The 2003 Rhysling Award Winners

Awarded by the Science Fiction Poetry Association for achievement in speculative poetry.

Short poem
   1st. Ruth Berman - 'Potherb Gardening' (Asimov's Science Fiction, Dec. 2002)
   2nd. Mike Allen - 'A Ghost Story' (Weird Tales, Spring 2002)
   2nd. David C. Kopaska-Merkel - 'meteor shower' (The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Spring 2002)


Long Poem
   1st. (tie) Charles Saplak & Mike Allen - 'Epochs in Exile: A Fantasy Trilogy' (Eotu Ezine, Feb. 2002)
   1st. (tie) Sonya Taaffe - 'Matlacihuatl's Gift' (Eotu Ezine, Feb. 2002)
   2nd David C. Kopaska-Merkel - 'Medusa's Tale' (Mythic Delirium, Summer/Fall 2002)
   3rd Tyree Campbell - 'Not One of Us' (Sex and the Single Alien, Writer's Club Press, 2002)