ABOUT



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The Poetry Forum/RHINO Poetry is a non-profit literary organization, primarily devoted to the publication of RHINO Poetry, an annual journal featuring high-quality, diverse poetry, short/shorts and translations.

We also also foster a community of writers by presenting RHINO Reads! reading series and our Poetry Forum workshop series, and awarding three cash prizes to poets each year. We are a proud contributor to the vitality of Illinois’ literary community, both through our Editors’ volunteer work with area literary events and causes, our participation at Chicago-area literary events, and bestowing the  Paladin Award.

RHINO Poetry occupies a niche somewhere between academia and the emerging poetry scene – devoted to printing work that tells stories, provokes thought, and pushes the boundaries in form and feeling – while connecting with an audience.

Collaborations

  • Art+Poetry Chicago is a collaboration between The Site of Big Shoulders and RHINO Poetry.  The Art+Poetry Chicago contest solicited submissions from Chicago artists based on twelve poems from the pages of RHINO Poetry. The poems and art were featured at an October 23, 2010 event and are available to view here.

Awards and Recognitions

  • New Pages (June 2010) wrote that RHINO is “an ambitious and high quality magazine. . .a journal that will reward the attention and the support of the most discriminating readers of poetry.” Read the full article here (scroll down the page to find RHINO).
  • New Pages (2007)  “….bursts with imagination and innovation…The cover art of a rhino emerging from the dark, impaling the title, scattering letters of the alphabet resembles the dynamism within.” Read the full article here (scroll down the page to find RHINO).
  • New Pages (2006) writes, “This magazine continues to be a source of pleasurable reading, crowded as it is with its offbeat, lyrical voices.” Read the full article here (scroll down the page to find RHINO).

  • We have received nine Literary Awards from the Illinois Arts Council:
    In 2008, for work published in RHINO 2007 – Geoffrey Forsyth, “Coins”
    In 2006, for work published in RHINO 2005 – Valerie Wallace, “Jezebel Remembering”
    In 2003, for work published in RHINO 2002 – David Bond, “Head” and Susan Dickman, “Skin”
    In 2002, for work published in RHINO 2001 – Gail Lukasik, “In country” and Maureen Seaton, “Toy Weather”
    In 2001, for work published in RHINO 2000 – S. L. Wisenberg, “Rose in Her Backyard”
    In 2000, for work published in RHINO 1999 – Lucia Getsi, “Austria One” and Bob Zordani, “The Werewolf’s Daughters”