Poems Online
"The Crew Is Restless and I Am Sick at Heart" and "Saint Beauty" Lyre Lyre, #5, 2013
"Prospective Saint With the Christ Child" and "Confused Words" both from my chapbook Emily Dickinson's Coconut Face (Dusie Kollektiv) and republished at jbdrecords blog in April Poetry Month celebration
"Antiseptics" Dressing Room Poetry Journal, #2, 2013
"Eyre" Angle Journal of Poetry in English, #2, 2013 (pdf)
"We Are Jack Kerouac" Empty Mirror, magazine of the arts, 2012 (from The Future Is Happy)
"Go Figure" Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, 10.1.2012
"Fabian Avenarius (Arthur Craven)" Cordite Poetry Review, 39, 2012
"This Way and That" Lavender Review. Issue 5, 2012
"Drink, Child" "Stop" "Palace of the Blessed" Folly Magazine. 2012. (It's a pdf so you will need to scroll down, enjoy a great series of images, then the poets.)
"Blame It on Family" Redheaded Stepchild (nominated for a Best of the Net) 2012
"Long Ago." 200 New Mexico Poems. 2012
“I Resolve” and “Two Dreams Hovering Insect Wings Above Me.” Truck: Resolution/Revolution. 2012
"The Crew Is Restless and I Am Sick at Heart" and "Saint Beauty" Lyre Lyre, #5, 2013
"Prospective Saint With the Christ Child" and "Confused Words" both from my chapbook Emily Dickinson's Coconut Face (Dusie Kollektiv) and republished at jbdrecords blog in April Poetry Month celebration
"Antiseptics" Dressing Room Poetry Journal, #2, 2013
"Eyre" Angle Journal of Poetry in English, #2, 2013 (pdf)
"We Are Jack Kerouac" Empty Mirror, magazine of the arts, 2012 (from The Future Is Happy)
"Go Figure" Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, 10.1.2012
"Fabian Avenarius (Arthur Craven)" Cordite Poetry Review, 39, 2012
"This Way and That" Lavender Review. Issue 5, 2012
"Drink, Child" "Stop" "Palace of the Blessed" Folly Magazine. 2012. (It's a pdf so you will need to scroll down, enjoy a great series of images, then the poets.)
"Blame It on Family" Redheaded Stepchild (nominated for a Best of the Net) 2012
"Long Ago." 200 New Mexico Poems. 2012
“I Resolve” and “Two Dreams Hovering Insect Wings Above Me.” Truck: Resolution/Revolution. 2012
"In the Bakery," "Wild Egress," "After the Plague Years" in Reconfigurations: A Journey for Poetry & Poetics / Literature & Culture, 2011
"Commerce for the Good of the Peoples," "You Are the Confusing Identity I Write For" and "On the Way to the Gallery" in POOL Poetry, Issue 10, 2011
"From Love, Imagination" Boston Review July/August 2011
"So Tender Beauty" Boston Review July/August 2011
"No Need for a Door" and "Look Now" in Scythe VI, 2011
"One Day a Year You Can Take Something Home from the Met" and "Inquisition" EOAGH 2011
"A Territory of the Miracle," "We're always in a room." and "A Bullish Run Into Chambers" in Fringe, March 2011
"A Territory of the Miracle," "We're always in a room." and "A Bullish Run Into Chambers" in Fringe, March 2011
"Are the Roses Doing Nothing" "Our Pointillist Galaxy" Reconfigurations 2010
"Longing for a Blue Sky" Lavender 2010
"Like Wings" Redheaded Stepchild (nominated for a Pushcart & a Best of the Web) 2010
"Holy Minimalism" Red Fez, 2009
"Holy Minimalism" Red Fez, 2009
"And What If" Willows Wept Review Spring 2009
"Experiential Philosophy" Fogged Clarity 2009
"What I Choose To Remind You" Juice: A Journal of the Ordinary 2008
"What I Choose To Remind You" Juice: A Journal of the Ordinary 2008
"hAve You Been Married the Sister asK" Three Rooms Press 2008
"Incorporeal" "Remorse" "Birth Is the Last Exit" Terrain.org No. 22 Summer/Fall 2008,
"Further Arguments" Minnesota Review Spring 2007
Poems in Print Journals (Not an Exclusive List)
Poems in Print Journals (Not an Exclusive List)
“A
Legend with Usual Cruelties” Saint Katherine's Review, 2012
“Marilyn
Hacker” “Faith & Practice” “Sneaking Around the
Multiplex.“ West Wind Review, 2012
"Hockney at Bellevue" Parthenon West, 2011.
"Something's Falling" Threepenny Review, 2008.
"Hockney at Bellevue" Parthenon West, 2011.
"Something's Falling" Threepenny Review, 2008.
Poems in Anthologies
(forthcoming) in Gathered: Contemporary Quaker Poetry, Nick McRae, ed. Sundress Publications, 2013.
(forthcoming) in Otherstream Anthology, ed. Marc Vincenz.
The OR Panthology: Ocellus Reseau, Other Rooms Press, 2013.
(forthcoming) in Gathered: Contemporary Quaker Poetry, Nick McRae, ed. Sundress Publications, 2013.
(forthcoming) in Otherstream Anthology, ed. Marc Vincenz.
The OR Panthology: Ocellus Reseau, Other Rooms Press, 2013.
“The
Rebirth Live.”
Say It Loud: Poems About James Brown. Mary E. Weems, Ph.D. and Michael Oatman, M.F.A. eds. Whirlwind Press. 2011
“Pasted
and Cut.” Maintenant 6. New York. 2011
“Brittle
of Bark, but Lovely.” you
say. say.
Uphook Press. New York, NY. 2009
Book/Chapbooks
I Feel Good (download), Beard of Bees, 2013
Emily Dickinson's Coconut Face (Dusie Kollektiv) 20113
The Future Is Happy (BlazeVOX[books]) 2009
G.E. Schwartz' review ("Sarai makes an unabashed assault on despair.") in Galactea Resurrects
Ed Go's essay, "Heaven, Hell & Middle Earth" in Other Rooms
CL Bledsoe's review in
Juliette Cook's review in
Jee Leong Koh's review in
Randall Radic's review in Alvah's Books.
Melissa Studdard's review is in American Book Review, January/February 2011.
The Future Is Happy was "recommended" by Small Press Distribution, and was a "Best Book" pick of Guerrilla Girls on Tour (a juicy listing of fiction, poetry, drama--published in 2009, and all by women).
Order through Amazon, Small Press Distribution, Bluestockings Bookstore (Lower East Side), Unnameable Books (Brooklyn), Open Books (Seattle) or the independent bookstore of your choice.
Cover design: Geoffrey Gatza. Cover photograph: Susan Tammany. c. 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013
Poetry collection: The Future Is Happy -- BlazeVOX [books] (2009)
Review in Prick of the Spindle (by Juliet Cook)
Review in Galactea Resurrects (by Gerald Schwartz, 2010)
"Heaven, Hell & Middle Earth" by Ed Go. Three Rooms Press. Essay on 3 poems in The Future Is Happy
Miscellaneous
Lambda Poetry Spotlight, May 14, 2012: "White People Are on My Mind These Days" and "Our Pointillist Galaxy."
Lambda Poetry Spotlight, May 14, 2012: "White People Are on My Mind These Days" and "Our Pointillist Galaxy."
The Banal and The Profane: A Week in the Life of a Writer: Sarah Sarai, Lamba Literary
Everything Tastes Better with Two Forks and Whipped Cream. Poets on the Great Recession. January 6, 2012. Nonfiction and two poems.
A few questions...
InterviewsA few questions...
http://www.annecammon.com/audio/Sarah_Sarai.mp3
Poet and radio host Anne Fiero interviewed me on WKCR (Columbia University). A friend told me that she felt good about life after listening to this podcast. My impressions, 9.3.2010, Podcast, WKCR, Sarah Sarai Interviewed.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/joe-milford-show/2010/09/18/joe-milford-hosts-sarah-sarai or here: Sarai/Milford Interview. My impressions, 9.19.2010. All the treasures in Ali Baba's Cave: Joe Milford's Poetry Show.

