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POETRY submissions REOPEN DECEMBER 15

Order OUR SUMMER ISSUE: SHŌ NO. 9

congratulations to erica dawson on winning a pushcart prize!
listen to her poem here OR READ IT IN SHŌ NO. 6

Shō Poetry Journal

Established in 2002, revived in 2023

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Audio Feature: Shawnte Orion

Listen to Shawnte Orion read “Poem Yet To Be Written By Erik Bitsui (who wrote the book Mosh Pit Etiquette Volume One: Secrets of a 21st Century Navajo Headbanger)” from Shō No. 6 (Winter 2024/25).

Black-and-white photo of the poet, a Caucasian man with long hair parted at the center. His face is illuminated and he is looking at the camera with a neutral expression on his face.

Shawnte Orion is the author of Gravity & Spectacle (a collaboration with photographer Jia Oak Baker from Tolsun Books) and The Existentialist Cookbook (NYQBooks). He is an editor for rinky dink press and his poems have appeared in Threepenny Review, Barrelhouse, Sugar House Review, New York Quarterly, and on the flipside of a split 7inch vinyl record with San Francisco band Sweat Lodge.

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Publishing Stats

Since our revival issue was published in Summer 2023:

444

Poems Published

310

Total Poets Published

180

Audio Features Published

61

Prize Nominations

6

Poems chosen for inclusion in anthologies

Shō Poetry Journal


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