About Me

Alonna (アラナ) Shaw is a place-based poet who works across poetry, visual art, and film. Her work explores how memory and the body shape what we carry when language falls short. She participates in the strange ethics of being human. ❤️robots.
NOON: journal of the short poem, Issues 16 and 28
"Use a towel only once."  NOON: journal of the short poem, Issue 28 , page 101, March 2026. Two poems, “compose microbeads” and “m...
The Los Angeles Press, two poems.
Poems from Tidal Language  (forthcoming). 2026. “POV” and “Boneyard, how many warnings wake?”  The Los Angeles Press V4 dis + placement , J...
A Shift
A Shift, a personal essay Note: This is a follow-up to my April 28, 2025, essay about letting go of my paintings . Alonna in the living room...
The Weight of Letting Go of Who I Was Carrying Around
My paintings traveled with me through many seasons of life—this is the story of setting them free Zepher, oil on canvas, 60 x 48 x 2 in, (1...
My Process Notes for the Vispo Video THAT SPOT
(revised, May 8, 2023) That Spot is a vispo short video about the curiosity to look inside and ask, “Am I what I feel in that spot?” First,...
Alonna's Favorite Fragrance-Free Products 2021
Hello! ACURE for Better Life: a CLEAN ethique Lumes FREE & CLEAR Baby! I walk the line between organic and synthetic products. All organ...
Polar Vortex
  Bully—brrrr, take back this blast! #polarvortex
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