In the Current with Sarah Brockhaus Issue Nine

Dear Reader, 

Issue 9 of The Shore is filled up with skeletons and not-babies, with names for the un-nameable. In this issue, poems profess love for a squeaking grocery cart and pay careful attention to the soft shape of a snail inching, smiles play in reverse and powerlines buzz like something alive. Here is what our wonderful contributors have been up to in the past two years:

Dana Blatte published her first chapbook, Lone, in 2022. She also published poems in Roanoke Review, The Adroit Journal and Polyphony Lit. 

Jessica Poli has a forthcoming poetry collection, Red Ocher, which was selected as a finalist for the 2023 Miller Williams Poetry Prize. She also has recently published poems in North American Review, South Carolina Review and New Ohio Review.

Matthew Tuckner recently published a poem in Yalobusha Review, which won the 2022 Yellowwood Poetry Contest. He has also published poems recently in The Cortland Review, Four Way Review, Dialogist and Pleiades. 

CD Eskilson has recently published poems in Pidgeonholes, The Florida Review, Booth, Ninth Letter and Beloit Poetry Journal. They were a 2022 Best of the Net finalist. 

Dakota Reed has recently published a poem in Nelle. 

Kelsey Carmody Wort has recently published poems in Southeast Review, Ghost City Press, Rejection Letters and South Carolina Review.

Martha Silano has recently published poems in Bracken, The Inflectionist Review, Diagram and The Shore. She also published a poem in Colorado Review which was featured in Verse Daily.

SK Grout has recently published poems in Moria, LEON Literary Review and Moist Poetry Journal.

Hilary King has recently published poems in One Art, Ms. Magazine, Rogue Agent and Maudlin House.

Babo Kamel published her second poetry collection What the Days Wanted in 2022. She also recently published poems in Thimble and Third Wednesday.

Noa Saunders recently published poems in The Mantle and Ghost City Press.

Jeremy Michael Reed recently published poems in Still: The Journal and Moist Poetry Journal.

Lucy Zhang published two chapbooks in 2022, Hollowed and Absorption. She has also recently published short stories in Craft and The Spectacle, and nonfiction in Salt Hill.

C Samuel Rees recently published poems in Action Books.

Becki Hawkes published her first chapbook, The Naming of Wings, in 2022. She also published a poem in The Broken Spine.

Kevin Grauke has recently published poems in Ninth Letter and May Day Magazine, and flash fiction in Atticus Review, Thimble Literary Magazine and Jet Fuel Review.

Jenny Wong has a debut microchap, Mouthed, forthcoming in 2023 from Kissing Dynamite Press. She has also recently published poems in Hennepin Review and Porridge. 

Steven Pfau recently published essays in Astra Magazine, Diagram, The Offing, Guernica and Passages North.

Ashley Steineger published her microchapbook. Ebb/Flow, in 2021. She also published a poem in Palette Poetry.

Danielle Pieratti published a poetry collection, Approximate Body, in 2023. She also translated Maria Borio’s Transparencies from Italian to English in 2022. 

Eric Steineger has recently published poems in The Ekphrastic Review and The Night Heron Barks. 

Farnaz Fatemi published a full-length poetry collection, Sister Tongue  زبان خواهر, in 2022, which won the 2021 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize. She also published poems in Olney Magazine, Nowruz Journal, Pedestal Magazine, Jung Journal and Catamaran Literary Reader.

Scarlett Peterson has recently published poems in Barely South Review, Drunk Monkeys and Josephine Quarterly. Her first collection, The Pink I Must Have Worn, is forthcoming from Kelsay Books in Fall 2023. 

Sarah Elkins has poems forthcoming in Cold Mountain Review, SWIMM and Painted Bride Quarterly. She has also recently published poems in Porter House Review, Quarterly West and Rappahannock Review. 

Katie Holtmeyer has recently published poems in Superfroot, Stanchion and Jupiter Review. 

Robert Fanning’s fifth poetry collection, Cage, is forthcoming from Salmon Poetry. He has recently published poems in 3Cents Magazine, Diode, Good River Review and Humana Obscura.

Jean Theron published two poems in The Minnesota Review, which both received pushcart prize nominations. She has also recently published poems in The Tiny and Cathexis. 

Heidi Seaborn recently published poems in The Bellingham Review, Fjords Review, Missouri Review and Radar Poetry.

Caroline Riley received her MFA in poetry from West Virginia University in Spring of 2022.

Sarah Stickney recently had a poem published in Carolina Quarterly featured on Poetry Daily, and poems published in Guest House.

David Keplinger’s 8th poetry collection, Everlastingness, is forthcoming from Milkweed Editions in 2023. 

Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan has recently published poems in Bracken, MudRoom, Strange Horizons and No Contact. 

Tara A Elliott had poems published in Ninth Letter and Poetry Super Highway.

Lauren Mallett has recently published poems in Cola Literary Review, Night Heron Barks and The Seventh Wave. 

Richard Prins has recently published a poem in Redivider. He also received a Pen/Heim Translation Fund Grant for his translations from Swahili. 

Sam Sobel graduated with his bachelor’s degree from Rutgers University, New Brunswick and is an editor for Cathartic Youth Literary Magazine.

Joshua Young has been working on graphic design, you can find his recent work on Instagram @jyoungdesigns.

Congratulations on all your well-deserved achievements! 

Sincerely, 

Sarah Brockhaus