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Southern Poetry Review
Languages, Literature, and Philosophy
Armstrong Atlantic State University
11935 Abercorn Street
Savannah, GA 31419-1997
Phone: (912) 344-3196
E-mail: james.smith[at]armstrong[dot]edu
Web: www.southernpoetryreview.org
Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: no Reading period: year-round Response time: 1-2 months Payment: copies Contests: yes (see website) ISSN: 0038-447X Founded: 1958 Issues per year: 2 Average pages: 80 Sample copy (postpaid): $6 Cover Price: $7 Subscription (Individuals): $14 Subscription (Libraries): $18
Publisher’s Description: One of the oldest poetry journals in the country, Southern Poetry Review celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2008. Continuing the tradition of editorial openness and response to writers that began with Guy Owen in 1958, SPR selects poems from all over the country as well as from abroad and maintains an international readership.
Since its beginning, the journal has published many of today’s major poets as well as a variety of new voices. Recent issues feature work by Chana Bloch, Robert Morgan, Margaret Gibson, David Citino, Enid Shomer, R. T. Smith, Eric Trethewey, Alice Friman, David Kirby, Jesse Lee Kercheval, Fred Chappell, Albert Goldbarth, Cathy Smith Bowers, Linda Pastan. Two poems in SPR received Pushcart Prizes in 2005.
The journal accepts submissions all year, producing two issues that feature the work of leading poets and those writers we think will become leading poets. Since 1983, SPR has awarded annually the prestigious Guy Owen Prize to a single poem selected by a distinguished judge. We are, as always: "A Journal Dedicated to Poetry."
Recent issues:
This issue (49.2) features work by Kathryn Stripling Byer, Gail White, Eric Nelson, Chuck Ryback, Rebecca Lilly, Michael Salcman, Robert Bense, Jeanne Marie Beaumont, Katie Chaple, Jeanne Wagner, Rawdon Tomlinson, Chana Bloch, James Doyle, Jeff Hardin, Temple Cone, Suzanne Cleary, Maura Stanton, Peter Makuck, David Wagoner, Arthur Smith, Philip Dacey and many more.
This issue (49.1) features poetry by John Bensko, Anne Pierson Wiese, Kathleen Flenniken, Britton Shurley, Hilary Sideris, Thom Harrison, George David Clark, Virginia Smith, Anna Ross, Andrew Grace, Peter Kline, K. A. Hays, Catherine Staples, Maura Stanton, Nance Van Winckel, Alan Brasher, Craig Van Rooyen, Randolph Thomas, Martha Zweig, James Scruton, Kathryn Stripling Byer, Carolyn Moore, Brittany Perham, Julie Suk, Robert Bense, and more.