This is a special online-only poll for the best SF/Fantasy/Horror poems of 2005 and of all-time. (These aren't Locus Awards categories.) Please vote for your top 5 choices in each category below. The poll will remain open, like the Locus Poll, until April 15, 2006.
Unlike the Locus poll, this online ballot is not pre-loaded with drop-down selections. In the Best Poem of 2005 category, please indicate author, title, and publication source (magazine issue or book title) for each poem.
Aldiss, Brian W. : "Progression of the Species" (1967)
Aldiss, Brian W. : "The Cat Improvement Company" (1988)
Anderson, Karen : "Six Haiku" (1962)
Anderson, Poul : "Ballade of an Artificial Satellite" (1958)
Asimov, Isaac : "I Just Make Them Up, See!" (1958)
Asimov, Isaac : "Rejection Slips" (1959)
Asimov, Isaac : "The Author's Ordeal" (1957)
Asimov, Isaac : "The Foundation of Science Fiction Success" (1954)
Benét, Stephen Vincent : "Nightmare Number Three" (1935)
Bishop, Michael : "For the Lady of a Physicist" (1978)
Boston, Bruce : "A Missionary of the Mutant Rain Forest" (1990)
Boston, Bruce : "Confessions of a Body Thief" (1998)
Boston, Bruce : "Curse of the Angel's Wife" (1993)
Boston, Bruce : "Curse of the Clone's Wife" (1994)
Boston, Bruce : "Curse of the Demon's Wife" (1987)
Boston, Bruce : "Curse of the Shapeshifter's Wife" (1993)
Boston, Bruce : "Curse of the Telepath's Wife" (1993)
Boston, Bruce : "For Spacers Snarled in the Hair of Comets" (1984)
Boston, Bruce : "Future Present: "A Lesson in Expectation" (1995)
Boston, Bruce : "In the Darkened Hours" (1988)
Boston, Bruce : "Interstellar Tract" (1987)
Boston, Bruce : "My Wife Returns As She Would Have It" (2000)
Boston, Bruce : "Return to the Mutant Rain Forest" (1989)
Boston, Bruce : "Spacer's Compass" (1993)
Boston, Bruce : "The Last Existentialist" (1993)
Boston, Bruce : "The Nightmare Collector" (1987)
Bradbury, Ray : "Abandon in Place" (1979)
Bradbury, Ray : "And This Did Dante Do" (1967)
Bradbury, Ray : "If Only We Had Taller Been" (1973)
Bradbury, Ray : "Long After Ecclesiastes" (1983)
Bradbury, Ray : "Of What Is Past, or Passing, or To Come" (1981)
Bradbury, Ray : "Stars" (1978)
Brautigan, Richard : "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace" (1968)
Daniels, Keith Allen : "Ancient Dogs" (1987)
Daniels, Keith Allen : "At the Pet Shop" (1981)
Daniels, Keith Allen : "Einstein's Brain" (1992)
Daniels, Keith Allen : "Slow Degrees" (1981)
Daniels, Keith Allen : "The Martian in the Madhouse" (1999)
Daniels, Keith Allen : "Xobanhaltun" (1989)
de Camp, L. Sprague : "A Skald's Lament" (1955)
Disch, Thomas M. : "A Vacation on Earth" (1966)
Disch, Thomas M. : "On Science Fiction" (1980)
Evans, Mike : "We'll All Be Spacemen Before We Die" (1968)
Ford, John M. : "Winter Solstice, Camelot Station" (1988)
Frazier, Robert : "Return to the Mutant Rain Forest" (1989)
Frazier, Robert : "Salinity" (1988)
Frazier, Robert : "The Daily Chernobyl" (1988)
Gaiman, Neil : "Queen of Knives" (1995)
Gaiman, Neil : "Vampire Sestina" (1989)
Haldeman, Joe : "DX" (1987)
Haldeman, Joe : "Eighteen Years Old, October Eleventh" (1990)
Haldeman, Joe : "Fire, Ice" (1994)
Haldeman, Joe : "Homecoming" (1990)
Haldeman, Joe : "Saul's Death" (1983)
Haldeman, Joe : "Time Lapse" (1989)
Howard, Robert E. : "Solomon Kane's Homecoming" (1936)
Howard, Robert E. : "The King and the Oak" (1939)
Hughes, Ted : "Ghost Crabs" (1966)
Jonas, Gerald : "Imaginary Numbers in a Real Garden" (1965)
Joron, Andrew : "Shipwrecked on Destiny Five" (1985)
Kipling, Rudyard : "MacDonough's Song" (1912)
Lovecraft, H.P. : "The Familiars" (1930)
Lovecraft, H.P. : "The Pigeon-Flyers" (1943)
Lumley, Brian : "City Out of Time" (1977)
Lunde, David : "Limits" (1986)
Lunde, David : "Pilot, Pilot" (1994)
Lunde, David : "Song of the Martian Cricket" (1991)
Merritt, A. : "Song for Wood Horns..." (1910)
Morgan, Edwin : "Spacepoem 3: "Off Course" (1967)
Nims, John Frederick : "A.D. 2267" (1967)
Palwick, Susan : "The Neighbor's Wife" (1985)
Rimel, Duane W. : "Dreams of Yith" (1934)
Schenck, Hilbert , Jr. : "Me" (1959)
Shepard, Lucius : "White Trains" (1987)
Smith, Clark Ashton : "To the Chimera" (1924)
Springer, Nancy : "The Wolf Girl Speaks" (1982)
Starrett, Vincent : "Cordelia's Song from The King in Yellow" (1938)
Stewart, W. Gregory : "Day Omega" (1996)
Swenson, May : "Southbound on the Freeway" (1963)
Thomas, D.M. : "The Head-Rape" (1968)
Tolkien, J.R.R. : "Bilbo's Last Song" (1974)
Tolkien, J.R.R. : "The Adventures of Tom Bombadil" (1962)
Winter, Laurel : "Egg Horror Poem" (1998)
Wolfe, Gene : "The Computer Iterates the Greater Trumps" (1977)
Yolen, Jane : "Into the Wood" (1985)
Yolen, Jane : "Once Upon a Time, She Said" (1987)
Yolen, Jane : "The Storyteller" (1984)
Yolen, Jane : "Will" (1992)
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