To preview, select poems can be read as they were first published online:
Life and Death at the Castle (Published by Heartwood Literary Magazine Issue #11 ~ May 2021)
Castle Recursion and Castle Omnipresence (Published by The Write Launch February 2021)
To Whom or What or Where (Published by Local Honey | Midwest January 2021)
Pockets Full of Rocks (Published by Sad Girl’s Club Lit December 2020)
Shyla Shehan is an analytical Virgo born and blossomed in the Midwest. Her most noteworthy accomplishment to date is divorcing her (now former) career as a Healthcare IT Integration Specialist. Since then, she has pledged her undying love and fealty to Poetry but has so far refused to get matching tattoos. But wait! There’s more…
Publications
Geometry and Other Tragedies
Published online by Tangled Locks
December 22, 2021
Stars Under Glass
Published online by The Decadent Review
October 16, 2021
Fifteen Billboards
Published online by The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts / Matter Press
August 27, 2021
Open Window
Published online by Wild Roof Journal
Issue #6
January 4, 2021
Explorations
A Double American Sonnet for Terrance Hayes
Nebraska Poetry Society
2022 Contest
First Place Winner
Honorable Mention for “What I Would Give”
The Good Life Review ~ An online literary publication based out of Omaha, Nebraska. Founded in 2020. Accepting submissions here.
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American Academy of Poets
University and College Poetry Prize
2020 Winner
University of Nebraska, MFA
Posted on poets.org
Find more to explore in the Gallery.
Not all those who wander are lost.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
Shyla Shehan 