Issue 30 Preview!
Four poems and a preview of artwork!
Dear Friends of The Shore,
Our team is beyond excited about our upcoming issue of The Shore, Issue 30 — Summer 2026! With all the excitement, we decided to offer another preview since the full issue doesn’t launch until June 21st.
These four poems by Samuel Dickerson, Kristen Lee, Liz Robbins, and Carly Osborne, are just a sneak peek at what is on the way! We chose these poems specifically for a number of reasons, one being they cater to a range of poetic preferences. These poems offer soundscapes and movement that work the reader through the ideas of loss and absence, endings that stick with the reader long past their end, and explorations of the mundane world through new perspectives and historic events. Summer, for most, is a time of slowing down and relaxation. It is full of sunshine and heat lightning, visiting new places and trying new things, bonfires and boating, bugs and frogs making their entrance to the world. We also have some amazing and vibrant photography from Sarah N B that shows the many layers of what we might originally view as something simple, which aligns well with how the poems operate in the issue.
Samuel Dickerson, “A Bowl of Hot Soup in Dallas, TX”
Kristen Lee, “Whaling”
Liz Robbins, “Everyone Dies, The End”
Carly Osborne, “Full Lungs”
Sarah N B, Artwork, “North By”
As always, thank you for taking the time to read and support the literary community!
Josey Zeunges
Marketing Manager
In case you missed it:
Here is our latest issue!
The Shore Issue 29 — Spring 2026
Here are our Best New Poets Nominees 2026!
Here are our three latest contributor interviews!
The Shore Interview #58: Mary Buchinger
The Shore Interview #57: Aaron Tyler Hand
The Shore Interview #56: Lizzy Ke Polishan
Here are our two latest contributor book reviews!
On tic, tic, tic by Heidi Seaborn
On Ghost Hunting Glaciers by Michael Garrigan
And here is what our Issue 22 contributors have been up to for the past two years!
In the Current Issue 22
So so stoked for you all to read this!
Absolutley fantastic issue! Wow! Bravo and Brava! High Fives to the editors and my cohort in crime, Sam D in Graduate Poetry Workshop with the one and only Dr. John who show us all the ways to move our poems down the page, via the abracadabra of letter, syllable, word, and sentence. Sam D’s sonics, images, and form make one HOT poem. Bottom line, this poem, this issue is FELT—the one and only word with which my dear friend Jean Valentine would critique a poem. I’ll be diving back into this issue again and again. Thank you-I know the weeks and hours
this labor of love takes.