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SIR fall 2025 Thirty-four Contributors Salute, Day 15: Jasmine Khaliq
Jasmine Khaliq is the author of Somewhere Horses, winner of the Barrow Street Press Editor’s Prize, forthcoming April 2027. She is a PhD candidate at the University of Utah.
jasminekhaliq.com
Instagram: @jasminekhaliq
Jasmine Khaliq is the author of Somewhere Horses, winner of the Barrow Street Press Editor’s Prize, forthcoming April 2027. She is a PhD candidate at the University of Utah.
jasminekhaliq.com
Instagram: @jasminekhaliq
December 8, 2025 at 3:26 PM
SIR fall 2025 Thirty-four Contributors Salute, Day 15: Jasmine Khaliq
Jasmine Khaliq is the author of Somewhere Horses, winner of the Barrow Street Press Editor’s Prize, forthcoming April 2027. She is a PhD candidate at the University of Utah.
jasminekhaliq.com
Instagram: @jasminekhaliq
Jasmine Khaliq is the author of Somewhere Horses, winner of the Barrow Street Press Editor’s Prize, forthcoming April 2027. She is a PhD candidate at the University of Utah.
jasminekhaliq.com
Instagram: @jasminekhaliq
SIR fall 2025 Thirty-four Contributors Salute, Day 14: Mark Labowskie
Mark Labowskie is a Jones Lecturer Stanford University, where he was previously a Wallace Stegner Fellow. His stories have appeared in The Missouri Review, ZYZZYVA, and American Short Fiction.
Instagram: @thebiglabowskie
Mark Labowskie is a Jones Lecturer Stanford University, where he was previously a Wallace Stegner Fellow. His stories have appeared in The Missouri Review, ZYZZYVA, and American Short Fiction.
Instagram: @thebiglabowskie
December 5, 2025 at 3:57 PM
SIR fall 2025 Thirty-four Contributors Salute, Day 14: Mark Labowskie
Mark Labowskie is a Jones Lecturer Stanford University, where he was previously a Wallace Stegner Fellow. His stories have appeared in The Missouri Review, ZYZZYVA, and American Short Fiction.
Instagram: @thebiglabowskie
Mark Labowskie is a Jones Lecturer Stanford University, where he was previously a Wallace Stegner Fellow. His stories have appeared in The Missouri Review, ZYZZYVA, and American Short Fiction.
Instagram: @thebiglabowskie
Southern Indiana Review fall 2025 Thirty-four Contributors Salute, Day 12+1: Nicole Lachat
Nicole Lachat was born in Edmonton, Canada, to a Peruvian mother and Swiss father. Her first collection, The Red We Silk, won the 2024 Michael Waters Poetry Prize.
Instagram: @sincerelynicolas
Nicole Lachat was born in Edmonton, Canada, to a Peruvian mother and Swiss father. Her first collection, The Red We Silk, won the 2024 Michael Waters Poetry Prize.
Instagram: @sincerelynicolas
December 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Southern Indiana Review fall 2025 Thirty-four Contributors Salute, Day 12+1: Nicole Lachat
Nicole Lachat was born in Edmonton, Canada, to a Peruvian mother and Swiss father. Her first collection, The Red We Silk, won the 2024 Michael Waters Poetry Prize.
Instagram: @sincerelynicolas
Nicole Lachat was born in Edmonton, Canada, to a Peruvian mother and Swiss father. Her first collection, The Red We Silk, won the 2024 Michael Waters Poetry Prize.
Instagram: @sincerelynicolas
SIR fall 2025 Thirty-four Contributors Salute, Day 12: Nate Marshall
Nate Marshall is an award-winning author and editor from the South Side of Chicago. His most recent book, Finna, was recognized as one of the best books of 2020 by NPR and The New York Public Library.
Instagram: @illuminatemics
Nate Marshall is an award-winning author and editor from the South Side of Chicago. His most recent book, Finna, was recognized as one of the best books of 2020 by NPR and The New York Public Library.
Instagram: @illuminatemics
December 3, 2025 at 3:27 PM
SIR fall 2025 Thirty-four Contributors Salute, Day 12: Nate Marshall
Nate Marshall is an award-winning author and editor from the South Side of Chicago. His most recent book, Finna, was recognized as one of the best books of 2020 by NPR and The New York Public Library.
Instagram: @illuminatemics
Nate Marshall is an award-winning author and editor from the South Side of Chicago. His most recent book, Finna, was recognized as one of the best books of 2020 by NPR and The New York Public Library.
Instagram: @illuminatemics
SIR fall 2025 Thirty-four Contributors Salute, Day 11: Matthew Minicucci
Matthew Minicucci is author of four collections of poems including his most recent, Dual. He is an assistant professor at the University of Alabama.
matthewminicucci.com
Instagram: @MattMinicucci
Threads: @MattMinicucci
Matthew Minicucci is author of four collections of poems including his most recent, Dual. He is an assistant professor at the University of Alabama.
matthewminicucci.com
Instagram: @MattMinicucci
Threads: @MattMinicucci
December 2, 2025 at 4:06 PM
SIR fall 2025 Thirty-four Contributors Salute, Day 11: Matthew Minicucci
Matthew Minicucci is author of four collections of poems including his most recent, Dual. He is an assistant professor at the University of Alabama.
matthewminicucci.com
Instagram: @MattMinicucci
Threads: @MattMinicucci
Matthew Minicucci is author of four collections of poems including his most recent, Dual. He is an assistant professor at the University of Alabama.
matthewminicucci.com
Instagram: @MattMinicucci
Threads: @MattMinicucci
The 2026 Michael Waters Poetry Prize is live!
Prize: $6000
Deadline: February 2, 2026
Final judge: Carl Phillips
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Prize: $6000
Deadline: February 2, 2026
Final judge: Carl Phillips
www.usi.edu/sir/michael-...
Michael Waters Poetry Prize - University of Southern Indiana
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December 1, 2025 at 5:47 PM
The 2026 Michael Waters Poetry Prize is live!
Prize: $6000
Deadline: February 2, 2026
Final judge: Carl Phillips
www.usi.edu/sir/michael-...
Prize: $6000
Deadline: February 2, 2026
Final judge: Carl Phillips
www.usi.edu/sir/michael-...
SIR fall 2025 Thirty-four Contributors Salute, Day 10: Jenny Molberg
Jenny Molberg’s third poetry collection, The Court of No Record, was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist. She is editor-in-chief of Ploughshares at Emerson College.
www.jennymolberg.com
Instagram: @_jennysue_
Jenny Molberg’s third poetry collection, The Court of No Record, was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist. She is editor-in-chief of Ploughshares at Emerson College.
www.jennymolberg.com
Instagram: @_jennysue_
December 1, 2025 at 3:15 PM
SIR fall 2025 Thirty-four Contributors Salute, Day 10: Jenny Molberg
Jenny Molberg’s third poetry collection, The Court of No Record, was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist. She is editor-in-chief of Ploughshares at Emerson College.
www.jennymolberg.com
Instagram: @_jennysue_
Jenny Molberg’s third poetry collection, The Court of No Record, was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist. She is editor-in-chief of Ploughshares at Emerson College.
www.jennymolberg.com
Instagram: @_jennysue_
SIR fall 2025 Thirty-four Contributors Salute, Day 9: Mihaela Moscaliuc
Mihaela Moscaliuc is author of the collections Heartmoor (Alice James, 2026), Cemetery Ink, Immigrant Model, and Father Dirt. She is a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow.
www.mmoscaliuc.com
Instagram: @mdmoscaliuc
Mihaela Moscaliuc is author of the collections Heartmoor (Alice James, 2026), Cemetery Ink, Immigrant Model, and Father Dirt. She is a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow.
www.mmoscaliuc.com
Instagram: @mdmoscaliuc
November 30, 2025 at 9:20 PM
SIR fall 2025 Thirty-four Contributors Salute, Day 9: Mihaela Moscaliuc
Mihaela Moscaliuc is author of the collections Heartmoor (Alice James, 2026), Cemetery Ink, Immigrant Model, and Father Dirt. She is a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow.
www.mmoscaliuc.com
Instagram: @mdmoscaliuc
Mihaela Moscaliuc is author of the collections Heartmoor (Alice James, 2026), Cemetery Ink, Immigrant Model, and Father Dirt. She is a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow.
www.mmoscaliuc.com
Instagram: @mdmoscaliuc
SIR fall 2025 Thirty-four Contributors Salute, Day 8: Will Musgrove
Will Musgrove's work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Florida Review, Pinch, Wigleaf, The Cincinnati Review, Passages North, and Tampa Review.
www.williammusgrove.com
@willmusgrove.bsky.social
Twitter: @Will_Musgrove
Will Musgrove's work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Florida Review, Pinch, Wigleaf, The Cincinnati Review, Passages North, and Tampa Review.
www.williammusgrove.com
@willmusgrove.bsky.social
Twitter: @Will_Musgrove
November 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
SIR fall 2025 Thirty-four Contributors Salute, Day 8: Will Musgrove
Will Musgrove's work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Florida Review, Pinch, Wigleaf, The Cincinnati Review, Passages North, and Tampa Review.
www.williammusgrove.com
@willmusgrove.bsky.social
Twitter: @Will_Musgrove
Will Musgrove's work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Florida Review, Pinch, Wigleaf, The Cincinnati Review, Passages North, and Tampa Review.
www.williammusgrove.com
@willmusgrove.bsky.social
Twitter: @Will_Musgrove
SIR fall 2025 Thirty-four Contributors Salute, Day 7: Matthew Olzmann
Matthew Olzmann is the author of Constellation Route as well as two previous collections of poetry: Mezzanines and Contradictions in the Design.
matthewolzmann.com
Instagram: @matthewolzmann
Matthew Olzmann is the author of Constellation Route as well as two previous collections of poetry: Mezzanines and Contradictions in the Design.
matthewolzmann.com
Instagram: @matthewolzmann
November 28, 2025 at 6:46 PM
SIR fall 2025 Thirty-four Contributors Salute, Day 7: Matthew Olzmann
Matthew Olzmann is the author of Constellation Route as well as two previous collections of poetry: Mezzanines and Contradictions in the Design.
matthewolzmann.com
Instagram: @matthewolzmann
Matthew Olzmann is the author of Constellation Route as well as two previous collections of poetry: Mezzanines and Contradictions in the Design.
matthewolzmann.com
Instagram: @matthewolzmann
SIR fall 2025 Thirty-four Contributors Salute, Day 6: Joy Priest
Joy Priest is the author of Horsepower, winner of the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, and the editor of Once a City Said: A Louisville Poets Anthology.
www.joypriest.com
Instagram: @dalai_mama
Threads: @dalai_mama
X: @dalai_mama_
Joy Priest is the author of Horsepower, winner of the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, and the editor of Once a City Said: A Louisville Poets Anthology.
www.joypriest.com
Instagram: @dalai_mama
Threads: @dalai_mama
X: @dalai_mama_
November 26, 2025 at 4:14 PM
SIR fall 2025 Thirty-four Contributors Salute, Day 6: Joy Priest
Joy Priest is the author of Horsepower, winner of the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, and the editor of Once a City Said: A Louisville Poets Anthology.
www.joypriest.com
Instagram: @dalai_mama
Threads: @dalai_mama
X: @dalai_mama_
Joy Priest is the author of Horsepower, winner of the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, and the editor of Once a City Said: A Louisville Poets Anthology.
www.joypriest.com
Instagram: @dalai_mama
Threads: @dalai_mama
X: @dalai_mama_
SIR fall 2025 Thirty-four Contributors Salute, Day 5: Kate Pyontek
Kate Pyontek lives and works outside of Boston, MA. Kate's work is published or forthcoming in Ecotone, Consequence, Another Chicago Magazine, Pithead Chapel, and Mississippi Review.
www.katepyontek.com
Instagram: @katepyontek
Kate Pyontek lives and works outside of Boston, MA. Kate's work is published or forthcoming in Ecotone, Consequence, Another Chicago Magazine, Pithead Chapel, and Mississippi Review.
www.katepyontek.com
Instagram: @katepyontek
November 25, 2025 at 4:25 PM
SIR fall 2025 Thirty-four Contributors Salute, Day 5: Kate Pyontek
Kate Pyontek lives and works outside of Boston, MA. Kate's work is published or forthcoming in Ecotone, Consequence, Another Chicago Magazine, Pithead Chapel, and Mississippi Review.
www.katepyontek.com
Instagram: @katepyontek
Kate Pyontek lives and works outside of Boston, MA. Kate's work is published or forthcoming in Ecotone, Consequence, Another Chicago Magazine, Pithead Chapel, and Mississippi Review.
www.katepyontek.com
Instagram: @katepyontek
SIR fall 2025 Thirty-four Contributors Salute, Day 4: Andrea Sielicki
Andrea Sielicki holds an MFA from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her fiction has been published in No Tokens. She is currently at work on a novel.
www.andreasielicki.com
Instagram: @andrea_sielicki
Andrea Sielicki holds an MFA from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her fiction has been published in No Tokens. She is currently at work on a novel.
www.andreasielicki.com
Instagram: @andrea_sielicki
November 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
SIR fall 2025 Thirty-four Contributors Salute, Day 4: Andrea Sielicki
Andrea Sielicki holds an MFA from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her fiction has been published in No Tokens. She is currently at work on a novel.
www.andreasielicki.com
Instagram: @andrea_sielicki
Andrea Sielicki holds an MFA from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her fiction has been published in No Tokens. She is currently at work on a novel.
www.andreasielicki.com
Instagram: @andrea_sielicki
SIR fall 2025 Thirty-four Contributors Salute, Day 3: Emily Skaja
Emily Skaja is the author of BRUTE, winner of the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. Her poems appear in American Poetry Review, The Nation, and New York Times Magazine.
emilyskaja.net
Instagram: @ohtheinertia
Emily Skaja is the author of BRUTE, winner of the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. Her poems appear in American Poetry Review, The Nation, and New York Times Magazine.
emilyskaja.net
Instagram: @ohtheinertia
November 21, 2025 at 3:26 PM
SIR fall 2025 Thirty-four Contributors Salute, Day 3: Emily Skaja
Emily Skaja is the author of BRUTE, winner of the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. Her poems appear in American Poetry Review, The Nation, and New York Times Magazine.
emilyskaja.net
Instagram: @ohtheinertia
Emily Skaja is the author of BRUTE, winner of the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. Her poems appear in American Poetry Review, The Nation, and New York Times Magazine.
emilyskaja.net
Instagram: @ohtheinertia
SIR fall 2025 Thirty-four Contributors Salute, Day 2: Melanie Tafejian
Melanie Tafejian is from the Pacific Northwest. Her work appears in The Georgia Review, POETRY, Poetry Northwest, and The Los Angeles Review.
www.melanietafejian.com
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Instagram: @melanierosetaf
Melanie Tafejian is from the Pacific Northwest. Her work appears in The Georgia Review, POETRY, Poetry Northwest, and The Los Angeles Review.
www.melanietafejian.com
melanietafejian.substack.com
Instagram: @melanierosetaf
November 20, 2025 at 4:25 PM
SIR fall 2025 Thirty-four Contributors Salute, Day 2: Melanie Tafejian
Melanie Tafejian is from the Pacific Northwest. Her work appears in The Georgia Review, POETRY, Poetry Northwest, and The Los Angeles Review.
www.melanietafejian.com
melanietafejian.substack.com
Instagram: @melanierosetaf
Melanie Tafejian is from the Pacific Northwest. Her work appears in The Georgia Review, POETRY, Poetry Northwest, and The Los Angeles Review.
www.melanietafejian.com
melanietafejian.substack.com
Instagram: @melanierosetaf
Southern Indiana Review fall 2025 Thirty-four Contributors Salute, Day 1: Angela Townsend
Angela Townsend is the 2024 winner of West Trade Review’s 704 Prize for Flash Fiction. Her work appears in Arts & Letters, Indiana Review, and Pleiades.
Instagram: @fullyalivebythegrace
X: @TheWakingTulip
Angela Townsend is the 2024 winner of West Trade Review’s 704 Prize for Flash Fiction. Her work appears in Arts & Letters, Indiana Review, and Pleiades.
Instagram: @fullyalivebythegrace
X: @TheWakingTulip
November 19, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Southern Indiana Review fall 2025 Thirty-four Contributors Salute, Day 1: Angela Townsend
Angela Townsend is the 2024 winner of West Trade Review’s 704 Prize for Flash Fiction. Her work appears in Arts & Letters, Indiana Review, and Pleiades.
Instagram: @fullyalivebythegrace
X: @TheWakingTulip
Angela Townsend is the 2024 winner of West Trade Review’s 704 Prize for Flash Fiction. Her work appears in Arts & Letters, Indiana Review, and Pleiades.
Instagram: @fullyalivebythegrace
X: @TheWakingTulip
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
www.sgclarkart.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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
www.sgclarkart.com
Seems fitting book #13 would arrive on Halloween!!
October 31, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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!
The release date is February 23, 2026. Reviewers wanted!
October 8, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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!
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
Poetry reading with Ruth Awad and Natalie Louise Tombasco
4:30 pm
USI Performance Center
September 23, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Today's the day!
Poetry reading with Ruth Awad and Natalie Louise Tombasco
4:30 pm
USI Performance Center
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!
September 16, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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!
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A Conversation with Rosalie Moffett
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August 14, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Southern Indiana Review poetry editor, Rosalie Moffett, in The Adroit Journal spotlight!
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theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...
The final spring 2025 Ruth Awad Poetry Pick is “Visitation” by Michael Waters:
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August 8, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The final spring 2025 Ruth Awad Poetry Pick is “Visitation” by Michael Waters:
www.usi.edu/sir/ruth-awa...
www.usi.edu/sir/ruth-awa...