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Issue 48.2 is Here!


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The Winter 2023 Issue of SRPR is now available. In issue 48.2, you will find:

• Cover art by Kitty F. Davies

• The SRPR Illinois Poet Feature with poetry by Edgar Garcia, with an interview of the poet by Jose-Luis Moctezuma.

• Editors’ Prize winning poem “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Dead Fish” by Marissa Davis, selected by Jonah Mixon-Webster, as well as a runner-up poem by Ricardo de la Cruz II, and honorable mention poems by Linda Stern Zisquit, Bruce Bond, and Veronica Schorr.

• New poetry by Sarah A. Etlinger, Jonah Bornstein, Artur Grabowski translated by Charles S. Kraszewski, Sandra S. McRae, Ivy Schweitzer, and more!

• The SRPR Review Essay “Poetics of Entanglement: Recent Interventions in Gay Shame and Stigma” by Phil Spotswood, who reviews books by Aaron Smith (Stop Lying), Justin Phillip Reed (The Malevolent Volume), and Patrick Kindig (all the catholic gods).

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SRPR (Spoon River Poetry Review) is a volunteer-based, nonprofit poetry journal housed at Illinois State University in Normal, IL and operated by the Spoon River Poetry Association. It has been in continuous publication since 1976. Each issue publishes new poetry in English and in translation, includes a chapbook-length Illinois Poet showcase and interview, and features an article-length review essay, which investigates three or more books of contemporary poetry that have a formal, thematic, or subject-based connection.

Our open reading period runs from 9/15 and 2/15 annually. Read about our guidelines here.

Our Editors' Prize Contest is open from 1/1 to 4/15 each year and awards a $1,000 prize for a single poem, as selected by a distinguished guest judge. Submit your entry here!