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Shō Poetry Journal

Established in 2002, revived in 2023

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Shō Poetry Journal is a nonprofit print journal emerging from a 20-year hibernation. We publish an eclectic range of poetry twice a year and publish audio features on a rolling basis. We strive to champion voices that have been historically underrepresented or overlooked. Browse a list of our contributors and follow us on Instagram for updates.

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"Hopi Leia" relief print by Hopi artist Sikuyva Dawavendewa

CURRENT ISSUE

Shō No. 8

winter 2025/2026

This issue features 72 poems by 48 poets: Sean Cho A. • Hiwot Adilow • Elisa Luna Ady • courtney alyce • Seth Amos • Jack B. Bedell • Shlagha Borah • Apollo Chastain • Lyn Li Che • Chen Chen • Stephanie Choi • Lindsay D’Andrea • Loisa Fenichell • Cheyenne C. Fletcher • Reuben Gelley Newman • Carlos Andrés Gómez • Iain Grinbergs • Shira Leah Haus • Sarah Jordan • Joan Naviyuk Kane • Aiman Tahir Khan • Sophie Klahr • Whitney Koo • Giljoon Lee • Elizabeth Loudon • Betsy Mitchell Martinez • Rebecca Morton • Lisa Mottolo • James O’Leary • Mollie O’Leary • william o’neal ii • Konstantinos Patrinos • Ngoc Pham • Jessica Nirvana Ram • Jemma Leigh Roe • Adrie Rose • Rukan Saif • SM Stubbs • Virgil Suárez • Will Summay • Tiezst “Tie” Taylor • Tianyi • Reed Turchi • Margaret Wack • Joey Wańczyk • Gwenyth Wheat • Ross White • Yan Zhang

Cover art: “Hopi Leia” by Sikuyva Dawavendewa.

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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.

PREVIOUS ISSUE

Shō No. 7

SUMMER 2025

This issue features 67 poems by 48 poets: Amber Adams • Emily Adams-Aucoin • Hannah Keziah Agustin • Ai Khanoum • Aldo Amparán • sterling-elizabeth arcadia • Michael Bazzett • Jared Beloff • Aaron Caycedo-Kimura • M. Cynthia Cheung • Christian J. Collier • Will Cordeiro • Crystal Cox • Sean Thomas Dougherty • Bobby Elliott • Danielle Shandiin Emerson • Clare Flanagan • Matthew Gellman • Kelly Gray • Saúl Hernández • Sara Hovda • Amorak Huey • Olivia Jacobson • Vasvi Kejriwal • Daniel Lurie • Jenna Martínez • Malia Maxwell • Rishona Michael • Tim Moder • Asheley Nova Navarro • Ohia, Ernest Chigaemezu • Kunjana Parashar • Paige Passantino • Nina C. Peláez • Sofia Rasic • Remi Recchia • Mallory Rodenberg • Brooke Sahni • Joan Jobe Smith • February Spikener • Jessica Q. Stark • Claire Taylor • J.K. Tsosie • Matthew Tuckner • Han VanderHart • Fred Voss • Nicholas Yingling • Aleks Zywicki

Cover art: “Interim” by Tanya Rastogi.

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Online Features

  • Apr 29, 2026

    Mental Health Awareness Month Playlist

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    Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month Playlist 2026

  • Apr 29, 2026

    Jewish American Heritage Month Playlist 2026

  • Apr 21, 2026

    Audio Feature: Susanna Lang

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Past Issues

Shō No. 6

Winter 2024/2025

Shō No. 6 features 57 poems by 40 poets.

Cover art: “In Gilded Walls” by Tanya Rastogi.

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Shō No. 5

Summer 2024

Shō No. 5 features 68 poems by 47 poets.

Cover art: “Lucy” by Harim Choi.

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Shō No. 4

Winter 2023/2024

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 features 73 poems by 47 poets.

Cover art: “Girl with Deer Mask” by Harim Choi.

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Shō No. 3

Summer/Fall 2023

Shō No. 3 features 62 poems by 42 poets.

Cover art: “Grandfather Autumn” by Juanita Violini.

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Listen to Mallory Rodenberg read “Meditation on St Listen to Mallory Rodenberg read “Meditation on Static,” published in Shō No. 7 and in our #mentalhealthawarenessmonth playlist.

Mallory Rodenberg’s poems have recently appeared in The Missouri Review, Shō Poetry Journal, and The Swannanoa Review. She was a 2025 artist-in-residence for the Robert Lee Blaffer Foundation, and the recipient of the 2023 Levis Prize in poetry from Friends of Writers. She lives in Southern Indiana.
Listen to Rishona Michael read “Soon To Be a Cow“— Listen to Rishona Michael read “Soon To Be a Cow“—from Shō No. 7 and our #aapiheritagemonth playlist.

About this Poem: I started writing about an image of ants devouring my summer days, a few years ago. It has been an image that came back summer after summer, but in different ways. However, I could never work the image into a poem. Until one day in Mexico, my love and I watched a bunch of ants carry a huge bettle up a pillar. I was experiencing my first ever prolonged breakup that vacation. So I had been craving to make the trip last forever, while also wanting to leave the pain immediately. When I returned back to the image of ants in my writing, somehow this poem came about. Including moments I had cherished alongside time and perhaps hindsight, and this importance of returning to the self. 

Rishona Michael is a Brooklyn based poet. A graduate of the Sarah Lawrence College MFA’s program where she won an Academy of American Poets University Prize, her work has appeared or is forthcoming from No, Dear, Shō Poetry Journal, Poets.org, Black Warrior Review, Prairie Schooner, and more. She has received support from Sundress Academy for the Arts, reads for Pigeon Pages, and teaches poetry courses through GrubStreet. In 2025 she became the Poetry Coalition Fellow for Kundiman.
“I’ve never told anyone, but I found my dead mothe “I’ve never told anyone, but I found my dead mother’s nudes...”

Listen to Daniel Lurie read “Luck of the Draw” from Shō No. 7.

Daniel Lurie is a Jewish, rural writer, from eastern Montana. He holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of Idaho. Daniel is co-editor of Outskirts Literary Journal, and his work has appeared or is forthcoming in swamp pink, Poetry Northwest, Gulf Coast, Pleiades, and others. He recently won the 2026 Mississippi Review Prize and phoebe’s 2026 Greg Grummer Poetry Contest awarded by Diane Seuss. He served as the 2025-2026 Ronald Wallace Poetry Fellow at UW-Madison and is a 2026-2028 Wallace Stegner Fellow. Find him at danielluriepoetry.com.
The next offering on our playlist for #mentalhealt The next offering on our playlist for #mentalhealthawarenessmonth is “Of Course I Tried” by Sophie Johnson, from Shō No. 5.

Sophie Johnson is a poet who once lived in Seattle with her kitten where she completed an MFA program. Her work appears occasionally.
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Publishing Stats

Since our revival issue was published in Summer 2023:

375

Poems Published

269

Total Poets Published

131

Audio Features Published

61

Prize Nominations

5

Poems chosen for inclusion in anthologies

Shō Poetry Journal


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