Rhino Poetry

Award-winning, annual, print poetry journal for 48 years. Seeking poems, flash fiction, and translations!

RHINO has received numerous Literary Awards from the Illinois Arts Council and, most recently, the Evanston Mayor's Award for the Arts (2012). Rhino has been described in Literary Magazine Review as “an ambitious and high quality magazine. . .a journal that will reward the attention and the support of the most discriminating readers of poetry.”

RHINO Poetry occupies a niche somewhere between aca

demia and the emerging poetry scene – devoted to printing work that tells stories, provokes thought, and pushes the boundaries in form and feeling – while connecting with an audience.

08/27/2024

Thank you to all of our excellent readers, Sunday Salon Chicago, , and viewers like you for joining us this Sunday! 🌈

08/26/2024

Fabulous RHINO Reads! at SuSa Chicago last night--Thank you, Roscoe Books, Ignatius Aloysius Valentine, Anna Hernandez-Jung, Myron Stokes, Andrea Busch, April Gibson, and Colin Pope! 🦏🦏🦏 Get your copy of RHINO 2024 today! https://rhinopoetry.org/buy/rhino-2024

08/19/2024

REMINDER: A week from today, Sunday Salon Chicago hosts a joint pop-up reading event w/ Rhino Poetry / RHINO Reads! at Sunday Salon Chicago on 8/25 at 7 pm CT RoscoeBooks👏✍️🦏💙💚🧡 Hope to see you, Chicago! www.sundaysalon-chicago.com

08/14/2024

Get those submissions in for this year’s Founders’ Prize! We want to read the poems that have been your songs of the summer, and so does our guest judge: Cyrus Cassells. 💐

Submit today for a chance at the $500 prize!

08/06/2024

Mark your calendars: there’s a new RHINO Reads pop-up coming with our friends at Sunday Salon Chicago!

Join us on August 25 for an amazing lineup of readers at RoscoeBooks! 🦏

Learn more: https://bit.ly/rhinosalon

08/02/2024

Follow RHINO Vision Poetry on YouTube! Hear the poets from our virtual launch on 7/18/24!

Hosted by Colin Pope and Marcy Rae Henry on July 18, 2024Featuring Alejandro Lucero, Arah Ko, Inan Mayis Aru, Yana Kane, Maurya Kerr, Mike Puican, Alison Gra...

07/30/2024

RHINO Reviews is live! Featuring reviews of Carolina Hotchandani, W. H. Auden, , an anthology edited by Nicole Callihan, , & , J.R. Solonche,
Anna Leigh Knowles, ,, and St. Teresa of Avila translated by Dana Delibovi.

Read the reviews at link in bio!

07/30/2024

RHINO Reviews is live! Featuring reviews of Carolina Hotchandani, W. H. Auden, Diannely Antigua, Luisa Igloria, an anthology edited by edited by Nicole Callihan, Pichchenda Bao & Jennifer Franklin, J.R. Solonche, Sara Henning, Anna Leigh Knowles, Tyree Daye, and St. Teresa of Avila translated by Dana Delibovi.

Read the reviews here: https://rhinopoetry.org/reviews-volume-7-no-6-july-august-2024

07/29/2024

📣 H-O-T-T-O-G-O come and get your fresh RHINO! 📣

It’s not all fun and games at RHINO, but a lot of it is! We’ve been packing up issues of RHINO 2024 to ship to all of you, so order yours today: https://bit.ly/RHINO24

07/29/2024

RHINO's $500 Founders' Prize opens for subs on August 1st! Announcing Guest Judge Cyrus Cassells! Read the guidelines by clicking on the link below 🦏🦏🦏

RHINO opens for submissions for its annual Founders' Prize Poetry Contest on August 1st, 2024 - September 30, 2024, with monthly caps. Submission guidelines can be found on the General Submissions page.

07/23/2024

Enjoy this free poem from RHINO 2023 today: Emily Okamoto-Green's haibun poem "I Am in an Airport, I Am Here"!

Now you’ve done it , I say. The mound of rice nestled so neatly inside looks almost like a brain.

07/09/2024

Read. This. Poem. From RHINO 2023; available for free now in our online archive:

The room’s been rearranged but I can imagine him sitting at his desk, shifting his weight, eventually sinking resigned, into his chair, chest rising and falling carefully as if to say I can manage this. This, I can manage.

07/08/2024

In his new selection of poems, essays, and translations, John Balaban leads us through many gates, from the grounds of a temple in Vietnam to a Pueblo spirit gate, from the goddess-inhabited Acropolis to the merely functional gate of an isolated ranch which he slipped through in order to wander, los

07/08/2024

If you missed our reading with these wonderful RHINO 2024 contributors, swipe through the pictures and it’ll be just like you were there!

Many thanks to Bookends & Beginnings for hosting us in their beautiful space. 🎊

07/07/2024

RHINO 2023 poems are going up on the archive each week this summer. Today, I invite you to read the "The day before" by Winshen Liu--a powerfully compressed elegy, with particular meaning for me (Virginia Bell) because it reminds me of my late, orchid enthusiast, brother. I hope it resonates with you too.

It feels important to know how to cry with glasses on.

Register for the Virtual Launch Party on 7/18/24 at 7 pm CST:

07/03/2024

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: RHINO Poetry's Virtual Launch Party 2024. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

07/03/2024

Free poems from RHINO 2023 online now! Today's feature is "el molcajete" by Marcy Rae Henry--please share widely 🦏🦏🦏

https://rhinopoetry.org/poems/el-molcajete-by-marcy-rae-henry

07/03/2024

We are proud to be the largest free outdoor literary showcase in the Midwest. 🌳📚

All Printers Row Lit Fest programs and activities are free and open to the public!

Printers Row Lit Fest 2024
September 7 & 8
10AM – 6PM

PrintersRowLitFest.org

07/03/2024

07/02/2024

Sunday Salon Chicago is excited to announce our next reading on July 28th at RoscoeBooks at 7 pm CT, featuring a stellar lineup: Bonnie Jo Campbell, Faylita Hicks, Melanie Pappadis Faranello, Michael Zapata, & Beth Uznis Johnson, WOW❣️🧡❤️‍🔥 Website update coming soon www.sundaysalon-chicago.com. Pls share & 🙏🙏🙏

07/01/2024

RHINO is excited about the upcoming event at SAI in Chicago: Book Launch for Nur Melange: A Ghazal Anthology! Featuring several poets we've published in RHINO: Dina Elenbogen, Ruth Goring, and Dipika Mukherjee, and also the fabulous Samina Hadi-Tabassum, Laura A. Ring, Allison Joseph, and Vivek Sharma 😍

06/29/2024

Hey folks, come to 1620 Orrington Ave., the new location of Bookends & Beginnings for the RHINO Reads! event at 6 pm today! Facebook keeps showing the wrong map location and this error is out of our control. Hope to see you there and thanks for your support 🦏🦏🦏

06/28/2024

RHINO Reviews is LIVE! Featuring works by Robert Pinsky, , , J.R. Solonche, John Balaban, Tomaž Šalamun, , and Florencia Milito. Read all the reviews at link@in bio.

06/28/2024

RHINO Reviews is LIVE! Featuring works by Robert Pinsky, Suzanne Frischkorn, Silvina López Medin, J. R. Solonche, John Balaban, Tomaž Šalamun, January Gill O’Neil, and Florencia Milito. Read all the reviews here: https://rhinopoetry.org/reviews-volume-7-no-5-may-june

06/28/2024

We invite you to read "Bean Si" by Michael McKeown Bondhus--and then explore more free poems from RHINO 2023 now online 🦏🌈💚

My lover said I looked tired, so I took medicine to stop dreaming, moaned pleasure when he touched me where I hated being touched.

06/26/2024

RHINO 2024 is being printed as you read this! Pre-order your copy here: https://rhinopoetry.org/buy/rhino-2024

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Here comes another fresh poem awaiting you in RHINO 2024! Kathryn Petruccelli (@kathrynpetruccelli_poet) reading her poem “I Tried to Sing to My Mother at the End.” Preorder your copy to read this poem for yourself via the link in our bio!

Fighting the Mondays with poetry! 🦗 Here is Mime Puican (@mike_puican) reading “Moving Day. Preorder your copy of RHINO 2024 to read this poem for yourself via the link in our bio!

Now here’s a Poetry Month treat: Arah Ko (@white_fox_girl) reading her poem “OPHIDIOPHOBIA,” forthcoming in RHINO 2024! Preorder your copy today to read this poem for yourself via the link in our bio!

Give back this Tuesday, support poetry🦏♥️ Your donation keeps poetry alive, growing and responsive: https://rhinopoetry.org/donate

Get those poems ready and submitted to our Founder’s Prize for your chance to win $500! Plus, all submissions are considered for publication in RHINO 2024. 📝 Details at link in bio.

On your marks, get set, GO! 🌟 Submissions are now open for our Founders’ Prize with guest judge Rodney Gomez. Learn how to submit at: https://rhinopoetry.org/prizes

Karl Michael Iglesias - "Ofrenda" (2019)

In a time where it seems difficult to maintain innocence and imagination, we look to and lift up "Ofrenda", a piece by Karl Michael Iglesias touching on the power of rememberance, offering, community, and hope! This piece is in Karl's debut chapbook, "CATCH A GLOW", out now on Finishing Line Press! Please find the poem at our website: https://rhinopoetry.org/poems/ofrenda-karl-michael-iglesias Originally from Milwaukee, WI and a graduate of the University of Wisconsin - Madison, Karl’s work can be read on Apogee, The Acentos Review, The Breakwater Review, The Florida Review, RHINO Poetry, Kweli Journal, The Breakbeat Poets Vol 4. LatiNext, & elsewhere. Karl was recently named a 2022 finalist for the Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook prize for his new work, The Vagrant Bounce. Karl lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Congratulations to Karen Llagas for the poem “Are you bringing fruits, plants, seeds,” winner of the 2022 RHINO Poetry Founders’ Contest, selected by guest judge Luisa A. Igloria! 🦏 Congratulations as well to the 2022 Founders’ Contest Runners-Up! Dot Dannenberg “Rodin Said Patience is Also a Form of Action” Yuxi Lin “Self Portrait as FOB”

"Tyrant as Self Reflection" by Leah Umansky

...He splits into two, for two of him is better than one. He splits into two to see two reflections of his beautiful self. He sees himself butterflied. He sees the mirror of his beauty duplicated... —Leah Umansky reading her poem "Tyrant as Self Reflection" for #RHINOsight2020

"The bedroom in Arles" by Bonnie Billet

...The dressers and the walls shimmer, catch fire and burn with a blue flame. The print of Van Gogh’s bedroom in Arles floats above me. He painted 5 versions of his bedroom the one I remember has a red dresser... —Bonnie Billet reads her poem "The bedroom in Arles" for #RHINOsight2020

"Incantation to a Restless Creature" by Beverly Burch

Just try to make the mind lie down like a good dog. It barks whenever wind hits the bushes. It wants a rabbit, a mouthful of flesh in its teeth, warm scoop of blood... —Beverly Burch reading her poem "Incantation to a Restless Creature" for #RHINOsight2020