2011 Dwarf Stars Finalists

So I'm a finalist for the Dwarf Stars Award this year:

TiME to Go, by Elizabeth Barrette, The Wordsmith's Forge, 5-15-11

The complete announcement is below.


Geoffrey A. Landis posted in SFPA: Science Fiction Poetry Association

We would like to announce the poems selected as finalists for the 2011
SFPA Dwarf Stars award for the best short-short speculative poem published
in 2011.  Editors for this year's Dwarf Stars anthology are Geoffrey A.
Landis and Joshua Gage.

Congratulations to the finalists, and we would also like to thank the many
people who sent in suggestions of poems to be nominated this year.

The poems selected as finalists are, in alphabetical order by title (or,
for untitled poems, by first line):

"Adrift in the spacecraft," by Michael Arnzen, from microcosms

"The albedo of angels," by Robert Borski, from microcosms

Alien Life, by Pat Tompkins, from Spaceports & Spidersilk, March 2011

All folk have legends of her, by David Kopaska-Merkel, from Scifaikuest,
May 2011

"amidst the black churning of stars my shudder," by Jim Kacian, from
Roadrunner

"anorexic girl," by John W. Sexton, from Notes From The Gean, Vol. 3, No.
2, Sept. 2011

Before Science Stepped In, by Rod Usher, from Eye to the Telescope, August
2011

Blue Rose Buddha, by Marge Simon, from The Mad Hattery (Elektrik Milk Bath
Press 2011)

California Vamp, by James S. Dorr, from Vampires: A Retrospective (Sam's
Dot 2011)

Closure, by Greer Woodward, from Illumen, Autumn 2011

"coal-dark tombstone," by George Swede, from Roadrunner

Containers, by F.J. Bergmann, from The Binnacle

Elemental, by Cheryl Stiles, from Goblin Fruit

"Endlessly bitching when birds," by Aurelio Rico Lopez III, from
microcosms

Eulogy, by Alexandra Seidel, from Inkscrawl, Issue 2, Sept. 2011

"first kiss," by Albert Schlaht, from Scifaikuest

Graffiti, by Sonya Taaffe, from Stone Telling, 5, Sept. 2011

"Graveside spell spoken," by Marsheila Rockwell, from Halloween Haiku
(Popcorn Press 2011)

"Hallow's Eve," by Greg Schwartz, from Tales of the Talisman, Vol. 7,
issue 2

Grey-eyed, by Emily Jiang, from Goblin Fruit. Spring 2011

Harvest, by S. Brackett Robertson, from Goblin Fruit, Fall 2011

The Lives of The Stars, by Meg Smith, from Astropoetica

"lunar base 5," by semi (Terrie Leigh Relf), from Scifaikuest, Feb. 2011

Macrocosmic Propagation, by J.E. Stanley, from Star*Line, Vol. 34.4

The Magic Walnut, by  Sofía Rhei (translated by Lawrence Schimel), from
Mythic Delirium, 25

Matinee Motel-Hollywood: Two Humans, by dan smith, from Paper Crow, Vol.
2, #1, Spring/Summer 2011

"the more space," by Ann K. Schwader, from Eye to the Telescope, Issue 1

Necropsy, by John R. Platt, from Space & Time, Issue 115, Fall 2011

"nearly Mars," by LeRoy Gorman, from Scifaikuest

"new colony," by Randy Brooks, from Scifaikuest

"night sky," by Dietmar Tauchner, from Heron's Nest, Vol. XIII, No. 4,
Dec. 11

"particles decaying at the speed of lilac," by Melissa Allen, from
Roadrunner

"the perfect evening," by Julie Bloss Kelsey, from Scifaikuest

Protocol, by F. J. Bergmann, Space & Time, Issue 115, from Fall 2011

Robespierre Had The Greenest Eyes, by dan smith, from SpeedPoets, May 2011

The Robot Scientist's Daughter [Polonium-210], by Jeanninne Hall Gailey,
from The Journal, Spring/Summer 2011

Rules for Playing Hide and Seek in a Cornfield, by Jamie Wasserman, from
Niteblade, March 2011

S  E  T  I, by LeRoy Gorman, Scifaikuest, Feb. 2011 online

Snow flake galaxies, by G. O. Clark, microcosms

Song of the Machines, by Anna Sykora, Star*Line, Vol. 34.2, April-June
2011

Star Ghazal, by Holly Jensen, The Ghazal Page: Astronomy Challenge

Surreal Wish List, by Bruce Boston, Inkscrawl, Issue 1, June 2011

Taking the Auspices, by Sonya Taaffe, Inkscrawl #2, Sept 2011

10 things to know about staplers, by Carolyn Clink, Star*Line, Vol.34.1,
Jan.-Mar. 2011

TiME to Go, by Elizabeth Barrette, The Wordsmith's Forge, 5-15-11

"The unborn gods stir inside my belly," by Kristine Ong Muslim, microcosms

Unland, Unlife, by Mike & Anita Allen, Inkscrawl, Issue 1, June 2011

Vanity, by Juan Perez, Star*Line, Vol. 34.1, Jan.-Mar. 2011

Voyages of the H.M.S. Whitechapel, by Robert Borski, The Pedestal
Magazine, Issue 64

"wedding night," by Victor Piñeiro, Scifaikuest

What Ray Told Me, by Jenny Rossi, Strange Horizons, 2 May 2011

The World's Scriptures, by Gene Doty, Lynx, XXVI, 3, October, 2011