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Shō No. 3: Revival Issue
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Shō No. 3: Revival Issue

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IN THIS ISSUE

Editors’ Note

SEAN THOMAS DOUGHERTY  Hanzi in the Rain *PP

SAGE RAVENWOOD  Leonard Peltier’s Plea for Clemency *PP / Less Godlike *BSL

ANDREW PAYTON  Not My Country *PP [Audio feature]

ALLY ANG  Against Beauty *PP / After “Prolonged Grief Disorder” Was Added to DSM-5 *BNP [Audio feature]

DANNY SHOT  Crossfire

JULIÁN MARTINEZ  Mexican Purgatory / How many tongues of love inside

NORASHIQIN TOH  Careless / Dinnertime Elegy

SHIRLEY GEOK-LIN LIM  Praise of Moon Cakes

R.S. MENGERT  The Last Family Photo

TIFFANY SMALLS  Don’t You Wrap Your Hair?

PETER SAGNELLA  Blind Spot

ALFONSO ZAPATA  The Ghazal I Asked For / Leaving My Abuelos’ Basement, Christmas Eve 2022 / Leaving My Abuelos’ Basement, Christmas Eve 2015 [Audio feature]

WALLY SWIST  The Farm

MEGAN MERCHANT & LUKE JOHNSON  Crown Shyness [Audio feature] / But what about the carpenter ant, [Audio feature]

JENNIFER REESER  Mo’yatcun’ne / Sikyatki

JONATHAN DIAZ  Oecopetalum mexicanum

CLAUDIA BUCKHOLTS  Serving Spirits

ANDREW SCHELLING  Cold Stone Wheel / Hadimba Temple / Far to the South a River

RICHARD COLLINS  Shoreless River / Petrichor

BUNKONG TUON  Letter to My Unborn Son *BSL [Audio feature]

NATALIE MARINO  Yesterday

ELIANA CHOW  Bamboo Girl *BSL

ELLEN JUNE WRIGHT  I Am What Happens When Nature Has Its Way *BSL [Audio feature]

FRANCESCA LEADER  The Age of Ice Women / Troll Baby

CASSANDRA WHITAKER  I ate the wolf and the wolf / Swallowed by the Wolf / Queerness is Infinite [Audio feature]

KAILEE PEDERSEN  Primavera [Audio feature]

JO ANGELA EDWINS  A Tired Woman Washes Dishes *BSL

DARE WILLIAMS  My Lover Watches Their Lover Die *PP [Audio feature]

DAN GROTE  A Life’s Work

NADINE HITCHINER  Love in Particular

TONY GLOEGGLER  Here on Earth

CASS GARISON  Meditation on Longing [Audio feature]

DAN MURPHY  The Persistence of Memory

ROBERT OKAJI  Until / Santa Fe

ROBERT L. PENICK  You Cannot Say These Things Were Not Done for You / Odd People with Little Dogs / Pertinence

SHARON DENMARK  The Reading / The Hitchhiker

FRED VOSS  As the Billionaires have Cocktail Parties on Their Balconies in the Hills

ALEX TRETBAR  Ballad from a Subsidized Bedroom

ALISON PELEGRIN  Multitudes

KATHRYN BRATT-PFOTENHAUER  Tudors / A Study in Gray

COOPER YOUNG  Naked / Behind the Buddha *BSL 2024 / No Other Life

NOTES ON POEMS

CONTRIBUTORS’ NOTES

*BNP Nominated for Best New Poets
*BSL Nominated for Best Spiritual Literature
*PP Nominated for Pushcart Prize

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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

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