Just a few days left to apply for our Founders’ Prize and the chance at the $500 prize! 🎉
Send your best poems for consideration by our team and the guest judge Cyrus Cassells.
Deadline: September 30
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!
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
Mariam Gomaa intricately weaves an elegant immigrant's elegy with "Exolesco", published in 2020! She blessed us with wonderful reading at RHINO's 2022 Launch Party in July!
Please find the poem at our website: https://rhinopoetry.org/poems/exolesco-mariam-gomaa
Dr. Mariam Gomaa is a physician and the author of Between the Shadow & the Soul (Backbone Press). Her writing has appeared in Time, NBC News, Doximity, Nimrod, Graze Magazine, Readings for Diversity and Social Justice 4e, and more. Her work is an exploration of womanhood, intersectional identity, and Arab American life.
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.
Maureen Seaton - "4th Stage Metaphoric Breast Cancer" (2020)
Maureen Seaton stares cancer down and ponders its hard truths in her award-winning poem "4th Stage Metaphoric Breast Cancer", which was published in 2020 and won the RHINO 2020 Editor's Prize!
Please find the poem at our website: https://rhinopoetry.org/poems/4th-stage-metaphoric-breast-cancer-maureen-seaton
Poet Maureen Seaton earned an MFA from Vermont College in 1996. She is the author of the poetry collections Fear of Subways (1991), winner of the Eighth Mountain Poetry Prize; The Sea Among the Cupboards (1992); Furious Cooking (1996), winner of both the Iowa Poetry Prize and a Lambda Literary Award; Little Ice Age (2001); Venus Examines Her Breast (2004), winner of the Publishing Triangle’s Audre Lorde Award; and Cave of the Yellow Volkswagen (2009). Seaton is author of the Lambda Literary Award–winning memoir Sex Talks to Girls (2008), in which she addresses motherhood, sobriety, and sexuality. She teaches at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida.
Luisa Caycedo-Kimura - Santa Rosa 2015 (2020) - #RUNTHATBACKRHINO
Luisa Caycedo-Kimura offers us a grand journey for #RUNTHATBACKRHINO through gardens, hospitals, and caring a loved one with "Santa Rosa 2015", which was published in 2020 and received an Honorable Mention for RHINO's 2020 Editor's Prize!
Please find the poem at our website:
https://rhinopoetry.org/poems/santa-rosa-2015-luisa-caycedo-kimura
Luisa Caycedo-Kimura is a Colombian-born writer, translator, and educator. She was a John K. Walsh Residency Fellow at the Anderson Center, an Adrienne Reiner Hochstadt Fellow at Ragdale, and a Robert Pinsky Global Fellow. Her poems appear in The Cincinnati Review, Sunken Garden Poetry 1992-2011, Mid-American Review, and elsewhere.
#RUNTHATBACKRHINO - Eric Tran "Hippocampus"
Our next poem for y'all is a gem from the ethereal Eric Tran! "Hippocampus" was published in RHINO in 2019 and will be in Tran's upcoming book!
Please read the piece on RHINO's website: https://rhinopoetry.org/poems/hippocampus-eric-tran?rq=Tran
Eric Tran is a queer Vietnamese poet and the author of Mouth, Sugar, and Smoke and The Gutter Spread Guide to Prayer. He serves as an associate editor for Orison Books and a poetry reader for the Los Angeles Review. He has received awards and recognition from Prairie Schooner, New Delta Review, Best of the Net, and others. His work appears in RHINO, 32 Poems, the Missouri Review and elsewhere. He is an addiction psychiatry fellow at OHSU.
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