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- William Shakespeare

Editor's Note


Shot Glass Journal #42 provides a variety of poetry forms, styles and poetic voices of poets from Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, Japan, Malta, Nigeria, New Zealand, Philippines, Portugal, the UK, and the US.

The role of a poetry editor can be challenging with a myriad of issues like increased numbers of submissions to read, simultaneous submissions which cause last minute poem withdrawals just before publication, and the time to investigate claims of plagiarism, among other things. It often times takes the joy out of publishing a journal. But when we receive the replies to the Acceptance emails, the warmth and gratitude of our poets makes it all worthwhile. Thank you, each of you, who send your thanks and best wishes for our journal. You are the reason we keep going.

I'd like to thank our webmaster Lonnard Dean Watkins who spends countless days formatting each page of the journal, and archiving our previous poets and journals so we can keep the history of Shot Glass Journal and its poets.

Be sure to visit our Writer Archive and read the over 1000 poets we've published over these previous 41 issues, and visit the issues Archive to browse the previous issues of Shot Glass Journal.

I'd also like to bring attention to Muse-Pie Press' community poem. In March 2020, Muse-Pie Press invited its poets to participate in creating a world-wide Community poem. We wanted to capture the individual experiences and insights of these poets regarding the Covid-19 worldwide pandemic. There were 220 submissions received from 16 countries. R. G. Rader, publisher of Muse-Pie Press, compiled each line and crafted the poem "Pandemic: A Community Poem" into a poem of seven parts. Please visit the Muse-Pie Press site at www.musepiepress.com and click on Community Poem.

We hope you enjoy Issue #42.


Wishing you peace and health,
– Mary-Jane Grandinetti

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