Welcome to San Pedro River Review, a print poetry and art publication. It is named for the ancient river that flows north from the mountains of Sonora, Mexico, into Arizona.
Contributors to our first four issues may be seen by clicking the Page links located to the left of this webpage (putting your cursor over 'Page 1' enables Pages 2, 3,4).
We accept submissions during two submission periods:
January 1st to February 1st, and July 1st to August 1st
Spring 2011 Theme: Arrivals and Departures
Your poems or art may deal with either category, or both:
Think permanent or temporary – to live or to die. Examples: A woman leaves for war. A man arrives home. A child leaves for school. Vultures or sparrows land on power lines. A ship departs a port. Planes touch-down, planes take-off. A dog exits a fenced-in yard. Teens enter a crack house. Someone is told, ‘Get the hell out!’ An 18th century headstone reads, ‘Departed this life…’ A trek is begun amid a forecast of bad weather. Someone wakes at midnight, stares at a deadbolt. Motion, transition, placement, displacement, sinkings, risings -- however the theme of ‘arrivals and departures’ may stir your poetic or artistic imaginations.
The Spring issue appears mid-March, and the Fall one around mid-September. We publish approximately 45 to 50 poems and two to four pieces of art per issue. In size, the journal is 5 ½ x 8 ½ . Although we do not like to set a line length restriction, longer poems might have a harder time getting accepted.
What do we like? We prefer work set in tactile imagery, with a vividness of local detail: characters, places, substantive objects. But we are leery of the overly-prosaic, or gabby. We go in fear of abstractions as much as we do of mom and apple pie. We like a sense of irony, a degree of pathos, drama, and a good use of metaphors. We consider all forms of poetry, including prose poems. To know more, we encourage you to look up the poems of our contributors who are listed on pages 1 through 4.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES - Note that the Spring 2011 issue will be themed (see above).
First, though we have a Postal address but we cannot accept paper submissions.
-- Poetry submissions should be sent in a single MS Word attachment: .doc or .rtf; Use standard fonts such as Times New Roman, Garamond, Calibri. Wingdings cause convulsions. NOTE: The font we use for the poems we publish is Garamond.
-- Art submissions may be sent as graphics files (jpeg, jpg)
-- We have no line length restriction, but poems running over two pages better be good.
-- We do accept simultaneous submissions.
-- Send no more than three poems or three pieces of art. You may submit both.
-- Include a three-to-five line bio, written in the third person, embedded in the body of your email. The bio should be no more than 75 words. We retain the right to edit bios.
-- All work must be that of the poet and/or artist.
-- Do not send weblinks as substitutes for the submission.
-- All work must be in English.
-- Previously published work will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
-- If your poem's title is all-caps, and we accept it, it will not be all-caps when the issue is published.
-- Prose poem submitters should be aware that if their poems are accepted, the poem's margins, as they'll appear in SPRR, may be slightly different than the way they were initially submitted to us.
-- Art may be in the forms of sketches, drawings, paintings, or photographs. Please note that if we like your art we will likely ask if we can accept it as black and white. We seek interesting angles on ordinary as well as downtrodden vistas. We like urban and rural decay, though we don't limit ourselves to those areas when considering art submissions.
Email your submission to: editor [at symbol] sprreview.com. In the Subject line we prefer that put your first and last name, followed by SPRR Submission, e.g 'John Barleycorn SPRR Submission.'
By submitting to us you grant us permission, if we select your work, to publish it. No separate author's consent form will be mailed out.
Payment, for now, will consist of one contributor copy. If you know of an educational institution or library that would like a free copy, please send us their address.
San Pedro River Review acquires first serial rights to accepted pieces. Copyright reverts to the author after publication. This does not apply to works we accept that were published previously.
Single issues are available for $6.00. Subscriptions, for the time being, are subsequently $12.00 a year for two issues. If you would like a subscription please send a check or money order, made out to Jeffrey Alfier, with 'SPRR' in the For section of the check, to:
SPRR
P.O. Box 7000 - 148
Redondo Beach, CA 90277 - 8710
Venues for purchasing SPRR are expanding. In Tucson, it may be purchased at Antigone Books on 4th Avenue, and at Mostly Books in the Plaza at Speedway and Wilmot. In Patagonia, Arizona, it may be found at Mariposa Books at 317 McKeown Ave. In Ojai, California, SPRR may be purchased from Bart's Books, at 302 W. Matilija.
Back issues are available, but the inaugural issue, Spring 2009, is sold out.
Please note that we also have a Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/San-Pedro-River-Review/115288858522278
ISSN 1944-5954
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THE EDITORS
Jeffrey Alfier is a 2009 Pushcart nominee, and in 2006 he received honorable mention for the Rachel Sherwood Poetry Prize. In 2005 he won first place awards from the Redrock Writer’s Guild of Utah and the Arizona State Poetry Society. He holds an MA in Humanities from California State University at Dominguez Hills. He is an Air Force veteran with 27-plus years of officer and enlisted service. He has also served as a functional analyst with Science Applications International Corporation, and once taught history as an adjunct faculty member with City College of Chicago’s European Division. His publication credits include Arcadia, Aunt Chloe, Ballard Street Poetry Journal (forthcoming), Bellowing Ark, Birmingham Poetry Review, Blue Earth Review, Blue Unicorn, Boxcar Poetry Review, Broken Bridge Review, Cairn, Copper Nickel, Crab Orchard Review, The Cape Rock, Chiron Review (forthcoming), Concho River Review, Cutthroat, Decanto (UK), Eclipse, Falling Star Magazine, The Fourth River (forthcoming), Georgetown Review, Homestead Review, Illya's Honey, Inscape, Iodine Poetry Journal, Iron Horse Literary Review, Kestrel, Limestone, Los Angeles Review, Mosaic, Mississippi Crow, New Madrid, Northridge Review, Off the Coast, Pacific Review, Pearl Magazine, Penumbra, Permafrost, Pilgrimage, Post Road (forthcoming), RE:AL, Red Cedar Review, Reed Magazine, RHINO, River Oak Review, The Saint Ann’s Review, Sandy River Review, Santa Clara Review, Silk Road, SLAB, Slant, Southwestern American Literature, SPOT Lit(erary) Mag(azine), Spectrum, Sugar House Review, Texas Review, Third Wednesday, Tipton Poetry Journal, War Literature and the Arts, Vallum (Canada), Whiskey Island Review (forthcoming), and Xavier Review. His chapbooks are Strangers Within the Gate (2005), and Offloading the Wounded (2010), both available from The Moon Publishing and Printing, Ft. Wayne, Indiana: http://moonpublishprint.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=1&osCsid=ni716o6khj7hhjckrvdntle5i4
Tobi Cogswell lives in Southern California. She is a Pushcart nominee, and a 2008 co-recipient of the first annual Lois and Marine Robert Warden Poetry Award from Bellowing Ark. In 2006, 2007 and 2008 she received three Honorable Mentions plus Second Prize in the Southwest Manuscripters Mona O'Connor Memorial Poetry Contest. Her work can be read most recently in RHINO, Willow Review, Sandy River Review, SLAB, Decanto (UK), Black Words on White Paper, Askew, Off the Coast, Bellowing Ark, Blue Earth Review, Illya's Honey, SPOT Lit(erary) Mag(azine), Penumbra, Pilgrimage, Newport Review, Forge Journal, Seven CirclePress, Fogged Clarity, Psychic Meatloaf, Sugar House Review, KNOCK Journal, Plain Spoke, and Spoon River Poetry Review, among others. She has work forthcoming in Mississippi Crow, Beggars & Cheeseburgers, Iodine Poetry Journal, The Enigmatist, Blue Hole Anthology, Heart Beats Anthology, Stray Branch, Spilt Milk (UK) and Transcurrent. She has three chapbooks, and her book, "Poste Restante," was recently published by Bellowing Ark Press at www.bellowingark.org. She was never in the Air Force.
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Every word has a great burden of memories...Behind every word is a whole world.
Heinrich Böll
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San Pedro River Review, August, 2010
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