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The Spoon River Poetry Review
Kirstin Hotelling Zona, Editor
4241 Publications Unit
Illinois State University
Normal, Illinois 61790-4241
Phone: (309) 438-3025
Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: no Reading period: 9/15-4/15 Response time: 2-3 months Payment: copies and year’s subscription Contests: yes (see website) ISSN: 0738-8993 Issues per year: 2 Distributors: Ubiquity and Ingram Average pages: 128 Sample copy (postpaid): $5 Cover Price: $10 Subscription (Individuals): $15 Subscription (Libraries): $18
Publisher’s Description: The Spoon River Poetry Review is published twice a year by the Spoon River Poetry Association. SRPR contains contemporary poetry in English from the U.S. and around the world in English translation. Recent poets include Alicia Ostriker, Gabriel Gudding, Beth Ann Fennelly, Rachel Contreni Flynn, and Stuart Dybek. Each issue features an Illinois Poet (a poet who has an Illinois connection) with an interview and poems. SRPR also publishes reviews of contemporary poetry and poetic theory which address texts and issues in a balanced and intelligent way.
Each year, the winning poem, runners-up, and honorable mentions of the Editors' Prize contest are included in the summer/fall issue. Annual deadline for the $1,000 Editors' Prize contest is May 1 (see web site for submission guidelines). Recent judges of the contest have been Joe Wenderoth, Kwame Dawes, Gabriel Gudding, and Michelle Boisseau.
Poet's Market has named the Spoon River Poetry Review "one of the best reads in the poetry publishing world."
Recent issues:
The current issue (36.2, Summer/Fall 2011) of SRPR features the winners of our 2010 Editors' Prize, chosen by C. S. Giscombe; a chapbook-length selection of poetry followed by a substantial interview with our Featured Illinois Poet, Arielle Greenberg Bywater; a review-essay by Michael Theune of new books by Karla Kelsey, Nick Demske, Joshua Corey, and Jeff Hilson; new poems and translations by Larry Bradley, Jeanne Marie Beaumont, Rosa Alice Branco, Alexis Levitin, Federico Garcia Lorca, Richard Schiffman, Randall Couch, Hilary Vaughn Dobel (+ many others); and gorgeous cover art by Sarah Smelser.
Contemporary poetry from the U.S. and around the world in English translation. This issue (36.1) includes an interview with featured poet Austin Smith; a review-essay by Judith Harris; a letter from the editor introducing SRPR's new logo; and poetry by Danielle Pafunda, Kristin Prevallet, Joseph O. Legaspi, Matthew J. Spireng, and Fiona Sze-Lorrain.
Featuring contemporary poetry from the U.S. and around the world in English translation. This issue (35.2) includes an interview with featured poet Joanne Diaz; a review-essay by Andrew Osborn; winning poems of the Editors' Prize contest, judged by Jeanne Marie Beaumont; and poetry by Andrew Schelling, Emily Carr, Michael Joyce, Dzvinia Orlowsky, James Longenbach, and Naomi Buck Palagi.