Robert Okaji, Winner of the Shō Poetry Prize (Shō No. 6, Winter 2024/25)
Morning was a jaundiced memory,
a burnished smear on the kettle
shrilling its warning.
Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month Roundup 2025
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 Roundup 2025
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 (Shō No. 6, Winter 2024/25)
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 (Shō No. 6, Winter 2024/25)
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”
I think I'm tiring of auditioning. / I'm not dancing for bread anymore.