SRPR (Spoon River Poetry Review)

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About this Magazine:
Contemporary poetry in English from the U.S. and around the world in English translation.
Editor(s): Kirstin Hotelling Zona
Contact Information:
Organization (if applicable): Illinois State University
Address 1: 4241 English Department
City: Normal
State Code: Illinois
Postal Code: 61790-4241
Phone: (309) 438-7986
Website: www.srpr.org
Facebook: Facebook
Twitter: Twitter
Instagram: Instagram
Blog: Blog
Submission/Subscription Information:
Format: Print
Genres: Poetry, Translations
Copy Price: $10
Simultaneous Submissions: yes (with notice)
Postal Submissions: yes
Email Submissions: no
Online Submissions: yes (see website)
Subscription (individuals): $18
Subscription (institutions): $20
Reading Period: 9/15-2/15
Response Time: 2-5 months
Payment: copies and year's subscription
Contests: yes (see website)
ISSN: 0738-8993
Founded: 1976
Issues Per Year: 2

Publisher’s Description: SRPR celebrates a poetics of emplacement: writing that reveals the borders of our comfort zones as sites of connection rather than irreconcilable difference. In this spirit, each issue of SRPR features a poet with an Illinois connection as well as a variety of poems that often experiment with and sometimes cut the moorings by which we feel tethered to the known. Additional highlights include “The SRPR Interview,” an in-depth conversation with our featured poet, as well as “The SRPR Review Essay,” a long article by an established poet-critic on new books of poetry and relevant conversations in contemporary poetics.

Recent and forthcoming issues feature poems by Laynie Browne, Jack Collom, Joshua Corey, Joanne Diaz, Ewa Chrusciel, Arielle Greenberg, Linda Gregerson, Gabriel Gudding, Edward Hirsch, Allison Joseph, Joanne Kyger, James Longenbach, Jamaal May, Shane McCrae, Hoa Nguyen, Danielle Pafunda, Kristin Prevallet, Andrew Schelling, Jonathan Skinner, Jean Valentine, Rachel Zucker, and many more.

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