Shō Poetry Journal

Welcome to the world, Shō No. 7! It’s been two years since we released our revival issue…🐻 We’re so excited to share the poems in this issue with you! Cover art: “Interim” by Tanya Rastogi Print copies ship this week!

Check out details for this one-day generative writing workshop with Jose Hernandez Diaz ⤵️

In case anyone’s looking for a chapbook to add to their Sealey Challenge—here’s the first poem from my chap Gratitude List, available to order from @BullCityPress :)

‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨STARTING a one-day generative workshop on ODES! 8/3/25 11am-1pm. Zoom. -reading odes by established masters like W.S. Merwin, Pablo Neruda, Ross Gay, Sharon Olds, Carmen Gimenez, & more. -responding to generative prompts drafted by instructor on…

Loving this poem, “Work Song,” from Ajibola Tolase in the new issue of Southern Indiana Review 💙 “Nothing is yours. This is the wisdom of poetry.”

If you're sending out work this weekend, please keep us in mind. • Payment is one contributor copy • We nominate for Best New Poets, Best Spiritual Lit, and the Pushcart Prize • We award prize money for best poem in issue and best poem by an emerging poet

Reginald Shepherd, “My Mother Was No White Dove” My mother was the clouded-over night/ a moon swims through

I was able to hold my first book today! Pre-orders are arriving now: fourwaybooks.com/site/the-decli…

Submissions to Shō Poetry Journal are always free for Native American and Indigenous Canadian poets. Details: shopoetryjournal.submittable.com Cover Art from "In Gilded Walls" by Tanya Rastogi, Shō No. 6 (Winter 2024/25)

Website Update: BOTH of my chapbooks are now available to order! They even feature my photography as their covers 🖤 allisonfieldbell.com/books Thanks so much to @FLPress and @cutbankonline for believing in these projects!

My beloveds keep sending me pictures of my new chapbook out from @FLPress and it is the sweetest thing 💗

What's your hole got to say? Come explore the edges of self, body & spirit with Ally Ang & Cass Garison. Sept 14 | 12–2 PST Let's make some holes together. Sign up: fahmidanjournal.submittable.com/submit/308885/…

Today’s Featured Poem: “Anticipation of the Inevitable” by samodH Porawagamage from becoming sam published by Burnside Review Press Read here: poems.com/poem/anticipat…

Hi, its been awhile but I am the Friday Feature for Torch Literary Arts :) torchliteraryarts.org/post/friday-fe…

Wow—I’m truly honored (and shocked)! My manuscript Rehumanization Litany received an honorable mention for the VU Literary Prize. So grateful for this recognition. Huge congratulations to Melissa Range and all the other semifinalists!

Locate the origins of sadness in "Abandoned Love Sonnet #5" by @phlat_soda   Read more poetry from SHR 58.2: southernhumanitiesreview.com/current-issue.… #writingcommunity #litmag #poetry

Hey! It's me, your friendly neighbourhood IS&T intern with a message: Submissions are open for Ink Sweat & Tears until the 20th of July. It has been great to read what's come in so far. More please! inksweatandtears.co.uk/submissions/ #InkSweatandTears #Poetry #Submissions

.@SaddiqDzukogi, author of BAKANDAMIYA and YOUR CRIB, MY QIBLA (@AfricanPoetryBF), joins @cavecanempoets’s 2025 Cohort of fellows! Read more in @brittlepaper: bit.ly/46t8icu