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SHŌ POETRY JOURNAL NO. 6 | WINTER 2024/25
Cover art: Tanya Rastogi, In Gilded Walls, 2024. 18 x 24, acrylic on canvas.
IN THIS ISSUE
Editors’ Note
JACKSON D. MOORMAN At Lake Merritt I’m wearing a hoodie with nothing under it
KATY SCARLETT At Thirty-Five
T. DE LOS REYES living room spacetime; Aubade
NICHOLAS PIERCE Four sonnets from Pierce Junction: Kennedy Heights; John R. Simmons; Exodus; How We Lived
JUBRIL BADMUS Hope Street Reimagined
SAIDA AGOSTINI a prayer for saida at age eight
M.J. GOMEZ Litany in Which I Am Tired of Waiting for Judgment Day; Ayat
HANNAH TENNANT-MOORE Queer Adolescence at 41
ALLISA CHERRY Second Anointing; Idiom
ALISON PELEGRIN Hurricane Irv
SHAWNTE ORION Poem Yet to Be Written by Erik Bitsui
BRETT HANLEY Only a Fin Remains When I Return for Teeth; Paroxysmal Supraventricular Tachycardia
MAJA LUKIC Wings of Desire; Your Mother Knew Many Words for Beauty and Used All of Them to Call You
RANUDI GUNAWARDENA Girl Cousins, Pixelated
ROBERT OKAJI The Starlings Were You
BUNKONG TUON Wanting Kids; My Ancestors Didn’t Scream
SADDIQ DZUKOGI Bakandamiya VIII.; Bakandamiya IX.
BECKA MARA MCKAY Golden Shovel as Anthropomorphism
CHRIS HOSHNIC Event / Response
SAMODH PORAWAGAMAGE Three postcard poems from To Punani Camp: My Antidote; Dear Husband; Proud Father of Niduk
ROSEMARIE DOMBROWSKI Epistolary for the year of losses; Epistolary for the New Year
TIANNA BRATCHER Misoprostol Warning Label
ARI B. COFER Depression/Uterus; After the Hysterectomy
ERICA DAWSON Portrait of the artist as sonnet for Dickinson’s line A wounded deer—leaps highest—
MEG REYNOLDS Milkstone
NICK MARTINO Ars Poetica
NATHAN ERWIN Envelope Poem
SUSANNA LANG If I could pray anywhere
JO BEAR Anti-Pastoral with Wolves; After the Gulls
ALEJANDRO LUCERO Returning
WESLEY ROTHMAN Negronis
CIARAN PIERCE Grindr Etiquette
WILLIAM WARD BUTLER Reciprocity
MICKIE KENNEDY Finding My Boyfriend in Bed with a Stranger, 1993; American Porn, 1985
JAE NICHELLE alternate timeline
ALYSSANDRA TOBIN Egg on My Face
HANNAH FAITH NOTESS Sea Biscuit; The Last March of the Ents
JARRETT MOSELEY Before the News Hits
AMANDA MARET SCHARF Lesson in Ceramics
KABEL MISHKA LIGOT Love poem with climate catastrophe
Notes on Poems (View PDF)
Contributors’ Notes (View PDF)
