River Styx “Games” and Winners

The theme for issue 80 of River Styx is “Games” – which broadly interpreted includes works about “soccer games, hoop games, board games, card games, kid games, bedroom games, carnival games, even wild game.” As Editor Richard Newman introduces the issue: “The best games, as well as the best writing about games, always enact something larger than the actual game.”

Also included in this issue are the works by winners of the 2009 River Styx International Poetry Contest, as selected by Stephen Dunn: Michael Derrick Hudson, Michale J. Grabell, and J. Stephen Rhodes.