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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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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

  • Sep 14, 2025

    Hispanic Heritage Month Playlist 2025

  • Sep 4, 2025

    Samodh Porawagamage — Two postcard poems from To Punani Camp

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    Nicholas Pierce — Two Sonnets from Pierce Junction

  • Jul 25, 2025

    Audio Feature: Jo Bear

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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 Susanna Lang read her poem “If I could p Listen to Susanna Lang read her poem “If I could pray anywhere,” published in Shō No. 6 (Winter 2024/2025), nominated for Best Spiritual Literature.

About this Poem: I spend part of each year in southern France, which has recently experienced severe multi-year droughts. In the spring of 2024, I was still recovering from a serious illness as we returned to France, where healing rains had brought water back into the rivers and springs, including in the small village of Collias near Uzès, where we live. The walk up to the ancient hermitage is particularly beautiful, and never more so than that spring. It was the first time we’d seen water falling down the rock face and nourishing a stream that had been a dry rocky bed. The chapel to Our Lady of Laval was built in the 12th century on the site of earlier temples to Jupiter, Aramon and Kolias, goddess of springs; there has been human habitation there for thousands of years. People still bring flowers to lay on the altar, and photos of those they’ve lost or fear losing. Though I have never been a person of faith, even I can feel the presence of older, deeper forces in this place, as I’d felt the loving support of whose who prayed for me through my illness though I cannot pray for myself.

Susanna Lang divides her time between Chicago and Uzès, France. She was the 2024 winner of the Marvin Bell Memorial Poetry Prize from December Magazine, and her most recent chapbook, Like This, was released in 2023 (Unsolicited Books), along with her translations of poems by Souad Labbize, My Soul Has No Corners (Diálogos Books). A new collection of Souad Labbize’s poems, Unfasten the Silk of Your Silence, is now available from Éditions des Lisières, and her translation of My Forests by Hélène Dorion is forthcoming from Book*Hug Press. Her fourth full-length collection of poems, This Spangled Dark, is forthcoming from Cornerstone Press. Her poems, translations and reviews have appeared in The Common, Asymptote, Tupelo Quarterly, American Life in Poetry, RHINO Reviews, Mayday, The Slowdown, and elsewhere. Her translations of poetry by Yves Bonnefoy include Words in Stone and The Origin of Language. More: www.susannalang.com.

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Listen to MJ Gomez reads “Litany in Which I Am Tir Listen to MJ Gomez reads “Litany in Which I Am Tired of Waiting for Judgment Day" from Shō No. 6 (Winter 2024/25).

MJ Gomez is a Filipino poet. He is the author of Love Letters from a Burning Planet (Variant Literature, 2023). His poems are featured in Frontier Poetry, the Dawn Review, Anti-Heroin Chic, and others. You can find him on Twitter: bluejayverses
Meet the Team: Shō Poetry Journal Edition 1: John Meet the Team: Shō Poetry Journal Edition

1: Johnny Cordova, Editor
2: Dominique Ahkong, Editor & Designer
3: Claire Zhou, Junior Editor
We’ve made our selections for Shō No. 9! @domkeyko We’ve made our selections for Shō No. 9! @domkeykong has begun laying out poems. In a few weeks, the team will come together to discuss our editors’ prizes. Sequencing and proofs will follow.
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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

59

Poems Nominated for Prizes

5

Poems chosen for inclusion in anthologies

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