Happy book birthday to DRESSING THE BEAR! Can’t believe it’s been 2 years! I’m still so proud of this one! Here are some highlights! Thank you to everyone who has shined a light on these poems, and thank you, as ever, to Trio House Press! @triohousepress.org

Be sure to bookmark our #PrideMonth reading list for year-round reading recommendations from lit mags and indie presses: www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...

Very happy to be among friends in the new issue of Shō

Cover reveal: Shō No. 9 | Summer 2026 Cover art: “Past Looking” by Nara Allsop Our summer issue features 69 poems by 45 poets (listed below). Preorder Shō No. 9 at: tinyurl.com/shono9 Issues will ship in July. Conal Abatangelo Jessica Ballen Anne Barngrover Madeleine Bazil Finnegan Bly

Submissions are free for Black poets today—Happy Juneteenth! Open until 11:59 PT. shopoetryjournal.submittable.com/submit/35882...

Help me celebrate the launch of my debut on July 15 with @jacklegpress.bsky.social and friends! RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...

Open and reading for Shō No. 10! Submit here: shopoetryjournal.submittable.com

Congratulations to the New York Knickerbockers!!! Subs are open 🏀 🏀 🏀 🏀 🏀

Sharing this audio feature here because @jamesolearypoet.bsky.social is not on IG! Listen to them read “In the Dark, the Arms Look Like Crosses” from Shō No. 8 and our Pride Playlist.

If you're sending out poems this weekend, please keep us in mind.

Thank you so much, @shomedasgupta.bsky.social! 🌸🌺🌼

ICYMI, this happened: Erica Dawson's poem “Portrait of the artist as sonnet for Dickinson’s line A wounded deer—leaps highest—”, published in Shō No. 6, will appear in the The Pushcart Prize LI: Best of the Small Presses (2027). Congratulations, Erica!

A reminder that submissions to Shō Poetry Journal are always free for U.S. Indigenous Poets! Send a cover letter and up to 5 poems; we respond in 30 days or less. shopoetryjournal.submittable.com/submit/356139/free-submissions-for-u-s-indigenous-poets-sh-no-10

If you're sending out poems this weekend, please keep us in mind.

Stephanie Choi 💙 Absolutely love this poem in the most recent issue of @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social!

We are open for submissions! We are reading for our winter issue and respond to all submissions in 30 days or less. Submit here: shopoetryjournal.submittable.com

Hi, now that it's Pride month, you can hear me read a poem of mine that @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social published last year live on their site. Very honored to be included on their Pride Playlist. :) shopoetryjournal.com/pride-playli...

We are open for submissions! We are reading for our winter issue and respond to all submissions in 30 days or less. Submit here: shopoetryjournal.submittable.com

Subs open Monday!!!

Be sure to listen to @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social’s #JewishAmericanHeritage Month playlist, featuring audio recordings from six poets including Daniel Lurie, Loisa Fenichell, Brooke Sahni, and more! shopoetryjournal.com/jewish-ameri...

Do you have some work collecting dust that could find a good home? We open again soon…

✍️ find details on submitting to our chapbook open reading here: buff.ly/EYEycWa

Get your packets ready! Submissions to Shō Poetry Journal open June 1. We charge $3 for an expedited response of 30 days or less, pay one contributor copy (international poets included), and award two $150 Editors’ Prizes for each issue. Submissions are free for U.S. Indigenous poets.

We are so pleased to share the @triohousepress.org 2026 Trio Award Finalists! Congratulations to all!

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Super excited that DRESSING THE BEAR (@triohousepress.org) was selected by t.r. san to be featured this week for The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed with @sundresspub.bsky.social! Here’s “The Professor Asks Me to Write a Joyful Poem”! 💙 More at the link, friends: sundressblog.com/category/war...

✨ Hey, writers! You’re invited to celebrate the launch of Hayden’s Ferry Review Issue 78! Join us for a special virtual evening honoring the incredible writers and artists featured in this issue! Link in comments! 📅 May 7, 6 PM MST!

Today, we’re revealing the cover of our newest issue and opening the door to Issue 78 with a web preview now live on the HFR homepage. Inside, you’ll find a gathering of new writing and art from this issue’s contributors — work that invites attention, return, and conversation! Link in comments!

One of my favorites from DRESSING THE BEAR! ⬇️ @triohousepress.org

Our Blessing the Boats Selections is open and accepting submissions from May 1st to June 15th. Blessing the Boats Selections spotlights poetry collections by women of color. There is no submission fee associated with this reading period. Visit our website for a full list of eligibility requirements

New playlist for Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month, featuring Sean Cho A., Courtney Alyce, Shlagha Borah, Aaron Caycedo-Kimura, Lyn Li Che, M. Cynthia Cheung, Stephanie Choi, Eliana Chow, Vasvi Kejriwal, Giljoon Lee, Rishona Michael, Ngoc Pham, Brooke Sahni, Rukan Saif, Tianyi, and Claire Zhou.

To celebrate Jewish American Heritage Month, we've curated this playlist of poems recently published in Shō Poetry Journal. Look out for audio features from Aileen Bassis, Loisa Fenichell, Shira Leah Haus, Daniel Lurie, Brooke Sahni, and Rebekah Wolman.

For Mental Health Awareness Month, we've curated this playlist of poems recently published in Shō Poetry Journal. Look out for audio features from Emily Adams-Aucoin, Catherine Broadwall, Crystal Cox, Olivia Jacobson, Sophie Johnson, Mallory Rodenberg, Alyssandra Tobin, and Tiezst "Tie" Taylor.

National Poetry Month: Prompt 29, from Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social #poetry #NaPoMo

I now have author copies of The Broken Buddha in hand. If you’d like a signed copy, DM me for my Venmo or PayPal details. $20 includes shipping.

Perfect for fans of TÁR and THE PIANO TEACHER, THE MINIMALIST charts a classical composer & adoptee's spiral into madness. We're still offering free copies to the adoptee community! Request here by 6/19/26: forms.gle/bPv4yhQnshiU... Content warnings: kaileepedersen.com/the-minimali... 🥚

If you’re proposing a panel for AWP 2027 and wanna slide me onto your lineup lmk 😇 I also like moderating panels too if you need a moderator!

A little late, but still so grateful to have a poem in this stunning issue--thank you again to @domkeykong.bsky.social and @johnnycordova.bsky.social! #poetry #poetrycommunity #nationalpoetrymonth

National Poetry Month: Prompt 6, from @djvorreyer.bsky.social! 🎉🎉🎉 Time to play with NUMBERS ✨

@shopoetryjournal.bsky.social’s playlist for #WomensHistoryMonth features audio recordings and contextual notes from fourteen poets published in Shō Poetry Journal, including Whitney Koo, Alison Pelegrin, Meg Reynolds, and Jessica Q. Stark! shopoetryjournal.com/womens-histo...

Both hymn and howl, Arah Ko's ANIMAL LOGIC speaks in the language of survival. Coming in May, preorder now: buff.ly/3SDX8vo

Just received a really thoughtful rejection from @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social that included surprise feedback (which was helpful because this is one I love but no one has given me anything that made sense yet -- so thank you!).

Good morning, bbs. Look who is waking up in time for National Poetry Month! 💕 Send us a writing prompt! Include your bio! 💦 #poetry

❤️Submissions open until April 15: INCH --our little journal with a big heart-- is accepting manuscript submissions; read all about it: buff.ly/jGeTkNA

Friendly reminder that my fourth full-length collection, The Lighthouse Tattoo, is now available for preorder with Acre Books which is published out of the English dept from U of Cincinnati. Thanks for the support.. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Last weekend to submit! We are still seeking poetry for our summer issue (due out in July). Submissions close on March 15 (11:59pm PT). Details at shopoetryjournal.submittable.com

Last weekend to submit! We are still seeking poetry for our summer issue (due out in July). Submissions close on March 15 (11:59pm PT). Details at shopoetryjournal.submittable.com