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• xi • Editor's Note (The 2020 Rhysling Anthology) • essay by David C. Kopaska-Merkel
• 1 • Sphere • (2019) • poem by Francis W. Alexander
• 1 • The Sacrifices • (2019) • poem by Mike Allen
• 2 • Blood Moon • (2019) • poem by Sara Backer
• 3 • New Stars • (2019) • poem by F. J. Bergmann
• 4 • Ten-Card Tarot, Pentacles Wild • (2019) • poem by F. J. Bergmann
• 4 • The Girl Who Loved Birds • (2019) • poem by Clara Blackwood
• 5 • The Ruined Library • (2019) • poem by Bruce Boston
• 6 • Fallen But Not Down • (2019) • poem by Sarah Cannavo
• 6 • My Ghost Will Know the Way • (2019) • poem by Beth Cato
• 7 • A Purring Cat Is a Time Machine • (2019) • poem by Beth Cato
• 8 • What You Hear When Your Best Friend Falls for a Supervillain • (2019) • poem by Beth Cato
• 9 • Continuum • (2019) • poem by G. O. Clark
• 10 • Steampunk Christmas • (2019) • poem by David Clink
• 10 • "Aliens declutter" • (2019) • poem by P. S. Cottier
• 11 • The Planets? Sweet... • (2019) • poem by Harris Coverley
• 12 • Halstead IV • (2019) • poem by Jeff Crandall
• 13 • The Journey • (2019) • poem by Deborah L. Davitt
• 14 • Disassembly at Auction • (2019) • poem by Robin Wyatt Dunn
• 15 • Collie Dogs In Space • (2019) • poem by Debby Feo
• 15 • A Rose Waits • (2019) • poem by Adele Gardner
• 17 • Crimson Faces • (2019) • poem by Maxwell I. Gold
• 18 • Robert Goddard at Roswell • (2019) • poem by Alan Ira Gordon
• 19 • Alternate Galatea • (2019) • poem by Amelia Gorman
• 21 • All-Father • (2019) • poem by Vince Gotera
• 21 • The Day the Animals Turned to Sand • (2019) • poem by Tyler Hagemann
• 22 • Regarding Me • (2019) • poem by Michael H. Hanson
• 23 • Prayer on a Friday Morning • (2019) • poem by L. R. Harvey
• 24 • Taking, Keeping • poem by Jessica Cho [as by Jessica Jo Horowitz]
• 25 • Area 51 Custodian Gets Coffee • (2019) • poem by Juleigh Howard-Hobson
• 26 • Goddamn These Minotaurs • (2019) • poem by Persephone Erin Hudson
• 27 • Fallen Star • (2019) • poem by Clay F. Johnson
• 28 • The Book of Fly • (2019) • poem by John Philip Johnson
• 29 • Mothsong • (2019) • poem by John Philip Johnson
• 30 • Encore • (2019) • poem by Tim Jones
• 31 • Seven Reasons to Have Hope for a Better Future. Number Five Will Really Get You! • (2019) • poem by Catherine Kyle
• 32 • Singing Ghost • (2019) • poem by Catherine Kyle
• 33 • The Nonpareils: As Told by the Woman in the Gingerbread House • (2019) • poem by Kathleen A. Lawrence
• 34 • How to Colonize Ganymede • (2019) • poem by Mary Soon Lee
• 34 • How to Dance with Dark Matter • (2019) • poem by Mary Soon Lee
• 35 • To Skeptics • (2019) • poem by Mary Soon Lee
• 35 • Witch • (2019) • poem by Mary Soon Lee
• 36 • Objects of Desire • (2019) • poem by Gerri Leen
• 38 • Drag Strip Drag • (2019) • poem by Francine P. Lewis
• 39 • Creation: Dark Matter Dating App • (2019) • poem by Sandra J. Lindow
• 39 • Abeona, Goddess of Outward Journeys, Pilots the Interstellar Ark • (2019) • poem by Nisa Malli
• 40 • Eldritch Horror • (2019) • poem by Katie Manning
• 41 • "when my father reprograms my mother {" • (2019) • poem by Caroline Mao
• 43 • The Mother Searches for Her Own Story • (2019) • poem by Mary McMyne
• 43 • The Certainty of Seeing • (2019) • poem by Michelle Muenzler
• 45 • If All the Seas Were Blood • (2019) • poem by D. L. Myers
• 45 • Samsara • (2019) • poem by Jason O'Toole
• 46 • Ójí Íjè (Kola Journey) • (2019) • poem by Uche Ogbuji
• 49 • How to Care for Your Yesterday's Camel • (2019) • poem by Christina Olson
• 49 • Wake Up, Little Stevie • (2019) • poem by Christina Olson
• 50 • The Night the Unicorn Leapt from the Tapestry • (2019) • poem by Kate Pentecost
• 51 • "beyond its two eyes" • (2019) • poem by Juan Manuel Perez [as by Juan M. Perez]
• 52 • Mary Agnes Chase (1869-1963) • (2019) • poem by Jesse Randall
• 52 • Revisiting the Origins of Language • (2019) • poem by Terrie Leigh Relf
• 53 • The Ghosts of Those • (2019) • poem by Ron Riekki
• 54 • Phobos and Deimos • (2019) • poem by W. C. Roberts
• 55 • The Solace of the Farther Moon • (2019) • poem by Allan Rozinski
• 56 • Huitzilopochtli • (2019) • poem by Lorraine Schein
• 57 • Where Have the Space Heroes Gone? • (2019) • poem by Darrell Schweitzer
• 57 • The Snow Globe • (2019) • poem by Marge Simon
• 59 • The Wolfman and Space Girl • (2019) • poem by Neil Sloboda
• 59 • Reparation • (2019) • poem by Christina Sng
• 60 • Styx • (2019) • poem by Christina Sng
• 61 • Mary Poppins, 2100 • (2019) • poem by Cathy Tenzo
• 62 • No Fairy Tale World • (2019) • poem by Lisa Timpf
• 63 • Three of Swords, King of Cups • (2019) • poem by Ali Trotta
• 64 • Don't Open the Box! • (2019) • poem by Kyla Ward [as by Kyla Lee Ward]
• 65 • Lady Macbeth's Green Gown • (2019) • poem by Jacqueline West
• 66 • The Root King's Winter • (2019) • poem by Jessica P. Wick
• 67 • The Unseen • (2019) • poem by Fran Wilde
• 68 • The Wishing Clock of Gassytown • (2019) • poem by Deborah Wong
• 68 • Shoals of Miami • (2019) • poem by Greer Woodward
• 69 • From "Moon Sonnet" • (2019) • poem by Lily Zhou
• 73 • The Storm Witch • (2019) • poem by Colleen Anderson
• 74 • The Scarecrow's Lover • (2019) • poem by Alexandria Baisden
• 77 • Afterlife • (2019) • poem by F. J. Bergmann
• 78 • Envoy • (2019) • poem by F. J. Bergmann
• 80 • Maculation • (2019) • poem by F. J. Bergmann
• 82 • The Daily Freak Show • (2019) • poem by Bruce Boston
• 84 • Tarot Times • (2019) • poem by Bruce Boston
• 86 • Heliobacterium daphnephilum • (2019) • poem by Rebecca Buchanan
• 87 • Sycophantam astrum • (2019) • poem by Rebecca Buchanan
• 90 • Childhood Memory from the Old Victorian House on Warner • (2019) • poem by Beth Cato
• 91 • The City That Changed Hands • (2019) • poem by Maya Chhabra
• 94 • The Scroll of Thoth • (2019) • poem by Frank Coffman
• 100 • Children of the Trees • (2019) • poem by Deborah L. Davitt
• 102 • Witches We • (2019) • poem by Adele Gardner
• 105 • Scylla and Charybdis • (2018) • poem by Wade German
• 108 • Consumption • (2019) • poem by Emma J. Gibbon
• 110 • Fune-RL • (2019) • poem by Emma J. Gibbon
• 113 • The Cinder Girl Burns Brightly • (2019) • poem by Theodora Goss
• 115 • Sea Witch from the Deep • (2019) • poem by Ellen Huang
• 118 • The Woman Who Talks to Her Dog at the Beach • (2019) • poem by Geoff Inverarity
• 120 • Lines Written by Moonlight at Whitby Abbey • (2019) • poem by Clay F. Johnson
• 124 • A Ride Through Faerie • (2019) • poem by Clay F. Johnson
• 133 • Green Sky • (2019) • poem by Herb Kauderer
• 135 • The Making of Dragons • (2019) • poem by Herb Kauderer
• 137 • The Undrowned • (2019) • poem by Catherine Kyle
• 140 • Keep My Course True • (2019) • poem by Gerri Leen
• 142 • Why Not? • (2019) • poem by Gerri Leen
• 144 • Crop Circles • (2019) • poem by Lori R. Lopez
• 145 • Nocturnal Embers • (2019) • poem by Lori R. Lopez
• 147 • Nan-e • (2019) • poem by Leon Mackenzie
• 149 • My Stories Are Hungry • (2019) • poem by John C. Mannone
• 151 • Reincarnation • (2019) • poem by John C. Mannone
• 152 • Inside My Belly • (2019) • poem by Alessandro Manzetti
• 153 • Ode to the Artistic Temperament • (2019) • poem by Michael H. Payne
• 157 • Stormbound • (2019) • poem by Marsheila Rockwell
• 159 • Treason • (2019) • poem by Shana Ross
• 161 • Cannibal Rex • (2019) • poem by Allan Rozinski
• 163 • Obsidian • (2019) • poem by Fungisayi Sasa
• 166 • Bright Record • (2019) • poem by John W. Sexton
• 167 • Borrower • (2019) • poem by Cislyn Smith
• 170 • In the End, Only the Gods • (2019) • poem by Christina Sng
• 173 • If Love Is Real, So Are Fairies • (2019) • poem by Cynthia So
• 174 • Tetrahedral Edificies of Sticky Rice Realm • (2019) • poem by D. A. Xiaolin Spires
• 177 • Driven • (2019) • poem by Marcie Lynn Tentchoff
• 180 • Eight Simulations for the Missing • (2019) • poem by T. D. Walker
• 182 • For My Daughter, Who Will Ask for a Seismograph Implant on Her Sixteenth Birthday • (2019) • poem by T. D. Walker
• 186 • The Mining Town • (2019) • poem by Holly Lyn Walrath
• 189 • The Wolf Isn't the Only One Who Hides In Human Clothes • (2019) • poem by Natalie Wang
• 192 • The Macabre Modern • (2019) • poem by Kyla Ward [as by Kyla Lee Ward]