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The 2023 Rhysling Anthology

Maxwell I. Gold

First published 2023
Series Rhysling Poetry Awards Anthology
Publisher SFPA
Format Trade Paperback
Type Anthology
Cover art Dan Sauer
Pages xiv+154
Price $15.95
ISBN 9798988631804

  • Data and contents from the publisher's website and Amazon.com 2023-07-07.
  • The anthology no longer prints all the preliminary nominees. A separate jury for each category selected the finalists.
    • Short Poems - 50 finalists from the 102 nominated.
    • Long Poems - 25 finalists from the 70 nominated.
  • The cover art is titled 'The Cosmic Heart of Speculative Poetry.

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Page Title Author(s) Type
3 Biophilia Sarah Grey Poem
4 Bitch Moon Sarah Grey Poem
6 Blå Jungfrun Deborah L. Davitt Poem
6 Tamales on Mars Angela Acosta Poem
7 Black Pastoral: On Mars Ariana Benson Poem
9 Cassandra As Climate Scientist Jeannine Hall Gailey Poem
10 A Creation Myth John C. Mannone Poem
11 Dinner Plans with Baba Yaga Stephanie M. Wytovich Poem
12 My Great-Grandmother's House Madalena Daleziou Poem
13 The Epidemic of Shrink-Ray-Gun Violence Plaguing Our Schools Must End Pedro Iniguez Poem
14 Exulansis S. Blackthorn Riddle Poem
16 Field Notes from the Anthropocene Priya Chand Poem
17 First Contact Lisa Timpf Poem
18 Fracking-lution Linda D. Addison Poem
19 The Gargoyle Watches the Rains End Amelia Gorman Poem
20 Gosh, It's Too Beautiful to Exist Briefly in a Parallel Planet Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan Poem
21 Harold and the Blood-Red Crayon Jennifer Crow Poem
22 If I Were Human Marie Vibbert Poem
23 In Stock Images of the Future, Everything Is White Terese Mason Pierre Poem
24 Intergalactic Baba Yaga Sandra Lindow Poem
25 Jingwei Tries to Fill Up the Sea Mary Soon Lee Poem
26 Law of Exponents John Reinhart Poem
28 Leda Goes to the Doctor Pankaj Khemka Poem
30 Lines to a Martian Alfonsina Storni Poem
32 The Long Night Ryfkah Poem
34 Medea Leaves Behind a Letter F. J. Doucet Poem
35 Mind Compression Madhur Anand Poem
36 Monitors David C. Kopaska-Merkel & Kendall Evans Poem
37 Near the end, your mother tells you she's been seeing someone Shannon Connor Winward Poem
38 Necklace Carolyn Clink Poem
40 New Planet Kathy Bailey Poem
41 Old Soldier, New Love Vince Gotera Poem
42 On the Limitations of Photographic Evidence in Fairyland Nicole J. LeBoeuf Poem
43 The Optics of Space Travel Angela Acosta Poem
44 Petrichor Eva Papasoulioti Poem
45 Pittsburg Temporal Transfer Station Alan Ira Gordon Poem
46 Please Hold Anna Remennik Poem
48 Raft of the Medusa Marge Simon Poem
49 Regarding the Memory of Earth Angela Acosta Poem
51 Sabbatical Somewhere Warm Elizabeth R. McClellan Poem
53 Shipwrecked Gretchen Tessmer Poem
55 A Spell for Winning Your Personal Injury Lawsuit Marsheila Rockwell Poem
57 Status Transcript: Lee Murray Poem
59 Strange Progeny Bruce Boston Poem
61 Time Skip Alyza Taguilaso Poem
62 The Watcher on the Wall Rebecca Bratten Weiss Poem
63 We Don't Always Have to Toss Her in the Deep End Jordan Hirsch Poem
65 Werewolves in Space Ruth Berman Poem
67 What Electrons Read Mary Soon Lee Poem
68 What the Old Woman Knows Melissa Ridley Elmes Poem
69 What Wolves Read Mary Soon Lee Poem
73 The Bone Tree Rebecca Buchanan Poem
76 Corvidae Sarah Cannavo Poem
79 The Dead Palestinian Father Rasha Abdulhadi Poem
81 Debris Deborah L. Davitt Poem
84 EMDR Marsheila Rockwell Poem
86 ex-lovers & other ghosts Herb Kauderer Poem
90 field notes from an investigation into the self Max Pasakorn Poem
94 Georgia Clay Blood Beatrice Winifred Iker Poem
97 Herbaceous Citadel Avra Margariti Poem
99 How to Skin Your Wolf G. E. Woods Poem
102 Igbo Landing II Akua Lezli Hope Poem
105 Interdimensional Border Town Lauren Scharhag Poem
107 Living in Rubble Gerri Leen Poem
109 Machine (r)Evolution Colleen Anderson Poem
113 The Machines Had Accepted Me for So Long Angel Leal Poem
115 Matches Rebecca Buchanan Poem
118 Mouth of Mirrors Maxwell I. Gold Poem
123 From "Poem without Beginning or End" Vivek Narayanan Poem
125 Queen of Cups Crystal Sidell Poem
127 The river god dreams of death by water Ryu Ando Poem
134 The Second Funeral Kurt Newton Poem
136 Spring, When I Met You (Spring, When I Woke) Gerri Leen Poem
138 The Thing About Stars Avra Margariti Poem
141 Who Came from the Woods Lev Mirov Poem