“While the human world can terrify and neglect us, Sankey’s lyric presence works its magic. Enchanted by, and deeply part of the natural world’s speeding gestures, Sankey knows that all we perceive or cause might guide us, even tend to us. This young poet teaches: slow the haste-of-living—whenever possible—follow beauty.” Judith Vollmer, Plume 9
from WE RAN RAPTUROUS
- “Disabled” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Sunday Edition)
- “Lonesome Errand” (the minnesota review)
- “We Ran Rapturous,” “Locus Amoenus” (The Boiler)
- “Brown House Aubade,” “Grave” (Puerto del Sol)
- “Hair,” “Hotel Ode” (Sugar House Review)
- “Infusion,” a short film (Visible Poetry Project)
- “Infusion” (Rogue Agent)
- “On Steps” (City Paper: Chapter & Verse)
- “Watching My Mother Sleep” (Pittsburgh Poetry Review)
- “Thorn Street” (The Rectangle)
Poetry
- “Fugue” (Plume Poetry Anthology 9)
- “Rot” (Black Warrior Review)
- “Poem Ending with a Line from Wang Wei” (Black Warrior Review)
- “Solstice” (Redivider)
- “Bourdain” (Barrelhouse)
- “Sad Sound” (Storyscape)
- “Drill” (Glass: A Journal of Poetry)
- “Miraculous Bird” (SWWIM)
- “Groundskeeper” (Academy of American Poets)
- “Haiku for Mara Flanagan” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
- “Dream Book” (Pretty Owl Poetry)
- “Groceries in Carrick” (Pittsburgh Poetry Houses)
Pedagogy
- “Inviting the language of new media into the #poem,” Vanguard: Exercises for the Creative Writing Classroom, RAIDER Publishing, Texas Tech University (2020)
- “How Sad the Exodus: Teaching Men’s Creative Writing in a County Jail” (The Weeklings)
Press
- “Featured Poet: Shannon Sankey” (The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed)
- “Top 5 Book Recommendations” (The Poetry Question)
- “Women in the Arts Roundtable” (Chatham Recorder)
- “Chronic Poetry” (Pittsburgh City Paper)
- “Featured Excerpt from WE RAN RAPTUROUS” (Littsburgh)
- “Zero-Waste advocate gives tips on how to adopt a low-waste lifestyle” (WBOY 12)
- “Episode: Shannon Sankey” (Prosody Radio WESA 90.5 FM)
Awards
- Finalist, Wisconsin Institute of Creative Writing Poetry Fellowship (2021)
- Best New Poets 2019; Selected by Cate Marvin (2019)
- Best of the Net Nomination; The Boiler (2019)
- The Atlas Review Chapbook Series Winner (2019)
- Residency, Sundress Academy for the Arts, Knoxville, Tennessee (2019)
- University & College Prize, Academy of American Poets (2017)
- Margaret L. Whitford Fellowship (2015–17)
- Gerald Stern Poetry Prize (2015)
- Green Scholar Research Assistantship (2014–15)
- 1st Place, Westmoreland Arts & Heritage Poetry Contest (2013)