Founders' Prize--RHINO Poetry

FOUNDERS’ PRIZE

RHINO Poetry is an award-winning annual journal of 37 years standing which invites traditional or experimental work reflecting passion, originality, artistic conviction, and a love affair with language. We publish poetry, flash fiction, and translations.

Submissions must be postmarked or submitted online between September 1 – October 31

All contest submissions will also be considered for regular publication in the 2014 edition of RHINO Poetry.

◦     The winner will receive $300.00, publication in the next issue, and will be featured on our website, and nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

◦     Two runners up will receive $50.00, publication in the next issue, and will be featured on our website. We occasionally nominate a runner-up for a Pushcart Prize.

Guidelines:

ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS (preferred)

1.  Group up to 5 previously unpublished poems into one document – no identifying information should be on this document; Upload a single file in Word .doc or .docx format

2.  Cover letter in the “Comments” field – to “Founders’ Prize Contest” listing your name, address, email address and/or telephone number and titles of your poems, and how you learned of the contest.

3.  Pay your $10 entry fee through the online submission page.

4.  For Founders Prize 2014 online submissions and to check the status of your submission, go to rhinopoety.org.

 

SUBMISSIONS BY MAIL

◦     Send up to 5 unpublished poems (no more than 5 pages total) between September 1 and October 31. No identifying information should appear on the poems.

◦     Submissions must include a cover letter to “Founders’ Prize Contest” listing your name, address, email address and/or telephone number and titles of your poems, and how you learned of the contest.

◦     Enclose a $10 entry fee (check or money order payable to RHINO or Rhino Poetry – no cash)

◦     Manuscripts will not be returned. Include a SASE for notification of results.

Mail your submission and entry fee to:

Founders’ Contest

RHINO Poetry
P.O. Box 591
Evanston, IL 60204

Poetry Forum Led by Steven Teref – Fourth Sunday Poetry Workshop – February 24, 2013

RHINO Poetry Forum: Workshop & Critique

Evanston Public Library

Church & Orrington
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1:30-4:30 — Room 108

Steven Teref is the translator of Assembly (Host Publications, 2009), the selected poems of the Serbian poet Novica Tadic. Steven’s translations and poetry have appeared in numerous literary magazines, such asRhino, Another Chicago Magazine, South Loop Review, and forthcoming in Artifice Magazine. He teaches literature and writing at Columbia College Chicago where last year he was the recipient of an Excellence in Teaching Award. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of Ricochet Review. The first issue is due out this spring.

TOPIC:  Translation as Cover Song Translation has much to teach writers about the suppleness of language. The act of translation, paired with reading work in translation, reveals the nuance of meaning and intention. Translation is an interpretation much like the cover of a song (i.e., a new version of an original or previously recorded song): the success or failure of a cover rests on enhancing the tone, pacing, texture, or complexity of the original. Now, imagine if one had access only to covers. Which cover is the “best?” Rarely does a faithful rendition garner that honor.

Bring 17 or more copies (2 page limit) of a poem you want critiqued.*$5 – $10 donation appreciated.

This project is partially supported by grants from:   Poets & Writers, the Illinois Arts Council

and The MacArthur Fund for Arts and Culture at the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation.