SFPA's spec poetry awards -- to read & listen to

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As a complement to the better-known Nebula & Hugo awards (which do not offer a poetry category), the Science Fiction Poetry Association offers awards of its own for superior achievement in speculative verse.

This year, there were four separate awards: the Rhyslings (Short & Long Form), the Dwarf Stars Award (for verse 10 lines or shorter), the 2013 SFPA Poetry Contest (with Jane Yolen as the final judge), and the all-new Elgin Awards (for best full-length collection & chapbook published in the preceding year)..

For a list of Rhysling winners, with bios & photos, go here.  To see the Dwarf Stars winners' list, check here.  2013 Poetry Contest results -- and the poems themselves! -- can be found here.  The Elgin Awards results are listed here.

Tireless spec poetry chronicler Diane Severson (divadiane1) also offers informative blog posts about the awards on the Amazing Stories site.   Find her comments about the Rhysling Awards here, and her Elgin/Dwarf Stars post here.

For those who prefer their imaginative verse in audible form, Diane's latest Poetry Planet segment for the StarShipSofa podcast is up now here, or on iTunes.  (Search for episode # 303.) This segment offers readings from the Elgin & Dwarf Stars winners.  Show notes for this segment are also available, here.