Shelley Wong is a Kundiman Fellow and the author of the chapbook Rare Birds (Diode Editions, 2017). Her poems have appeared in Crazyhorse, Gulf Coast, Massachusetts Review, and Sycamore Review, among others. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from MacDowell Colony, Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, I-Park Foundation, and Palm Beach Poetry Festival.
Poetry
Sept/Oct 2022
Headlands 2
standing in the cement circle I am not a gun, I am a woman fog enters, a sudden gentleness, vanishing the edge of the hills my beautiful hand drifts over […]
Sept/Oct 2022
Headlands 1
It was the year the deer came out to the road, unbothered by locals Cleared of fog, the evergreens are fading, perpetual What is constancy along the West Coast
Nature’s Nature 2020
May/June 2020
How to Live in Southern California
Stay in the car and move from one air-conditioned location to another chill location, perhaps in a tour of movie theaters. After a long winter back east, 76 percent of […]
July/Aug 2019
As She Appears
Read a micro-conversation with the author here. & who asks after a woman alone in the forest & to bring the origins of language & set them on the table, […]
Resistance, Change, Survival
[the ocean will take us one day]; Pride Month; All Beyoncés & Lucy Lius—; Sightlines
[the ocean will take us one day] My first memory is when the tide pulled me into its room. On land, my mistake as an adult was letting the laws […]
Shelley Wong
Shelley Wong is a Kundiman Fellow and the author of the chapbook Rare Birds (Diode Editions, 2017). Her poems have appeared in Crazyhorse, Gulf Coast, Massachusetts Review, and Sycamore Review, […]