Guide to Literary Magazines

RHINO

The Poetry Forum

PO Box 591

Evanston, IL 60204

E-mail: rhinobiz@hotmail.com

Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: no Reading period: 4/1-10/1 Response time: 4-6 months Payment: copies Contests: yes (see website) ISSN: 1521-8414 Founded: 1976 Issues per year: 1 Average pages: 180 Sample copy (postpaid): $12 Cover Price: $12 Subscription: $12

Publisher’s Description: RHINO—the little magazine with the big horn—is an award-winning independent annual featuring poetry, short shorts and translations. Visit our website to read excerpts and purchase RHINO 2008—a volume of sometimes sublime, frequently surprising work. Each annual edition contains work from more than 60 writers, and we are proud of our track-record in publishing both talented newcomers and established writers. RHINO has won eight Illinois Literary Awards, and we encourage regional talent while listening to voices from around the world. Consistent qualities found within our widely diverse annual include humor, eccentricity, thoughtfulness and a love of language.

Literary Magazine Review believes we are “an annual that anyone interested in American poetry should attend to,” and New Pages describes RHINO as: “Interesting and courageous, the works here throw off the mantles of either extreme academe or extreme experimentalism, and instead embrace their own bracing truths.” Recent contributors include Denise Duhamel, Arielle Greenberg, Michael Hettich, Joel Long, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Ricardo Pau-Llosa, F. Daniel Rzicznek, John Sweet, and Matthew Thorburn.

RHINO also presents monthly workshops, plus various readings and open mics, all detailed on our website. Annual Editors’ Prizes recognize exceptional work published in RHINO, and our new contest for the RHINO Founder's Poetry Prize rewards distinct voices in poetry.