Year |
Category |
Poem |
Author(s) |
Publication |
Ref.
|
1978
|
Long
|
The Computer Iterates the Greater Trumps* |
Gene Wolfe |
Speculative Poetry Review
|
|
Short
|
Corruption of Metals* |
Sonya Dorman |
2076: The American Tricentennial, Pyramid Books
|
Asleep in the Arms of Mother Night* |
Andrew Joron |
Speculative Poetry Review
|
The Starman* |
Duane Ackerson |
Cthulhu Calls
|
1979
|
Long
|
For the Lady of a Physicist* |
Michael Bishop |
Black Holes, Fawcett Books
|
|
Short
|
Fatalities* |
Duane Ackerson |
The Eggplant and Other Absurdities, Confluence Press
|
Story Books and Treasure Maps* |
Steve Eng |
Equinox
|
1980
|
Long
|
The Sonic Flowerfall of Primes* |
Andrew Joron |
New Worlds
|
|
Short
|
The Migration of Darkness* |
Peter Payack |
Asimov's Science Fiction
|
Encased in the Amber of Eternity* |
Robert Frazier |
The Future at War
|
1981
|
Long
|
On Science Fiction* |
Thomas M. Disch |
Triquarterly
|
|
Short
|
Meeting Place* |
Ken Duffin |
Asimov's Science Fiction
|
1982
|
Long
|
The Well of Bain* |
Ursula K. Le Guin |
Hard Words & Other Poems, Harper & Row
|
|
Short
|
On the Speed of Sight* |
Raymond DiZazzo |
Uranus
|
1983
|
Long
|
Your Time and You: A Neoprole's Dating Guide* |
Adam Cornford |
Velocities
|
|
Short
|
In Computers* |
Alan P. Lightman |
Science 82
|
1984
|
Long
|
Saul's Death: Two Sestina's* |
Joe W. Haldeman |
Omni
|
|
Short
|
Two Sonnets* |
Helen Ehrlich |
Science 83
|
1985
|
Long
|
A Letter from Caroline Herschel (1750-1848)* |
Siv Cedering |
Science 84
|
|
Short
|
For Spacers Snarled in the Hair of Comets* |
Bruce Boston |
Asimov's Science Fiction
|
1986
|
Long
|
Shipwrecked on Destiny Five* |
Andrew Joron |
Asimov's Science Fiction
|
|
Short
|
The Neighbour's Wife* |
Susan Palwick |
Amazing Stories
|
1987
|
Long
|
Daedalus* |
W. Gregory Stewart |
Star*Line
|
|
Short
|
A Dream of Heredity* |
John Calvin Rezmerski |
Tales of the Unanticipated
|
Before the Big Bang: News from the Hubble Large Space Telescope* |
Jonathan V. Post |
Star*Line
|
1988
|
Long
|
White Trains* |
Lucius Shepard |
Night Cry
|
|
Short
|
The Nightmare Collector* |
Bruce Boston |
Night Cry
|
Rocky Road to Hoe* |
Suzette Haden Elgin |
Star*Line
|
1989
|
Long
|
In the Darkened Hours* |
Bruce Boston |
The Nightmare Collector, 2AM
|
|
Winter Solstice, Camelot Station* |
John M. Ford |
Invitation to Camelot, Ace Books
|
Short
|
Salinity* |
Robert Frazier |
Fantasy & Science Fiction
|
1990
|
Long
|
dear spacemen* |
Patrick McKinnon |
Vice Versa
|
|
Short
|
Epitaph for Dreams* |
G. Sutton Breiding |
Narcopolis & Other Poems, Hell's Kitchen Productions
|
1991
|
Long
|
The Aging Cryonicist in the Arms of His Mistress Contemplates the Survival of the Species While the Phoenix Is Consumed by Fire* |
David Memmott |
The Magazine of Speculative Poetry
|
|
Short
|
Eighteen Years Old, October Eleventh* |
Joe W. Haldeman |
Asimov's Science Fiction
|
1992
|
Long
|
the button, and what you know* |
W. Gregory Stewart |
Amazing Stories
|
|
Short
|
Song of the Martian Cricket* |
David Lunde |
Asimov's Science Fiction
|
1993
|
Long
|
To Be from Earth* |
William J. Daciuk |
Xizquil
|
|
Short
|
Will* |
Jane Yolen |
The Magazine of Speculative Poetry
|
1994
|
Long
|
Basement Flats* |
W. Gregory Stewart |
Air Fish, Catseye Books
|
|
Robert Frazier
|
Short
|
Spacer's Compass* |
Bruce Boston |
Specula, Talisman
|
Flight Is for Those Who Have Not Yet Crossed Over* |
Jeff VanderMeer |
The Silver Web
|
1995
|
Long
|
Pilot, Pilot* |
David Lunde |
Star*Line
|
|
A Life, Considered in Thirds, Set Against a Galactic Collapse |
W. Gregory Stewart |
Star*Line
|
Partial People |
Terry Bisson |
Bears Discover Fire, Tor Books
|
Homeflight |
Alan Rice Osborn |
Star*Line
|
Between Test Patterns |
W. Gregory Stewart |
Antepenult, Dark Regions Press
|
Fire, Ice |
Joe Haldeman |
Omni
|
Dreaming Saturn |
James S. Dorr |
Dark Destiny, White Wolf Publishing
|
Short
|
Skin of Glass* |
Dan Raphael |
The Kore
|
In These Hills |
Denise Dumars |
Star*Line
|
Dinosaur Highway |
Scott E. Green |
Asimov's Science Fiction
|
Elements of Love |
Jonathan V. Post |
Space and Time
|
1996
|
Long
|
Variants of the Obsolete* |
Marge Simon |
Eonian Variations, The Selected Poetry of Marge Simon, Dark Regions Press
|
|
The Westfarer |
James S. Dorr |
Dark Destiny: Proprietors of Fate, White Wolf Publishing
|
Short
|
Future Present: A Lesson in Expectation* |
Bruce Boston |
Asimov's Science Fiction
|
Satan is a Mathematician |
Keith Allen Daniels |
Once Upon a Midnight, Unnameable Press
|
Bilateral Symmetry |
Denise Dumars |
Space and Time
|
1997
|
Long
|
Spotting UFOs While Canning Tomatoes* |
Terry A. Garey |
Serve It Forth, Warner Aspect
|
|
Memories of My Mistress |
Blythe Ayne |
Mindsparks SF Poetry Anthology
|
Canto (Evocare!) |
James S. Dorr |
Dante's Disciples, White Wolf Press
|
Short
|
Day Omega* |
W. Gregory Stewart |
Asimov's Science Fiction
|
Dash |
Mary Turzillo |
Tales of the Unanticipated
|
Speaking Bones |
Denise Dumars |
Speaking Bones, Dark Regions Press
|
1998
|
Long
|
why goldfish shouldn't use power tools* |
Laurel Winter |
Asimov's Science Fiction
|
|
Ghost Ships |
Charlee Jacob |
Asylums and Labyrinths
|
Medusa's Daughter |
James S. Dorr |
Star*Line
|
Short
|
Explaining Frankenstein to His Mother* |
John Grey |
Star*Line
|
Shaman |
Charlee Jacob |
The Catbird Seat
|
It's All Time-Machines, She Said |
Timons Esaias |
Star*Line
|
On Reading Bradbury |
Sandra Kasturi |
Tesseracts 6, Tesseract Books
|
1999
|
Long
|
Confessions of a Body Thief* |
Bruce Boston |
Talisman
|
|
Short
|
egg horror poem* |
Laurel Winter |
Asimov's Science Fiction
|
2000
|
Long
|
Christmas (after we all get time machines)* |
Geoffrey A. Landis |
Asimov's Science Fiction
|
|
Handwork |
Rebecca Marjesdatter |
Women of Other Wolds, University of Western Australia Press
|
Salem Town |
Corrine De Winter |
Gathering Darkness
|
Impressions from Giger's "Necronomicons" |
Charlee Jacob |
Dreams & Nightmares
|
Short
|
Grimoire* |
Rebecca Marjesdatter |
Tales of the Unanticipated
|
Clark the Ripper |
David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
Dreams & Nightmares
|
The Au Pair from Out There |
Ann K. Schwader |
Star*Line
|
Brigit |
Peggy J. Taylor |
Calyx
|
Silicon Trade Agreement |
Ruth Berman |
Tales of the Unanticipated
|
The Unfinished Map of the Sky |
G. O. Clark |
Fantasque
|
A Picture Postcard of the Cerne Abbas Giant |
David Lunde |
Asimov's Science Fiction
|
The Language of Rain |
Wendy Rathbone |
Dreams & Nightmares
|
song of a last duckbill |
W. Gregory Stewart |
Star*Line
|
2001
|
Long
|
January Fires* |
Joe Haldeman |
Asimov's Science Fiction
|
|
Maya |
James S. Dorr |
Strange Attraction, Bereshith/Shadowlands Press
|
Valley of Years |
David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
Results of a Preliminary Investigation of Electrochemical Properties of Some Organic Matrices, Eraserhead Press
|
The Lesions of Genetic Sin |
Bruce Boston |
Miniature Sun Press
|
Event Horizons |
Gene van Troyer |
Snow Monkey
|
Short
|
My Wife Returns As She Would Have It* |
Bruce Boston |
Asimov's Science Fiction
|
Of Dance Steps and Distances |
G. O. Clark |
Icarus Ascending
|
Reflections in a Fading "Mir" |
Ann K. Schwader |
Mythic Delirium
|
Persephone Wakening |
Tracina Jackson-Adams |
The Magazine of Speculative Poetry
|
2002
|
Long
|
How to Make a Human* |
Lawrence Schimel |
Half-Human, Scholastic
|
|
Pavane for a Cyber-Princess |
Bruce Boston |
Pavane for a Cyber-Princess, Miniature Sun Press
|
In Bubastis |
Denise Dumars |
Star*Line
|
Trouble With Math |
Roger Dutcher |
Star*Line
|
A Crash Course in Lemon Physics |
Robert Frazier |
Strange Horizons
|
Short
|
We Die as Angels* |
William John Watkins |
Asimov's Science Fiction
|
Threnody at Sea |
Mark Rudolph |
Strange Horizons
|
True Love |
Ian Watson |
Weird Tales
|
2003
|
Long
|
Epochs in Exile: A Fantasy Trilogy* |
Charles Sapiak |
EOTU Ezine
|
|
Mike Allen
|
Matlacihuatl's Gift* |
Sonya Taffe |
Dreams & Nightmares
|
Medusa's Tale |
David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
Mythic Delirium
|
Not One of Us |
Tyree Campbell |
Sex and the Single Alien, Writer's Club Press
|
Short
|
Potherb Gardening* |
Ruth Berman |
Asimov's Science Fiction
|
A Ghost Story |
Mike Allen |
Weird Tales
|
meteor shower |
David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
The Magazine of Speculative Poetry
|
2004
|
Long
|
Octavia Is Lost in the Hall of Masks* |
Theodora Goss |
Mythic Delirium
|
|
A Portrait of the Artist |
Vandana Singh |
Strange Horizons
|
Hugo Schizofrenica |
Charlee Jacob |
Miniature Sun Press
|
Short
|
Just Distance* |
Roger Dutcher |
Tales of the Unanticipated
|
"Observe the Month of Spring" |
Lucy Cohen Schmeidler |
The Magazine of Speculative Poetry
|
How I Will Outwit the Time Thieves |
Mike Allen |
Strange Horizons
|
Nursery Ghosts |
Sandra Lindow |
Raven Electrick
|
2005
|
Long
|
Soul Searching* |
Tim Pratt |
Strange Horizons
|
|
Making Monsters |
Tim Pratt |
Strange Horizons
|
The Night Watchman Dreams His Rounds at the REM Sleep Factory |
Mike Allen |
Dreams & Nightmares
|
Short
|
No Ruined Lunar City* |
Greg Beatty |
Abyss & Apex
|
The Clockmaker's Wife |
Mikal Trimm |
Star*Line
|
Rich & Strange |
Ann K. Schwader |
Strange Horizons
|
2006
|
Long
|
The Tin Men* |
Kendall Evans |
The Magazine of Speculative Poetry
|
|
David C. Kopaska-Merkel
|
Old Twentieth: a century full of years |
Joe Haldeman |
Readercon 16 Souvenir Book
|
First Cross of Mars |
Drew Morse |
Illumen
|
Short
|
The Strip Search* |
Mike Allen |
Strange Horizons
|
Tsunami Child |
David C. Kopaska-Merkel |
Star*Line
|
South |
Marge Simon |
Illumen
|
2007
|
Long
|
The Journey to Kailash* |
Mike Allen |
Strange Horizons
|
|
The Eight Legs of Grandmother Spider |
Catherynne M. Valente |
Mythic
|
Sleepers |
Samantha Henderson |
Dreams & Nightmares
|
Short
|
The Graven Idol's Godheart* |
Rich Ristow |
The Shantytown Anomaly
|
god is dead short live god |
Joe Haldeman |
Mythic
|
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Hole |
Lawrence Schimel |
Helix
|
2008
|
Long
|
The Seven Devils of Central California* |
Catherynne M. Valente |
Farrago's Wainscot
|
|
In Deepspace Shadows |
Kendall Evans |
In Deepspace Shadows, Mythic Delirium Books
|
The Engineer |
Bryan D. Dietrich |
Isotope
|
Short
|
Eating Light* |
F. J. Bergmann |
Mythic Delirium
|
Ice Palace |
Margaret Atwood |
The Door, McClelland & Stewart
|
The Oracle on River Street |
Rachel Swirsky |
Goblin Fruit
|
2009
|
Long
|
Search* |
Geoffrey A. Landis |
Helix
|
|
Hungry: Some Ghost Stories |
Samantha Henderson |
Lone Star Stories
|
Damascus Divides the Lovers by Zero; or, The City Is Never Finished |
Amal El-Mohtar |
Lone Star Stories
|
Catherynne M. Valente
|
Short
|
Songs to an Ancient City* |
Amal El-Mohtar |
Mythic Delirium
|
Spell |
Samantha Henderson |
Goblin Fruit
|
The Future |
Billy Collins |
The New Yorker
|
2010
|
Long
|
In the Astronaut Asylum* |
Kendall Evans |
Mythic Delirium
|
|
Samantha Henderson
|
Rattlebox III |
Mike Allen |
Strange Horizons
|
Kendall Evans
|
David C. Kopaska-Merkel
|
The First Story |
Lana Hechtman Ayers |
Hot Metal Press
|
Short
|
To Theia* |
Ann K. Schwader |
Strange Horizons
|
The Changeling Always Wins |
Nicole Kornher-Stace |
Goblin Fruit
|
Nine Views of the Oracle |
Rachel Manija Brown |
Abyss & Apex
|
2011
|
Long
|
The Sea King's Second Bible* |
C. S. E. Cooney |
Goblin Fruit
|
|
Dark Rains Here and There |
Bruce Boston |
Dark Matters, Bad Moon Books
|
Wreck-Diving the Spaceship |
Robert Frazier |
Dreams & Nightmares
|
Short
|
Peach-Creamed Honey* |
Amal El-Mohtar |
The Honey Month, Papaveria Press
|
Binary Creation Myth |
Karen A. Romanko |
Star*Line
|
Dogstar Men |
C. S. E. Cooney |
Apex Magazine
|
2012
|
Long
|
The Curator Speaks in the Department of Dead Languages* |
Megan Arkenberg |
Stange Horizons
|
|
The 25-Cent Rocket: One-Quarter of the Way to the Stars |
G. O. Clark |
Dreams & Nightmares
|
Kendall Evans
|
The Legend of the Emperor's Space Suit (A Tale of Consensus Reality) |
Mary Turzillo |
New Myths
|
Short
|
The Library, After* |
Shira Lipkin |
Mythic Delirium
|
The Lend |
Erik Amundsen |
Stone Telling
|
In Translation |
C. A. Gardner |
Tales of the Talisman
|
2013
|
Long
|
Into Flight* |
Andrew Robert Sutton |
Silver Blade
|
|
String Theory |
John Philip Johnson |
Ad Astra
|
The Necromantic Wine |
Wade German |
Avatars of Wizardy, P'rea Press
|
The Time Travelers Weekend |
Adele Gardner |
Liquid Imagination
|
Short
|
The Cat Star* |
Terry Garey |
Lady Poetesses from Hell, Bag Person Press
|
Futurity's Shoelaces |
Marge Simon |
Balticon 2012 Program Book
|
Sister Philomena Heard the Voices of Angels |
Megan Arkenberg |
Strange Horizons
|
2014
|
Long
|
Interregnum* |
Mary Soon Lee |
Star*Line
|
|
Hungry Constellations |
Mike Allen |
Goblin Fruit
|
I will show you a single treasure from the treasures of Shah Niyaz |
Rose Lemburg |
Goblin Fruit
|
Short
|
Turning the Leaves* |
Amal El-Mohtar |
Apex Magazine
|
Rivers |
Geoffrey A. Landis |
Asimov's Science Fiction
|
Music of the Stars |
Bruce Boston |
Balticon 2013 Program Book
|
2015
|
Long
|
100 Reasons to Have Sex with an Alien* |
F. J. Bergmann |
2014 SFPA Poetry Contest
|
|
Six Things the Owl Said |
Megan Arkenberg |
Goblin Fruit
|
The Perfect Library |
David Clink |
If the World Were to Stop, Piquant Press
|
Short
|
Shutdown* |
Marge Simon |
Qualia Nous, Written Backwards
|
Science Fiction (with apologies to Marianne Moore's “Poetry”) |
Ruth Berman |
Dreams & Nightmares
|
I Imagine My Mother's Death |
Bryan D. Dietrich |
The Pedestal Magazine
|
The Peal Divers |
Francesca Forrest |
Strange Horizons
|
Extinction |
Joshua Gage |
Star*Line
|
After the Changeling Incantation |
John Philip Johnson |
Strange Horizons
|
2016
|
Long
|
It Begins With A Haunting* |
Krysada Panusith Phounsiri |
Dance Among Elephants, Sahtu Press
|
|
Keziah* |
Ann K. Schwader |
Dark Energies, P'rea Press
|
Chronopatetic |
F. J. Bergmann |
Dreams & Nightmares
|
from "Sunspots" |
Simon Barraclough |
Poetry
|
The White Planet |
Albert Goldbarth |
Boulevard
|
Short
|
Time Travel Vocabulary Problems* |
Ruth Berman |
Dreams & Nightmares
|
Tech Support for the Apocalypse |
F. J. Bergmann |
Dreams & Nightmares
|
An Introduction to Alternate Universes: Theory and Practice |
Sandra J. Lindow |
Gyroscope Review
|
2017
|
Long
|
Rose Child* |
Theodora Goss |
Uncanny
|
|
The Rime of the Eldritch Mariner |
Adam Bolivar |
Spectral Realms
|
Not Like This |
Mary Soon Lee |
Apex Magazine
|
Short
|
George Tecumseh Sherman's Ghosts* |
Marge Simon |
Silver Blade
|
Build a Rocketship Contest: Alternative Class A Instructions and Suggestions”) |
Wendy Rathbone |
Asimov's Science Fiction
|
Godzilla Vs. King Kong |
James S. Dorr |
Dreams & Nightmares
|
Richard Feynman's Commute |
Jon Wesick |
The Were-Traveler
|
The Box of Dust and Monsters |
Beth Cato |
Devilfish Review
|
2018
|
Long
|
The Mushroom Hunters* |
Neil Gaiman |
Brain Pickings
|
|
For Preserves |
Cassandra Rose Clarke |
Star*Line
|
Alternate Genders |
Mary Soon Lee |
Mithila Review
|
Short
|
Advice to a Six-Year-Old* |
Mary Soon Lee |
Star*Line
|
Rivers |
Sara Cleto |
Mythic Delirium
|
Gramarye |
F. J. Bergmann |
Polu Texni
|
2019
|
Long
|
Ursula Le Guin in the Underworld* |
Sarah Tolmie |
On Spec
|
|
The Fairies in the Crawlspace |
Beth Cato |
Uncanny
|
3-Minute Future |
F. J. Bergmann |
Unlikely Stories V
|
Short
|
After Her Brother Ripped the Heads from Her Paper Dolls* |
Beth Cato |
Mythic Delirium
|
What Loves You |
Jeff Crandall |
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
|
A City Built on Bones |
Ann K. Schwader |
Abyss & Apex
|
3D-Printed Brother |
Millie Ho |
Strange Horizons
|
2020
|
Long
|
"Heliobacterium daphnephilum"* |
Rebecca Buchanan |
Star*Line
|
|
The Cinder Girl Burns Brightly |
Theodora Goss |
Uncanny
|
The Macabre Modern |
Kyla Lee Ward |
The Macabre Modern and Other Morbidities, P'rea Press
|
Ode to the Artistic Temperament |
Michael H. Payne |
Silver Blade
|
Short
|
Taking, Keeping* |
Jessica J. Horowitz |
Apparition Lit
|
when my father reprograms my mother { |
Caroline Mao |
Strange Horizons
|
Creation: Dark Matter Dating App |
Sandra J. Lindow |
Asimov's Science Fiction
|
The Day the Animals Turned to Sand |
Tyler Hagemann |
Amazing Stories
|
2021
|
Long
|
Eleven Exhibits in a Better Natural History Museum, London* |
Jenny Blackford |
Strange Horizons
|
|
A Song from Bedlam (with apologies to Christopher Smart) |
Nike Sulway |
Liminality
|
Devilish Incarnations |
Bruce Boston |
Star*Line
|
Short
|
Summer Time(lessness)* |
Linda D. Addison |
Star*Line
|
Why did white people conquer the world for spices and then never use them? |
R. Thursday |
Drunk Monkeys
|
Darning |
Sandra J. Lindow |
Asimov's Science Fiction
|
2022
|
Long
|
The Bookstore* |
Beth Cato |
New Myths
|
|
Reservation Fairy Tales 101—Final Exam |
Marshella Rockwell |
Augur Magazine
|
Alexander's Babylon |
Marge Simon |
Victims, Weasel Press
|
Mary Turzillo
|
The Captain Flies |
Avi Silver |
Uncanny Magazine
|
Medusa Gets a Haircut |
Theodora Goss |
Uncanny Magazine
|
Short
|
Confessions of a Spaceport AI* |
Mary Soon Lee |
Uncanny Magazine
|
Gravity (some things that fly) |
Geoffrey A. Landis |
Space and Time
|
The Butterfly Affect |
Linda D. Addison |
Were Tales: A Shapeshifter Anthology, Brigids Gate Press
|
our translucent bodies |
Devin Miller |
Mermaids Monthly
|
dry land |
Maria Zocolla |
Strange Horizons
|
Exquisite |
Lee Murray |
Tortured Willows: Bent, Bowed, Unbroken, Yuriko Publishing
|
2023
|
Long
|
Machine (r)Evolution* |
Colleen Anderson |
Radon Journal
|
|
The Bone Tree |
Rebecca Buchanan |
Not a Princess, but (Yes) There was a Pea, and Other Fairy Tales to Foment Revolution, Jackanapes Press
|
Igbo Landing II |
Akua Lezli Hope |
Black Fire—This Time, Aquarius Press
|
Herbaceous Citadel |
Avra Margariti |
The Fairy Tale Magazine
|
Living in Rubble |
Gerri Leen |
Eccentric Orbits 3, Dimensionfold Publishing
|
The Thing About Stars |
Avra Margariti |
Into the Forest: Tales of the Baba Yaga, Black Spot Books
|
Short
|
Harold and the Blood-Red Crayon* |
Jennifer Crow |
Star*Line
|
In Stock Images of the Future, Everything is White* |
Terese Mason Piere |
Uncanny Magazine
|
Bitch Moon |
Sarah Grey |
Nightmare Magazine
|
First Contact |
Lisa Timpf |
Eye to the Telescope
|
The Gargoyle Watches the Rains End |
Amelia Gorman |
The Gargoylicon: Imaginings and Images of the Gargoyle in Literature and Art, Mind's Eye Publications
|
Field Notes from the Anthropocene |
Priya Chand |
Nightmare Magazine
|
Near the end, your mother tells you she's been seeing someone |
Shannon Connor Winward |
SFPA Poetry Contest
|
Dinner Plans with Baba Yaga |
Stephanie M. Wytovich |
Into the Forest: Tales of the Baba Yaga, Black Spot Books
|