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 visual arts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label visual arts. Show all posts
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,...
Polar Vortex
  Bully—brrrr, take back this blast! #polarvortex
The Mind Frame on Meraki Radio
Alison B. and I discuss space and constraints in a new Meraki Radio conversation on KDRT 95.7FM! “Meraki is a modern Greek word which means ...
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’...
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
Update: Listen to the Meraki Radio conversation on KDRT 95.7FM about this project. After four years of gathering photographs and wri...
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...
Bridges
bridges synaptic agents discourse opinion atolls the nerve. nervous impulse rap on the door time to roll trick or treat outside Chiclet vene...
Shape of Languages
How are languages formed? nature speaking to us beach creatures power lines (Photos: top, sand hopper holes; bottom, k...
Poetry Blocks
I love that moment of discovery when you find something within something else. While revising my poetry collection,  My Life in Rambles,  I ...
My Fierce Internal Greeting Card Self
We all have secret loves. Right? I mean, stuff you’ve loved your whole life but don’t necessarily insert into everyday conversation. I’...
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