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Dear Readers, Speckled Trout Review’s Fall 2020 (2.2) publication is a print issue on the theme of crisis. Poets in this collection wrestle with global and personal crises, all the while challenging readers to examine the subject through different lenses. At the top of the STR homepage, readers will see “Fall 2020 (2.2),” which featuresContinue reading “Fall 2020 (2.2) Crisis Issue”

Speckled Trout Review is an independent literary magazine published, at this time, in an electronic format. We like good storytelling in poems metaphorically rich and ripe with imagery, poems in which every word counts, poems that look like poems. Good rhythm is nice, too. However, abstract is not our thing; neither is overt political stuff.Continue reading “About Us”

Calling all poets! *Speckled Trout Review is planning a special print issue for the fall on the theme of CRISIS.In a lifetime we experience crises of the heart, the mind, and the body, as well as global crises–the present COVID-19 pandemic, racial unrest and social injustices, and natural catastrophes that leave indelible impressions. We wantContinue reading “Submission Guidelines”