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 , Justin Phillip Reed , and Patrick Kindig .
Cover art by Kitty F. Davies.
Contents - 48.2 2023
Jonah Mixon-Webster, Judge
Urgency, Attention, Need: Judge’s Introduction to “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Dead Fish,” SRPR Editors' Prize Winner 2023
First Place: Marissa Davis
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Dead Fish
Runner-Up: Ricardo de la Cruz II
Between the World & Me
Honorable Mention: Linda Stern Zisquit
Wing
Honorable Mention: Bruce Bond
Linda Loman
Honorable Mention: Veronica Schorr
Running Away
Sarah A. Etlinger
Esther in the Suburbs Is a Person Who
Jonah Bornstein
Almond
Artur Grabowski
Translated by Charles S. Kraszewski
Door in the window
Umbria—sub Iove
He hesitates
Sandra S. McRae
At the End of the World
Ivy Schweitzer
Pentimento
Do Over
Abigail Byrd-Stapleton
Sexual Dysfunction Poem
Interlude
Hisako Koyama Teaches Me How to Wait
Scatterbrain II, In Which I am the One Ducking Under the Futon
Cynthia Parker-Ohene
america
Edgar Garcia
Introducing the SRPR Illinois Poet
from Cantares
I. Crisis
II. Green Places
Ancient landscapes
VI. Conscientious Objector
VIII.
Many
IX.
Gold extraction
X.
XVII.
XXV.
XXXIV.
from Caravaggio.
Edgar Garcia and Jose-Luis Moctezuma
The SRPR Interview: Edgar Garcia
Robin LaMer Rahija
Depression Sex
Gaia BH1
Hysterectomy
Lynnell Edwards
Stump, Lake House
Jeff Friedman
Angry Men
The Last of the Truth
Dad's Side of the Family
David W. Pederson
Waving at Heaven
What's in a Flag?
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 , Justin Phillip Reed , and Patrick Kindig .
Cover art by Kitty F. Davies.
Contents - 48.2 2023
Jonah Mixon-Webster, Judge
Urgency, Attention, Need: Judge’s Introduction to “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Dead Fish,” SRPR Editors' Prize Winner 2023
First Place: Marissa Davis
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Dead Fish
Runner-Up: Ricardo de la Cruz II
Between the World & Me
Honorable Mention: Linda Stern Zisquit
Wing
Honorable Mention: Bruce Bond
Linda Loman
Honorable Mention: Veronica Schorr
Running Away
Sarah A. Etlinger
Esther in the Suburbs Is a Person Who
Jonah Bornstein
Almond
Artur Grabowski
Translated by Charles S. Kraszewski
Door in the window
Umbria—sub Iove
He hesitates
Sandra S. McRae
At the End of the World
Ivy Schweitzer
Pentimento
Do Over
Abigail Byrd-Stapleton
Sexual Dysfunction Poem
Interlude
Hisako Koyama Teaches Me How to Wait
Scatterbrain II, In Which I am the One Ducking Under the Futon
Cynthia Parker-Ohene
america
Edgar Garcia
Introducing the SRPR Illinois Poet
from Cantares
I. Crisis
II. Green Places
Ancient landscapes
VI. Conscientious Objector
VIII.
Many
IX.
Gold extraction
X.
XVII.
XXV.
XXXIV.
from Caravaggio.
Edgar Garcia and Jose-Luis Moctezuma
The SRPR Interview: Edgar Garcia
Robin LaMer Rahija
Depression Sex
Gaia BH1
Hysterectomy
Lynnell Edwards
Stump, Lake House
Jeff Friedman
Angry Men
The Last of the Truth
Dad's Side of the Family
David W. Pederson
Waving at Heaven
What's in a Flag?