In the Current with Siobhan Jean-Charles Issue 15

Dear Reader,

Issue 15 is filled with a little blasphemy, an eclipse that stops traffic and butchered names. Dear reader, it is also my favorite issue of The Shore. Stare at these poems too long and they may hurt your eyes with their illuminating language and insights.

Here is what the issue 15 contributors have been up to since:

Michael Emmanuel was nominated for Best of the Net, had work anthologized in 20.35 Africa and was featured in Plume Poetry’s 5 Under 35.

Jill Crammond published her first chapbook, Handbook for Unwell Mothers.

Ali Wood published a poem in Frontier Poetry.

Amy Wang had work recognized by the New York Times, The Asian American Writers’ Workshop and The Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. She has published poems in The Adroit Journal, Waxwing, Kissing Dynamite and others.

Lynne Ellis published poems in The Missouri Review, North American Review, Sugar House Review and more.

Doug Ramspeck was the third place winner of Narrative Magazine’s 2024 Winter Story Contest. He published poetry in The Sun Magazine, Rattle, Rhino Poetry and more.

Robert Carr published poems in Chestnut Review, The Offing, Third Wednesday Magazine and others.

Nano Taggart published a poem in Pilgrimage Magazine.

Mary Ford Neal had work featured in One Art: a journal of poetry, Couplet Poetry, After Poetry and others.

Jessica Baldanzi published a poem in Exposition Review.

Anne Cheilek is an MFA candidate at San Jose University and published poems in Rhino Poetry, Cider Press Review, Reed Magazine and more.

Jeanna Paden recently published a debut poetry collection with Finishing Line Press titled Premonition.

Elizabeth Joy Levinson published poems in Beaver Magazine, West Trestle Review, Gyroscope and more.

Juliana Gray published a poem in Poetry Northwest.

Madelyn Musick had poems in Bodega Magazine and Somerville Arts Council.

Ryler Dustin published a poetry collection with University of Pittsburg Press titled Trailer Park Psalms which won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. He published poems in The Missouri Review, The Slowdown Podcast with Major Jackson, Green Linden Press and other journals.

Michelle Park published a poem in Agapanthus Collective.

McKenzie Teter published poems in Litmosphere and Volney Road Review.

Lawrence Di Stefano published poems in Tupelo Quarterly, Waxwing, Sugar House Review and more.

Alicia Byrne Keane published work in Acumen Journal, Irish Independent, The Galway Review and other journals.

Erin Little graduated with an MFA from Louisiana State University. She published a debut poetry chapbook, Personal Injury, which won the 2023 Chestnut Review Chapbook Prize.

Abigail Chang published poems in Redivider, diode poetry journal, The Los Angeles Review and other journals.

Ion Corcos published poems in The Hyacinth Review and The Woodward Review.

Alec Hershman published a poetry collection with Midwest Writing Center titled, For a Second, In the Dark.

Alison Hurwitz published work in Anti-Heroin Chic and was anthologized in Poetry in the Time of Coronavirus and Global Poemic.

Rachel Walker published poetry in Lunch Ticket, trampset and JMWW.

Jared Beloff published poetry in The Baltimore Review, Kissing Dynamite, Crab Creek Review and more.

Sarah Wallis published poetry in Dust Magazine, The Winged Moon, Full Mood Mag and others.

Brooke Harries published poems in Cleaver Magazine.

Adam Day published poems in The Los Angeles Review, No Contact Mag, The Broadkill Review and other journals.

Maria Hiers published work in Two Hawks Quarterly.

Bobby Parrott published poems in Across the Margins, Bruiser Magazine, oddball magazine and others.

Hannah Schoettmer had work in Brooklyn Poets and Rust & Moth.

Lora Robinson published a poem in Pine Hills Review.

Jesse Fleming published a poem in Backstory Journal.

Taylor Cornelius published a poem in The Penn Review.

Jennifer Metsker published work in Dialogist, The Inflectionist Review, Epiphany and other journals.

Gary Fox read at The Shore’s 2023 Earth Day Eco-Poetry reading.

Annalee Roustio published a poem in Rhino Poetry.

Kaelyn Wright’s photography can be found at kaelynwright.com

Congratulations on your achievements! We cannot wait to see what you do next.

Best,

Siobhan Jean-Charles