Johnny Cordova

Anti-Fascist Love Poem JENNIFER A SUTHERLAND CATHERINE ROCKWOOD ADRIAN DALLAS FRANDLE Reading MICHAEL TODD COHEN CARLA SOFIA FERREIRA DOMINIQUE AHKONG HAN VANDERHART JOHNNY CORDOVA ELIZABETH SYLVIA RITA MOOKERJEE AMORAK HUEY ERIN VACHON K. IVER Off Site Baltimore Saturday, March 7|79pm Fells Point 1640 Thames Street (use entrance to: 1636)

Hey friends—join us in Baltimore for some fire, anti-fascist love poems! Saturday night, 7pm.

Submissions close March 15th!

In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Johnny Cordova | Water~Stone Review

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

In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Johnny Cordova | Water~Stone Review

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

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

Love is the drug I'm thinking of

Glass half full!

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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

Anti-Fascist Love Poem image, featuring the graphic of a black hand with red painted nails taking off its own handcuff. Text: Anti-Fascist Love Poem HAN VANDERHART DOMINIQUE AHKONG MICHAEL TODD COHEN Reading ADRIAN DALLAS FRANDLE JENNIFER A SUTHERLAND CATHERINE ROCKWOOD JOHNNY CORDOVA ELIZABETH SYLVIA RITA MOOKERJEE AMORAK HUEY ERIN VACHON TARA SHEA K. IVER Baltimore, MD Saturday, March 7|7-9pm Fells Point 1640 Thames Street (use entrance to: 1636)

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 🖤 💪

Shō Poetry Journal, an Arizona-based print journal, offers free submissions to Native American poets. Submit up to 5 poems. Response time is 30 days or less. Shō No. 9 will be published in summer 2026. Shopoetryjournal.submittable.com

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.

Reviews - Until the Spring-Summer 2025 issue, Rat’s Ass Review has been a review in name only. It has published hundreds of poems, many of them quite good, but it has never attempted to offer an assessment of a...

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

Black text on pale lavender background reads: Stats: Free Submissions for BIPOC Poets | Shō Poetry Journal | Capped at: 75 submissions Time it took to reach our cap: 35 hours 54 minutes U.S.-based submitters: 42 International submitters: 33 International submissions by location: Australia: 1 Brazil: 2 Cameroon: 1 Canada: 6 Egypt: 1 Ghana: 2 India: 5 Indonesia: 1 Mexico: 1 New Zealand: 1 Nigeria: 6 Pakistan: 1 Philippines: 1 South Africa: 1 Sri Lanka: 1 UK: 2

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.

This too is situational football. I love it!

Championship games are won in the trenches.

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

My high school history teacher told us that pirates buried treasure on Iceland and named both places to throw thieves off the scent. Iceland being green and Greenland being ice...

Gen X here.

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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.

Will be an interesting draft and offseason for the Chargers.

If their OTs come back healthy…

If the OTs come back healthy, how are they not immediate Super Bowl favorites next year?

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

Send bangers!

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We're offering 30 free submissions on December 24! Opens at noon MST, closes at 11:59pm MST (or once our cap is reached). If you have a submission pending, please wait until you receive a response. Full guidelines: shopoetryjournal.com/submissions/

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Calling poets! Shō Poetry Journal opens for submissions tomorrow, December 15, at midnight MST.

Full guidelines: shopoetryjournal.com/submissions/
Submit here: shopoetryjournal.submittable.com

Rukan Saif stands outdoors against the brick wall in a city, smiling. She wears a white tshirt, a long black skirt, black Mary Jane shoes, white socks with printed hearts, and carries a brown shoulder bag. Her long black hair is in braids and she carries a phone in her hand. Black text on pale lavender background announces Rukan Saif as the Sita Martin Prize Runner-Up for Shō Poetry Journal Issue No. 8 for the poem “Harami Ghazal.”

Black text on pale lavender background shows the author bio for Rukan Saif, runner-up of the Sita Martin Prize for Shō Poetry Journal Issue No. 8. A circle-cut graphic of Sikuyva Dawavendewa's black-and-white relief print "Hopi Leia" is on the right.

We are excited to announce the prize honorees for our winter issue! Rukan Saif is the runner-up of the Sita Martin Prize for her poem “Harami Ghazal.” Rukan’s poem will be published in Shō No. 8 (Winter 2025/2026). Get your copy here: tinyurl.com/shono8

Congratulations, Rukan!

The poet Rebecca Morton sits indoors, looking at the camera. She wears a black turtleneck sweater and has brown hair. In the background is a bookshelf, two couches, a lamp, and frames on the wall. Black text on pale lavender background announces Rebecca Morton as the runner-up of the Shō Poetry Prize for Shō Poetry Journal Issue No. 8 for three poems titled “Uncertainty Principle.”

Black text on pale lavender background shows the author bio for Rebecca Morton, runner-up of the Shō Poetry Prize for Shō Poetry Journal Issue No. 8. A circle-cut graphic of Sikuyva Dawavendewa's black-and-white relief print "Hopi Leia" is on the right.

We are excited to announce the prize honorees for our winter issue! Rebecca Morton is the runner-up of the Shō Poetry Prize for three poems titled “Uncertainty Principle.” Rebecca’s poems will be published in Shō No. 8 (Winter 2025/2026). Reserve your copy at tinyurl.com/shono8

Cheyenne C. Fletcher sits on the ground indoors under a spotlight, leaning on one arm and smiling off to the side. Her long black hair is pulled back into a ponytail and she wears a fitting long-sleeved black scoop-neck top, blue jeans, and dangling earrings. Black text on a pale lavender background announces Cheyenne C. Fletcher as the winner of the Sita Martin Prize for Shō Poetry Journal Issue No. 8 for three poems.

Black text on pale lavender background shows the author bio for Cheyenne C. Fletcher, winner of the Sita Martin Prize for Shō Poetry Journal Issue No. 8. A circle-cut graphic of Sikuyva Dawavendewa's black-and-white relief print "Hopi Leia" is on the right.

We are thrilled to announce that Cheyenne C. Fletcher has been awarded the Sita Martin Prize for three poems: “Lady of the Holler,” “Obit #1,” and “Obit #2.” Cheyenne’s poems will be published in Shō No. 8 (Winter 2025/2026)—preorder your copy at tinyurl.com/shono8. Congratulations, Cheyenne!

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I’m thrilled that @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social published my poem “Wakulla.” What a highlight to be in the same issue as Chen Chen!

#poetry #poem #literature

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Black text on a pale lavender background announces Betsy Mitchell Martinez as the winner of the Shō Poetry Prize for Issue No. 8 for three poems: ”Self-Portrait as Frida Kahlo with Prickly Pear,” ”Girl with Death Mask,” and “Diego Weighs in on Quality.” Frida Kahlo’s painting “Tunas (Still Life with Prickly Pear Fruit)” appears in the center-left of the image.

Black text on pale lavender background shows the author bio for Betsy Mitchell Martinez, winner of the Shō Poetry Prize for Issue No. 8: Betsy Mitchell Martinez holds an MFA from the University of Michigan. Her recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, Rattle, New Letters, Shenandoah, Washington Square Review, Southeast Review, Redivider, EPOCH, and elsewhere. A circle-cut graphic of Sikuyva Dawavendewa's black-and-white relief print "Hopi Leia" is on the right.

We are thrilled to announce that Betsy Mitchell Martinez has been awarded the Shō Poetry Prize for ”Self-Portrait as Frida Kahlo with Prickly Pear,” ”Girl with Death Mask,” and “Diego Weighs in on Quality”! Shō No. 8: tinyurl.com/shono8. Congratulations, @betsymitchellmtz.bsky.social!

As the body of this ancient Buddha decays and falls away, the meditation posture itself remains. Something goes, something remains. Such is the dharma of impermanence.

Very excited to reveal the cover for The Broken Buddha, my forthcoming poetry collection from Roadside Press.

Immensely grateful to Harim Choi (@harimmch on IG) and Dominique Ahkong for their work on the cover art and design.

You can reserve a signed copy here: tinyurl.com/brokenbuddha

Shō Poetry Journal's nominees for the Nina Riggs Poetry Award. Three different Sho Poetry Journal covers in a vertical column on the left. Listed in a wider column on the right are the nominees with circle-cut author photos, poet names, and poem titles.

Announcing our nominations for the Nina Riggs Poetry Award!
Dorsey Craft @dorseycraft.bsky.social
Maja Lukic @majalukic.bsky.social
Nina C. Peláez @ninacpelaez.bsky.social
Jessica Nirvana Ram @jessnirvanapoet.bsky.social
Jeddie Sophronius
Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social