The Shore Issue 31 — Autumn 2026

Nicole Stander
White Out
A Biography of Wildflowers

Teja Sudhakar
Dogwood
Dredging
It Took Me Years to Question

Jane Zwart
The Circus of Sons and of August
It's hard to care from far away

Brooke Stanish
Dead Things
Pool Party

Haley DiRenzo
Confession to the Stars Who Will Never Be My Children

Brian Evans-Jones
To a Guest Who Will Not Now Arrive

Lena Crown
Going to Him

Christopher Ankney
Bebe Rexha as Metaphor
The Derivation of Mother Is Dam

Corrie Lynn White
Only the Edgeless and Soft

Dina Folgia
We Could Have Been a Lake
Penance
Salt Crown

Allegra Wilson
Having never lived alone I now find I’m afraid that

Joanna Fuhrman
The Last Phone Booth in the World Runs for Office but No One Knows Which One

Fern Abramson-Slater
I can change I can change I can change

Donald Pasmore
Fuck Elegy

Brian McCabe
When I Go Out to Get Back to My Body

Alison Guo
green light

Jordan Ranft
Poem to be read while standing over a dead CEO

Stephanie Kartalopoulos
Grief

Hali Sofala-Jones
Horsemaning

Owen McLeod
Time Warp

Kate Choi
Jinju Convenience Store, 2023

Chloë Moore
Semiotics

Barbara Duffey
Fishing

James King
Notes from Yesterday's Road

Patrick Wilcox
Annotating My High School Yearbook Photo

Pari Elora
Light’s Terms

Kristen Holt-Browning
Future Imperfect

Laurence Lillvik
American Sonnet (Canon)

Stefanie Kirby
Aftermath

Kathleen Winter
Breathless

Zackary Jarrell
according to my grandmother,

David Eileen
T4T as a Thousand Lovers’ Golden Mean

William Fargason
Temper Sonnet

Lorrie Ness
Hardwood

Emily Corwin
In sleep, I look like a fighter—

Tim Lynch
van gogh’s reanimated hand writes about stars some say are dead

Kelly Gray
Luscus

Annette Sisson
Hulls

Mary Simmons
Turtle Pond

Aaron Deutsch
Psyche Pumps Some Iron

Rebecca Gethin
Emily 1954-56

Austin Cole
Art