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RHINO Poetry @rhinopoetry.bsky.social · 16d

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

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · Aug 11

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 Poetry @rhinopoetry.bsky.social · Sep 1

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!

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RHINO Poetry @rhinopoetry.bsky.social · Aug 23

Join us today! www.facebook.com/share/p/15mY...

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RHINO Poetry @rhinopoetry.bsky.social · Aug 8

RHINO Reviews' Summer Issue is live! Featuring @rhonierika.bsky.social‬, Lauren K. Watel, Ariana Reines, ‪@megg-bean.bsky.social‬, @maidervang.bsky.social‬, and Mia Malhotra.

Catch the hottest poetry summer reads here: bit.ly/RhinoRev

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Luisa A. Igloria @thepoetslizard.bsky.social · Jul 30

In the July 2025 issue of @rhinopoetry.bsky.social —
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REVIEWS — RHINO — Rooms for the Dead and the Not Yet by Rhoni Blankenhorn - Reviewed by Luisa A. Igloria

Filipina American poet Rhoni Blankenhorn won the 2024 Trio Award for her debut collection, Rooms for the Dead and the Not Yet. A list of possibly some of the brightest names in poetry in North America...

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RHINO Poetry @rhinopoetry.bsky.social · Jul 21

TONIGHT: Join RHINO's own Virginia Bell as part of the Chicago Poetry Center's beautiful reading series: Poetry @ The Green 💚

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RHINO Poetry @rhinopoetry.bsky.social · Jun 24

If you couldn't join our virtual launch party, don't beat yourself up! The recording is now available to enjoy on anytime: bit.ly/4kZVWgC

RHINO Poetry 2025 Virtual Launch Party

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RHINO Poetry @rhinopoetry.bsky.social · Jun 4

Can't join us at the Chicago launch this weekend? That's why we have the virtual launch on June 17! 🧑‍💻

Register here: bit.ly/rhinoreg25

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slang12.bsky.social @slang12.bsky.social · Jun 1

The collection I reviewed this month for @rhinopoetry.bsky.social , Love Prodigal by ‪@tracibrimhall.bsky.social‬, is especially beautiful--and also helped me think through my own poetics. Maybe it will do the same for you? rhinopoetry.org/reviews/trac...

REVIEWS — RHINO — Love Prodigal, by Traci Brimhall - Reviewed by Susanna Lang

A narrative underlies Traci Brimhall’s new collection, Love Prodigal, the story of a complex childhood, a broken marriage and inherited illness, and then of learning to live with loss, to grow past it...

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RHINO Poetry @rhinopoetry.bsky.social · May 30

NEXT WEEK: come to our launch party, Chicago! bit.ly/rhinoparty25

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susanbearman.bsky.social @susanbearman.bsky.social · May 29

"Be a good literary citizen: read, subscribe to, volunteer for, and submit to literary journals." (paraphrasing) John McCarthy of @rhinopoetry.bsky.social rn at #OCWW (Off Campus Writers Workshop) Lit Mag panel. #amsubmitting

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RHINO Poetry @rhinopoetry.bsky.social · May 29

"I’m worried Dad will only remember that humans suck" by Lucy Zhang. @dango-ramen.bsky.social

From the 2023 issue of RHINO.

What poems are you reading as we round out AAPI Heritage Month?

Poem text.

The first time I saw Buddha’s hand, I shrieked & stood behind my dad as he cut off therind, snapped one of the thin fingers off. He handed it to me. I shook my head, wary about eating fruit appendages that look like they’re in prayer. Surely biting one was badluck, a harbinger of death & despair. Dad insisted it was good for me because it had abitter white pith. Everyone knew anything bitter was the cure to all illness. But Icontinued to shake my head. He was never one to force me to act against my will. No,he was much sneakier about it. He’d tell me about how swarms of locusts crossed theocean, replenishing energy by devouring each other while in flight, how I’d gape & askwhy locusts were so cruel, he’d say all animals are like that, even humans. Suddenlyeating the finger of Buddha’s hand didn’t seem like such a big deal. Doubt humanitybefore believing in it, he’d lecture. Dad doesn’t remember things too well anymore, stillthinks I’m twelve even though I pay a mortgage, file taxes, suffer back cramps. I liveclose to work & stay late because they provide free food after 7 pm (“working latedinner program”) & walk back home along a path lit by traffic lights & neglectedlampposts. Dad always insisted I be on the phone with him if I was walking alone, but hehas stopped picking up the calls because middle school ended at three pm so he thinksI’m already home, tucked in, with a cup of suan nai on my bed stand to help my growingbones. Instead, I walk home in silence, trying to stay alert even as my mind drifts towardthe locusts who once blocked out the sun for five days, then went extinct.

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Aaron Caycedo-Kimura @aaroncaycedokimura.bsky.social · May 12

Many thanks to the amazing team at @rhinopoetry.bsky.social for including my poem “Coyotes Came Out of the Desert, 1945” in RHINO 2025! #poetry #poems #poets #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #poetryreaders

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RHINO Poetry @rhinopoetry.bsky.social · May 12

Thank you reminding us! The full text is available on our website. bit.ly/454cleI

POEMS — RHINO — Sketches of Luang Prabang by Yang Biwei translated from the Chinese by Liang Yujing

A black bear jumps in, swims in a wedding gown of water.

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RHINO Poetry @rhinopoetry.bsky.social · May 12

"Sketches of Luang Prabang" by Yang Biwei, translated from the Chinese by @liangyujing.bsky.social

Read this and many more wonderful poems in the 2025 issue of RHINO. 🦏 bit.ly/rhino25

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Angela Sucich @angelasucich.bsky.social · May 8

Excited to get RHINO in the mail today! I'm honored that my poem, "Garden Patch, or, After Eden" is included in their new issue. Writing this poem reminded me that compassion is the human path. Thanks to @rhinopoetry.bsky.social for publishing it. Get your copy of issue 49 from #rhinopoetry

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RHINO Poetry @rhinopoetry.bsky.social · May 7

JUNE 7: Help us to welcome a new RHINO into the world!

Featuring readings by contributors and an open mic, this is a party you don't want to miss. 🦏

Save your spot: bit.ly/rhinoparty25

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Perugia Press @perugiapress.bsky.social · Apr 30

Check out RHINO’s latest issue to read Perugia poet Amanda Auchter’s new review of Perugia poet Corrie Williamson’s Your Mother’s Bear Gun (River River Books, 2025). Love to see our poets supporting each other’s work! @alauchter.bsky.social @rhinopoetry.bsky.social @riverriverbooks.bsky.social