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• Watch RHINO’s 50th anniversary and the launch of RHINO 2026 from wherever you are, whenever you want! A recording is available on Youtube featuring contributors from all over!

  The featured readers were:

  • Dorsey Craft

  • Alejandro Escudé

  • Zahraa Farhat

  • MK Francisco

  • Elisávet Makridis

  • Anne-Marie Oomen

  • Margaret Wack

• At AWP 2026, RHINO was one of 32 out of 650 Bookfair lit orgs to be Women Who Submit (WWS) Certified for having at least 50% women and 50% POC on mastheads and/or Boards. Please visit WWS to learn more!

• We are pleased to announce that our editors have selected “To Serve the Philippines,” by Rani Ruado as the winner of RHINO’s 2026 Editors' Prize. “A Monologue for the Worm in RFK Jr.'s Brain,” by Mickie Kennedy was awarded second place, and “Laelaps,” by Margaret Wack is the honorable mention. “before I was born, grandma spent the whole summer in the broken beetle in the yard,”  by Ioana Vintilă, translated from Romanian by Clara Burghelea has won the Translation Prize.

• We are pleased to announce that our guest judge, Matthew Olzmann, has selected “There Are Lights to Turn On After Dusk,” by Lindsey Royal Wayland as the winner of RHINO’s 2026 Founders' Prize. Olzmann also selected "What grieving is or returning home after the flood," by Sara Cooper and "You Try To Fix It," by Liz Ahl as runners-up. There were 27 additional finalist poets whose poems will also appear in RHINO 2026:

  • Samuel Ace, Matthew Buxton, Akhim Yuseff Cabey, Catherine Carter, Rick Christiansen, Susan Cohen, Ajla Dizdarević, David Ehmcke, Zahraa Farhat, Jason Gray, Heather Jessen, Mickie Kennedy, Joey S. Kim, Julia Liu, Johanna Magin, Elisávet Makridis, Betsy Mitchell Martinez, Jill Michelle, Anne-Marie Oomen, Lana Reeves, Laurel Roth, Robin Seiler, Joan Tate, Steven Hilton Turrill, Virginia Watts, Constant Laval Williams, Yan Zhang

• The RHINO 2025 Push-Cart Prize Nominees are:

  • "Poland, 1987" by Christopher Stewart

  • “Good Book" by Casey Thayer

  • “Jacob Wrestles with the Angel" by Alex Bortell

  • The Divine Number Dyslexia, by Jaia Hamid Bashir

  • The Sheen in This, by DT Holt

  • Accessible Entrance, by Michael M. Weinstein

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