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SHŌ POETRY JOURNAL NO. 7 | SUMMER 2025
Cover art: Tanya Rastogi, Interim, 2025. 20″ x 20″, acrylic on canvas.
IN THIS ISSUE
A Note from Johnny on the Passing of Fred Voss
PRIZE WINNERS
The prize winners and honorees for Shō No. 7 will be announced in mid-June.
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SARA HOVDA Poem for the Man Who Said He Would Fuck the Rest of the Boy Out of Me
PAIGE PASSANTINO Three Sugar Baby Sonnets
JENNA MARTÍNEZ In a Stranger I Make a Nest; He Says He Knows the Highest Point in Town
NICHOLAS YINGLING Somewhere Between Salvation and Creation
MALIA MAXWELL Grouse Season
AMBER ADAMS Mourning; Okinawa, 2016
MALLORY RODENBERG Meditation on Static
CHRISTIAN J. COLLIER Hixson Pastoral; I Know Grace Best; Nocturne
ALDO AMPARÁN Symptoms of Ghosts
OHIA, ERNEST CHIGAEMEZU somehow
NINA C. PELÁEZ Doubt
HANNAH KEZIAH AGUSTIN WHEN MY FATHER CAME TO AMERICA, HE BLEACHED OUT HIS TONGUE
AARON CAYCEDO-KIMURA From the Great Depression; Summer Evening
RISHONA MICHAEL Soon to Be a Cow
CLARE FLANAGAN Epilogue; Remnants
JESSICA Q. STARK The Confession of Marie Antoinette; Self- Erasure: The Confession of Marie Antoinette as a Sundial
MICHAEL BAZZETT Aubade; Surgery
FEBRUARY SPIKENER The First Autopsy; Only Toni Morrison Knows What I Mean When I Say I’m Hungry
SAÚL HERNÁNDEZ Abecedarian for My Undocumented Amá’s Tongue in TX
DANIEL LURIE Smoking Crows; Luck of the Draw
TIM MODER Evel Knievel in My Grandma’s House
J.K. TSOSIE THE TRUE PARADISES ARE THE PARADISES WE HAVE LOST; LEST WE FORGET THAT NATURE IS NOT OUR FRIEND
HAN VANDERHART ars poetica as lost Mexican city
EMILY ADAMS-AUCOIN Melencolia I
JARED BELOFF All the Eternal Love I Have
MATTHEW TUCKNER Mimesis; Four Psalms
MATTHEW GELLMAN Taking My Mother’s Passport Photo
DANIELLE SHANDIIN EMERSON Pawnshop nikon eulogy
VASVI KEJRIWAL After My Father Died
SOFIA RASIC Ambedo
OLIVIA JACOBSON We Stick Out in the Suburbs
AI KHANOUM Swap Meet
ALEKS ZYWICKI rewatching the film
KELLY GRAY Fifty-one
CLAIRE TAYLOR While playing two hours of Chutes and Ladders I contemplate the futility of life
CRYSTAL COX Pine Needles
M. CYNTHIA CHEUNG Common Disaster No. 3; Ensenada
sterling-elizabeth arcadia high tide (2024)
BOBBY ELLIOTT The Fall of 1990
FRED VOSS Hammers Full of Poetry
JOAN JOBE SMITH Machinist Poet
AMORAK HUEY Beer Garden, Ohio; Sumac
KUNJANA PARASHAR Gladness
BROOKE SAHNI September; A Blessing
SEAN THOMAS DOUGHERTY The Light We Make; What is the Snow
REMI RECCHIA ABECEDARIAN While Traveling for My Sex Change
ASHELEY NOVA NAVARRO Holy Week
WILL CORDEIRO Alpenglow
SARA HOVDA One Goal
