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Shō Poetry Journal

Established in 2002, revived in 2023

Cover Art

Past Looking by Nara Allsop

SHŌ NO. 9 (SUMMER 2026)

“Past Looking” by Nara Allsop, 2026. 11″ x 14″, mixed media.

Read here: The poem that inspired the cover art and the Artist Statement

"Hopi Leia" relief print by Hopi artist Sikuyva Dawavendewa

SHŌ NO. 8 (WINTER 2025/2026)

“Hopi Leia” by Sikuyva Dawavendewa. 11″ x 14″, relief print.

A girl in a long white dress and a bird head mask sits on a bough under a full moon in a night forest landscape. Her hands are folded in her lap and her feet can't be seen. Text says: Shō Poetry Journal No. 7 Summer 2025.

SHŌ NO. 7 (SUMMER 2025)

“Interim” by Tanya Rastogi. 20″ x 20″, acrylic on canvas.

SHŌ NO. 6 (WINTER 2024/2025)

“In Gilded Walls” by Tanya Rastogi. 8″ x 24″, acrylic on canvas.

Graphic modeled after the Star Tarot card shows a pink and beige female hominin kneeling at a pond, pouring water from terracotta-colored jugs onto land and into the pond. Seven small off-white hummingbird-shaped stars and one large star are pictured against a dark sky with a coconut tree in the corner. The earth is lush green and brown.

SHŌ NO. 5 (SUMMER 2024)

“Lucy” by Harim Choi. Digital painting.

Illustration of girl wearing a large deer head mask with antlers. She is clothed in a dark blue tshirt and pants and stands in a high desert landscape, holding plastic flowers. A ghostly girl’s head is placed beside her in the grass.

SHŌ NO. 4 (WINTER 2023/24)

“Girl with Deer Mask” by Harim Choi.

SHŌ NO. 3: REVIVAL ISSUE (SUMMER 2023)

“Grandfather Autumn” by Juanita Violini.