Shō No. 9: Summer 2026 (Pre-Order)

LIV EVANS   Trans Creation Myth

REBECCA HART OLANDER  An Old Story

ELINA KATRIN  Beach Day with Tsvetaeva

XINYUE HUANG  Occasion #1; Occasion #3; Occasion #4

ETHAN KWAK  Untitled by Rothko, 1968; On Baldness

VICTORIA KORNICK   Eden; Sharpies

LUCAS JORGENSEN   The Bureau of Prophets

ISHA CAMARA   Define Beast:

JOSHUA ZEITLER   Batesian Mimic

HANANAH ZAHEER   War

ALLISON FIELD BELL   The Other Side of Mania; Boy in the Red Hat Nods and Moves Past Me

SLOANE SCOTT   Women’s Beginner Handgun Class

SHEEMA KALBASI   The Face Peering Back

ELI KARREN   All the Songs We Heard as Kids Were About Getting Away

JORDAN COBB   Dear Mary,

KIYANNA HILL   Infestation

COLLIN KIM   My Mother Sends Me Persimmons

ANDREW CHI KEONG YIM   Fourth Theory; Somebody Has to Like The Da Vinci Code; Then Isaac

GORDON TAYLOR   Myth

FINNEGAN BLY   Who wants to hear about your Asian North American experience anyway?

MISHA PONNURAJU   The Ghost of Wàigōng tries to teach me mahjong; The Ghost of Wàigōng and I go to a karaoke bar

JENNY SADRE-ORAFAI  The Year I Was Born; Dissolving Selves; The Sky Is a Rectangle

SOPHIE KAISER ROJAS   Self-Portrait as Sunshower; Nocturne Below a Ceiling Made of Windows; Little Blue Diptych

REBECCA HAWKES   Ordinary Time

DAVID EILEEN   [do you think they explored each other’s bodies inside the Trojan horse]

BROOKE SAHNI   Nectarivorous; In Praise of Ingmar Bergman’s Persona

ALIA SHAUKAT   Worm Moon

CAROLENE KURIEN   Motel 52

MADELEINE BAZIL   Poem After Nan Goldin’s ‘Nan and Brian in Bed, New York City’

PIERA CHEN   Sulphuric Particulars

JENNY MOLBERG   Eldest Daughter Syndrome; The Empty Studio

ASPEN TAYLOR   Cancer Patient, Midwinter; My Mother Apologizes for the End of the World; Ghazal for Women’s Knees

JACOB HERRERA SPEARS   Sundowner; Walking Home in the Dark

CONAL ABATANGELO   My Grandfather Fills Out a Fourth-Grade Worksheet

ADENIYI ODUKOYA   Slaughtered Chicken

CONAL ABATANGELO   Dog

JESSICA BALLEN   Hinge

SHELBI CHURCH   About Truth

JEFF WHITNEY   Because You Can’t Die Twice

PREETI VANGANI   Coverage; At 3rd & Market

ANNE BARNGROVER   In Mostar; In Makarska

JACKSON BURGESS   Three American Sonnets

EMILY HARMAN   Aubade with Grief

NORA SULLIVAN   Carl Siemens Inventing the Two-Way Mirror

RUBY HANSEN MURRAY   God’s Doorway 𐓊𐒻𐓓𐒷𐓄𐒷; Medicine 𐓀𐒰͘𐒼𐒰𐓍𐒰𐓊𐒷

ALICE LIANG   Everything Has Built to This; Closed Circuit

Notes on Poems

Contributors’ Notes

Artist Statement