Description
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
PRIZE WINNERS
MAJA LUKIC Your Mother Knew Many Words for Beauty and Used All of Them to Call You — Winner of the Sita Martin Prize, *BNP, *NRPA
RANUDI GUNAWARDENA Girl Cousins, Pixelated — Sita Martin Prize Runner-Up, *MQL
ROBERT OKAJI The Starlings Were You – Winner of the Shō Poetry Prize
BUNKONG TUON Wanting Kids — Shō Poetry Prize Runner-Up
JACKSON D. MOORMAN At Lake Merritt I’m wearing a hoodie with nothing under it [Audio feature] *MQL
KATY SCARLETT At Thirty-Five
T. DE LOS REYES living room spacetime*; Aubade [Audio feature] * BSL
NICHOLAS PIERCE Four sonnets from Pierce Junction: Kennedy Heights; John R. Simmons; Exodus; How We Lived [Read & listen]
JUBRIL BADMUS Hope Street Reimagined
SAIDA AGOSTINI a prayer for saida at age eight [Audio feature]
M.J. GOMEZ Litany in Which I Am Tired of Waiting for Judgment Day; Ayat
HANNAH TENNANT-MOORE Queer Adolescence at 41 [Audio]
ALLISA CHERRY Second Anointing; Idiom [Audio feature]
ALISON PELEGRIN Hurricane Irv
SHAWNTE ORION Poem Yet to Be Written by Erik Bitsui [Audio feature]
BRETT HANLEY Only a Fin Remains When I Return for Teeth; Paroxysmal Supraventricular Tachycardia
MAJA LUKIC Wings of Desire *PP
BUNKONG TUON My Ancestors Didn’t Scream [Read & listen]
SADDIQ DZUKOGI Bakandamiya VIII.; Bakandamiya IX* [Audio feature] BSL
BECKA MARA MCKAY Golden Shovel as Anthropomorphism [Audio feature] * BSL
CHRIS HOSHNIC Event / Response [Read & listen] *PP
SAMODH PORAWAGAMAGE Three postcard poems from To Punani Camp: My Antidote; Dear Husband; Proud Father of Niduk [Read a Poem]
ROSEMARIE DOMBROWSKI Epistolary for the year of losses; Epistolary for the New Year [Audio feature]
TIANNA BRATCHER Misoprostol Warning Label [Read & listen]
ARI B. COFER Depression/Uterus; After the Hysterectomy [Read & listen]
ERICA DAWSON Portrait of the artist as sonnet for Dickinson’s line A wounded deer—leaps highest— [Audio] *PP
MEG REYNOLDS Milkstone *PP
NICK MARTINO Ars Poetica
NATHAN ERWIN Envelope Poem
SUSANNA LANG If I could pray anywhere
JO BEAR Anti-Pastoral with Wolves; After the Gulls* *PP
ALEJANDRO LUCERO Returning [Audio]
WESLEY ROTHMAN Negronis
CIARAN PIERCE Grindr Etiquette *MQL
WILLIAM WARD BUTLER Reciprocity *MQL
MICKIE KENNEDY Finding My Boyfriend in Bed with a Stranger, 1993; American Porn, 1985* *MQL
JAE NICHELLE alternate timeline [Audio]
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)
