bruce Boston & Alessandro Manzetti Poem
88 The Blind Elephants of Io Karen Bovenmyer Poem
90 Dame Evergreen Rebecca Buchanan Poem
91 The Death of the Horse Beth Cato Poem
93 Morning During Migration Season Beth Cato Poem
95 In Defence of Science David Clink Poem
96 Surviving a Canadian Poem David Clink Poem
99 The Poem Gardens of the Ascari Rohinton Daruwala Poem
100 Storm Miners Deborah L. Davitt Poem
102 Data Mine Alexandra Erin Poem
105 The Chinese Pirate Ching Shih Plays Go with a Hooded Opponent Kendall Evans Poem
108 Luminous Decay Robert Frazier Poem
110 little stomach Charlotte Geater Poem
113 Rose Child Theodora Goss Poem
116 Elegy for Iain Banks Vince Gotera Poem
117 The Dark Lord's Diary Lee S. Hawke Poem
119 Talk to the Machines Johan Jönsson Poem
120 Cobblestone Dragon Herb Kauderer Poem
124 phoenix fire, tabula rasa Kim Eun-byeol Poem
126 Väinämöinen Sings Jennifer Lawrence Poem
127 First Lesson Mary Soon Lee Poem
129 Not Like This Mary Soon Lee Poem
131 Im Wald Sandi Leibowitz Poem
134 The Journeymaker to Keddar (II) Rose Lemberg Poem
135 Interview with a 22nd-Century Sex Worker Darren Lipman Poem
137 The Lies You Learned S. Qiouyi Lu Poem
140 Adam's Rendezvous with Dante John C. Mannone Poem
142 Getting Winterized: A Guide to Rural Living Elizabeth R. McClellan Poem
146 god-date Brandon O'Brien Poem
148 Sargasso Sea A. J. Odasso Poem
150 Werewolf K. A. Opperman Poem
152 Alice-Ecila Steph Post Poem
155 At Issue, the Miramo Ken Poyner Poem
156 The Robot by the Fireplace Ken Poyner Poem
157 We Shall Meet in the Star-Spackled Ruins Wendy Rathbone Poem
161 The Butterflies of Traxl IV John Reinhart Poem
163 To the weaver, from the woman who slew Bakunawa M. Sereno Poem
168 The Inconceivable Shape Simon Smith Poem
178 The Leviathans of Europa Christina Sng Poem
181 Defender Prime A. C. Spahn Poem
183 WERE- Naru Dames Sundar Poem
185 I Will Be Your Grave Tlotlo Tsamaase Poem
187 When Coyote Called Down the Stars Aaron Vlek Poem
188 For Lonnie Holly Walrath Poem
190 Revolution Holly Lyn Walrath Poem
191 Best Of Sarah Ann Winn Poem
193 Thirteen Ways to See a Ghost Shannon Connor Winward Poem
12|12.2 The Dark Between Stars G. O. Clark Poem
15|15.2 Always the Black and White Keys Corrine De Winter Poem
16|16.2 Witch Lord of the Hunt Ashley Dioses Poem
24|24.2 Well, Water, Stars Adele Gardner Poem
26|26.2 Space Opera Vince Gotera Poem
28|28.2 "Christmas on Mars" Carolyn M. Hinderliter Poem
28|28.3 The Giantess's Dream Ada Hoffmann Poem
2|2.2 "3D printer" Francis W. Alexander Poem
2|2.3 Loose String E. Kristin Anderson Poem
30|30.2 The woman on the bus encounters time dilation Daniel R. Jones Poem
34|34.2 Returning Mary Soon Lee Poem
36|36.2 The Architect of Bonfires Tonya Liburd Poem
38|38.2 The birds forget to sing Carl Mayfield Poem
42|42.2 Nothing Goes Away A. J. Odasso Poem
43|43.2 Invocation of Diana K. A. Opperman Poem
46|46.2 Orpheus Ace G. Pilkington Poem
48|48.2 Build a Rocketship Contest: Alternative Class A. Instructions and Suggestions Wendy Rathbone Poem
4|4.2 Foreign Policy David Barber Poem
50|50.3 The Sparrows in Her Hair Hester J. Rook Poem
51|54.2 Learning the History of War J. J. Steinfeld Poem
55|55.2 Marginalia on Eiruvin 45b Bogi Takács Poem
56|56.2 The Persecution of Witches Ali Trotta Poem
58|58.2 To Live in the Zombie Apocalypse Burlee Vang Poem
5|5.2 How Far Does Night Have to Fall? F. J. Bergmann Poem
65|65.2 *For Quick Sale* Greer Woodward Poem
68|68.2 Rusalka Jane Yolen Poem
9|9.2 A Bug in the System Anton Cancre Poem
9|9.3 One Canoe Shari Caplan Poem
xi Editor's Note (The 2017 Rhysling Anthology) David C. Kopaska-Merkel Essay