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. Community Teaching Assistant, ModPo (Modern & Contemporary American Poetry) hosted at the Kelly Writers House in Philadelphia. Collaborative Support Fellow (連携支援フェロー ) with ACUT, The University of Tokyo.
Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts

3 poems, Tokyo Poetry Journal

3 poems, forthcoming Tokyo Poetry Journal Volume 18: Gather 'Round Children—a special issue celebrating oral-tradition poetry and the t...
A Shift

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...
My Process Notes for the Vispo Video THAT SPOT

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,...
Polar Vortex

Polar Vortex

  Bully—brrrr, take back this blast! #polarvortex
Meraki Radio—Perspectives: Alonna Shaw Talks Tidal Language

Meraki Radio—Perspectives: Alonna Shaw Talks Tidal Language

Alison B and I are on Meraki Radio KDRT 95.7FM! “Meraki is a modern Greek word which means to put something of yourself into what you’...
Meraki Radio—Love Travels

Meraki Radio—Love Travels

Alison B and I are on Meraki Radio KDRT 95.7FM! “Meraki is a modern Greek word which means to put something of yourself into what you...
Let's Staple Some Things Other Than Sheets of Paper—On Meraki Radio Today!

Let's Staple Some Things Other Than Sheets of Paper—On Meraki Radio Today!

Alison B invited me back to Meraki Radio  KDRT 95.7FM.  A golden stapler Perspectives: Poetry Overload with Alonna Shaw. In this...
Interview, Perspectives: Alonna Shaw—The Twilight Zone Ebbs Poetic, Art during COVID-19

Interview, Perspectives: Alonna Shaw—The Twilight Zone Ebbs Poetic, Art during COVID-19

I had such a fun discussion with Alison B on Meraki Radio! We discussed how my creative muse needed to go into the discomfort and an...
Sharks Aren't Real

Sharks Aren't Real

Update: Listen to the Meraki Radio conversation on KDRT 95.7FM about this project. After four years of gathering photographs and wri...
filling Station Magazine and Otata 40: Experimental and Condensed Poems

filling Station Magazine and Otata 40: Experimental and Condensed Poems

filling Station Magazine and Otata 40: Experimental and Condensed Poems John Martone’s Otata   40, April 2019. Also on   The Haiku Foundati...
My Thingness Within Centos

My Thingness Within Centos

I went the long way to discover—to make it my discovery. What path did I take? I completed my 56-page project and then wrote this short po...
Sampling the "We R What We 8" Workbook!

Sampling the "We R What We 8" Workbook!

Image from sample PDF of We R What We 8: the WORKBOOK . Here is a 22-page sample of my We R What We 8: the WORKBOOK available as a  PDF...
Earth days

Earth days

"Birthday Bungle Bags"

"Birthday Bungle Bags"

balloon bright bubbles! blimp bops burden backfire belly bulge? bloat bilge belies blob. boilerplate brain bead bed, bogus...
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