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The Basics

Sara is a writer living in Midcoast Maine. She earned her MFA in creative writing from Queens University of Charlotte and serves as the Managing Editor of Qu Literary Magazine. You can find her book reviews at the Southern Review of Books where she is a freelance contributor.

Selected poems

"The Unpassing" Honorable mention for the Stephen A. DiBiase Poetry Prize

 

 Reviews & Interviews

  Interview with Weijia Pan on Motherlands, September 2024

  Review of Mary Ardery's Level Watch, October 2025

  Review of Jane Morton's debut, Shedding Season, September 2025

  Review of Wendell Berry's Another Day: Sabbath Poems 2013-2023, August 2024

  Review of Jeremy Michael Clark's The Trouble with Light, May 2024

  Review of Rahul Mehta's Feeding the Ghosts, April 2024

  Review of Dennis Camire's Anthology of Awe & Wonder, October 2024 

  Review of Claire Millikin's Magicicada, November 2024

Readings, Classes, & Talks - Coming and Past

  • 2026:
  • Navigating Your Messy Drafts: Finding the True North of a Poem and Then Editing Towards its True Heading, October 17th, Belfast Poetry Festival Workshop, Belfast, ME
  • Creative Writing: The Poetic Techniques that Underpin all Writing, April-August, 2026, Maine State Prison for Society Impact, Warren ME
  • The Unchained Word: How the Arts Connect, Heal, and Restore our Shared Humanity, May 2nd 7-8PM, at the Waldoboro Theatre with InThrive & Society Impact in Waldoboro, ME
  • Poetry & Politics, March 27th, 5-7PM Stone Broke Bread & Books in Gardiner, ME
  • 2025:
  • Poetry Reading and Conversation, Winthrop Library, October 11th, 1-3PM in Winthrop, ME
  • Poetry & Politics: How the Most Subversive Voice of Resistance in American Autocracy is Not What You Think, July 22, 11-12PM, Buenos Aires, Argentina at the Ilum Experience Hotel Conference Room
  • Camden-Rockport Middle School Indigenous Learning Project talk, May 28th, 1-2:30PM, Camden Public Library in Camden, ME
  • POETS SPEAK!, April 24th, 4:30-7PM at the Bangor Public Library
  • Blanchard Gallery Reading, February 7th, 7-8PM in Hallowell, ME
  • 2024:
  • An Exploration of the Lyric Poem, September 26th, 2-3:30PM, Belfast Senior College, Belfast, ME

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