Issue 49.1 is Here!

The 2024 Issue of SRPR is now available. In issue 49.1, you will find: • Cover art by Alexandra Cox • The SRPR Illinois Poet Feature with poetry by Oksana Maksymchuk, with an interview of the poet by Rachel Galvin. • New poetry by Destiny Hemphill, Virginia Leyva translated by Julie Ann Ward and Camilo Jaramillo Castrillón, Elizabeth Robinson, Karen Kovacik, Manuel Paul López, and more! • SRPR Presents: Poetry for All with Joanne Diaz and Abram Van Engen featuring “Elegy for My Mother’s Mind” by Laura Van Prooyen. Be sure to check out the SRPR blog, "Like" us on Facebook, and follow us on Instagram (@srpr_news) and X (SRPR_News) today! Check the table of contents of the latest issue.

 

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!