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Audio Feature: Lana Matthews Sain (Shō No. 4)

Lana Matthews Sain reads “We Go to the Cemetery to Buy a Burial Plot”

Lana Matthews Sain reads her poem “We Go to the Cemetery to Buy a Burial Plot” from Shō No. 4 (Winter 2024).

Poet Lana Matthews Sain looks off to the side. She has long black hair with grey streaks and wears a sleeveless light blue/grey shirt with a short ruffled collar.

Lana Matthews Sain is a poet and business analyst in Sewanee, TN, where she works and explores poetry, nature, and spirituality as paths to original Self. She is a mother, an ordained Zen buddhist practitioner, and occasionally steps out for remote adventures—all of which inform her writing. She recently received her MFA from Sewanee School of Letters, and work from her thesis project has appeared in Gleam Journal and Shō Poetry Journal.

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Publishing Stats

Since our revival issue was published in Summer 2023:

260

Poems Published

170

Total Poets Published

62

Audio Features Published

28

Poems Nominated for Prizes

1

Poem chosen for inclusion in Best Spiritual Literature

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