Long days, stretched light, summer has arrived and so has ISSUE 30!! 🌞🌊 Enjoy: www.theshorepoetry.org/issue-30
Sarah Brockhaus
@scbrock.bsky.social
Poet // MFA from LSU // PhD student @ UNT // co-editor of The Shore Poetry
A lot of poems start for me with random snippets of early memories that I don’t know why stuck with me, until the poem becomes a way to make sense of it. The one that became this poem has been following me for years, and I’m really glad storySouth gave it a home! storysouth.com/stories/a-li...
A Lie of Linearity - storySouth
As a child I saw it: time going arrhythmic—A big sister was holding a little sister’s hand, they were maybe six and three, the older one’s eyes were searching for their mother, that is all it could be...
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The sudden drop off in work at the end of the semester is so jarring, I keep double checking that I’m not forgetting about something
It is really reassuring when the CAPTCHA lets me know I am, in fact, human.
I had a dream I was trying to kill a cockroach and it kept repairing itself somehow and then it became a tall blonde man and started fighting back by launching rubber bands at my face with surprisingly great accuracy. Interpretations?
Life really is just applying to things, isn’t it. You just apply to things and then you apply to more things and to other things and then sometimes you get the courtesy of a copy and paste response.
I’m having so much fun teaching comp this semester (our topic is ways of knowing). This week we talked about fear and they came up with fears they think are inherently human. One group decided on the fear of being forgotten, and that we counteract that by caring for the people around us :)
Happy Spring!! Check out the new issue, so much weird and delightful poetry in this one:
The Shore@theshorepoetry.bsky.social · 7mo agoHappy spring from The Shore ! 🌱🌊ISSUE 29 HAS ARRIVED!🌱🌊 Dive in: www.theshorepoetry.org/issue-29
Very happy with my AWP book haul :) can’t wait to dive into these!!
Come say hello at AWP’26! The Shore will be sharing a table at the book fair with our friends from @HarpurPalate at booth 419 ! 🌊🦀 #AWP26 #BaltimoreMD #AWP
A great fog has enveloped Baltimore. The poets are coming.
Gonna be findable at AWP this year! You can catch me at The Shore table (419) and reading with these lovely people Saturday night:
A little collection of the blooms I found in my yard today:
Check out this new review series pairing albums and poetry collections! This one is on Courtney Kampa’s A Bright and Borrowed Light and The Weakerthan’s Left and Leaving:
Lyric Time 1: Courtney Kampa & The Weakerthans
Our First Pairing--A deep and rich combo.
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The task I put off for three months took approximately an hour and a half to complete! I will not learn from this :)
New issue is up!!! Can’t believe The Shore is 7 years old now. There are so many brilliant poems in this one, check it out:
The Shore@theshorepoetry.bsky.social · 10mo ago❄️🌊🌕 WINTER ISSUE 28–OUR 7th ANNIVERSARY ISSUE, IS NOW LIVE!❄️🌊🌕 Enjoy ✨ Issue live in our bio! www.theshorepoetry.org/issue-28
The Greensboro Review was the first print literary magazine I ever owned, so this feels really really special :) I’m so excited to read everyone’s work!
Just finished reading Courtney Kampa’s brilliant poetry collection. I really can’t recommend it enough, I think everyone should read it. It brought me to tears multiple times, it feels like something very precious and important.
If you use AI to generate poems you should receive the natural consequence of that action (never being able to weep human tears again)
I can’t cook many meals, but I am very proud of my mushroom sage risotto
Don’t buy anything today. ✊ Read a book. Rest as much as you can. (Write a list of things to buy later.) #nobuy #blackfriday 📚💙
It’s back 😏 Nominate Your Favorite Lit Mags of 2025 through this form ⬇️ www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag... Let’s love on some editors, folks. They freakin’ deserve it!
🏝️NEW INTERVIEW ALERT🐠Enjoy our newest interview with The Shore contributor Anastasios Mihalopoulos, conducted by our Interview Editor, Ella Flores! www.theshorepoetry.org/interview-mi...
Daydreaming about how I’m gonna deep clean my house over Thanksgiving break. I am itching to scrub some baseboards.
So grateful to have poems in this beautiful issue of Louisiana Literature, and to get to hold this poem in print on the same porch I wrote it on :)
I have a lil writer website now, I feel so cool and professional :)
Eating gluten-free versions of food tastes like what I imagine eating replicator food on the Enterprise must taste like
Checking my horoscope to see if I’ll get a poetry acceptance today