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Today, SHINE welcomes Pushcart-nominated poet, Sam Szanto with her beautiful poems "Bea's Mother's Hands," "Leaving / Going," and "Dropping Stones" (a glosa). Thank you, Sam, for sharing your words with SHINE international poetry series! Bea's Mother's Hands Leaving / Going  Poet's note: the phrases ‘the mouth of a shark’ and ‘the bullet of a gun’ refer to Warsan Shire’s poem ‘Home’. Dropping Stones (a glosa)   Sam Szanto is a Pushcart prize-nominated, award-winning writer living in Durham (UK). Her poetry pamphlet This Was Your Mother was published by Dreich Press in 2024; Splashing Pink (a Poetry Book Society Choice) by Hedgehog Press and her short-story collection If No One Speaks by Alien Buddha Press. She has won the Wirral Festival Poetry Prize, the Charroux Poetry Prize, the First Writer Poetry Prize, the Shooter Flash Prize and the Mum Life Stories Prize. She has poems in journals including South Carolina Review, Rialto, The North, Dust Poetry and The Storms. She has an MA in Writing Poetry with distinction from Newcastle University and is working on a practice-led PhD about absence and attachment in parenthood poetry.
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SHINE - International Poetry Series
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From the international poetry community, we have a "luxury of stars," as Sylvia Plath might say, and it is SHINE's honor to provide a home for their words with the online Spotlight series as well as SHINE Quarterly. Click on the logo above to learn more. And...keep writing, keep shining!
In poetry, Samantha Terrell, EIC SYLVIA PLATH
Stars Over the Dordogne Stars are dropping thick as stones into the twiggy
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