July 20, 2024
by Shin Yu Pai
2024 Shelley Memorial Award
The Poetry Society of America has awarded me with the 2024 Shelley Memorial Award, an award given by nomination to one poet a year for poetic genius. This is the biggest thing that’s ever happened to me in my 26 years of writing and publishing poetry. I share this prize with my artist mother, Noko Pai, and with all the small press publishers that ever believed in my work: La Alameda Press, 1913 Press, Press Lorentz, Convivio Bookworks, Booklyn Artists Alliance, Blue Cactus Press, and Empty Bowl.