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POETRY submissions REOPEN DECEMBER 15

Order OUR SUMMER ISSUE: SHŌ NO. 9

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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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Shō Number Six

The poet, a Filipino woman with long dark hair, looks at the camera with a slight smile. She is wearing a black dress and a small pendant on a gold chain.

Audio Feature: T. De Los Reyes (Shō No. 6)

Jan 7, 2025 · Shō Poetry Journal

Dear Ryuichi, I live in a universe where / the sound of rain is your fingers tinkering / with the keys.

a fat black woman with a curly dark Afro smiles. She is wearing a black dress, and has a large flower tattoo on her upper left chest

Audio Feature: Saida Agostini (Shō No. 6)

Jan 6, 2025 · Shō Poetry Journal

you beautiful beautiful stupid haunted girl / you lawless thief of daddy’s face and mummy’s grief / you daughter of the pomeroon

A white man with short brown hair, a beard and mustache, and glasses leans over a puzzle. He is wearing a short-sleeved dark cerulean button up and is holding a small coffee cup in his left hand. His right forearm is encircled by a tattoo of two slim black bands and his left wrist has a watch.

Audio Feature: Jackson D. Moorman (Shō No. 6)

Jan 5, 2025 · Shō Poetry Journal

prepared to be bare chested for the first / time in public. Fear I’ll be breaking / some cardinal rules.

An African-American woman smiles while standing in front of a brick wall.

Audio Feature: Erica Dawson (Shō No. 6)

Jan 3, 2025 · Shō Poetry Journal

My excised uterus cramps with a phantom / womb’s labor pain, hard as that is to fathom.

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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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