[2] According to its official website, the journal has gained an international reputation and also conducts the Spoon River Poetry Review Editor's Prize and the Spoon River Poetry Association Poets-in-the-Schools Program.
[3] SRPR identifies itself as "one of the nation's oldest continuously published literary journals".
[1][4] The journal became biannual in 1990,[1] and changed its name to Spoon River Poetry Review in 1993.
[1][3] Getsi retired in 2006, passing the editorship to Bruce Guernsey, Distinguished Professor Emeritus from Eastern Illinois University.
In 2010, the operation returned to Illinois State University, this time with Kirstin Hotelling Zona, an Associate Professor of English, as editor; under her, SRPR added an interview with each issue's featured poet, as well a review essay.