Shō Poetry Journal nominates poets every year for the following honors:
- Best New Poets Anthology
- Best Spiritual Literature Anthology (Orison Books)
- The Pushcart Prize Anthology
Best New Poets Anthology (2024)
- Nathan Xavier Osorio, “How to Cook a Wolf” (Shō No. 4) [Interview]
- Eylie Sasajima, “H Mart” (Shō No. 4) [Audio]
Best Spiritual Literature (2025)
- Richard Collins, “Wind Flows Over Stone Nest Dojo” (Shō No. 4)
- Michael Garrigan, “In Last Light We Drive to the River” (Shō No. 4)
- Sharon Weightman Hoffmann, “I Sing the Body Acoustic” (Shō No. 4)
- Chiagoziem Jideofor, “a name, a condition” (Shō No. 4) [Audio]
- Monica Kim, “praise & sorrow ekphrastic” (Shō No. 5) [Audio]
- Mollie O’Leary, “Late Summer Study” (Shō No. 5) [Audio]
Pushcart Prize Anthology (Volume L)
- Danielle Shandiin Emerson, “Sometimes, she listened to his stories.” (Shō No. 4) [Audio]
- Jose Hernandez Diaz, “Little League, America” (Shō No. 5)
- Melissa Fite Johnson, “I Got Off the Plane and Everyone Was Dead” (Shō No. 4) [Audio]
- Kuhu Joshi, “Saraswati claims creation” (Shō No. 5) [Audio]
- Arah Ko, “Magpie 까치” (Shō No. 4) [Interview]
- Jessica Nirvana Ram, “Carving Rivers” (Shō No. 5) [Audio]
Best New Poets Anthology (2023)
- Ally Ang, “After ‘Prolonged Grief Disorder’ Was Added to the DSM-5” (Shō No. 3) [Audio]
- Sage Ravenwood, “Leonard Peltier’s Plea for Clemency” (Shō No. 3)
Best Spiritual Literature (2024)
- Eliana Chow, “Bamboo Girl” (Shō No. 3)
- Jo Angela Edwins, “A Tired Woman Washes Dishes” (Shō No. 3)
- Sage Ravenwood, “Less Godlike” (Shō No. 3)
- Bunkong Tuon, “Letter to My Unborn Son” (Shō No. 3) [Audio]
- Ellen June Wright, “I Am What Happens When Nature Has Its Way” (Shō No. 3) [Audio]
- Cooper Young, “Behind the Buddha” (Shō No. 3) * Best Spiritual Literature Vol. 9
Pushcart Prize Anthology (Volume XLIX)
- Ally Ang, “Against Beauty” (Shō No. 3)
- Sean Thomas Dougherty, “Hanzi in the Rain” (Shō No. 3) [Read]
- Andrew Payton — “Not My Country” (Shō No. 3) | [Audio]
- Sage Ravenwood — “Leonard Peltier’s Plea for Clemency” (Shō No. 3)
- Dare Williams — “My Lover Watches Their Lover Die” (Shō No. 3) [Audio]
- Ellen June Wright — “I Am What Happens When Nature Has Its Way” (Shō No. 3) [Audio]