Past Issues

48.2 2023 with 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). Cover art by Kitty F. Davies.

48.1 Summer 2023 with the SRPR Illinois Poet Feature with new poetry by Jose-Luis Moctezuma, with an interview of the poet by Edgar Garcia. New poetry by Joanne Diaz and Jason Reblando, Romana Iorga, Brandon Krieg, Olivia Cronk, Oriette D’Angelo translated by Lupita Eyde-Tucker, Kristy Odelius, Stefanie Kirby, BP Sutton, Ian Lockaby, Eliot Cardinaux, and Mette Moestrup translated by Katrine Øgaard Jensen, as well as the SRPR Review Essay “Exposure, Confinement, Haunting: Visual Poetry in the Twenty-First Century” by contributing author Joanne Diaz reviewing Katy Didden (Ore Choir: The Lava on Iceland), Sarah J. Sloat (Hotel Almighty), and Mai Der Vang (Yellow Rain). Cover art by Jade Nguyen.

47.2 Winter 2022 with the SRPR Illinois Poet Feature with new poetry by Rebecca Morgan Frank, with an interview of the poet by Jenna Goldsmith, and the Editors’ Prize winning poem “We Moved Out of the Projects and into a Home” by Meghan Malachi, selected by Ashley M. Jones, as well as runners-up poems by Judith Mary Gee and Scudder H. Parker, honorable mention poems by Caroline Parkman Barr, Phillip West, Brittany Mishra, and Ana Lucila Cagnoni. New poetry by Beth Weinstock, Jennifer Reeser, Jenna Le, Carrie Shipers, Clayton Adam Clark, Julian Koslow, J. R. Forman, Marion Starling Boyer, Micah Daniel McCrotty, Karen Llagas, Wesley Sexton, Rosa Crepax, Jo Brachman, E. B. Schnepp, Timothy Cook, Steve Fay, Judy Kaber, Russell Karrick, Nancy Naomi Carlson, Katie McMorris, Elizabeth Sylvia, John Sibley Williams, Alyse Knorr, JSA Lowe, and Rodrigo Toscano, as well as the SRPR Review Essay “ ‘Dreams of Growing to Rock a Rhyme’: Tradition and Experiment in Recent American Sonnets” by Brian Brodeur, reviewing sonnets by Caki Wilkinson (The Survival Expo: Poems), Rowan Ricardo Phillips (Living Weapon: Poems), Matthew Buckley Smith (Midlife: Poems), Alexis Sears (Out of Order: Poems), and John Murillo (Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry: Poems). Cover art by Madelyn Turner.

47.1 Summer 2022 with the SRPR Illinois Poet Feature with new poetry by Tara Betts, with an interview of the poet by Bryanna Lee. New poetry by Emad Bashar translated by Bryar Bajalan and Shook, Greta Hayer, Joshua Jones, Eliana Hernández Pachón translated by Robin Myers, and Ryan Clark, as well as the SRPR Review Essay “Redefining Our Futures: Recent Abolitionist Poetic Practice” by Allison Serraes, who reviews books by DaMaris B. Hill (A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland), Mahogany L. Brown (I Remember Death by Its Proximity to What I Love), and Shayla Lawz (speculation, n.). Cover art by Alondra Cervantes.

46.2 Winter 2021 with the SRPR Illinois Poet Feature with new poetry by Daniel Borzutzky, with an interview of the poet by Carlos Soto-Román, and the Editors’ Prize winning poem “diary of a dead eel boy” by Dean Gessie, selected by Aimee Nezhukumatathil, as well as runners-up poems by Shannon Pulusan and donia salem harhoor, honorable mention poems by Matthew Brailas, Patricia Gao, Ani Tuzman, Allie Hoback, and Gabriel Jesiolowski. New poetry by Ọlákìtán Aládéṣuyì, Kristin Fogdall, Antonia Pozzi translated by Amy Newman, Matthew J. Spireng, Alina Ştefănescu, and Isaac Willis, as well as the SRPR Review Essay “Seriousness, Humorously” by Andrew Dorkin, who reviews books by Fred Moten (all that beauty), Morgan Parker (Magical Negro), and Joan Retallack (BOSCH’D). Cover art by Jessi Reid-Swiech.

46.1 Summer 2020 with the SRPR Illinois Poet Feature with new poetry by Carlos Soto-Román translated by Daniel Borzutzky, with an interview of the poet by Daniel Borzutzky. New poetry by Kim Hyesoon translated by Don Mee Choi, Enzo Silon Surin, Lara Dopazo Ruibal translated by Laura Cesarco Eglin, Michelle Gil-Montero, Karen Hilberg, and Rocío Ágreda Piérola translated by Jessica Sequeira, as well as the SRPR Review Essay “Poems in a Pandemic” by contributing authors Sesshu Foster reviewing, Amy Gaeta, Anna Leahy, Timothy Liu, Mark Wallace, and Jillian Weise reviewing Alice Quinn’s poetry anthology Together in a Sudden Strangeness: America’s Poets Respond to the Pandemic. Cover art by Hyojung Lee.

45.2 Winter 2020 with the SRPR Illinois Poet Feature with new poetry by Carlo Matos and Amy Sayre Batista, an interview of the poets by Simone Muench and Jackie K. White focusing on collaborative poetry writing, and the Editors' Prize winning poem “Disbelieving These Deaths, I Go to Sit by Lake Hebron” by David Groff, selected by Austin Smith, as well as runners-up poems by Todd Copeland and Erica Bodwell, honorable mention poems by Kelsey Taylor, Cody Smith, and Gabriel Dozal. New poetry by Charlie Peck, David Starkey, Brad Johnson, O-Jeremiah Agbaakin, Xiaoly Li, Robert Evory and the SRPR Review Essay by Michael Theune, who reviews books by Ashley M. Jones (dark // thing: poems), francine j. harris (Here is the Sweet Hand: Poems), and Don Paterson (The Poem: Lyric, Sign, Metre). Cover art by Jessi Simpson.

45.1 Summer 2020 with the SRPR Illinois Poet Feature, including new collaborative poetry by Simone Muench and Jackie K. White, and an interview of the poets by Carlo Matos and Amy Sayre Batista focusing on collaborative poetry writing. New poetry by Jose-Luis Moctezuma, Paul Martinez-Pompa, Julia Wong Kcomt translated by Jennifer Shyue, Michael Leong, Emily Carr, as well as the SRPR Review Essay by Korey Williams , who reviews books by Malcolm Tariq (Heed the Hollow: Poems), Jericho Brown (The Tradition), and Carl Phillips (Star Map with Action Figures). Cover art by Brittany Schloderback

44.2 Winter 2019 with the SRPR Illinois Poet Redux Feature, including an introduction by Editor Kirstin Hotelling Zona and new poems from SRPR Illinois Poets of the past decade: Joanne Diaz, Austin Smith, Joshua Corey, Allison Joseph, Jason Bredle, Rachel Webster, Jacob Saenz, Katy Didden, Ann Hudson, Laura Van Prooyen, Ira Sukrungruang, and Angela Narciso Torres. New poems by Julia Cohen, Jake Syersak, Chaun Ballard, Aaron Coleman, and more, as well as a review essay by by Diego Báez. Cover art by Jenny Valadez.

44.1 Summer 2019 with contributions from Elizabeth Hatmaker, C. S. Giscombe, Jeffrey Higgins, Emily Johnston, Christopher Breu, Jerome Rothenberg, Selva Casal (trans. by Jeannine M. Pitas), James Pate, Lina ramona Vitkauskas, Cristina Rivera Garza (trans. by Julia Leverone), Brandon Krieg, Ryan Patrick Smith, Erik Kennedy, Rita Feinstein, Gabriel Palacios, Erin Slaughter, Alison Palmer, Lane Falcon, Lucia LoTempio, Yi Won (trans. Kevin Michael Smith), Mingpei Li, and Jeannine Hall Gailey, and a review essay by Spencer Short. Cover art by Shahrbanoo Hamzeh.

43.2 Winter 2018 with contributions from Mark Svenvold, David Wright, Chad Foret, Ed Frankel, Timothy McBride, Lan Duong, Joshua Corey, Katy Didden, Chanel Brenner, Lauren Breyer, Angela Narciso Torres, Sasha Banks, Sara Tuss Efrik (trans. by Paul Cunningham), Emily Rosello Mercurio, Jules Gibbs, Jaclyn Dwyer, Ashwak Fardoush, Beth Steidle, Susan Terris, Mahnaz Yousefi (trans. by the poet and Sadjad Qolami), Paul Cunningham, Nichole Goff, Gabriel Ojeda-Sague, Caroline Plasket, Karen An-Hwei Lee, and a review essay by Brian Rejack. Cover art by Camila Marianela.

43.1 Summer 2018 with contributions from Kimberly Kruge, Austin Smith, Kristin Prevallet, Gabriel Gudding, Wendy Barnes, K. M. English, Jonathan Treece, Heather Nelson, Emma Bolden, Gary Barwin, Glen A. Mazis, Stuart Ross, Ira Sukrungruang, Deborah Allbritain, D. M. Aderibigbe, Chloe Garcia Roberts, Branko Ve Poljanski (trans. by Steven and Maja Teref), Andrea Cote Botero (trans. by Olivia Lott), Nick Mansito, JD Scott, Miguel Ángel Bustos (trans. by Lucina Schell), Jules Gibbs, and Johannes Göransson. Cover art by Olga Reyna Coronado.

42.2 Winter 2017 with contributions from Kelly Michels, Greg Emilio, Erika Goodrich, John Sibley Williams, Stephanie Kartalopoulos, Marcia B. Loughran, Karina Borowicz, Andrea Cohen, Nina Corwin, Michael Hurley, Christopher Warner, Minerva Reynosa (trans. by Stalina Emmanuelle Villarreal), Laura Van Prooyen, Martín Cálix (trans. by Katherine M. Hedeen), Lauren Mallett, Lauren Michele Jackson, Stalina Emmanuelle Villarreal, Elizabeth Hughey, Sally Yazwinski, Mayra Oyuela (trans. by Katherine M. Hedeen), Sarah P. Strong, Autumn McClintock, Janet McAdams, Sarah Gzemski, Ryo Yamaguchi, Jennifer Rane Hancock. Cover art by Lauren Levato Coyne.

42.1 Summer 2017 with contributions from Amang (trans. by Steve Bradbury), Nikki Wallschlaeger, Ewa Chrusciel, Mary Newell, Jennifer Hayashida, Laura Goldstein, Timothy Yu, Magdalena Zurawski, Merrill Cole, Laura Cesarco Eglin, Vidhu Aggarwal, Blake Lee Pate, Ruben Quesada, Leslie Sainz, Lisa Rose Bradford, Annar Veröld, Lisa Marie Basile, Ida Börjel (trans. by Jennifer Hayashida), Robert Parrott, Claire Marie Stancek, Ji yoon Lee, Nick Demske, Casey Rocheteau, Ricardo Cortez de la Cruz II, Kathryn Ann Young, and Joshua Corey. Cover art by Katherine O’Shea.

41.2 Winter 2016 with contributions from Nancy Hewitt, Leila Chatti, Jennie Malboeuf, Kaveh Akbar, Rosann M. Kozlowski, Nancy Reddy, Maria Terrone, Joseph Massey, Kathryn Nuernberger, Jacques J. Rancourt, Derrick Austin, Brittany Cavallaro, Lo Kwa Mei-en, Ruben Quesada, Ann Hudson, Shane McCrae, Tobias Wray, Josh Kalscheur, Joelle Biele, Gretchen Primack, Nikola Champlin, Traci Brimhall, Jane Lin, Glenn Shaheen, Hannah Craig, Ross White, Sandra Simonds, Dan Smart, John Beer. Cover art by Lisa Lofgren.

41.1 Summer 2016 with contributions from Austin Smith, Ewa Chrusciel, Tyler Kline, Chris Pusateri, Brandi Nicole Martin, Elizabeth Knapp, Ann Hudson, Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles (trans. by Kristine Ong Muslim), Stephanie Kaplan Cohen, Will Walton, Kathleen Hellen, Jerry Harp, Sara Schultz, Francesca Bell, Doug Ramspeck, Joshua Butts, Alicia Mountain, Sharon Kunde, Michelle Naka Pierce, Jen DeGregorio, Amy Elizabeth Hansen, Tiah Lindner Raphael, Brett Foster, David A. Porter, Jeffrey C. Alfier, Eleanor Levine, Stephanie McCarley Dugger, Carrie Shipers, Melissa Queen, Kelley Nebosky, Heather Altfeld, Roger Pfingston, Amanda Hope, Natasha Dennerstein, Marc Tretin, Susan Comninos, Adam Tavel, Lauro Palomba, Steve Abbott, R. M. Haines, Charlie Clark, Hannah Dow, Scott Thomas, Todd Follett, Nels Hanson, Christopher T. Keaveney, Bruce Bond. Cover art by Emmy Lingscheit.

40.2 Winter 2015 with contributions from Julie Marie Wade, Justin Hunt, Jaqueline Kolosov, Emily Rose Cole, Susan Charkes, Lucy Ricciardi, Rebecca Hazelton, Angela Narciso Torres, Jonah Mixon-Webster, Laura Van Prooyen, Andrew Schelling, Joshua Mensch, David Wagoner, Meg Day, Amanda Tumminaro, Sarah Sousa, Michelle Lewis, Julie Henson, Khadijah Queen, Paige Hill Starzinger, Laura Passin, Roger Reeves, Leslie Williams, Gretchen Primack, Monica McClure, Louisa A. Igloria, Joshua Corey, Doug James, Christine Starr Davis, Bin Ramke, Ally Bebbling, Bruce Bond, Jerry Harp. Cover art by Jason Reblando.

40.1 Summer 2015 with contributions from Michael Hurley, James Ducat, Charlene Langfur, Sally Jaskold, Linda Wojtowick, Gretchen Primack , Susan Terris, Henry Kearney, IV, Peter Nathaniel Malae, C. M. Rivers, Gwen Seymour, Calgary Martin, Doug Ramspeck, Mercedes Lawry, David Mohan, Katie Ford, Tom Pescatore, Brittney Scott, Katy Didden, Ginny Wiehardt, Sade Murphy, Caitlin Vance, Derek JG Williams, Gala Mukomolova, Nora Hickey, Erin Rodoni, Kelly Talbot, Christine Marshall, Jason Tandon, Leonard Schwartz, G. C. Waldrep, Sally Jaskold, Sarah Vap, Tara Ballard, Gloria Keeley, francine j. harris, Lana I. Ghannam, Sarah A. Chavez, Byron Beynon, Kathryne Lim, Michael Hurley, Sam Witt, Susie O’Keeffe, Kiki Petrosino, Charles Thomas, Peter Schwartz, Lana I. Ghannam, Michael Hurley, JR Tappenden, Aracelis Girmay. Cover art by Carol Emmons.

39.2 Winter 2014 with contributions from Emma Bolden, Jonathan Wertheim-Soen, Lynne Knight, Kathryn Hindenlang, Tori Grant Welhouse, Carine Topal, Kevin McLellan, Jose A. Alcantara, Nate Pillman, Jim Daniels, Jennifer Neely, Colin Reed Moon, Ching-In Chen, Allison Eir Jenks, Rachel Jamison Webster, C. C. Reid, Angie Boissevain, William Greenway, Nora Frazin, Jacob Saenz, Connie Post, Suzanne Marie Roszak, J. F. Spillane, Alec Finlay, M. K. Sukach, Rachel Trousdale, Elizabeth Rees, Charles Herbert, Michael Joyce, Lisa Haag Kang, Simon Peter Eggertsen, Sally J. Johnson, Don Schofield, Zhang Er (trans. by Bob Holman), Francine J. Harris, Katerina Raya Bacher, Suanne Fetherolf, Justin Vicari, Robert Archambeau. Cover art by Melissa Jay Craig.

39.1 Summer 2014 with contributions from Katharyn Howd Machan, Bill Edmondson, John Goodhue, Eric Ham, Jaydn DeWald, Jennifer Schomburg Kanke, Emily Grelle, David McLoghlin, Victoria Korth, Ryan Hibbett, Clayton Eshleman, T. J. Sandella, Jeffrey Alfier, Andrew Schelling, Rebecca Eland Wenrick, Patsy Kisner, Victoria Elizabeth Ruwi, Rachel Jamison Webster, Candice Wuehle, Britton Shurley, Christina Lutz, Deborah Pfeiffer, Michael Derrick Hudson, Beth Filson, Shawn Fawson, Emily Hipchen, Maggie Gerrity, Rachel Trousdale, Christine Marshall, Philip C. Kolin, Emily Hockaday, Andrea Witzke Slot, Kathleen Kirk, Chloe Anne Campbell, Chris Dombrowski. Cover art by Melissa Jay Craig.

38.2 Winter 2013 with contributions from Jesse Nissim, Dante Di Stefano, Carol Matos, Leland James, Susan Charkes, Michael Sukach, Arne Weingart, Nandi Comer, Melissa Cundieff-Pexa, Carmen Váscones (trans. by Alexis Levitin), Jane Medved, Jay Deshpande, Roy Bentley, Douglas Kearney, Luisa A. Igloria, Stephen Massimilla, Jason Bredle, Lisa Ampleman, Rob Stephens, Ken Haas, Randolph Thomas, Robert Evory, Nicholas Kriefall, Siel Ju, Andrew Grace, Monica Hand, John Blair, Sara Tracey, Pablo Neruda (trans. by Dennis Maloney and Mary Berg), Christina Davis, Amy Nesbitt, Kenzie Rowlett, Ravi Shankar, James Engelhardt, Fiona Sze-Lorrain, Katy Didden. Cover art by Terri Bowen Miner.

38.1 Summer 2013 with contributions from Rusty Morrison, Gywnn O’Gara, Bradford Tice, Tamiko Beyer, Lyn Lifshin, Michael Burkard, Virginia Bell, Eva Hooker, Danielle Pafunda, Krystyna Lenkowska (trans. by Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough and Teresa Cader), Amaranth Borsuk, Kate Durbin (Illustrated by Zach Kleyn), Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, Melissa Holmes, Allison Joseph, Allison Joseph and Ann Hudson, Julie Marie Wade, Ann Minoff, Francisco de Oraá (trans. by Patricia Davis), Kevin Craft, Emma King, Susan Briante, Doug Ramspeck, dg nanouk okpik, Lesléa Newman , Clayton Adam Clark, Faith Shearin, Don Schofield, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Jason Tandon, Zack Finch, Sharon Dolin, Kit Robinson, Steve Abbott, Seth Abramson. Cover art by Ella Zona.

37.2 Winter 2012 with contributions from William Stobb, Rebecca Warren, Sarah Sousa, Aviva Englander Cristy, Anna Marie Craighead-Kintis, Veronica Patterson, Michele Battiste, Joanna Cattonar, Stephen Massimilla, Helmut Salzinger (trans. by Clara Burns), Gabriel Gudding, Jack Collom, John Fenlon Hogan, Jennifer Militello, Linda Gregerson, Laynie Browne, Melissa Cundieff-Pexa, Lisa Samuels, Christina Stoddard, Becca Shaw Glaser, Josiah Bancroft, Ewa Chrusciel, Gabriel Welsch, Laura Van Prooyen, Patricia Davis, Andrew Schelling, Ricardo Pau-Llosa, Jonathan Skinner, Kathleen Spivack, Tyler Mills, Michelle Gil-Montero, Naomi Buck Palagi, Adrian Matejka, Cynthia Cruz, Joyelle McSweeney. Cover art by Jason Reblando.