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We publish occasional poetry books and chapbooks, as well as San Pedro River Review, a biannual print journal of poetry and art founded in 2008. SPRR is included in the University of Wisconsin Special Collections Little Magazine Unit, the University of Arizona Poetry Center, and the University at Buffalo, New York. We are a member of The Council of Literary Magazines and Presses [CLMP].

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         Blue Horse Press poetry book and chapbook publications are found here:

             http://www.bluehorsepress.com/blue-horse-press-books-chapbooks

 

          We are not currently considering unsolicited book or chapbook manuscripts.

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Our representative poets include Naomi Shihab Nye, Ellen Bass, Gary Soto, Afaa Michael Weaver, Joseph Millar, Jack Bedell, Marge Piercy, Alex Lemon, Cynthia Cruz, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Joe Wilkins, Tyree Daye, Nathalie Handal, Rose McLarney, Jack Ridl, Michael Bazzett, and Christopher Buckley.​

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Here is our current issue. Previous issues may be viewed toward the bottom of the page:​​​​

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​We are only open for submissions during two periods: Jan 1 to 31, and July 1 to 31.​

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All submissions are welcome, but priority is given to new writers and those we published for the first time in the Spring 2025 issue.

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*  ONLY ONE SUBMISSION PER SUBMISSION PERIOD. The exception would be when poems are submitted in one email, and art or photography submitted in a separate email. We do not consider writings paired with art or photography, if accepting the writing must include the art it is paired with. Poetry or flash fiction submitted in the same document with unsolicited art or photography will not be answered.

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*  Simultaneous submissions are fine.

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*  Please keep cover letters simple.  

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*  Inscribe a third-person bio in the body of your email. Address is optional, but it will be incumbent on you to provide it if we accept your work. Payment is one contributor copy. NOTE: Under certain circumstances, contributors outside the US may need to purchase their own copies due to customs fees, taxation, etc.

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*  No previously published work. But we're okay with prior publication on blogs or social media, or your mom's refrigerator.

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*  We rarely, if ever, comment on work we decline.

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*  Email your submission to: sprreview [ at symbol ]gmail[dot]com

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POETRY AND PROSE

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* Submit up to 3 poems. ​Do not inscribe poems  in the body of your email. No pdf. or .dat files. 

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* Submit only 1 piece of flash fiction, up to 1,200 words.

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*  No AI generated poems. Those we determine created AI work will not be considered in the future. You may be able to fool us, but please: have some integrity. 

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* We seek poems that employ a sense of concision — an economy of language that produces keen images. We appreciate a touch of Lorca's duende and Kant's "crooked timber of humanity." We reject most poetry out of sheer gabbiness, which is not the same as a long poem, but a tumult of prosy verbosity.

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* We consider prose poems as well as the usual poem formats. Prose poems need rhythmical continuity, and like other poems, an economy of language, not simply be aborted fiction. ​

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All work must be in English, excluding, of course, the case where a non-English word or term is intrinsic to the poem. Non-English poems may be submitted if accompanied by their English translations.

 

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* Submit up to 8 pieces of art, hi-res if possible (~ 250 to 400 DPI).

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*  We will not consider art or photography created by AI. That said, post-processed art/photography is fine, if post-processing removes blemishes, clarifies, or corrects lighting or distortions in the original work.

 

*  Send up to 8 pieces, color or b&w. Submit as separate jpegs in a single email, unless the files are so large they require separate emails.  Art may include photography, collage, drawings, and hybrid forms thereof. 

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NOTE: Nude art or photography is welcome but it must adhere to strict artistic standards. You must query us first before submitting nude photography or art. Your query must include an artist statement, even a brief one. When you query, we will send you the separate guidelines.

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*   Please do not give your art trite, cliched, cute, or overly descriptive titles. Don't lead the witness. Let the imagination of the viewer compose the piece's narrative. Even single words for titles would be fine.

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By submitting to us you grant us permission, if we select your work, to publish it. No separate author's consent form or proof will be sent out.

 

All work must be that of the submitter. Plagiarism will be reported. 

 

San Pedro River Review acquires first serial rights to accepted pieces. Copyright reverts to the author after publication.

 

Contributors may purchase additional copies at reduced rates. Discounts are only available through us, not the regular Amazon site. Otherwise, copies for non-contributors are available on Amazon at the regular retail price. 

 

You do not need a Facebook account to access our public Facebook page. This is where we often broadcast updates, such as publication timing and when contributor copies are mailed out. Our Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/san.review

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THE EDITORS

 

JC Alfier is a poet and collage artist-photographer. He was a finalist for the Missouri Laureate Prize in 2021. He is 2018 winner of the Angela Consolo Manckiewick Poetry Prize, from Lummox Press. In 2014 he won the Kithara Book Prize, judged by Dennis Maloney. Publication credits include Blue Mesa Review, The Carolina Quarterly, Copper Nickel, Emerson Review, Faultline, Kestrel, Hotel Amerika, Los Angeles Review, New Delta Review, New York Quarterly, Notre Dame Review, Penn Review, Poetry Ireland Review, River Styx, South Carolina Review, and Vassar Review. His latest collection of poems is The Shadow Field (Louisiana Literature Journal & Press, 2020). 

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Tobi Alfier writes poetry, flash-fiction, and the odd blog. Publication credits include Louisiana Literature, Anti-Heroin Chic, Arkansas Review, Atlanta Review, Chiron Review, Hawai’i Pacific Review, Fourth River, Gargoyle, KGB Bar Lit Mag, Los Angeles Review (chosen by the late Wanda Coleman), Nerve Cowboy, Permafrost, Southwestern American Literature, Spoon River Poetry Review, Suisun Valley Review, The American Journal of Poetry, The Chaffin Journal, War, Literature & the Arts, Washington Square, and other print and online journals in the US and overseas. Her latest full-length collection is Symmetry: earth and sky (Main Street Rag, 2020), and her latest chapbook is Grit & Grace (The Orchard Street Press, 2021). Slices of Alice & Other Character Studies (Cholla Needles Arts & Literary Library) will always remain one of her favorite books. If you want to know why, ask her. She’ll send you a copy.

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Truly imaginative writing can bring us back to the living presence of the grass, to the fields that feed us, to the cities we live in and the nature of the men and women among whom we live.   Phillip Levine