Sherry Chandler

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I am proud to announce that my daughter-in-law, Isabel Pelech, has been nominated for the 2007 Rhysling Award from the Science Fiction Poetry Association. The SFPA has awarded Rhyslings, named for the blind poet Rhysling in Robert Heinlein’s “The Green Hills of Earth,” since 1978. Previous winners have included Ursula K. Le Guin and Thomas M. Disch. You can find a complete list of winners at the link.

Isabel was nominated for her prose poem “Clock Function,” which originally appeared in Dreams and Nightmares. “Clock Function” will be reprinted in the 2007 Rhysling Anthology:

The nominees for each year’s Rhysling Awards are selected by the membership of the Science Fiction Poetry Association. Each member is allowed to nominate one work in each of the two categories: “Best Long Poem” (50+ lines) and “Best Short Poem” (0-49 lines). All nominated works must have been published during the calendar year for which the present awards are being given. The Rhysling Awards are put to a final vote by the membership of the SFPA using reprints of all the nominated works presented in this voting tool called The Rhysling Anthology. The anthology allows the membership to easily review and consider all nominated works without the necessity of obtaining the diverse number of publications in which the nominated works first appeared. The Rhysling Anthology is also made available to anyone with an interest in this unique compilation of verse from some of the finest poets working in the field of SF/F/Horror poetry.

The winning works are regularly reprinted in the Nebula Awards Anthology from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc., and are considered in the SF/F/H/Spec. field to be the equivalent in poetry of the awards given for “prose” work–achievement awards given to poets by the writing peers of their own field of literature.

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