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The 2020 Rhysling Anthology

David C. Kopaska-Merkel

First published 2020
Series Rhysling Poetry Awards Anthology
Publisher SFPA
Format Trade Paperback
Type Anthology
Cover art Hal Tenny
Pages xvi+216
Price $15.95
ISBN 9798628876466

  • Data and contents from the publisher's website and Amazon.com 2022-03-05
  • Cover art is titled 'Another Day at the Beach'

Year Reviewer Publication
2020 Richard Chwedyk Galaxy's Edge, July 2020

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Page Title Author(s) Type
1 Sphere Francis W. Alexander Poem
2 Blood Moon Sara Backer Poem
3 New Stars F. J. Bergmann Poem
4 Ten-Card Tarot, Pentacles Wild F. J. Bergmann Poem
5 The Ruined Library Bruce Boston Poem
6 Fallen But Not Down Sarah Cannavo Poem
7 A Purring Cat Is a Time Machine Beth Cato Poem
8 What You Hear When Your Best Friend Falls for a Supervillain Beth Cato Poem
9 Continuum G. O. Clark Poem
10 Steampunk Christmas David Clink Poem
11 The Planets? Sweet... Harris Coverley Poem
12 Halstead IV Jeff Crandall Poem
13 The Journey Deborah L. Davitt Poem
14 Disassembly at Auction Robin Wyatt Dunn Poem
15 Collie Dogs In Space Debby Feo Poem
17 Crimson Faces Maxwell I. Gold Poem
18 Robert Goddard at Roswell Alan Ira Gordon Poem
19 Alternate Galatea Amelia Gorman Poem
21 All-Father Vince Gotera Poem
22 Regarding Me Michael H. Hanson Poem
23 Prayer on a Friday Morning L. R. Harvey Poem
24 Taking, Keeping Jessica Jo Horowitz Poem
25 Area 51 Custodian Gets Coffee Juleigh Howard-Hobson Poem
26 Goddamn These Minotaurs Persephone Erin Hudson Poem
27 Fallen Star Clay F. Johnson Poem
28 The Book of Fly John Philip Johnson Poem
29 Mothsong John Philip Johnson Poem
30 Encore Tim Jones Poem
31 Seven Reasons to Have Hope for a Better Future. Number Five Will Really Get You! Catherine Kyle Poem
32 Singing Ghost Catherine Kyle Poem
33 The Nonpareils: As Told by the Woman in the Gingerbread House Kathleen A. Lawrence Poem
34 How to Colonize Ganymede Mary Soon Lee Poem
34 How to Dance with Dark Matter Mary Soon Lee Poem
35 To Skeptics Mary Soon Lee Poem
36 Objects of Desire Gerri Leen Poem
38 Drag Strip Drag Francine P. Lewis Poem
39 Creation: Dark Matter Dating App Sandra J. Lindow Poem
40 Eldritch Horror Katie Manning Poem
41 "when my father reprograms my mother {" Caroline Mao Poem
43 The Mother Searches for Her Own Story Mary McMyne Poem
45 If All the Seas Were Blood D. L. Myers Poem
46 Ójí Íjè (Kola Journey) Uche Ogbuji Poem
49 How to Care for Your Yesterday's Camel Christina Olson Poem
50 The Night the Unicorn Leapt from the Tapestry Kate Pentecost Poem
51 "beyond its two eyes" Juan M. Perez Poem
52 Mary Agnes Chase (1869-1963) Jesse Randall Poem
53 The Ghosts of Those Ron Riekki Poem
54 Phobos and Deimos W. C. Roberts Poem
55 The Solace of the Farther Moon Allan Rozinski Poem
56 Huitzilopochtli Lorraine Schein Poem
57 Where Have the Space Heroes Gone? Darrell Schweitzer Poem
59 The Wolfman and Space Girl Neil Sloboda Poem
60 Styx Christina Sng Poem
61 Mary Poppins, 2100 Cathy Tenzo Poem
62 No Fairy Tale World Lisa Timpf Poem
63 Three of Swords, King of Cups Ali Trotta Poem
64 Don't Open the Box! Kyla Lee Ward Poem
65 Lady Macbeth's Green Gown Jacqueline West Poem
66 The Root King's Winter Jessica P. Wick Poem
67 The Unseen Fran Wilde Poem
68 The Wishing Clock of Gassytown Deborah Wong Poem
69 From "Moon Sonnet" Lily Zhou Poem
73 The Storm Witch Colleen Anderson Poem
74 The Scarecrow's Lover Alexandria Baisden Poem
77 Afterlife F. J. Bergmann Poem
78 Envoy F. J. Bergmann Poem
80 Maculation F. J. Bergmann Poem
82 The Daily Freak Show Bruce Boston Poem
84 Tarot Times Bruce Boston Poem
86 Heliobacterium daphnephilum Rebecca Buchanan Poem
87 Sycophantam astrum Rebecca Buchanan Poem
90 Childhood Memory from the Old Victorian House on Warner Beth Cato Poem
91 The City That Changed Hands Maya Chhabra Poem
94 The Scroll of Thoth Frank Coffman Poem
100 Children of the Trees Deborah L. Davitt Poem
102 Witches We Adele Gardner Poem
105 Scylla and Charybdis Wade German Poem
108 Consumption Emma J. Gibbon Poem
110 Fune-RL Emma J. Gibbon Poem
113 The Cinder Girl Burns Brightly Theodora Goss Poem
115 Sea Witch from the Deep Ellen Huang Poem
118 The Woman Who Talks to Her Dog at the Beach Geoff Inverarity Poem
120 Lines Written by Moonlight at Whitby Abbey Clay F. Johnson Poem
124 A Ride Through Faerie Clay F. Johnson Poem
133 Green Sky Herb Kauderer Poem
135 The Making of Dragons Herb Kauderer Poem
137 The Undrowned Catherine Kyle Poem
140 Keep My Course True Gerri Leen Poem
142 Why Not? Gerri Leen Poem
144 Crop Circles Lori R. Lopez Poem
145 Nocturnal Embers Lori R. Lopez Poem
147 Nan-e Leon Mackenzie Poem
149 My Stories Are Hungry John C. Mannone Poem
151 Reincarnation John C. Mannone Poem
152 Inside My Belly Alessandro Manzetti Poem
153 Ode to the Artistic Temperament Michael H. Payne Poem
157 Stormbound Marsheila Rockwell Poem
159 Treason Shana Ross Poem
161 Cannibal Rex Allan Rozinski Poem
163 Obsidian Fungisayi Sasa Poem
166 Bright Record John W. Sexton Poem
167 Borrower Cislyn Smith Poem
170 In the End, Only the Gods Christina Sng Poem
173 If Love Is Real, So Are Fairies Cynthia So Poem
174 Tetrahedral Edificies of Sticky Rice Realm D. A. Xiaolin Spires Poem
177 Driven Marcie Lynn Tentchoff Poem
180 Eight Simulations for the Missing T. D. Walker Poem
182 For My Daughter, Who Will Ask for a Seismograph Implant on Her Sixteenth Birthday T. D. Walker Poem
186 The Mining Town Holly Lyn Walrath Poem
189 The Wolf Isn't the Only One Who Hides In Human Clothes Natalie Wang Poem
192 The Macabre Modern Kyla Lee Ward Poem
10|10.2 "Aliens declutter" P. S. Cottier Poem
15|15.2 A Rose Waits Adele Gardner Poem
1|1.2 The Sacrifices Mike Allen Poem
21|21.2 The Day the Animals Turned to Sand Tyler Hagemann Poem
35|35.2 Witch Mary Soon Lee Poem
39|39.2 Abeona, Goddess of Outward Journeys, Pilots the Interstellar Ark Nisa Malli Poem
43|43.2 The Certainty of Seeing Michelle Muenzler Poem
45|45.2 Samsara Jason O'Toole Poem
49|49.2 Wake Up, Little Stevie Christina Olson Poem
4|4.2 The Girl Who Loved Birds Clara Blackwood Poem
52|52.2 Revisiting the Origins of Language Terrie Leigh Relf Poem
57|57.2 The Snow Globe Marge Simon Poem
59|59.2 Reparation Christina Sng Poem
68|68.2 Shoals of Miami Greer Woodward Poem
6|6.2 My Ghost Will Know the Way Beth Cato Poem
xi Editor's Note (The 2020 Rhysling Anthology) David C. Kopaska-Merkel Essay