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The latest issue of RHINO Reviews is live!
Featuring:
🦏 Emily Pérez reviewing Natalie Shapero
🦏 @robeshoe.bsky.social reviewing @troycabida.bsky.social
🦏 @alauchter.bsky.social reviewing @kathryncowles.bsky.social
🦏 loads more!
Find your next National Poetry Month read here: bit.ly/4sko9SJ
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A black and white promotional image featuring a conversation between Jack White and Adrian Matejka. The left side displays a book cover titled "JACK WHITE: THE WHITE STRIPES COMPLETE LYRICS." The main text reads: “I've tried every different kind of way to write. And one thing. It seems like the things people resonate with are things I do very quickly.” Beneath, it states "Jack White talks to Adrian Matejka.
Jack White @officialjackwhite.bsky.social talks to POETRY editor-in-chief Adrian Matejka. Read the interview: https://bit.ly/41LIF39
Special Thanks to @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social and @thirdmanrecords.bsky.social
With the whole “Geese-is-a-psyop” thing, I’m starting a new lit mag called “Affront.”
Invest with your finest unmarked bills today.
I’m taking a genealogy class at the same time that my little cousin has a family history project for school. I asked if she wanted me to forward her the class materials, and she is STOKED. 🥹
Hell yeah libraries. Hell yeah humans.
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As part of our anniversary year, we have an exhibit at the Evanston Public Library! 🥳
Check out “RHINO: The First 50 Years” through the end of the month.
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A special issue of POETRY magazine will honor one of our great literary cities: Chicago!
We're calling on poets and writers who have lived in Chicago for around seven years at some point in their lives to submit their poems by May 15: https://bit.ly/42cfEO9
we haven’t updated everything but Crips for eSims for Gaza is almost at $3,333,333 raised. YES THAT IS TWO COMMAS. #ConnectingGaza
bit.ly/eSimsRUs
To all who celebrate
“Why aren’t college students protesting” stories are almost always wrong (they are protesting), omit crucial context (they were brutally punished for protesting before), and somehow suggest that 19 yr olds have more moral responsibility than elected officials three times their age
Tragically a real topic of conversation in therapy this week. “Do I…agree with the capital ‘C’ Church man?”
WOW. Seven of the honorees in the Guild Literary Complex’s “35 Writers to Watch” in 2026 are current or former Rhinos.
We could not be more proud and thrilled, especially during National Poetry Month!
Congratulations to all of the honorees! 👏👏👏
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One way we're celebrating Poetry Month is by revisiting poems by 2025 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize recipient, Rigoberto González!
Explore more of González's poems: https://bit.ly/4uQYmDs
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Listen. The money I spend during Poetry Month is nobody’s business. Not even mine.
“Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.” —Audre Lorde
April is National Poetry Month. To celebrate, we put together a list of poetry books that tell stories of resistance, sorrow, solidarity and hope in our struggles to change the world.
I take inventory in the holy hours & find: we are a transgression
everywhere, beautiful & alive.
—heidi andrea restrepo rhodes with the #PoemOfTheDay on International Transgender Day of Visibility.
CW: transphobia https://bit.ly/4fSA4Rv
I do love the way that Irish libraries have continued to integrate into society. This v impressive stand is in one of Dublin’s main hospitals, Tallaght, in the West of the capital.
thoughts on today:
1) the protests are good, actually
2) you should go to one of you can
3) it will do you good to see how many other people also hate this guy
4) you might meet people who you can organize with
5) there are more of us than there are of them
6) we are going to win
19 years old Royer Perez-Jimenez is one of the youngest people to die in an ICE camp.
His arrest was unnecessarily violent and forceful.
He’s shoved to the ground while officers kneel on his back as he struggles to communicate.
A few weeks later, he was dead.
Abolish ICE
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April is National Poetry Month, so make sure RHINO is part of your plans! Otherwise, we'll have to crash your party. 💥🦏
Upcoming events: bit.ly/4sFB0z2
Killing people. Not just Renee Good & Alex Pretti.
A beautiful spring day. Shall I burst into tears or flames first?
A text image of a small part of the transcript of a conversation between Ari Shapiro and David Simon (Creater of 'The Wire') on a segment on NPR during the wirter's strike of 2023: Shapiro: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without AI, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had that tool to solve those thorny problems... Simon: What? Shapiro: ...Or saying... Simon: You imagine that? Shapiro: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. Simon: I don't think AI can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. Shapiro: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into AI and say, give. me 10 ideas for how to transition this. Simon: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.
And if you think this is just some BS meme image, you can listen to the man himself: www.npr.org/transcripts/...
I’m at ICE HQ
A U-Haul truck with a partially worn away painting of a rhinoceros on its side.
There are cathedrals everywhere for those with eyes to see them.
I’m not just a professional lady with at least two (2) blazers. I was also once a cute kid.
After months of bargaining and a long strike in 2022-2023, the HarperCollins Union’s membership voted “overwhelmingly” to ratify a new contract.
Utilities are convincing lawmakers around the U.S. to delay bills that would allow people to buy solar panels, plug them into an outlet and begin generating electricity.
the intense Buffy nostalgia is not really nostalgia, I think, just longing for the best show to ever explain that you have to keep on fighting the Big Bads even when you don’t want to do it anymore
A light blue background with images of flowers taped the corner of a white rectangle. Text in white box reads: RHINO Reviews is proud to present these fascinating selections for our third annual translation issue. We are thrilled to include eight reviewers who are also poets with multiple language backgrounds. The reviews cover Belarusian, Chinese, Japanese, Norwegian, and Spanish poetry collections, Taiwanese and Lithuanian short stories, and Indian folktales. We hope you enjoy reading them. -Naoko Fujimoto, RHINO Reviews translation editor
The 2026 Translation Issue of RHINO Reviews is live! This this annual issue includes Belarusian, Chinese, Japanese, Norwegian, and Spanish poetry in translation—and it doesnt stop there. 📚 bit.ly/4sko9SJ
DEADLINE EXTENDED to March 31!
Apply to the 2026 Summer Poetry Teachers Institute to:
📓 Learn creative ways to bring poetry into your classroom.
📓 Earn FREE professional development credit.
📓 Meet other passionate educators.
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