RHINO Poetry

Rows of people seated facing a stage with a reader at a microphone on it. A colorful mural is at the side.

More seated people facing the stage, with some stands behind them

Oh what a night! Thank you to everyone who came out to our offsite. Special thanks to all of the talented readers and brave open mic folks. #AWP26

Orange and blue background. 7 portraits of readers at the bottom. Text reads: AWP 2026 off-site reading and open mic. Friday, March 6. 6:00-8:00 PM. M.A.P Technologies. 322 W. Baltimore. Featuring Maria Nazos, Summer J. Hart, Carmen Fought, Melissa Cahnmann, Tina Jenkins Bell, Chelsea Laine Wells. Presented by Rhino Poetry, North American Review, Hypertext

Hey, AWPeople! Tonight is our shared reading and open mic with these wonderful writers and partner publications.

We know your dance cards are pretty full, so save a waltz for us! 🦏 #AWP #AWP26

Orange and blue background. 7 portraits of readers at the bottom. Text reads: AWP 2026 off-site reading and open mic. Friday, March 6. 6:00-8:00 PM. M.A.P Technologies. 322 W. Baltimore. Featuring Maria Nazos, Summer J. Hart, Carmen Fought, Melissa Cahnmann, Tina Jenkins Bell, Chelsea Laine Wells. Presented by Rhino Poetry, North American Review, Hypertext.

Hey, AWPeople! Tonight is our shared reading and open mic with these wonderful writers and partner publications.

We know your dance cards are pretty full, so save a waltz for us! 🦏 #AWP #AWP26

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Our barely offsite reading at AWP tomorrow is right here, on Pratt Street across from Pratt Ale House. Noon! Featuring @patrickcrerand.bsky.social & @mariannelchan.bsky.social

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Day 1 of #AWP26 was great! Thank you to everyone who stopped by, and we look forward to new and familiar faces tomorrow.

An anthropomorphized rhino figurine holding armor and wearing a battle axe on a table in front of a basket of pins. It has one of the pins attached to its axe, reading “Speak poetry to power”

Bright pink background with torn paper. Text reads: A match made in literary heaven. Guild Literary + Rhino Poetry + Hypertext. Back together again & it feels so good.

We’re ready for you, @awpwriter.org! Come on over to booth 1284 for free swag and, more importantly, our sparkling personalities. ✨
#AWP26

Check out the interesting hometown authors who prove Baltimore is a literary town Baltimore’s complex history, moody weather and idiosyncratic residents have been inspiring writers for hundreds of years.

To celebrate #AWP26, I compiled some of my favorite stories about Baltimore writers, including Ta-Nehisi Coates’ dad’s press, Gertrude Stein’s neighborhood love triangle and the house Zelda Fitzgerald caught on fire. www.thebanner.com/culture/book...

#AWP26 bound--hope to see you. Join us for a great reading Friday evening (w/ @rhinopoetry.bsky.social & @hypertextmagazine.bsky.social)
or swing by booth 315 and roll the dice with @northamerreview.bsky.social editors

The young writers of Baltimore have wonderful recommendations for those of us visiting their home for #AWP26! Thank you all! 😍

Blue graphic with a blue-toned photo of Rhino editors reading around a table. There are yellow and green star accents. White text reads: Rhino 2027 submissions open. Poetry, translation, and flash. March 1-June 30, 2026. Until we reach our monthly cap.

Submissions for RHINO 2027 are officially open! 🦏

🦏 RHINO does not charge fees for general submissions.
🦏 We have a monthly cap, so submit early.
🦏 All submissions are considered for the Ralph Hamilton Editors' Prize.
🦏 We accept poetry, translation, and flash.

rhinopoetry.org/general-subm...

Best birthday gift ever. It's @northamerreview.bsky.social's Spring 2026 issue! I'm grateful to the editors for publishing my poem, "On Epiphany."

See us at #AWP - I'll do meet & greets at their booth & will read at their off-site event w/ @rhinopoetry.bsky.social & @hypertextmagazine.bsky.social.

Stills from the film 'Mean Girls' with 4 young women in pink. In the top still, left to right, they are labeled "you," "rhino poetry," "hypertext," and "guild literary complex." The lower still features the woman labeled "rhino" saying, "on wednesdays we wear pink"

Bright pink background with torn paper. Text reads: A match made in literary heaven. Guild Literary + Rhino Poetry + Hypertext. Back together again & it feels so good.

Friends, the @awpwriter.org conference is nearly upon us! Next Wednesday to be exact. 💗

Make sure to stop by Booth 1284 to spend some time with the RHINO crew, and our friends at Guild Literary Complex and @hypertextmagazine.bsky.social #AWP26

Read all of the prize-winning poems here: rhinopoetry.org/poems

White and green graphic with a cartoon rhino. Text reads: Congratulations to RHINO Poetry’s 2026 Ralph Hamilton Editors’ Prize and Translation Prize winners!

Congratulations to the Ralph Hamilton Editors' Prize and Translation Prize winners! 🎉

🎉 Rani Ruado
🎉 Mickie Kennedy
🎉 Margaret Wack
🎉 Clara Burghelea, translating Ioana Vintilă

All of these poems are in the 50th Anniversary issue of RHINO, and they're available to read early on our website!

Screenshot with text: THE WEEK IN LIT   Rhino Poetry's Next Issue Commemorates A Half Century Rhino Poetry, the Chicago-based “print journal featuring well-crafted, diverse poetry, flash fiction, and translations,” is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary this year. To commemorate the milestone, the literary organization is publishing a fiftieth anniversary issue, with poems by Anne-Marie Oomen, Samuel Ace, Timothy David Rey and many more. The issue can be pre-ordered here. More on the organization here.

Simply deeeeeelighted that our friends at NEWCITY think we’re nifty for 50! 🎊 bit.ly/3MwS0YK

All of these fantastic poems will be published in RHINO 2026, coming soon to a bookshelf near you!

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Please join us in congratulating our Founders' Prize winners, selected by Guest Judge Matthew Olzmann!

🎉 “There Are Lights to Turn On After Dusk” by Lindsey Wayland

🎉 "What grieving is or returning home after the flood" by Sara Cooper

🎉 "You Try To Fix It" by Liz Ahl @surlyacres.bsky.social

It's my first #AWP in 10 years & first collection of poems in 16! Can't WAIT to see you in Baltimore, buy your books, & show you PULSE, forthcoming from @omnidawn.bsky.social. Join me at #AWP2026 with @rhinopoetry.bsky.social, hypertextmagazine.bsky.social, & @northamerreview.bsky.social.

A group of people (Rhino Poetry editorial team members) airing around a table, eating and working.

A person in a grey sweater holds up an art print that reads “Art is the big yes.”

A group of people (Rhino Poetry editorial team members) airing around a table, eating and working.

Various Rhino Poetry printed materials on a pink tablecloth.

The crash met last weekend to plan for 2026 being RHINO’s 50th ANNIVERSARY! 👏🥳🦏

We have a lot of exciting ideas and big plans. We can’t do it without you, so get your party clothes ready!

Holli Carrell’s book APOSTASIES was reviewed by Amanda Auchter in RHINO! Check out the whole review at the link in our bio. 🌟 @rhinopoetry.bsky.social @alauchter.bsky.social @hollicarrell.bsky.social

Looking forward to this reading! I am reading different sets of poems from the book at each of these events to mix things up, and I can't wait to hear the other writers in this wonderful group!

5 people's headshot on an abstract blue and green background. Text reads: Sunday Salon Chicago. A curated reading series. 1/25/2026. 7 PM CT. Roscoe Books. Donna Vorreyer. Jamie Wendt. Albert DeGenova. Naoko Fujimoto. Barry Pearce.

THIS WEEK: Come to the wonderful RoscoeBooks on January 25 to hear some Rhinos reading for this installment of Sunday Salon Chicago! sundaysalon-chicago.com

REVIEWS — RHINO — The Worry Dolls by Shannon K. Winston - Reviewed by Susanna Lang The title poem in Shannon K. Winston’s new collection, The Worry Dolls, remembers her own premature birth, or remembers the family stories of her birth as if they were her own memories. She was “half-...

I am always happy to have a book review up at
@rhinopoetry.bsky.social. This collection fits our anxious times, but also encourages us to continue despite our anxieties. rhinopoetry.org/reviews/shan...

RHINO 2026 50th Anniversary RHINO Poetry is an independent, volunteer-driven nonprofit celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2026 and needs your support today!

Support your favorite independent poetry journal by donating to RHINO’s Annual Donor Drive, open now until the end of the year! 🦏 givebutter.com/RHINOPoetryT...

POEMS — RHINO — Pastoral in the Anthropocene by Majda Gama You thank them for not seeing you as predator, as stoat, fox, or kite.

Thanks for reading it, Majda!

Just sent you an email about teaching your poem, "Pastoral in the Anthropocene," in a poetry workshop this week.

I'm not at all surprised it received an Honorable Mention in @rhinopoetry.bsky.social's Founder's Prize & a Pushcart nom!

rhinopoetry.org/poems/pastor...

Sarah Mills Irene, My OCD Brain, Calls Me Sweetie You're not at your functional level, my psychiatrist says. Yeah, no shit, Irene says, and I can feel my amygdala stretch which means she's smirking. I've never been the person to let emails pile up, one on top of the next like a stack of old newspapers. Add one more to the pile, dust billows and gets trapped in sunlight and it looks beautiful, a memory of everything that ever was and hope for everything that will be. My therapist would say to open one email, just one, and see what happens, but when I read Irene's instruction manual, the page containing the entry for Just One has been torn out. I've never been the person to leave bills unopened on the table for weeks at a time. But here you are, says Irene, being this person. And now I'm sad, so I get back in bed for the eighth time this morning, and Irene says oh, sweetie, sweetie, sweetie in a soothing voice. We can try again tomorrow. I know she wants to trap me in the same way dust stays suspended in light. But where does all the dust go at night? Where does it go when I can't see it?

It’s OCD awareness month and I’m just getting around to sharing one of my Irene poems published in RHINO (@rhinopoetry.bsky.social) a few months back 🙏 🧠

A 3 by 3 grid of book covers, featuring text "Rhino Reviews Graphic Issue 2025"

The new edition of RHINO Reviews is live, and it's the 7th anniversary of our Graphic Reviews! 🎉

✨ Guest edited by Maggie Queeney
✨ Includes an interview with Monica Ong about her new book PLANETARIA
✨ Chock full of beautiful visual reviews, ready to inspire you

rhinopoetry.org/reviews-1

More literary journals regularly soliciting & editing book reviews: @soflopojo.bsky.social, @therumpus.net, @ecotheo.bsky.social, @rhinopoetry.bsky.social, rain taxi, and many other wonderful journals. If you haven’t before, I urge you to write a book review this year; such a gracious labor.

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RHINO will be at the 40th Anniversary Printers Row Lit Fest next weekend!

Come say 'Hi!' at Tent CC with our friends at the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame. 📚

Chat with us, get your copy RHINO 2025 and previous editions for a reduced price, or a RHINO tee or tote bag!