There's no SIR banner on the fall 25 cover...the image was just too dynamic to tinker with. The artist is Sean G. Clark. www.sgclarkart.com

Seems fitting book #13 would arrive on Halloween!!

The next Michael Waters Poetry Prize collection, Nicole Lachat's The Red We Silk, has been uploaded to the printer! The amazing cover artist is Benjamin Shine: www.benjaminshine.com The release date is February 23, 2026. Reviewers wanted!

Today's the day! Poetry reading with Ruth Awad and Natalie Louise Tombasco 4:30 pm USI Performance Center

Two Michael Waters Poetry Prize winners, Ruth Awad and Natalie Louise Tombasco, will be on campus one week from today...come join us!

Southern Indiana Review poetry editor, Rosalie Moffett, in The Adroit Journal spotlight! theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

The final spring 2025 Ruth Awad Poetry Pick is “Visitation” by Michael Waters: www.usi.edu/sir/ruth-awa...

The next spring 2025 Ruth Awad Poetry Pick is Randall James Tyrone's “Styx”: www.usi.edu/sir/ruth-awa...

Today's spring 2025 Ruth Awad Poetry Pick is “Needle” by Sappho Stanley: www.usi.edu/sir/ruth-awa...

The next spring 2025 Ruth Awad Poetry Pick is Diana Keren Lee's “Land of the Morning Calm”: www.usi.edu/sir/ruth-awa...

Today's spring 2025 Ruth Awad Poetry Pick is “Bakandamiya XVI” by Saddiq Dzukogi: www.usi.edu/sir/ruth-awa...

The next spring 2025 Ruth Awad Poetry Pick is Adam Clay's “A Photograph of a Grain of Salt”: www.usi.edu/sir/ruth-awa... @adamclay.bsky.social‬ Instagram: @tomakeroomforthesea

Today's spring 2025 Ruth Awad Poetry Pick is “Verge” by Lauren Camp: www.usi.edu/sir/ruth-awa... Instagram: @laurencamp

The next spring 2025 Ruth Awad Poetry Pick is Tommye Blount's “To wring out a trill—like the robed girls”: www.usi.edu/sir/ruth-awa... Instagram: @tommyeblount

Today's spring 2025 Ruth Awad Poetry Pick is “New Baroque Derangement” by Gabrielle Bates: www.usi.edu/sir/ruth-awa...

The first spring 2025 Ruth Awad Poetry Pick is Jada Renée Allen's “From The Homan Square Project”: www.usi.edu/sir/ruth-awa...

Southern Indiana Review spring 2025 Thirty-three Contributors Salute, Day 33: Stella Wong Stella Wong is the author of Stem; Spooks, winner of the Saturnalia Books Editors Prize; and American Zero, selected for the Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Prize. www.stella-wong.com Instagram: @stellayinwong

Douglas Kearney's “There’s no ‘sass’ in ‘dissociation.’” (fall 2024 issue) in the Poets.Poets.org spotlight! poets.org/poem/theres-...

Southern Indiana Review spring 2025 Thirty-three Contributors Salute, Day 32: Michael Waters Michael Waters has published fourteen books of poetry, most recently Sinnerman, Caw, and The Dean of Discipline. Pagan Sky: New & Selected Poems 2000-2025 is forthcoming in 2026. www.michael-waters.com

Southern Indiana Review spring 2025 Thirty-three Contributors Salute, Day 31: Randall James Tyrone Randall James Tyrone holds an MFA from the University of Wyoming. His forthcoming collection, City of Dis, will be released in fall 2025 by Texas Review Press. Instagram: @randalljamestyrone

Could there be a better visiting gig than to be in Memphis for a year with Emily Skaja and Marcus Wicker? Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing (Fiction) All applications will be managed through the University’s online application system, WorkForUM, available at workforum.memphis.edu

Southern Indiana Review spring 2025 Thirty-three Contributors Salute, Day 30: Ajibola Tolase Ajibola Tolase is a Nigerian poet and essayist. He is the author of 2000 Blacks, winner of the 2024 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and Florida Book Award in poetry. www.ajibolatolase.com Instagram: @jibo_jhybo

Southern Indiana Review spring 2025 Thirty-three Contributors Salute, Day 29: Alison Thumel Alison Thumel’s debut poetry collection, Architect, won the 2024 Miller Williams Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the 2025 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. www.alisonthumel.com Instagram: @al.thum

Southern Indiana Review spring 2025 Thirty-three Contributors Salute, Day 28: Sappho Stanley Sappho Stanley (They/She) is a trans Appalachian poet. You can find their work in or forthcoming from AGNI, Waxwing, and Mississippi Review, among others. Instagram: @sapphostanley

Southern Indiana Review spring 2025 Thirty-three Contributors Salute, Day 27: Karen Solie Karen Solie was born in Moose Jaw and grew up on the family farm in southwest Saskatchewan. Her sixth collection of poems, Wellwater, is forthcoming in the U.S. with Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Southern Indiana Review spring 2025 Thirty-three Contributors Salute, Day 26: Kathryn Savage Kathryn Savage is the author of Groundglass: An Essay. Her work has appeared in Ecotone, Guernica, Poets.org, and Virginia Quarterly Review. www.kathrynsavage.com Instagram: @kdsreads

Southern Indiana Review spring 2025 Thirty-three Contributors Salute, Day 25: David Petruzelli David Petruzelli has had stories and poems in Cloudbank, Crazyhorse, Hunger Mountain, The New Yorker, Pleiades, The Southern Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. He lives in New York City.

Southern Indiana Review spring 2025 Thirty-three Contributors Salute, Day 24: James Davis May James Davis May is the author of two poetry collections, most recently Unusually Grand Ideas. Originally from Pittsburgh, he now lives in Macon, Georgia. jamesdavismay.com Instagram: @jamesdavismay

Southern Indiana Review spring 2025 Thirty-three Contributors Salute, Day 23: Oksana Maksymchuk Oksana Maksymchuk's debut English-language poetry collection, Still City, is the 2024 Pitt Poetry Series selection. www.oksanamaksymchuk.com Instagram: @ok_maksymchuk X: @ok_maksymchuk

Southern Indiana Review spring 2025 Thirty-three Contributors Salute, Day 22: Alejandro Lucero Alejandro Lucero’s chapbook, Sapello Son (Bull City Press, 2024), was named the Editors’ Selection for the Frost Place Competition. alejandrolucero.com Instagram: @alejandrolucero505 X: @sapellosun

Southern Indiana Review spring 2025 Thirty-three Contributors Salute, Day 21: Diana Keren Lee Diana Keren Lee is the winner of a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. Her work has appeared in Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, Pleiades, and elsewhere. Instagram: @dearinklane

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Southern Indiana Review spring 2025 Thirty-three Contributors Salute, Day 20: Christopher Kondrich Christopher Kondrich is author of three books of poetry, including Tread Upon, forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press. www.christopherkondrich.com Instagram: @christopherkondrich X: @ChrisKondrich

Southern Indiana Review spring 2025 Thirty-three Contributors Salute, Day 19: Andrea Gregory Andrea Gregory’s fiction has appeared in The Sun, The Masters Review, and elsewhere. Her essays have been published by Arrowsmith Press and Salamander. She holds an MFA from the U of Massachusetts Boston.

Southern Indiana Review spring 2025 Thirty-three Contributors Salute, Day 18: Gemma Gené Gemma Gené is a visual artist from Barcelona, Spain, based in Los Angeles. She is also the award-winning creator of the popular online comic 157ofgemma. gemmagene.com Instagram: @gemma_gene; @157ofgemma

Southern Indiana Review spring 2025 Thirty-three Contributors Salute, Day 17: t’ai freedom ford t’ai freedom ford is the author of two poetry collections, how to get over from Red Hen Press and & more black from Augury Books. taifreedomford.com Instagram: @taifreedomford

Southern Indiana Review spring 2025 Thirty-three Contributors Salute, Day 16: Jalen Eutsey Jalen Eutsey is a writer from Miami, Florida, and a recipient of the Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford Univ. www.jaleneutsey.com @jaleneutsey.bsky.social Instagram: @jaleneutsey X: @jaleneutsey

We have a winner! Southern Indiana Review is pleased to announce that Monica Youn has selected Docenture: A Tale of Hue as Told by the Estate by Kirsten Kaschock for the 2025 Michael Waters Poetry Prize. www.kirstenkaschock.com

Southern Indiana Review spring 2025 Thirty-three Contributors Salute, Day 15: Saddiq Dzukogi Saddiq Dzukogi is a Nigerian poet based in the United States, where he is an assistant professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Instagram: @saddiqdzukogi X: @SaddiqDzukogi

Southern Indiana Review spring 2025 Thirty-three Contributors Salute, Day 14: Janine DeBaise Janine DeBaise’s creative nonfiction has been published in Orion Magazine, Southwest Review, Prairie Schooner, and numerous other literary journals. www.janinedebaise.com Instagram: @writingasjoe

Southern Indiana Review spring 2025 Thirty-three Contributors Salute, Day 12 + 1: Vincent Czyz Vincent Czyz is the author of a fiction collection, two novels, a novella, and an essay collection. His fiction has appeared in publications such as Shenandoah, AGNI, Tin House, and Georgetown Review.

Southern Indiana Review spring 2025 Thirty-three Contributors Salute, Day 12: Adam Clay Adam Clay’s latest book is Circle Back (Milkweed Editions, 2024). He directs the MFA program at Louisiana State University. adamclay.org @adamclay.bsky.social‬ Instagram: @tomakeroomforthesea

Southern Indiana Review spring 2025 Thirty-three Contributors Salute, Day 11: Alex Carolan Alex Carolan, a graduate of the MFA program in fiction at the University of New Hampshire, has work published and forthcoming in The Pinch and Cimarron Review. Instagram and X: @alxcrln

Southern Indiana Review spring 2025 Thirty-three Contributors Salute, Day 10: Kai Carlson-Wee Kai Carlson-Wee is the author of RAIL. He received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. kaicarlsonwee.com Instagram:@kaicarlsonwee

Southern Indiana Review spring 2025 Thirty-three Contributors Salute, Day 9: Lauren Camp Lauren Camp serves as New Mexico Poet Laureate. She is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently In Old Sky. www.laurencamp.com Instagram @laurencamp

Southern Indiana Review spring 2025 Thirty-three Contributors Salute, Day 8: John Bonanni John Bonanni’s poems have appeared in Gulf Coast, North American Review, The Florida Review, Cream City Review, Black Warrior Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Prairie Schooner. www.johnbonanni.com

Southern Indiana Review spring 2025 Thirty-three Contributors Salute, Day 7: Tommye Blount Tommye Blount is the author of the chapbook What Are We Not For and the full-length collection Fantasia for the Man in Blue. Instagram: @tommyeblount

Southern Indiana Review spring 2025 Thirty-three Contributors Salute, Day 6: Katie Berta Katie Berta’s debut poetry collection, retribution forthcoming, won the Hollis Summers Prize and was published by Ohio University Press in 2024. www.katieberta.com Instagram: @thisiskatieb

Southern Indiana Review spring 2025 Thirty-three Contributors Salute, Day 5: Rebecca Bernard Rebecca Bernard is the author of the story collection Our Sister Who Will Not Die. rebeccaibernard.com @ohheyrebecca.bsky.social Instagram: @ohheyrebecca