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Shō Poetry Journal

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Recent & Forthcoming Books from Shō No. 3 Poets

Congratulations to these Shō No. 3: Revival Issue (Summer/Fall 2023) contributors, whose books were published in 2023 or are forthcoming in 2024 or 2025! Their books are linked below. You can also read the bios of all Shō No. 3 contributors here.

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Debut Poetry Collections

"Bad Animal" by Kathryn Bratt-Pfotenhauer
"Quiver" by Luke Johnson
"Everything That Hurt Us Becomes a Ghost" by Sage Ravenwood

Ally Ang: Let the Moon Wobble, forthcoming (Alice James Books, 2025)

Kathryn Bratt-Pfotenhauer: Bad Animal (Riot in Your Throat, 2023) — Winner of the 2024
Central New York Book Award in Poetry

Jo Angela Edwins: A Dangerous Heaven (Gnashing Teeth Publishing, 2023)

Nadine Hitchiner: Practising Ascending (Cathexis Northwest Press, 2023)

Luke Johnson: Quiver (Texas Review Press, Fall 2023)

Dan Murphy: Estate Sale, forthcoming (University of Utah Press, Spring 2025) — Winner of the 2024 Agha Shahid Ali Prize, selected by Ange Mlinko

Sage Ravenwood: Everything That Hurt Us Becomes a Ghost (Gallaudet University Press, Fall 2023)

Cassandra Whitaker: Wolf Devouring a Wolf Devouring a Wolf, forthcoming (Jackleg Press, July 2025)

Alfonso Zapata: To Pay for Our Next Breath, forthcoming (Texas Review Press) — Winner of the TRP Southern Poetry Breakthrough Prize: Kentucky

Debut Poetry Chapbooks

Kathryn Bratt-Pfotenhauer: Small Geometries (Ethel, 2023)

Cass Garison: Beauty Exasperated (Common Meter Press, 2024)

Francesca Leader: Like Wine or Like Pain (Bottle Cap Press, 2024)

Natalie Marino: Under Memories of Stars (Finishing Line Press, 2023)

R.S. Mengert: Carnival of Theodicy (Alien Buddha Press, 2023)

Kailee Pedersen: Pastorale, forthcoming (Burnside Review, 2025) — Winner of the 2024 Burnside Review Chapbook Contest

Peter Sagnella: Coming to Terms (Cathexis Northwest Press, 2023)

Alex Tretbar: Kansas City Gothic, forthcoming (Broken Sleep, 2025)

Alex Tretbar: According to the Plat Thereof, forthcoming (Ethel, 2025)

Alfonso Zapata: Together Now (Belle Point Press, Fall 2024)

Poetry Collections

Claudia Buckholts: Travelers on Earth (Main Street Rag, Spring 2023)

Sean Thomas Dougherty: Death Prefers the Minor Keys (BOA, Fall 2023)

Luke Johnson & Megan Merchant: A Slow Indwelling (Harbor Editions, Fall 2024)

Luke Johnson: Distributary, forthcoming (Texas Review Press, 2025)

Shirley Geok-lin Lim: Dawns Tomorrow (Sungold Editions, 2024)

Megan Merchant: Hortensia, in Winter (New American Press, Fall 2024)

Robert L. Penick: The Art of Mercy (Hohm Press, Fall 2023)

Jennifer Reeser: Strong Feather (Able Muse Press, 2023)

Andrew Schelling: Songs of Mirabai (White Pine Press, 2024)

Fred Voss: Someday There Will Be Machine Shops Full of Roses (Smokestack Books, 2023)

Chapbooks

Dan Grote: We Are All Doing Time (Iniquity Press/Vendetta Books, 2023)

Bunkong Tuon: What is Left (Jacar Press, 2024)

Debut Novels

Kailee Pedersen: Sacrificial Animals (St. Martin’s Press, Fall 2024) — New York Times Best Horror of the Year 2024 (So Far), Barnes & Noble Best Horror Books of 2024, Esquire Best Horror Books of 2024, Vulture Best Horror Books of 2024 (So Far)

Bunkong Tuon: Koan Khmer (Curbstone Books/Northwestern University Press, 2024)

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Some of these books are listed on our “Books from Shō No. 3 Contributors” on Bookshop.org.

https://bookshop.org/lists/books-from-sho-no-3-contributors?new-list-page=true

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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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