Rhysling votes

[kizlj]

I'll be scooting my envelope in at the last minute (the voting deadline is tomorrow's postmark), but I just finished reading through the Rhysling anthology and figuring out my votes. (The Rhyslings are the annual award for the best science fiction/fantasy/horror poetry. Kind of the poetry version of a combined Hugo and Nebula

Comments

[dkolodji]

There have been years where I didn't nominate nor vote for a poem in the long category.

It's no secret that I prefer very, very short poetry (which doesn't explain what sort of quantum madness caused me to end up with a long poem nominee of my own this year).

On the other hand, for the 2000 Rhysling I nominated Geoff Landis's "Christmas (after we all get time machines)" which ended up actually winning, so I do occasionally find some long poems that grab me.

Personally, I think anything over 40 lines should be in the long poem category....but that's just me, I think.

In any case, since you voted for the 2nd and 3rd place winners in the category and *almost* voted for the winner, it's good you voted. Perhaps your vote helped those poems place where they did.

[kizlj]

yeah, when I saw how close the votes were, I wondered about that! Kind of startling to realise how much influence one voter can have when the pool is small enough.

[kizlj]

oh, yay! I'm glad to be making happy people who wrote nifty poems that made *me* happy to read :) I'm glad people are stumbling on the post.