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Shō Poetry Journal

Established in 2002, revived in 2023

Prize Winners

Shō No. 6: Winter 2024/25

Winner of the Sita Martin Prize

Maja Lukic

“Your Mother Knew Many Words for Beauty and Used All of Them to Call you”

Sita Martin Prize Runner-Up

Ranudi Gunawardena

“Girl Cousins, Pixelated”

Black and white: A mixed-race white-Japanese man in contemplation by a sunny window. He wears a collared print shirt and a pair of glasses perched on his nose.

Winner of the Shō Poetry Prize

Robert Okaji

“The Starlings Were You”

Shō Poetry Prize Runner-Up

Bunkong Tuon

“Wanting Kids”