The Shore Issue 26—Summer 2025

Samuel Dickerson
Elegy for Last Night
From the Sinking Acoustic Guitar
An Attempt to Solve Loneliness
Low Tier God

Richard Siken
Fauna
Strata
Volta

Natalie Padilla Young
In the right light
That Is Always. This Is Endless.

Yishak Yohannes Yebio
Theory of Falling
The Walk Home

Ivi Hua
Theory of Everything I

Ryan Wong
Shoreline
The Longest Day

Bethany Schultz Hurst
Letter to Geppetto, Written on the Back of a Red Lobster Menu

Yan Zhang
Ars Poetica

Lee Atwood
Creation Myth

Kathleen Winter
Among the Neglects

Carter Rekoske
revolutions
anywhere

Everett Jones
From Orbit
Severance

S Janaki
anoikis
codon / memory

Rebekah M Rykiel
My Report Card Is on the Fridge
Today, There’s Construction on the Sidewalk

Anastasia Nikolis
The Island Aubades

Emily Pérez
I do not want appointments

Lorrie Ness
January Confession

Ken Holland
A Poem That’s Better by Half

Deidre Lockwood
Letter to Martian

David Dodd Lee
The Wind Tunnel

Donald Pasmore
Aufheben

Haley Hodge
While Trying to Write a Sestina on Hoping

Ann Chinnis
Genus Narcissus

Jenny Maaketo
One month after your passing,

Amrita Noor
On Longing

Jordan Cobb
How Constellations Are Made

Rowan Tate
Salt in the Blood
Gara de Nord

Chloe N Clark
Reading a Headline That Crows Can Carry Grudges for 17 Years

F M Stringer
Wood Games

Kelle Groom
Spacesuit

Charles Kell
Mother's House

Melissa Hughes
Six Stories of Water

Virginia Kane
Loneliness

Lindsay Kellar-Madsen
While I clean the kitchen

Emily Patterson
American Elegy

William Varner
Abecedarian Written in a Children’s Hospital ICU

D A Angelo
Troublemakers

Derek Ellis
Art