Slipstream's poetry is often described as "gritty, urban, and surreal." We seek writers with unique and original voices who use powerful imagery and aren't afraid to tackle unusual or uncomfortable themes.
Slipstream #45 - Strange Days theme issue
80 pages | $15.00 | 2025
Featured in this issue:
Poetry by: Richard Schiffman, Stone Scryer, Kelly Talbot, John Dorsey, Mehrul Bari, Ed Gaudet, Sonja Vitow, James K. Zimmerman, Kenton K. Yee, Natalie Eckl, Sara Barnett, Robert Cooperman, Jonathan Travelstead, Stark Hunter, Jon Bennett, Matthew J. Spireng, KG Newman, Alison Stone, Rachel Guvenc, Kelli Rule, Lenny DellaRocca, Kathleen Helen, Mary Anne Griffiths, Alan Catlin, John Cullen, Gunilla T. Kester, Robert L. Penick, Jason Ryberg, Keith Gorman, Mather Schneider, Pepper Trail, Kurt Cole Eidsvig, Verena Raban, Adriana Stimola, David Chorlton, Troy Schoultz, Maureen Clark, Colleen M. Salisbury, Bruce Whitacre, Claire Scott, Jennifer Campbell, Robert Perchan, Richard Weaver, Stephan Gibson, Charles Elin, Rebecca Coles, Donna Davis, Michael Catherwood, Michelle Lynch, Darren C. Demaree, Cecil Sayre, Charles Rammelkamp, Liz Mariani, Kelly Arnold, Millicent Borges Accardi, Geo. Staley, Donald L. Pasmore, Richard O'Brien, Ed Taylor, C. John Graham, Livio Farallo, James B. Nicola, Fred Pelka, Harrison Fisher, and Chris Bullard. Artwork by Tonya Young and Jonathan Borthwick.
Front Cover: by Robert Borgatti
Back Cover: by Mateo Omar
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Pandemonium by Lenny DellaRocca
2025 Slipstream Chapbook Contest Winner
$15.00
With tangible devotion to real people in surreal contexts, Lenny DellaRocca's poems invoke not so much the liquid logic of dreams as much as the startling clarity of waking before opening our eyes. This confidential diction reveals real life without the guardrails of logic. Every poem here is one you have never read before, every time you read them.
—Richard Ryal, author of Writer, Editor, Educator
Lenny DellaRocca is a self-taught poet, founding editor and publisher of South Florida Poetry Journal—SoFloPoJo, and co-editor of Chameleon Chimera, An Anthology of Florida Poets. He has new work in Tupelo Quarterly, Rattle, Denver Quarterly, Cimarron Review, DMQ and forthcoming in I-70 Review. Over the years, his work has appeared in Slipstream, Nimrod, Seattle Review, Sundog, Wisconsin Review, Gulf Stream, Poet Lore and other journals. His collections include Festival of Dangerous Ideas, Things I See in the Fire (winner, Yellowjacket Chapbook contest), and One Hundred Moving Parts of Love, (2River Press online chapbook).
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