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Shō Poetry Journal

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IN THIS ISSUE

Editors’ Note

KUHU JOSHI  Saraswati claims creation [Audio]

JEDDIE SOPHRONIUS  Listening to Ezio Bosso on Flight EY 474 to Jakarta / Listening to Ezio Bosso in Jakarta, Indonesia

COREY BARON  Dance to Keep from Crying [Audio] / A Song for the Burning / If You Want Flowers Just Die

JESSICA NIRVANA RAM  Carving Rivers [Audio feature] / A Hard Rewiring

MCKENDY FILS-AIMÉ  Jesus Year [Audio]

HANNAH SMITH  Friday Night in Zilker

SNEHA SUBRAMANIAN KANTA  House 19, Doetinchem

DANIEL BRENNAN  Morning Affirmations

JOSE OSEGUERA  Ode to the Foreskin

SABA KERAMATI  Hysterectomy

CLAIRE ZHOU  Cambridge IGCSE Biology Textbook, Chapter 19 / Mother Tongue

MIRA MASON-READER  ofrenda

KATE PYONTEK  Ecological Study: Floodplain / Nocturne with construction detour

DAN MURPHY  Elegy Written on the Inside of a Chimney

ELONTRA HALL  Poem in Which Jesus Shuttlesworth Gives Up Basketball to

Become the Best Chess Player on Coney Island / Hagakure

JOSE HERNANDEZ DIAZ  Little League, America / Among the Flowers: Ballet in the City

ELLEN JUNE WRIGHT  Peonies 1870

NYREE ABRAHAMIAN  Who Remembers the Artsakhtsis? / Notes from an abandoned trench [Audio] / You Can Take the Woman off the Mountain

MONICA KIM  praise & sorrow ekphrastic [Audio]

CHIAGOZIEM JIDEOFOR  after the storm when a white dove appears / a name, a condition [Audio]

DORSEY CRAFT  When We Invented Gunpowder, We Were Trying to Invent the Elixir of Life [Audio] / Rejected Persona: Yoga Mom

CORTNEY LAMAR CHARLESTON  It’s Important I Remember That Being Alone and Being Lonely Aren’t the Same Thing— / It’s Important I Remember That Even Beyoncé Got Cheated On—

JASMINE KHALIQ  Charm to Separate Yourself from Another

SOPHIE JOHNSON  of course I tried

CASANDRA LÓPEZ  Chillóna

REBEKAH WOLMAN  Self-Portrait as notes for a self-portrait-as poem [Audio]

AILEEN BASSIS  Not Knowing

KARLA MYN KHINE  Neophobia

AKIRA RITOS  Pag-Pag

AMANDA CHIADO  Marilyn Monroe Wants to Listen to the Birds / Pumpkin Soup with Van Gogh

NICK SOLURI  Essay on Need

JOHN MOESSNER  Rembrandt’s Christ and the Samaritan at the Well

CATHERINE BROADWALL  Love Poem with a Splinter in its Paw

ALLISON FIELD BELL  Barcelona, 2008

SARA SANTISTEVAN  After Buena Vista Social Club’s “Veinte Años” / Abecedarian of Xinachtli

NORA GUPTA  Elegy for Aunt Kate / At Sunoco / Suppose I stopped running.

SUSAN L. LEARY  Snow, Almost, Nearly [Audio] / Uprooted

SATI MOOKHERJEE  Siliguri / From the Verandah

RICHARD JORDAN  Sebago Salmon / Tommy’s Long Hot Dogs

SHANE SCHICK  Gargoyles

CLINT MARGRAVE  Portrait of the Journalist Sylvia von Harden by Otto Dix (1926)

AMY ASH  My Father Returns to the Garden

EM TOWNSEND  Midwestern Reunion [Audio]

GRANT CLAUSER  What Light

SHIYANG SU  Short Talk on Translation

P. SCOTT CUNNINGHAM  Statement of Poetics

DONNA VORREYER  The Sound of Just Before [Audio]

KUHU JOSHI  At the temple at the end of the world

CONTRIBUTORS’ NOTES (View as PDF)

 

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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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