About Me
About Shelly Bryant
I have spent my adult life living in Asia, most recently splitting time between Singapore and Shanghai. The migrant’s life is a fun one, allowing me time to do the things I love — including reading, writing, cycling, traveling, and just generally enjoying life.
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Shelly’s Favorite Books: Shelly’s Favorite Movies: Shelly’s Favorite Songs:
The Seven Citadels (Geraldine Harris) Shawshank Redemption Don’t Stop Believin (Journey)
Les Miserables (Victor Hugo) The Matrix trilogy Kashmir (Led Zeppelin)
Lord of the Rings (J. R. R. Tolkien) Max Don’t Break My Heart (黑豹)
Middlemarch (George Eliot) The Princess Bride Tai Shan (Rush)
The Homeward Bounders (Diana Wynne Jones) The Star Wars series Tears in Heaven (Eric Clapton)
The Thursday Next series (Jasper Fforde) Ran (Japanese film) Come Together (The Beatles)
The Chronicles of Narnia (C. S. Lewis) High Fidelity Hymn to Her (The Pretenders)
Port in a Storm (George MacDonald) The Devil’s Advocate Cymbaline (Pink Floyd)
The Hitchhiker series (Douglas Adams) Shadowlands Harder to Breathe (Maroon 5)
The Foundation series (Isaac Asimov) The Fisher King Message in a Bottle (The Police)
Where to Find My Poetry
See my listing at the Haiku Foundation
Collections
From Studio White —
Xenia (in conjunction with Studio White • Exhibition 2011)
From Sam’s Dot Publishing —
Under the Ash, a poetry collection
From Sam’s Dot Publishing —
Cyborg Chimera, a poetry collection
Art collectibles from decollection
dark ‘til dawn, a collection of 30 designer art pieces using
my haiku
Individual Poems
In Aoife’s Kiss
Herr Leibniz (Sept 2007)
Colonizers (June 2009)
Under Pressure (June 2009)
Fortunes Told (June 2009, also seen online)
A Note on Her Pillow (December 2009)
Natural Progression, excerpt (March ‘10)
Merovingian (December 2010)
In the Goldilocks Zone (June 2011)
Armed Anew (December 2011)
In Asia Writes
Song (translation of an anonymous poem, Nov 2010)
AfterLife (Dec 2010)
Waiting Out the Rain (Apr 2011)
In Astropoetica
When the Seeing is Good (Autumn 2009)
In At the Dot
Epiphany (October 2010)
In Bakery of the Poets
Screaming the Word (2007)
A Blessing (2007)
The Moon’s Affections (January 2010)
In Contemporary Haibun, Volume 12
Slipping
Anonymous
In Contemporary Haibun, Volume 12
Spook Fish
Project (March 2009)
Mr. Lincoln’s Program (June 2009)
Bargain Hunter (June 2009)
Homestead (July 2010)
Love and War (Sept 2010)
Slipping (Jan 2011)
Overcast (Jan 2011)
Creator’s Journal (Jan 2011)
Anonymous (April 2011)
Kites on the Beach (April 2011
Launching Pad (April 2011)
Transmission (July 2011)
696 Weihai Lu, May 2011 (October 2011)
Tremors (January 2012)
Spook Fish (January 2012)
In Cover of Darkness (poetry anthology)
Night Falls (May 2009)
In Current Events newsletter
Dozer (March 2008)
Child’s Play (April 2008)
In Daikaijuzine
Treatise on the First Human Communications Received by
Lifeforms from a Planet on the Far Side of the Milky Way
(March 2011)
A Day in DC, alone (Oct 2010)
Broken Sword (Oct 2010)
Compelling Outward Flight (Oct 2010)
Hearing Voices (Nov 2010)
dreams spread like wildfire (Nov 2010)
memories so aged and distant (Nov 2010)
Leave-taking (Nov 2010)
- translation of Li Bai’s poem, with Lily Sun
Artist Statement (Feb 2011)
A Romance (Feb 2011)
clutching an inky quill (Feb 2011)
Recyclables (Feb 2011)
She is Prose (Feb 2011)
At the Renaissance Festival (March 2011)
Mined, Minted (March 2011)
Bedroom Eyes (March 2011)
Border Skirmish (April 2011)
Fire and Ice (May 2011)
Palm (May 2011)
Mount St. Helens: Crater Glacier (May 2011)
Seismic (September 2011)
Moon (October 2011)
On Tour (October 2011)
steam from the pavement (November 2011)
- a sijo, with Lily Sun
City (December 2011)
she tried to erase him (December 2011)
afterglow (December 2011)
Sichuan, c. 1990 (February 2012)
Nothing to Fear but Panic Itself (March 2012)
From Etna Flows (March 2012)
Train (March 2012)
In Expressions newsletter
Our Universe Expands (June 2009)
Each Particle Contains the Whole (October 2009)
in early autumn (November 2009)
Night Watch (December 2009)
Ambarvalia (December 2009)
Simurgh (Jan 2010)
Dawn (June 2008)
In Season (December 2008)
Dreams of Elsewhere (March 2009)
Nirvana in the New Era (June 2010)
Hymn of Origins (March 2011)
The World Over (June 2011)
The Breathing Cosmos (September 2011)
Speechless Encounter (December 2011)
In A Galaxy of Verse (not available online)
Trinity (2006)
Eggshell Carvings (2006)
Compatriots (2006)
Acrostic (2007)
Showdown (2007)
Electric Storm (2007)
In The Genesis Project
Cursed (2007)
In Eternity’s Eye (2007)
Under Foot (2007)
Upon Further Reflection (2008)
Visitation (2009)
Men of Renown (2009)
In Illumen
Birdman (Spring ’11)
Voodoo (Autumn ’11)
Amalgam
Earthrise
In Layang Layang (August 2010)
Babel City
For the Record
Gone
Check Up
condemned cyborg king
Bypassed (June 2009)
Starry Knights (2011)
In Micro Art
First Light (Dec 2010, reprint)
Euterpe’s image (Dec 2010, reprint)
The Nature of the City (Dec 2010, reprint)
Platonic Pilot (May 2011)
Storm and Fury (May 2011)
Nile Crossing (May 2011)
In Mirror Dance
Cave Drawings (Autumn 2009)
Long Compton (Winter 2009)
The Day’s Work (Spring 2010)
To Memory You Are Called (Summer 2010)
Byblos (Autumn 2010)
Her Light Extinguished (Winter 2010)
Entrance Exam (Autumn 2011)
Storm at Sea (Winter 2011)
In Motel 58
Chicago, 1893 (March 2009)
In His Images (March 2009)
Suicide Note (2009)
electrodes hooked up (April 2009)
a bulleted list (October 2009)
midnight seance (March 2012)
Company (June 2008)
Acrylic on Canvas (April 2011, issue 3)
In Scifaikuest
Creature (Nov 2007, print)
Forty Winks (Aug 2008, online)
gray matter enshrined (Aug 2008, print)
Abandoned World (Aug 2008, print)
Featured Poet (November 2008) => 4 ‘ku, Rebound, Avatar,
Cryogenics, Automata, Fancy, Hatched, Suffrage, Enacted,
Congregated, Turning to Dust, and Garbage In, Garbage Out
Manipulated (May 2009, online)
In Space, Lost (May 2009, print)
always pleased to serve (May 2009, print)
gods who frighten us (August 2009)
Organic Emissary’s Fib (August 2009)
Hide and Seek (August 2009)
beneath icy plains (August 2009)
non-binary codes (August 2009, online)
Harvest Moon (November 2009)
Juno’s Itinerary (November 2009)
elderberry wine (November 2009, online)
Progress (February 2010)
Tidal (February 2010)
Primordial (May 2010)
swordnsorcery (May 2010)
an aged wizard (May 2010)
Ghost / Machine (November 2010, print)
Engineered (November 2010, online)
Delivery (February 2011, print)
refueling stations (February 2011, online)
She Said / He Said (February 2011, print)
deep in Etna’s heart (February 2011, print)
armed in new technology (February 2011, print)
Getaway (February 2011, online)
Japan’s factories (February 2011, print)
sciatica (May 2011, print)
Europa-grown wood (August 2011, print)
freshly uploaded (August 2011, print)
Life Form Discovered (August 2011, print)
a fallen warrior’s corpse (August 2011, print)
Through the Void (August 2011, print)
casual concourse (August 2011, online)
Robogirl (August 2011, print)
In a Minute (article) (August 2011, print)
bio-engineered beasts (February 2012, print)
proudly he sits (February 2012, print)
*start* (October 2010)
Mission (October 2010)
In Sloth Jockey
Temenos (June 2008)
Enmity (June 2008)
Truth, Justice (June 2008)
Spectrophotoelectric (July 2008)
The City of Dis (July 2008)
Never Land (Aug 2008)
I (Sept 2008)
Affected (Sept 2008)
War Footage (Nov 2008)
Keep it in the Family (Jan 2009)
Pellinore’s Dive (Feb 2009)
Blowing Smoke (Apr 2009)
Faultlines (May 2009)
too quiet for thought (Aug 2009)
Pari (Sept 2009)
Notes on Scrap Paper (Oct 2009)
Waiting Area (Dec 2009)
Bug (February 2010)
Memories Shared, Standing on Your Balcony (March 2010)
Eggshell Carvings, reprint (June 2010)
The World (Remix) (July 2010)
Semantics (November 2010)
Luna (Feb 2011)
Robotics (issue 8)
Juno’s Pet (August 2011)
A to Z (Jan 2008)
Discarded (Jan 2008)
Rush Hour (Jan 2008)
mane proudly shaken (June 2009)
In Star*Line
Tell Me Now (January 2011)
eeriness collides (2011)
Antigone: a ‘ku cycle (2011)
In Strong Verse
Not Allowed (2010)
Collapse (Spring 2009)
Lights Turned Down (Summer 2009)
Reunion, the morning after (Summer 2009)
Translators • Traitors (Winter 2009)
Grasped (Spring 2010)
These Three Remain (Spring 2010)
Not for Me (Summer 2010)
Made in a Moment (Summer 2010)
Back to Nature (Summer 2010)
In Things that Disappear (2011)
In Captivity, by the Streams of Babylon
In The Urbanity Project (2010)
First Light
Euterpe’s image
The Nature of the City
In Valent Range
Resolution (Summer 2010)
Adrift (Summer 2010)
an empty metal bowl (Summer 2010)
co-evolving (Fall 2010)
Mind-Blowing (Winter 2010)
In Writing Edge magazine
Looking Through (Spring 2006)
Landslide (Spring 2006)
Glassstorm (Spring 2006)
Real Life (Summer 2006)
In Xenith
Wang Jiang Lou (translated from Chinese) (June 2010)
Commissioned Work
Shanghai Singapore International School (preschool division)
Graduation Poem: “Stepping Out” (2008)
Graduation Poem: “Wonderful World” (2009)
Private commission, Shanghai, China
~ a haiku (2010)
COMING SOON...
Voices of the Elders
a poetry collection
from Sam’s Dot Publishing
due out early 2012
Northern Girls
by Sheng Keyi
a translation from the Chinese by Shelly Bryant
from Penguin Books
due out mid-May 2012
The End of the Line: an Exploration of the Limits of the Shanghai Metro System
from Urbanatomy
due out mid-2012
NOW AVAILABLE!!
January ’11
from Sam’s Dot Publishing
Under the Ash
a poetry collection
October ’09
from Sam’s Dot Publishing
a poetry collection
May ’10 from Urbanatomy
Suzhou Basics
a travel guide for the city of Suzhou
available at bookstores in Shanghai
and at the Suzhou Bookworm
Nov-Dec ’09 from decollection
a collection of 30 designer art pieces
using my haiku
VIEW the PDF catalog,
the photo gallery
or the promotional video
email me for details on how to order
Previously Published Poems Now Available
Due for Publication Soon
Watch these journals:
Apocalypse, Then and Now (December 2012)
Jade Tiger (December 2012)
Runes (April 2012)
alone with you (September 2012)
Random Access Memory (April 2012)
In Captivity, by the Streams of Babylon (April 2012, reprint)
At a Poetry Reading (May 2012)
Not so Much When, but How (June 2012)
Currency (June 2012)
At the Surging Waves Pavilion, Suzhou (June 2012)
The Distant Planet (2012)
Peace Offering (Autumn 2012)
(re)Genesis (2012)
Unraveling (2012)
The Sijo (article, with Lily Sun)
The 4-point (article, May 2012, print)
Comet Wild (August 2012, online)
Wild 2 (August 2012, print)
excursions (August 2012, print)
AD 475 (August 2012, print)
deserted homestead (November 2012, online)
planet-wide (February 2013, print)
A Cry from the Depths
Benevolent Protection
From Sky to Sea (2012)
warm glow (2012)
elderberry wine (2012, reprint)
Deep Pockets, Shallow Lives (2012)
Where to Find My Prose
Articles and Essays
In Aoife’s Kiss
Interview with Keith Graham (March 2010)
Interview with Jennifer Baumer (June 2010)
The Flow of Forces in Poetry (March 2011)
— an article written with Lily Sun
Yong Shu Hoong, a voice for Singapore poetry
“Reading Poetry: the Basics” (reprint)
Interview with Lauren McBride (January 2012)
Publishing Poetry - How to Locate the Markets Where You
Can See Your Poems in Print
In Illumen
“Reading Poetry: the Basics” (Autumn ’11)
In Scifaikuest
The Threesome (May 2009, print)
In a Minute (August 2011, print)
Interview with Keith Graham (issue 3)
In Sounds of the Night
Interview with Richard H. Fay (August 2010)
In Things that Disappear (2011)
The Land at the End of the Peach Grove (translation)
The Lounge Singer
In Xenith
Knowledge and Wisdom, Wheels and Brakes (Dec 2010)
Short Fiction
In Pathlight
Fishbone (2012)
a translation of Sheng Keyi’s short story
In Sloth Jockey
Connection Established (Feb 2009)
Book Reviews
In Sloth Jockey
Ironic Silliness for Well-Read, Smart People (June 2008)
a review of Kafka on the Shore
Meticulous and Methodical (July 2008)
a review of The Devil in the White City
Genius: the Ability to Make Fun of Anything (Aug 2008)
a review of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
A Horror Story So Well-Written You Can Smell It
(Sept 2008) — a review of The Oath
A Story of Death (Oct 2008)
a review of The Book Thief
Some of 2007’s Best Creative Nonfiction (Nov 2008)
a review of The Best American Essays, 2007
Ahead of its Time (Jan 2009)
a review of R. U. R.
China’s Counterculture (Feb 2009)
a review of Playing for Thrills
Compelling Landscapes, Endearing Characters
(March 2009) — a review of The Return of No. 44
Meet Hasp Deadbolt, P. I. (March 2009)
a review of Nursery Rhyme Noir
Important Reflections for the Low-Cultured (April 2009)
a review of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
So That’s What Synergy Means (May 2009)
a review of Night Ship to Never
John F. Rooney’s Niche-Market Novels (July 2009)
a review of The Daemon in Our Dreams and
Last Passage to Santiago
Poetry of the Hard Sciences (September 2009)
a review of Quantum Lyrics
Shallow Treatment of Deep Issues (October 2009)
a review of The Rice Queen Spy
Traveling Mercies (November 2009)
a review of Anne Lamott’s Traveling Mercies
Truth in the Hands of the Media (December 2009)
a review of Don DeLillo’s Valparaiso
Traversing the Landscape (January 2010)
a review of Scott E. Green’s Private Worlds:
A Revised Atlas
Confronting the Other (January 2010)
a review of Richard Kearney’s Strangers, Gods,
and Monsters
A Storyteller (February 2010)
a review of Jeffrey Archer’s The Gospel
According to Judas, by Benjamin Iscariot
Made of Darker Fabric (April 2010)
a review of Eddy Styx’s The Book of Styx
Horror Made Mechanical (July 2010)
a review of Leonard Kreger II’s The Downward Spiral
Eshnu International and the World of Tomorrow (Oct 2010)
a review of Patrick Todoroff’s Running Black
Not Pulling Any Punches (February 2011)
a review of Luc Reid’s Bam! 172 Hellaciously Quick
Stories
If you’d like to have your book reviewed at Sloth Jockey, you can contact me, or see the submission guidelines for details
Awards and Nominations
LaForge Award Winner (2006)
Compatriots
Marilyn Stacy Award Honorable Mention (2006)
These Three Remain
Writing Edge magazine poetry competition winner (2007)
Real Life
Rhysling Nomination, long poem (2010)
Manipulated
Rhysling Nomination, short poem (2011)
Dwarf Stars Nomination (2011)
Ghost/Machine
Audio Recordings
A Nightmare’s Whisper
Child’s Play
SFPA Halloween poems
Night Falls (Oct 2010)
