Sweet 16 Anniversary Issue

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Something New

Starting in 2026, Sugar House Review will move to a slightly different subscription model. We will still publish two issues a year with one issue being more traditional lit mag content, while the other will be a chapbook from our expanding Microdose series. This coming spring will be Rob Carney’s chapbook of writing exercises and accompanying poems (excerpt available in the Sweet 16 issue).

LET US WHISPER SWEET SOMETHINGS IN YOUR EAR.
Sneak Some Sounds from Sugar.

Suphil Lee Park reads "Here Are Some Flowers" from the Sweet 16 issue and one of our 2025 Pushcart Prize nominations.

More Sounds of Sugar

SAMPLES FROM OUR SWEET 16

from "As Long as I See"
by Lauren Camp

Time widens along west.

Before this, I would have to poke silence—

expecting much to be the only value.

I am looking at the valley because that is what there is

from "Boogie Pig"
by Marcie Rae Henry

go on ask anything : Gemini

prompted me

what’s your purpose? i asked

expecting : what’s yours?

it answered : i am learning as i go

from "Want at the Transfer Station"
by Sean Hill

And once a friend said you sound like you’re singing a question;

he heard a rising call that I didn’t, and if it was, it would

have been uptalking seeking agreement, right? Since, what

question would you have? Aside from those questions of life—

from "The Sawdust Covenant"
by Harrison Hamm

It was a Dollywood disco / dizzying splinter

Hot goss and all that

Can you believe how much a liver costs these days?

You were a buzzcut / buzzsaw / beeswax

Xerox of a moon drinking moonshine

We were knocking them back like cowboys / outlaws

ABOUT SUGAR

Sugar House Review is an independent, 501(c)(3) nonprofit poetry publisher based out of Utah. Our mission is to promote an eclectic range of poets through publishing and live events to build nationally connected literary communities and foster the literary arts in Utah. We are excited to be some of the first people to see your work and to help the best of that work become available to a larger audience.

Sugar was founded in 2009 by John Kippen, Nano Taggart, Jerry VanIeperen, and Natalie Young. At the time, it was the only independent, print poetry journal in Utah. Our name is based on both our location and desire to publish sticky, heart-racing, sweet, sweet addictive poetry. Sugar House is a neighborhood within Salt Lake City, named after the sugar beet factory of the Deseret Manufacturing Company (1851–1855).

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