Best New Poets
2025 — Elizabeth Loudon, “Renunciation” (No. 8), forthcoming
Best Spiritual Literature
(Formerly The Orison Anthology)
2025 – Mollie O’Leary, “Late Summer Study” (No. 4)
2024 — Cooper Young, “Behind the Buddha” (No. 3)
Verse Daily
April 2, 2025 — “Ayat” by M.J. Gomez (No. 6)
March 2, 2025 — “Wanting Kids” by Bunkong Tuon (No. 6)
March 1, 2025 — “After the Gulls” by Jo Bear (No. 6)
February 28, 2025 — “The Starlings Were You” by Robert Okaji (No. 6)
November 10, 2024 – “When We Invented Gunpowder, We Were Trying to Invent the Elixir of Life” by Dorsey Craft (No. 5)
November 9, 2024 – “Snow, Almost, Nearly” by Susan L. Leary (No. 5)
November 6, 2024 — “Midwestern Reunion” by Em Townsend (No. 5)
October 28, 2024 — “It’s Important I Remember That Being Alone and Being Lonely Aren’t the Same Thing—” by Cortney Lamar Charleston (No. 5)
October 25, 2024 — “Little League, America” by Jose Hernandez Diaz (No. 5)
March 17, 2024 — “How to Cook a Wolf” by Nathan Xavier Osorio (No. 4)
March 15, 2024: “How to Eat Like a King” by Jane Zwart (No. 4)
March 11, 2024: “Deer Woman” by Sage Ravenwood (No. 4)
March 7, 2024: “Caretaker” by Faith Gómez Clark (No. 4)
May 2, 2024 — “Letter To My Unborn Son” by Bunkong Tuon (No. 3)
May 1, 2024 — “Leonard Peltier’s Plea for Clemency” by Sage Ravenwood (No. 3)
April 30, 2024 — “Until” by Robert Okaji (No. 3)
April 29, 2024 — “Not My Country” by Andrew Payton (No. 3)
Special Mentions
Chill Subs & ONLY POEMS, 7 Underrated Poetry Lit Mags We Love to Read — includes Shō Poetry Journal alongside print literary journals 32 Poems, Banshee, december magazine, and online journals Sundog Lit, Josephine Quarterly, and hybrid magazine The Good Life Review.
New Pages, Lit Mag Covers :: Picks of the Week – August 5, 2024 – highlights “Lucy,” Harim Choi’s cover for Shō No. 5, which is based on The Star tarot card.