48.2 2023 with the SRPR Illinois Poet Feature with poetry by Edgar Garcia, with an interview of the poet by Jose-Luis Moctezuma. Editors’ Prize winning poem “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Dead Fish” by Marissa Davis, selected by Jonah Mixon-Webster, as well as a runner-up poem by Ricardo de la Cruz II, and honorable mention poems by Linda Stern Zisquit, Bruce Bond, and Veronica Schorr. New poetry by Sarah A. Etlinger, Jonah Bornstein, Artur Grabowski translated by Charles S. Kraszewski, Sandra S. McRae, Ivy Schweitzer, and more! The SRPR Review Essay “Poetics of Entanglement: Recent Interventions in Gay Shame and Stigma” by Phil Spotswood, who reviews books by Aaron Smith (Stop Lying), Justin Phillip Reed (The Malevolent Volume), and Patrick Kindig (all the catholic gods).

Cover art by Kitty F. Davies.

Contents - 48.2 2023

Jonah Mixon-Webster, Judge (Michigan)
Urgency, Attention, Need: Judge’s Introduction to “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Dead Fish,” SRPR Editors' Prize Winner 2023

First Place: Marissa Davis (New York)
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Dead Fish

Runner-Up: Ricardo de la Cruz II (Illinois)
Between the World & Me

Honorable Mention: Linda Stern Zisquit (Israel)
Wing

Honorable Mention: Bruce Bond (Texas)
Linda Loman

Honorable Mention: Veronica Schorr (Arizona)
Running Away

Sarah A. Etlinger (Wisconsin)
Esther in the Suburbs Is a Person Who

Jonah Bornstein (Colorado)
Almond

Artur Grabowski (Poland)
Translated by Charles S. Kraszewski (Poland)
Door in the window
Umbria—sub Iove
He hesitates

Sandra S. McRae (Colorado)
At the End of the World

Ivy Schweitzer (Vermont)
Pentimento
Do Over

Abigail Byrd-Stapleton (Missouri)
Sexual Dysfunction Poem
Interlude
Hisako Koyama Teaches Me How to Wait
Scatterbrain II, In Which I am the One Ducking Under the Futon

Cynthia Parker-Ohene (California)
america

Edgar Garcia (Illinois)
Introducing the SRPR Illinois Poet
from Cantares
I. Crisis
II. Green Places
Ancient landscapes
VI. Conscientious Objector
VIII.
Many
IX.
Gold extraction
X.
XVII.
XXV.
XXXIV.
from Caravaggio.

Edgar Garcia and Jose-Luis Moctezuma (Illinois)
The SRPR Interview: Edgar Garcia

Robin LaMer Rahija (Kentucky)
Depression Sex
Gaia BH1
Hysterectomy

Lynnell Edwards (Kentucky)
Stump, Lake House

Jeff Friedman (New Hampshire)
Angry Men
The Last of the Truth
Dad's Side of the Family

David W. Pederson (Illinois)
Waving at Heaven
What's in a Flag?

Andi Myles (Maryland)
Transfigured
Marionette, Condition: Fair

Phil Spotswood (Illinois)
The SRPR Review Essay: Poetics of Entanglement: Recent Interventions in Gay Shame and Stigma