Shot Glass Journal Issue #45 features poetic voices from Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Egypt, Germany, India, Ireland, Kenya, Lithuania, Malta, New Zealand, Peru, Portugal, Scotland, the UK, and the US.

Over the last 15 years the number of submissions to Shot Glass Journal has grown exponentially, which has made it more difficult to maintain the limited selection of poets featured in each journal. As a result, Issue #45 will be the first to expand the selection to allow for more poetic voices to be shared with our readers. We expect to do some redesigning of the journal pages in future issues.

Be sure to visit our Writer Archive for poets we've published over these previous 44 issues, visit the Issues Archive to browse the previous issues of Shot Glass Journal, and our Glossary for new poetry forms published in this issue.

On our Muse-Pie Press site there is a listing called MPP Community that features publications of poets we have published in Shot Glass Journal and the Fib Review. Visit the site at www.musepiepress.com and click on MPP Community.

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 #45.

Wishing you peace and health,
– Mary-Jane Grandinetti

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