I am honored and delighted and excited and happy to announce that my poem "The Blackthorn," first published in Dreams and Nightmares, has won the 2025 Rhysling Award in the long-poem category :-) :-) :-)

Many thanks to David C. Kopaska-Merkel for giving the poem its first home.

N.B. Here's the webpage with the 2025 Rhysling + Elgin results .