Shō Poetry Journal

SUMMER ISSUE | Shō No. 7 feat. Christian J. Collier, Aldo Amparán, M. Cynthia Cheung, Sean Thomas Dougherty, & 44 other poets we love

S U B M I T (30-day response)

WINTER ISSUE | Shō No. 6 feat. Saddiq Dzukogi, Maja Lukic, Erica Dawson & 37 other poets we love

The Shō Poetry Prize

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]

Nina C. Peláez – Doubt [Sita Martin Prize Runner-Up]

Prize Winners - Shō Poetry Journal

The Sita Martin Prize

SUMMER ISSUE 2025: Paige Passantino — Sugar Baby Sonnet

SUMMER ISSUE 2025: Amber Adams – Okinawa, 2016

Pride Month Playlist #2 (2025)

Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month Roundup

Women's History Month Roundup

Black History Month Playlist

“Your Mother Knew Many Words for Beauty and Used All of Them to Call You” by Maja Lukic

"Girl Cousins, Pixelated" by Ranudi Gunawardena (Shō No. 6) - Sita Martin Prize Runner-Up

"Hanzi in the Rain" by Sean Thomas Dougherty (Shō No. 3)

Claire Zhou interviews NATHAN XAVIER OSORIO

Claire Zhou interviews ARAH KO

Jose Oseguera reads "Ode to the Foreskin" (Shō No. 5)

Becka Mara McKay reads "Golden Shovel as Anthropomorphism" (Shō No. 6)

Claire Zhou reads “Cambridge IGCSE Biology Textbook, Chapter 19” (Shō No. 5)

Elontra Hall reads “Hagakure” (Shō No. 5)

Ellen June Wright reads “Peonies 1870”

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))

Jae Nichelle reads "alternate timeline" (Shō No. 6)

Danielle Shandiin Emerson reads "Sometimes, she listened to his stories." (Shō No. 4)

T. De Los Reyes reads "Aubade" (Shō No. 6)

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)