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Shō No. 4: Winter 2024

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IN THIS ISSUE

Editors’ Note

MARISA P. CLARK  The Deer Hunter

QUINTON OKORO   katabases [Audio feature] / what i witnessed as i prepared to return

SAGE RAVENWOOD  Deer Woman (Ani Yunwitsandsdi)

LANA MATTHEWS SAIN  We Go to the Cemetery to Buy a Burial Plot [Audio feature] / What I Wish We’d Done

MT VALLARTA  Neighborhood Tour

ARAH KO  Magpie 까치 / Fiddleback [Read our Interview with Arah & listen to her read her poems]

EYLIE SASAJIMA  H Mart *BNP [Audio feature] / revelation for the west

EBEN E. B. BEIN  Namesake [Audio feature]

REUBEN GELLEY NEWMAN  Summer, 1980

BELLA ZHOU  Ghazal for When You Lose Your Hong Kong Passport in Buenos Aires

SHARON WEIGHTMAN HOFFMANN   I Sing the Body Acoustic *BSL

ARIEL FRANCISCO  Dissociating While Staring Out the Window Just Before a Thunderstorm After Driving 15 Hours Home / Dissociating at My Desk at 2am

RICHARD VARGAS  winter breakfast in Taos / morning coffee at Crema Café [Audio feature]

MELISSA FITE JOHNSON  I Got off the Plane and Everyone Was Dead

KEVIN RIDGEWAY  The Night Pee-Wee Herman Died

SOPHIA TERAZAWA  Suppose a Lute / [“Xa Xa Xa Lắm”]

VALERIE A. SMITH  Curlie Raised the Blues / Carol Money Blue married in

CARLOS A. PITTELLA  In case they run your license plate

JACK B. BEDELL  “Stop & Frisk”

ERICA ABBOTT  Decay / Portrait of a Wildfire Photographer in a Near-Apocalyptic World

STEPHANIE NIU  Tropical School of Desire / Nocturnal Calligraphy / Leaving Lisbon

FRANCES KLEIN  West of Sense, East of Reason

NAZIFA ISLAM  Day by Day [Audio feature] / Diminished, Day by Day / Assault and Battery

GABRIELA BITTENCOURT  Labor Pains

LISA BELLAMY  Consider the Gibbon

LISA ZIMMERMAN  Elsewhere in Florida

LAURA VILLAREAL  After the tornadoes touchdown / Frozen Food

ROBERT OKAJI  Moon Cows / In the Batter’s Box

ROBERT L. PENICK  Admirer / Pierrepoint

BRIAN HARMAN  Aunt Virginia’s Guidance 

JARED BELOFF  Returning from the Dead to Wait at the DMV / Returning from the Dead to Attend a Poetry Reading

NATHAN XAVIER OSORIO  Empty Stadiums / How to Cook a Wolf *BNP / Come, Little Hunger [Read our interview with Nathan & listen to him read his poems]

JANE ZWART  How to Eat Like a King / Solid Earth

SATI MOOKHERJEE Row Ends / Spirograph

ELISE THI TRAN  Obituary for My Grandmother’s Name / Salt

DANIELLE SHANDIIN EMERSON  Sometimes, she listened to his stories.

FAITH GÓMEZ CLARK  Caretaker / The Seance

ELINOR ANN WALKER  Ode to the Broken

MOLLIE O’LEARY  Late Summer Study *BSL [Audio feature]

FRED VOSS  A Foreman from Texas Wrote this Poem

ERIC MACHAN HOWD  Glitter Bomb

RICHARD COLLINS  Remembering Reibin / Wind Flows Over Stone Nest Dojo *BSL

MICHAEL GARRIGAN  In Last Light We Drive to the River *BSL

CHRISTINA DAUB  Cardinal

MIRABAI (TRANS. ANDREW SCHELLING)acche mīṭhe cākh cākh / mero beṛo lagājyo pār

VANNIDA S. KOL  Odyssey / Departure from Mondulkiri

KAILEE PEDERSEN  Charnel

NOTES ON POEMS

CONTRIBUTORS’ NOTES

*BNP
Nominated for Best New Poets
*BSL Nominated for Best Spiritual Literature

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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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