In the Current with Sarah Brockhaus Issue Ten

Dear Reader, 

Issue Ten of The Shore was published in the Summer of 2021 and it embraces every aspect of this season. This issue is a brilliant collection of art and poetry that challenges perceptions and creates perspectives through which the world can be seen anew. The poems in this issue play with the position of the reader, bringing us underground, on a poet road trip, into the labyrinth of a wasp nest, jump roping and into the miniscule as a means of approaching the maximal. You cannot enter this issue and leave unchanged, these poems will break you from birdcages and challenge you to grow dandelions on your lips.

Over the last two years, the contributors of issue ten have continued to create art that explores and pushes boundaries. Here is what they have been up to:

Lindsay Lusby has recently published poems in Copper Nickel,  Puerto Del Sol, Epiphany and the micro anthology Haunted.

Jenn Koiter published her debut collection, So Much of Everything, which won the 2021 DC Poets Project.

Sarah Brockhaus has recently published poems in Sugar House Review, Tupelo Quarterly and North American Review. She is now your humble blog editor for The Shore.

Grace Li recently published a poem in Tupelo Quarterly.

Karen Rigby has a poetry book forthcoming in 2024 titled Fabulosa. She has also recently published poems in Quarterly West, Revolute and Ex/Post.

Brittany Atkinson received her MFA from Western Washington University in 2022. 

Erin Wilson published her second poetry collection Blue in 2022. She has also recently published poems in Body, Jet Fuel Review, Verse Daily and On the Sea Wall.

John Sibley Williams’ latest book of poems, Skyscrape, won the 2022 WaterSedge Poetry Chapbook Contest. He has also recently published poems in Portland Review, Colorado Review and Break Water Review.

Paul Ilechko has recently published poems in Impspired, The Night Heron Barks and North of Oxford.

Audrey Gidman has recently published poems in The Night Heron Barks, Luna Luna Magazine and The Inflectionist Review.

Stella Lei recently published a poem in Narrative Magazine which placed second in their High School Contest. She also recently published poems in Four Way Review and perhappened mag.

Todd Osborne’s debut poetry collection, Gatherer, is forthcoming in 2024 from Belle Point Press. He has also recently published a poem in Scrawl Place.

Bobby Parrott recently published poems in Across the Margin, Oddball Magazine and Modern Literature.

William Littlejohn-Oram has recently published poems in Muzzle Magazine, Eco Theo Collective and Amethyst Review.

David Ford recently published a poem in Speckled Trout Review.

Matthew Valades has recently published poems in Redivider and The Indianapolis Review.

Melody Wilson has recently published poems in Cleaver, Silver Birch Press, Two Hawks Quarterly and Sugar House Review.

Jared Beloff published his debut poetry collection, Who Will Cradle Your Head, in February 2023. He also recently published poems in The Night Heron Barks, River Mouth Review and IceFloe Press.

Russell Thorburn recently published a poem in Streetlight Magazine.

Toti O’Brien’s latest book, Pages of a Broken Diary, was published in 2022. She has also recently published poems in Harbor Review, A-Minor Magazine and Whimsical Poet.

Trey Adams was recently published in Gone Lawn.

Dare Williams has recently published poems in Frontier Poetry, West Trade Review, Had, The Journal and San Pedro River Review.

Rebecca Patrascu has recently published poems in Deep Overstock, Smartish Pace, Glint Literary Journal and Heron Tree.

McLeod Logue has poems forthcoming in The Sonora Review, Gulf Stream and The Southern Poetry Anthology. She has recently published creative nonfiction in Pithead Chapel and fiction in 34 Orchard. 

Jeremy Rock has recently published poems in The Broadkill Review, Flyway Journal, Beaver Magazine and Sugar House Review.

Jen Karetnick’s latest poetry collection, Inheritance with a High Error Rate, is forthcoming in 2024 and won the 2022 Cider Press Review Book Award. She has also recently published poems in A-Minor Magazine, About Place and The Broadkill Review.

Jordan Deveraux recently published poetry in Tilted House Review. 

Ifeoluwa Ayandele has recently published poems in Another Chicago Magazine, The Concrete Desert Review and Emerge Literary Journal.

Mandira Pattnaik published a poetry chapbook, Anatomy of a Storm-Weathered Quaint Townspeople, in 2022. She also recently published a flash fiction collection, Girls Who Don’t Cry, in January 2023, and her novella, Where We Set Our Easel, was published in May 2023. 

Jeffrey H MacLachlan has recently published poems in The Woodward Review and Red Ogre Review.

Matthew Burnside has recently published in No Contact Magazine, Berlin Lit and Cheat River Review.

Lawrence Di Stefano has recently published poems in Bear Review, Southern Humanities Review and Sepia Journal.

Majda Gama’s forthcoming chapbook, The Call of Paradise, won the 2022 Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Prize. She has recently published poems in The Adroit Journal, The Night Heron Barks and The Offing.

Congratulations on all your accomplishments! Your contributions to literature are incredibly valuable and it is a privilege to see what each of you have been up to in the two years since the publication of issue ten.

Sincerely, 

Sarah Brockhaus