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Shō Poetry Journal

Established in 2002, revived in 2023

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A grid of photographs of 12 poets. In the top left corner is a large red square with text "Shō Poetry Journal ・ Asian/Pacific Heritage Month Playlist"

Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month Roundup 2025

May 1, 2025 · Shō Poetry Journal

To celebrate Asian/Pacific heritage month, we’ve curated this selection of poems that give voice to Asian American experiences centered around inheritance, history, memory, and belonging.

This roundup features poems and audio recordings by Ally Ang, Monica Kim, Arah Ko, Vannida S. Kol, Sati Mookherjee, Jessica Nirvana Ram, Eylie Sasajima, Jeddie Sophronius, Sophia Terazawa, Elise Thi Tran, Bunkong Tuon, and MT Vallarta. These poems first appeared in Shō No. 3, Shō No. 4, Shō No. 5, and Shō No. 6.

Women’s History Month Round-Up 2025

Mar 12, 2025 · Shō Poetry Journal

In honor of Women's History Month, read this selection of poems by Sage Ravenwood, Gabriela Bittencourt dos Santos, Kuhu Joshi, Tianna Bratcher, Ari B. Cofer, and Dorsey Craft. These poems were published in Shō No. 4, Shō No. 5, and Shō No. 6.

Maja Lukic, Winner of the Sita Martin Prize

Feb 27, 2025 · Shō Poetry Journal

In shop windows, you are strange / to yourself, your face a drifting moon, / eyes and mouth dark shafts.

Ranudi Gunawardena, Sita Martin Prize Runner-Up

Feb 5, 2025 · Shō Poetry Journal

The fruit / hung bending the branches, like a hundred // small stomachs, bird-eaten and naked / where the beaks had pierced.

Sean Thomas Dougherty: “Hanzi in the Rain”

Jan 1, 2025 · Shō Poetry Journal

I think I'm tiring of auditioning. / I'm not dancing for bread anymore.

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

Shō Poetry Journal


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