In the Current with Sarah Brockhaus Issue Seven

Dear Reader, 

Issue 7 of The Shore is brimming with the strange and aching: a rosebush stomach, neighborhood bobcat, the moon growing a sweaty upper lip, a termite in an apple. These poets get up close and specific in their work, never letting you dare to look away.

Here is what the contributors of issue 7 have been up to in the past 2 years:

Melissa Crowe was the 2021 winner of the Robert H. Winner Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. She had a poem featured in Poetry Daily and poems published in New England Review, Four Way Review, Poetry Northwest, The Bear Review and Sugar House Review.

Lisa Ampleman had poems published in The Rumpus, Sweet and Ecotone.

Susan Rich published a collection of new and selected poems titled Gallery of Postcards and Maps.

Taylor Byas won 1st place in Frontier Poetry’s 2020 Award for New Poets and the Beloit Poetry Journal 2021 Adrienne Rich Poetry Award. She has also released two chapbooks, Bloodwarm (2021) and Shutter (2022). Her debut full length collection I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times is forthcoming in 2023 from Soft Skull Press. 

Joely Byron Fitch published an essay in Blue Earth Review. 

Emma Aylor published poems in Diagram, The Yale Review, Terrain.org, Roanoke Review and AGNI. 

Jill Mceldowney published poems in Barren Magazine and Muzzle Magazine.

Samuel Adeyemi won the 2021 Nigerian Students Poetry Prize. He published poems in Palette Poetry, Frontier Poetry, Brittle Paper, Afro Literary Magazine, Indigo Literary Journal, Kissing Dynamite and more.

Taylor Fedorchak published poems in Counterclock and Gigantic Sequins.

Susan Moon published poems in Lammergeier, Porridge and Honey Literary.

Owen McLeod published poems in Copper Nickel and The Southern Review. 

Olúwádáre Pópóọla published poems in Palette Poetry and Frontier Poetry.

Isaac George Lauritsen published poems in Muzzle, Hobart, Sidereal and Jabberwock Review. He also published fiction in The Maine Review. 

Duncan Mwangi published in Shift.

Adam Day published poems in No Contact, Overheard and Interim. 

Natalie Young led a workshop and read at the Utah Poetry Festival in April 2022. 

Dan Wiencek published his first poetry collection, Routes Between Raindrops. 

Andy Keys published poems in Twyckenham Notes.

Vincent Poturica published poems in Telephone and his fiction was selected for the Best Small Fiction Anthology 2021. 

Katherine Fallon published a chapbook titled Demoted Planet in 2021. She also published a poem in The Los Angeles Review and fiction in AGNI.

Sarah Lilius published a full-length poetry collection titled Dirty Words. She also published poems in Two Hawks Quarterly, Fatal Flaw, Coal Hill Review, Kissing Dynamite and more.

Troy Varvel published poetry in River Styx.

Katherine Eulensen had a poem from Bear Review featured by RevisitLit on twitter.

Mayowa Oyewale published poems in Blue Marble Review, The Cardiff Review, Sand and Gutter.

James Grinwis published poems in Painted Bride Quarterly.

Barbara Daniels published poems in Apple Valley Review, Atticus Review, The Dodge and The American Journal of Poetry. 

David Spicer published poems in Delta Poetry Review. 

Christen Noel Kauffman published a collection of lyric essays titled Notes to a Mother God in 2021. She has poems published or forthcoming in Sixth Finch, Rhino, South Florida, Prism Review and Sugar House Review, among many others.

Jeffrey Hermann published poems in Blood Tree, One Art, Feral, Rejection Letters and Lost Balloon.

Jude Marr published poems in Leavings, Moria, Icefloe Press and Boats Against the Current. 

Emily Lake Hansen received the 2022 Longleaf Poetry Fellowship. She also published poems in Up The Staircase Quarterly, Limp Wrist, Poetry Online, So To Speak, One Art, Glass and more.

Ashley Hajimirsadeghi has published widely, most recently in Sugared Water, Trampset and Gone Lawn. She has poems forthcoming in Pidgeonholes, The Cortland Review, Salt Hill Journal, Rhino, Moon City Review and Counterclock. She also published a poetry chapbook titled Cartography of Trauma and a micro chapbook titled Cinophile.

Gary Fox has a new poem forthcoming in The Shore.

Jack B. Bedell published collections of poetry titled Color All Maps New (2021) and Against the Wood’s Dark Trunks (2022). He also published poems in Iamb.

Joe Lugara was the cover artist for Pithead Chapel Magazine (2021) and The MacGuffin (winter 2021).

Congratulations on your numerous well-earned achievements, we look forward to seeing what you achieve next!

Sincerely, 

Sarah Brockhaus