2024
Tuesday July 23: Shō No. 5 is here!
Monday July 1: Submissions are now open! See our guidelines for more info. We now read for the Sita Martin Prize and Shō Poetry Prize.
Saturday April 13: Shō Poetry Journal will be attending the 2024 Northern Arizona Book Festival (NOAZBF) in Flagstaff. Look for our table (no. 21) in Heritage Square (22 E Aspen Ave). We will be selling discounted copies of Shō No. 3, Shō No. 4, and The Art of Mercy. One of our editors, Johnny Cordova, will also be speaking on a panel, Editing and Publishing with Independent Presses, from 2:30pm – 3.30pm at Theatrikos Theatre Company (11 W Cherry Ave). The panel will also feature editors from Spurl Editions, Terrain.org, Noemi Press, and Little Somethings Press.
March: Thank you, J.P. Dancing Bear, for featuring the following poems from Shō No. 4 on Verse Daily!
– Faith Gómez Clark: “Caretaker“
– Sage Ravenwood: “Deer Woman“
– Jane Zwart: “How to Eat Like a King“
– Nathan Xavier Osorio: “How to Cook a Wolf“
2023
December 31: These pages are now live!
August 23: Shō Poetry Journal was featured by NewPages in the New Lit on the Block Series
August 23: We joined Bluesky! Follow us here.