@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

Submissions close March 15th!

It’s heartening for a reviewer to understand the intentional use of moral ambiguity in The Broken Buddha, given the number of poems set in the red light districts of Bangkok and the speaker’s transgressions there. Read Richard Modiano's very insightful review at The Literary Underground:

Anti-Fascist Love Poem reading was so good, y’all—sometimes readings are about caring for each other with our words 📚❤️🙏 Thankful for every poet and guest…the room was so full of love & support & yes: QUEERS & lovers!

Arizona-based @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social publishes two print issues of poetry a year. They strive to build community by championing poets through audio features, playlists, and editors’ prizes awarded to work in each issue. Find out more at table 605!

Submissions close March 15th!

t was fun to be interviewed by Water~Stone Review about my poem "Li Po took a driving test." Check it out:

Honored to have a new poem in The McNeese Review, a journal I absolutely love! Thanks to editor, Michael Robins, and poetry editor, Gwenyth Wheat, for giving “Copyist” such a kind home and for inviting me to speak about my process in crafting it (included in the replies)! Check it out, friends! 💙

So honored to have a poem on Poets.org. It's been a dream of mine for so long. I have infinite gratitude for everyone involved in getting this poem out into the world. ❤️

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Hey! Don't miss out on the FOMO and poems. Sign up to read here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Registered to attend (readers & nonreaders) here: www.eventbrite.com/e/nawp-open-...

Just a little over halfway full with less than a month to go. Send strong work!

Forthcoming April 7: CLOUDWATCHER by MICHAEL BAZZETT, winner of the 2025 Stern Prize from The American Poetry Review! In today's #coverfeature, BAZZETT tells us about the uncanny resemblance—and rightness—between his speaker, self, and cover figure:

Shō No. 9 Update: We’ve accepted 34 poems from 23 poets for our summer issue, and we’re looking for more strong work! Submissions are open until March 15, 2026 (11.59pm MST). Submit here: shopoetryjournal.submittable.com

Sharing a few February poetry releases from Shō contributors: Happy Publication Day to IT'S IMPORTANT I REMEMBER by Cortney Lamar Charleston @bardsbesidebars.bsky.social nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014964... (25% off with code NUP2026)

You like love poems? Anti-Fascist love poems? Erin Vachon and I have been working on organizing this reading to take place during AWP this year—hope you can join us. @erinvachon.bsky.social 🖤 💪

From DRESSING THE BEAR 💙⬇️ @triohousepress.org

Shō Poetry Journal is committed to supporting the work of both established and emerging Native American poets. Submissions are always free for US Indigenous poets with tribal affiliation. We look forward to reading your work! Cover Art: Detail from "Hopi Leia" by Sikuyva Dawavendewa.

A heartfelt thank you and deep gassho to Zen Abbot Richard Collins for his review of The Broken Buddha, live today at Rat’s Ass Review (lol). It’s the second review when you scroll down the page: ratsassreview.net?page_id=4452

Our free BIPOC call for Shō No. 9 is now closed—thank you to everyone who submitted. This is the first time we've reached our submissions cap for a BIPOC call...we've got a lot of reading to do. Everyone will hear back from us in 30 days or less.

Free submissions for BIPOC poets open today at 12pm MST.

BIPOC Poets: Get your packets ready! We're offering 75 free submissions this weekend. Project opens: Saturday 24 January @ 12pm MST Project closes: Sunday 25 January @ 11:59pm MST (or once cap is reached) If you have a submission pending, please wait until you receive a response.

BIPOC Poets: Get your packets ready! We're offering 75 free submissions this weekend. Project opens: Saturday 24 January @ 12pm MST Project closes: Sunday 25 January @ 11:59pm MST (or once cap is reached) If you have a submission pending, please wait until you receive a response.

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Over the moon to have the opening poem of DEAR DEAR (!!) in the lovely new issue of @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social Read on for Mitski gay sadness and order the issue at link in bio 1/2

HAPPY NEWS! I am grateful to the amazing Eugenia Leigh for choosing my manuscript SENTENCE to win the 2025 Nine Syllables Press Chapbook Contest! These poems are as much my brother’s as my own & I am thankful to everyone at Smith College for believing in them! Coming fall 2026! Image: 9SP IG page

one of 2 poems from my angel series in the new issue of @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social 🖤

Had a poem about my fun fun time with electroconvulsive therapy, which I didn't really know was still a thing before I got it, and its resulting memory loss, in @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social thanks to @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social! Read it here: fifthwheelpress.com/blog/guest-e...

phoebe’s submissions are OPEN today, January 15th! Head to the link in our bio for more information. 🎉

We’re 30 days into our reading period and already Shō No. 9 is shaping up to be a great one. Send bangers!

If you're sending out work this weekend, please keep us in mind!

Today’s Feature: “Abecedarian for My Undocumented Amá’s Tongue in TX” by Saúl Hernández published by @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/abeceda...

We are celebrating the upcoming release of @susanlleary.bsky.social’s More Flowers by offering you a special deal! Get a copy of Dressing the Bear for 50% off with every order of My Flowers this January: triohousepress.myshopify.com/products/mor...

“Chaos is how we know we're in love.” Truly an honor to have two short love poems in the new issue of The American Poetry Review. Here’s one —

James O’Leary with the closing poem of Shō No. 8 ✨🌵

In the new issue of @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social, one of two poems from my Angel series:

Arah Ko 💙 from @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social

Welcome to the world, Shō No. 8! 💛

An excerpt of my forthcoming memoir, The Sound of Burning: a Mother, a Daughter, a Murder (UGA Press, 2026) is out now in @hypertextmagazine.bsky.social (TW: blood) hypertextmag.com/no-contact/

Thank you so much, @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social!

So much for that—forgot to tag @betsymitchellmtz.bsky.social!

Another bsky experiment! Betsy Mitchell Martinez was selected as the winner of the Shō Poetry Prize for three poems. Read her poem “Self-Portrait as Frida Kahlo with Prickly Pear” here. All three of Betsy's poems are published in Shō No. 8 (Winter 2025/26).

Bsky experiment! Here's Elizabeth Loudon (@esloudon.bsky.social) reading her poem “Renunciation” from our forthcoming issue Shō No. 8. You can also read the poem on our website: shopoetryjournal.com/elizabeth-lo... An earlier version of this poem appears in Best New Poets 2025.