Shot Glass Journal Issue #44 features poetic voices from Australia, Canada, Germany, Ghana, India, Ireland, Italy, Malta, Nigeria, New Zealand, Philippines, Scotland, the UK, and the US.

As Shot Glass Journal approaches its 15th year of publication we reflect over these past 14 years of submissions from all parts of the world, including new poetry forms that we've added to our extensive Glossary. A huge thank you to our webmaster Lonnard Dean Watkins who makes our poets and our journal look great.

Be sure to visit our Writer Archive and read the over 1000 poets we've published over these previous 43 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 #44.

Wishing you peace and health,
– Mary-Jane Grandinetti

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