Shō Poetry Journal

Shō Poetry Journal has been a member of Linktree for 2 years and joined in November 2023. The social media accounts linked to from Shō Poetry Journal are: • Facebook • Instagram • SoundCloud • Threads • Bluesky • Website Besides social media accounts, shopoetryjournal has populated their site with: • SUMMER ISSUE 2025: Paige Passantino — Sugar Baby Sonnet • SUMMER ISSUE 2025: Amber Adams – Okinawa, 2016 • Nocturne – Christian J. Collier [Shō Poetry Prize Winner] • Ohia, Ernest Chigaemezu — somehow [Winner of the Sita Martin Prize] • Aldo Amparán — Symptoms of Ghosts [Shō Poetry Prize Runner-Up] • Prize Winners - Shō Poetry Journal • Becka Mara McKay reads "Golden Shovel as Anthropomorphism" (Shō No. 6) • “Your Mother Knew Many Words for Beauty and Used All of Them to Call You” by Maja Lukic • Claire Zhou reads “Cambridge IGCSE Biology Textbook, Chapter 19” (Shō No. 5) • "Girl Cousins, Pixelated" by Ranudi Gunawardena (Shō No. 6) - Sita Martin Prize Runner-Up • Nina C. Peláez – Doubt [Sita Martin Prize Runner-Up] • SUMMER ISSUE | Shō No. 7 feat. Christian J. Collier, Aldo Amparán, M. Cynthia Cheung, Sean Thomas Dougherty, & 44 other poets we love • Pride Month Playlist #2 (2025) • Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month Roundup • Elontra Hall reads “Hagakure” (Shō No. 5) • The Sita Martin Prize • Women's History Month Roundup • Black History Month Playlist • WINTER ISSUE | Shō No. 6 feat. Saddiq Dzukogi, Maja Lukic, Erica Dawson & 37 other poets we love • S U B M I T (30-day response) • The Shō Poetry Prize • "Hanzi in the Rain" by Sean Thomas Dougherty (Shō No. 3) • Cortney Lamar Charleston reads “It's Important I Remember That Even Beyoncé Got Cheated On—“ (Shō No. 5) • Maja Lukic reads "Your Mother Knew Many Words for Beauty and Used All of Them to Call You" (Winner of the Sita Martin Prize, Shō No. 6) • Ranudi Gunawardena reads "Girl Cousins, Pixelated" (Sita Martin Prize Runner-Up, Shō No. 6)) • Susan L. Leary reads "Snow, Almost, Nearly" • Danielle Shandiin Emerson reads "Sometimes, she listened to his stories." (Shō No. 4) • Saida Agostini reads "a prayer for saida at age eight" (Shō No. 6) • Jackson D. Moorman reads “At Lake Merritt I’m wearing a hoodie with nothing under it” (Shō No. 6) • Monica Kim reads "praise & ekphrastic" (Shō No. 5) • Erica Dawson reads “Portrait of the artist as sonnet for Dickinson’s line A wounded deer—leaps highest—” (Shō No. 6) • Fred Voss reads "A Foreman from Texas Wrote this Poem" (Shō No. 4) • Dorsey Craft reads “When We Invented Gunpowder, We Were Trying to Invent the Elixir of Life” (Shō No. 5) • Em Townsend reads "Midwestern Reunion" (Shō No. 5) • Robert Okaji reads "Moon Cows" • Claire Zhou interviews ARAH KO • Claire Zhou interviews NATHAN XAVIER OSORIO • Ellen June Wright reads “Peonies 1870” • Jae Nichelle reads "alternate timeline" (Shō No. 6) • T. De Los Reyes reads "Aubade" (Shō No. 6) • Melissa Fite Johnson reads "I Got Off the Plane and Everyone was Dead" (Shō No. 4) • Kathryn Bratt-Pfotenhauer reads "A Study in Gray" (Shō No. 3) • Jose Oseguera reads "Ode to the Foreskin" (Shō No. 5) • Chiagoziem Jideofor's "a name, a condition" read by Ucheoma Onwutuebe (Shō No. 5) • Faith Gómez Clark reads "The Seance" (Shō No. 5) • Sophia Terazawa reads "[“Xa Xa Xa Lắm”]" (Shō No. 4) • Rebekah Wolman reads "Self-Portrait as notes for a self-portrait-as-poem” (Shō No. 5) • Kuhu Joshi reads "Saraswati claims creation" (Shō No. 5) • Mollie O'Leary reads "Late Summer Study" (Shō No. 4) • Luke Johnson reads "But what about the carpenter ant" (Shō No. 3) • Megan Merchant reads "Crown Shyness" (Shō No. 3) • Jeddie Sophronius reads “Listening to Ezio Bosso on Flight EY 474 to Jakarta" (Shō No. 5) • Arah Ko reads "Magpie 까치" (Shō No. 4) • Donna Vorreyer reads "The Sound of Just Before (Shō No. 5) • Eylie Sasajima reads "H Mart" (Shō No. 4) • Mckendy Fils-Aimé reads "Jesus Year" (Shō No. 5) • Nyree Abrahamian reads "Notes from an abandoned trench" (Shō No. 5) • Corey Baron reads "Dance to Keep from Crying" (Shō No. 5) • Jessica Nirvana Ram reads "Carving Rivers" (Shō No. 5) • Nathan Xavier Osorio reads "How to Cook a Wolf" (Shō No. 4) • Lana Matthews Sain reads "We Go to the Cemetery to Buy a Burial Plot" (Shō No. 4) • Shō Pride Playlist no. 1 • Verse Daily: "Not My Country" by Andrew Payton (Shō No. 3) • Verse Daily: "Deer Woman" by Sage Ravenwood (Shō No. 4) • Verse Daily: "How to Cook a Wolf" by Nathan Xavier Osorio (Shō No. 4) • Verse Daily: "Caretaker" by Faith Gómez Clark (Shō No. 4) • Verse Daily: "Letter to My Unborn Son" by Bunkong Tuon • Verse Daily: "Leonard Peltier's Plea For Clemency" by Sage Ravenwood (Shō No. 3) • "Behind the Buddha" by Cooper Young in Best Spiritual Literature 2024, Vol. 9 • Verse Daily: "Until" by Robert Okaji (Shō No. 3) • Verse Daily: "How to Eat Like a King" by Jane Zwart (Shō No. 4) • Eben E. B. Bein reads "Namesake" (Shō No. 4) • Ally Ang reads "After 'Prolonged Grief Disorder' Was Added to DSM-5" (Shō No. 3) • Andrew Payton reads "Not My Country" (Shō No. 3) • Richard Vargas reads "morning coffee at Crema Café" (Shō No. 4) • Nazifa Islam reads "Day by Day" (Shō No. 4) • Quinton Okoro reads "katabases" (Shō No. 4) • Dare Williams reads "My Lover Watches Their Lover Die" (Shō No. 3) • Cass Garison reads "Meditation on longing" (Shō No. 3) • Kailee Pedersen reads "Primavera" (Shō No. 3) • Bunkong Tuon reads “Letter to My Unborn Son" (Shō No. 3) • Sean Thomas Dougherty reads "Hanzi in the Rain" (Shō No. 3) • Cassandra Whitaker reads "“Queerness is Infinite“ (Shō No. 3) • Ellen June Wright reads “I Am What Happens When Nature Has Its Way” (Shō No. 3) • Alfonso Zapata reads "Leaving My Abuelos' Basement, Christmas Eve 2015" (Shō No. 3) • Recent & Forthcoming Books from Shō No. 3 Poets • New Lit on the Block :: Shō Poetry Journal • Visit our website • Shō on Duotrope (add us as a favorite!) • Shō Poetry Journal (@sho_journal) on X • Shō Poetry Journal (@shopoetryjournal) on Instagram • Shō Poetry Journal on Facebook