UPDATE, SEPT 2026: As our Shō family grows, so does the task of keeping up with contributors’ book releases. While we will continue our efforts to promote our contributors and link directly to small press websites, we will also manage our master list of poetry books by Shō contributors through Bookshop.org.
Congratulations to these Shō No. 3: Revival Issue (Summer/Fall 2023) contributors, whose books were recently published or are forthcoming! Their books are linked below. You can also read the bios of all Shō No. 3 contributors here.
Debut Poetry Collections
Ally Ang: Let the Moon Wobble, forthcoming (Alice James Books, 2025) — an Honor Book for the 2026 Stonewall Book Award, Finalist for the 2026 Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry, and Finalist for the 2026 Washington State Book Award
Kathryn Bratt-Pfotenhauer: Bad Animal (Riot in Your Throat, 2023) — Winner of the 2024
Central New York Book Award in Poetry
Richard Collins: Stone Nest (Shanti Arts, 2026)
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) — Finalist for the California Book Awards
R.S. Mengert, Hereditary Casino (Moon Tide Press, 2026)
Dan Murphy: Estate Sale (University of Utah Press, Spring 2025) — Winner of the 2024 Agha Shahid Ali Prize, selected by Ange Mlinko
Robert Okaji: Our Loveliest Bruises (3: A Taos Press, Fall 2024)
Sage Ravenwood: Everything That Hurt Us Becomes a Ghost (Gallaudet University Press, Fall 2023)
Cooper Young: Here We Were Happy (Wayfarer Books, 2026) — Winner of the Homebound Poetry Prize
Cassandra Whitaker: Wolf Devouring a Wolf Devouring a Wolf (Jackleg Press, July 2025)
Alfonso Zapata: To Pay for Our Next Breath (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 (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 (Broken Sleep, 2025)
Alex Tretbar: According to the Plat Thereof (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 (Texas Review Press, 2025)
Shirley Geok-lin Lim: Dawns Tomorrow (Sungold Editions, 2024)
Megan Merchant: Hortensia, in Winter (New American Press, Fall 2024) — Winner of the 2023 New American Poetry Prize
Robert Okaji: His Windblown Self (Broadstone Books, 2025)
Alison Pelegrin: Our Lady of Bewilderment (LSU Press, 2022) — Winner of the Phillip H. McMath Post Publication Book Award
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) — Barnes and Noble Best New Books of the Year, Esquire Magazine Best Books of the Year, NYPL Best Books of the Year.
Bunkong Tuon: Koan Khmer (Curbstone Books/Northwestern University Press, 2024)
Memoir
Richard Collins: In Search of the Hermaphrodite: A Memoir (Tough Poets Press, 2024)
Some of these books are listed on our “Books from Shō No. 3 Contributors” on Bookshop.org.
Disclosure: As a Bookshop.org affiliate, we will earn a commission on purchases made through our affiliate shop or via special links. These sales will also benefit an independent bookstore. For 2026, we have chosen to support Palabras Bilingual Bookstore in Phoenix, AZ. Commission we earn will go towards our ongoing goal of paying Shō contributors for their work.