pop-up live lit event series, and monthly RHINO Reviews online, as well as internships, fellowships, and awards.
[1] In its yearly print journal, it features works from emerging and established English-language poets, flash fiction/creative nonfiction, and poetry in translation.
Editors as of 2024 are Virginia Bell, Jan Bottiglieri, Angela Narciso Torres, Ann Hudson, John McCarthy, and Naoko Fujimoto.
There are also associate editors, editorial assistants, Helen Degen Cohen Summer Reading Fellows, and interns.
Since its founding in 1976, RHINO editors have included Lisel Mueller, Martha Vertreace, Jackie White, Mary Biddinger, Chris Green, Jacob Saenz, Kenyatta Rogers, YZ Chin, and Sarah Carson, and more.
The editors of RHINO – Virginia Bell, Jan Bottiglieri, and Angela Narciso Torres – were featured in New City as part of 2022’s Lit 50: Who Really Books in Chicago.
In 2006, Billy Collins selected Daniel Gutstein's "Monsieur Pierre Est Mort" from Rhino 2005 for The Best American Poetry 2006.
A reading series made up of pop-up events with featured poets and open mics either online or in person in the Chicago area.