- Award Category: Best Poem Award Category Record # 21
- Award Type: Asimov's Readers' Poll
- Display Order: 4
| 1997 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Curse of the Science Fiction Writer's Wife | Bruce Boston |
| 2 | Star-Rigger | David Lunde |
| 2 | The Year of the Dragon | Karawynn Long |
| 2 | This Neat Sheet | James Tiptree, Jr. |
| 3 | Pendragon | William John Watkins |
| 3 | This Is Just to Say | Mary A. Turzillo |
| 4 | Dinosaurs May Be Ancestors of More than Birds | Mary A. Turzillo |
| 4 | The Robots' Wasteland | William John Watkins |
| 4 | time | Danny Daniels |
| 5 | Astronaut Boneyard | Wendy Rathbone |
| 5 | Love Song of the Holo-Celebs | Bruce Boston |
| 6 | Day Omega | W. Gregory Stewart |
| 7 | Dragon Skin | W. Gregory Stewart |
| 8 | Dodoes | Steven Utley |
| 9 | In Memoriam: For a Colleague, Departed | Thomas M. Disch |
| 10 | Pteranodon | Steven Utley |