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Shō Poetry Journal

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Aldo Amparan

Circle-cut photos of 15 poets featured in Shō Poetry Journal's 2026 Pride Month Playlist, featuring a peachy pink background, various flowy shapes, and a graphic of a pink, orange, and blue mixtape. Black text highlighted in blue reads: Shō Poetry Journal. Black text highlighted in pinky-purple reads: Pride Playlist | 2026. Black text highlighted in dark lavender reads: shopoetryjournal.com/pride-play-list-2026

Pride Month Playlist | 2026

May 30, 2026 · Shō Poetry Journal

For LGBTQ+ Pride Month, we've curated this playlist of poems recently published in Shō Poetry Journal Issues No. 7 and No. 8, featuring Aldo Ampáran, Chen Chen, Reuben Gelley-Newman, Brett Hanley, Saúl Hernández, Sara Hovda, Rebecca Morton, Ernest Ohia, James O'Leary, william o'neal ii, Jessica Nirvana Ram, Remi Recchia, Will Summay, and Joey Wańczyk.

A person with short, reddish-brown hair & a neatly trimmed goatee wears a black beret & a black sweater, standing among leafless branches.

Aldo Amparán — Symptoms of Ghosts [Shō Poetry Prize Runner-Up]

Jun 27, 2025 · Shō Poetry Journal

Runner-Up of the Shō Poetry Prize for Shō No. 7 (Summer 2025).

“The main reason behind the gay orientation of some
men is that they are possessed by female ghosts.”
— Spiritual Science Research Foundation

Publishing Stats

Since our revival issue was published in Summer 2023:

375

Poems Published

269

Total Poets Published

158

Audio Features Published

61

Prize Nominations

6

Poems chosen for inclusion in anthologies

Shō Poetry Journal


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