The Shore Issue 21 brings fresh new poetry, a rush of color and chaos, just in time for spring. The online issue is bursting with poetry by: Madeline Allen, Isabella Piedad Escamilla, Lexi Pelle, Anne Barngrover, Lara Egger, Sarah Anne Stinnett, Laura Donnelly, Kelli Russell Agodon, Sofia Fall, Martha SIlano, Mary Simmons, Erin Redfern, Brooke Sahni, Emma Murf, Nain Christopherson, Whitney Waters, Kelly Gray, Christian Ward, David Cazden, Caylee Gardner, Anthony Borruso, Christine Barkley, Lizzy Ke Polishan, Katherine Smith, BEE LB, Eric Cline, Michael Mark, Christine E Hamm, Leona Sevick, Sarah Elkins, Brendan Byrne, Lauren Swift, Robert Fillman, Donna Vorreyer, Christi Donoso, Lawrence Bridges, Jeannine Hall Gailey, Aaron Poochigian & Ronda Piszk Broatch. It also features striking and memorable art by Julia Kooi Talen.

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The Shore celebrates its 5th Anniversary with Issue 20 just in time for the season of reflection and introspection. These poems offer new ways to see the world accompanied by Susana Alcaraz’s visions of the world through a variety of art mediums. Poetry contributors include Sarah Barber, JP Dancing Bear, Tara Westmoor, Sarah Mills, Jane Zwart, Justin Howerton, Doug Rampseck, Zea Pippi Lotte van der Elsken, David Dodd Lee, Erinola E Daranijo, Allison Field Bell, Mickie Kennedy, Romana Iorga, Melanie H Manuel, Abbie Kiefer, Anna Pele, Kelle Groom, Drew Buxton, Philip Jason, James King, Grace Marie Liu, Osieka Osinimu Alao, Jane Satterfield, Rachel Becker, Caitlyn Curran, Agnieszka Tworek, Austin Allen James, Dorothy Lune, Milla van der Have, Kasey Jueds, Josh Luckenbach, Amanda Maret Scharf & Hannah Smith, Kathleen Winter, Alastair Morrison, Taylor Franson-Thiel, Seth Copeland, Ned Balbo and Constance Hansen.

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The Shore online poetry journal Issue 19 drops a little before the leaves with a longing for shadows and solace. These poems lace their lines across distance to celebrate the shortening days. This issue features new poems by Chelsea Dingman, Noor Shahzad, Jenny Munro-Hunt, MM Porter, Marisa Lainson, Catherine Weiss, Jennifer K Sweeney, Emily Patterson, Melody Wilson, Mary C Sims, Vanessa Ogle, Ruth Williams, Jill Klein, Lila Waterfield, Terin Weinberg, Heather Truett, Bill Hollands, Derek JG Williams, Tiffany Aurelia, Alejandra Cabezas, Conan Tan, Lizzie Hutton, Sam Moe, Elinor Ann Walker, Alyse Knorr, Todd Campbell, Mckendy Fils-Aimé, Jennifer Bullis, SE Street, Eric Steineger, Melanie Branton, Michael Lauchlan, Jared Povanda, Maggie Rue Hess, Jack B Bedell, Donald Pasmore and Ann Weil. It also features haunting art by Rachel Storck.

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The Shore Issue 18 brings the heat of distance and language and parenthood into haunting haze and burning light of the new season. It features scintillating poetry by Haley Winans, Sara Femenella, Dorsey Craft, Lisa Lewis, William Littlejohn-Oram, Laura Apol, Matthew Gustafson, Tracey Knapp, Sandra Fees, Roman Bobek, Jordan Walker, Emily A Benton, Jeff Newberry, Christopher McCormick, Katie Mora, Ashish Kumar Singh, Allison Thung, Fathia Quadri Eniola, Saba Husain, Matthew McDonald, Austin Segrest, Matthew Murrey, Amy DeBellis, Helena Mesa, Inkyoo Lee, Phoebe Gilmore, Alexander Duringer, Dan Schall, Jamie Tews, Peggy Hammond, Andrew Vogel, Laurel Benjamin, Annette Sisson, Phil Goldstein, Lisa Low, Barbara Daniels, Adam D Weeks, David Eileen Winn and Sarah B Cahalan. It also features art that interrogates ideas of space and distance by Andrew Spitzer.

The Shore Issue 17 ushers in the spring with fresh poetry blooming into the world by Jennie E Owen, Pamilerin Jacob, Milica Mijatović, Nike Onwu, Frank Graziano, Samantha DeFlitch, Divyasri Krishnan, Michael Quattrone, Kelly R Samuels, Farai Chaka, Melissa Strilecki, KG Newman, Susannah Lawrence, Melanie McCabe, Ellen Zhang, Crystal Cox, Maggie L Wang, Ben Groner III, Ryleigh Wann, Savannah Cooper, Prosper C Ìféányí, Jill Khoury, Lily Greenberg, Luke Johnson, Jane Newkirk, Jessica Goodfellow, Nicholas Ritter, Jen Karetnick, Christopher Blackman, Laura Grace Weldon, Lindsay Clark, Alex Gurtis, Jill Kitchen, Taylor J Johnson, Letitia Jiju, Meg Kelleher, William G Gillespie, Kai Pretto, Karen Elizabeth Sharpe, John Barr, Arvinder Kaur Johri, Alston Tyer and Vincent Frontero. The issue is also awash with art by Ruby Miller & Kimberly Turner.

The Shore issue 16 marks the online quarterly publication’s fourth full year of production, and the newest issues keeps to their standard of selecting poems from new and established poets that are “cutting, strange, and daring.” Featured in this issue are works by Ellery Beck, Nasser Alsinan, Ryan Varadi, Michael Goodfellow, John Glowney, Heather Qin, Helen Nancy Meneilly, Mary Simmons, Justin Carter, Michel Agunbiade, Maggie Boyd Hare, Maya C Thompson, Ronda Piszk Broatch, Chris McCann, Margaret M Kelly, Daniel Dias Callahan, Katie Tian, Martha Silano, Marina Brown, Mike WIlson, Anthony Gabriel, Christopher Citro & Dustin Nightingale, Shannon Hardwick, Kevin Roy, Jay Brecker, Lauren Badillo Milici, Grant Schutzman, Monica Cure, Brandon Hansen, Erin Wilson, Lucas Dean Clark, M Cynthia Cheung, Leland Seese, Joey Wańczyk, Kimberly Ann Priest, Joe Dahut, and Vanessa Couto Johnson with haunting art by taylor d waring.

The Shore issue 15 is here to bring in the autumn with crisp new poems by Michael Emmanuel, Jill Crammond, Ali Wood, Amy Wang, Lynne Ellis, Doug Ramspeck, Robert Carr, Nano Taggart, Mary Ford Neal, Jessica Baldanzi, Anne Cheilek, Jeanna Paden, Elizabeth Joy Levinson, Juliana Gray, Madelyn Musick, Ryler Dustin, Michelle Park, McKenzie Teter, Lawrence Di Stefano, Alicia Byrne Keane, Erin Little, Abigail Chang, Ion Corcos, Alec Hershman, Alison Hurwitz, Rachel Walker, Jared Beloff, Sarah Wallis, Brooke Harries, Adam Day, Maria Hiers, Bobby Parrott, Hannah Schoettmer, Lora Robinson, Jesse Fleming, Taylor Cornelius, Jennifer Metsker, Carson Sawyer, Gary Fox, and Annalee Roustio. This issue also features “gasp-worthy” art by Kaelyn Wright! All free to read online, so click on over and check it out today!

The just-released summer issue of The Shore online poetry magazine of cutting, strange, and daring work from new and established poets alike is glistening with powerful work! In it is hot new poetry by Flourish Joshua, Aron Wander, James Kelly Quigley, KJ Li, Meghan Sterling, Alyx Chandler, Derek N Otsuji, Robert Fanning, Siobhan Jean-Charles, Ariel Machell, V. Batyko, Marcy Rae Henry, Hannah Riffell, Anne Taylor, Lily Beaumont, Jennifer Martelli, Lisa Trudeau, Kimberly Kralowec, Laura Vitcova, John MacNeill Miller, Aaron Magloire, Abdulkareem Abdulkareem, Molly Tenenbaum, Joseph Housley, Kayla Rutledge, Samuel Burt, Chris Kingsley, James Owens, Alexandre Ferrere, Urvashi Bahuguna, Amanda Roth, Jory Michelson, Miceala Morano, Seth Leeper, Michael Lauchlan, Summer Smith, Mary Lou Buschi, Jack B Bedell, Adam Gianforaco and Robert Beveridge. It also features amazing art by Roger McChargue.