Shelley Wong
@shelleywong.bsky.social
poet • author of AS SHE APPEARS (2022), National Book Award longlist, Lambda Literary Award 🌈
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June 3, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Congratulations to the finalists of the 2025 Firecracker Award in Poetry! www.clmp.org/programs-opp...
May 21, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Congratulations to the finalists of the 2025 Firecracker Award in Poetry! www.clmp.org/programs-opp...
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“One of the reasons I love today’s poem is how it’s an ode to walking, a reverential description of how the brain changes when we encounter animals and our selves during the journey,” shares Ada Limón in today’s encore episode.
May 21, 2025 at 2:10 PM
“One of the reasons I love today’s poem is how it’s an ode to walking, a reverential description of how the brain changes when we encounter animals and our selves during the journey,” shares Ada Limón in today’s encore episode.
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I’m honored to receive the Pulitzer Prize today. I dedicate this success to my family, friends, teachers, and students in Gaza.
I’m praying for an immediate and permanent ceasefire and justice.
🍓🍓🍓🍓
I’m praying for an immediate and permanent ceasefire and justice.
🍓🍓🍓🍓
May 6, 2025 at 3:26 AM
I’m honored to receive the Pulitzer Prize today. I dedicate this success to my family, friends, teachers, and students in Gaza.
I’m praying for an immediate and permanent ceasefire and justice.
🍓🍓🍓🍓
I’m praying for an immediate and permanent ceasefire and justice.
🍓🍓🍓🍓
sometimes yr poetry professor also wrote abt Tori Amos & impersonating Marilyn Manson — Joshua Clover, a true multi-hyphenate, the first person I ever saw with an iPod
April 30, 2025 at 9:12 PM
sometimes yr poetry professor also wrote abt Tori Amos & impersonating Marilyn Manson — Joshua Clover, a true multi-hyphenate, the first person I ever saw with an iPod
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so blue-colored/it's almost blue
Joshua Clover, 1962-2025
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April 28, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Joshua Clover was my Cal undergrad poetry workshop teacher. He returned to Berkeley, where he grew up, after writing for the Village Voice & Spin. I loved the work of our visiting writers — Juliana Spahr, Jennifer Moxley, Ange Mlinko. His debut book is mesmerizing.
April 28, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Joshua Clover was my Cal undergrad poetry workshop teacher. He returned to Berkeley, where he grew up, after writing for the Village Voice & Spin. I loved the work of our visiting writers — Juliana Spahr, Jennifer Moxley, Ange Mlinko. His debut book is mesmerizing.
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"Spring insists we can build the world around us again."
From @shelleywong.bsky.social's book, As She Appears.
#poem #books #writing
From @shelleywong.bsky.social's book, As She Appears.
#poem #books #writing
April 6, 2025 at 1:35 PM
"Spring insists we can build the world around us again."
From @shelleywong.bsky.social's book, As She Appears.
#poem #books #writing
From @shelleywong.bsky.social's book, As She Appears.
#poem #books #writing
My poem “When We Were Young” is up on the Best American Poetry blog - just in time for Dungeness crab season. It first appeared Hanging Loose & is an outtake from my first book. blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_ame...
Shelley Wong: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
______________________________________________________ When We Were Young I was a month older. We both had Chinese last names. She was also Khmer, Thai & Vietnamese: a mix of enemies. Thailand always ...
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January 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM
My poem “When We Were Young” is up on the Best American Poetry blog - just in time for Dungeness crab season. It first appeared Hanging Loose & is an outtake from my first book. blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_ame...
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Love is a story
we never tire of telling…
Love lives in many rooms.
––Lena Khalaf Tuffaha (@lenakt.bsky.social), from Something About Living
we never tire of telling…
Love lives in many rooms.
––Lena Khalaf Tuffaha (@lenakt.bsky.social), from Something About Living
November 21, 2024 at 2:46 AM
Love is a story
we never tire of telling…
Love lives in many rooms.
––Lena Khalaf Tuffaha (@lenakt.bsky.social), from Something About Living
we never tire of telling…
Love lives in many rooms.
––Lena Khalaf Tuffaha (@lenakt.bsky.social), from Something About Living
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The great Lena Khalaf Tuffaha @lenakt.bsky.social just won the National Book Award for Poetry, for Something about Living. You can get it @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social, where all proceeds go to HEAL Palestine, providing essential aid, healthcare, educational resources to Palestinian youth: t.ly/Sqvw2
November 21, 2024 at 3:03 AM
The great Lena Khalaf Tuffaha @lenakt.bsky.social just won the National Book Award for Poetry, for Something about Living. You can get it @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social, where all proceeds go to HEAL Palestine, providing essential aid, healthcare, educational resources to Palestinian youth: t.ly/Sqvw2
In March, I’m leading a 2-part Poets & Writers workshop on applying for grants, fellowships & residencies. We’ll think through our writing goals & what we need to get there. Come through! www.pw.org/content/work...
January 27, 2024 at 3:58 PM
In March, I’m leading a 2-part Poets & Writers workshop on applying for grants, fellowships & residencies. We’ll think through our writing goals & what we need to get there. Come through! www.pw.org/content/work...
poetry party party let’s go
September 10, 2023 at 3:33 AM
poetry party party let’s go