Sarah Gridley earned an MFA in poetry from the University of Montana. Her books, Weather Eye Open (2005), and her latestGreen is the Orator are both available through the New California Poetry Series, University of California Press. Her poems have appeared in various journals, including Crazyhorse, Denver Quarterly, Gulf Coast, jubilat, Kenyon Review Online, New American Poetry, and Slope. A […]
1. I call the main body, marker: a standing as if in stead of. Or else a thing stooped down upon, and snapped. From branch I call the main body, bramble: crescive glow from a crusted switchbox. On and off until a kind of curfew comes. I call the main body, […]
1. I call the main body, marker: a standing as if in stead of. Or else a thing stooped down upon, and snapped. From branch I call the main body, bramble: crescive glow from a crusted switchbox. On and off until a kind of curfew comes. I call the main body, […]
Asleep by the obsolete atlas, now you can imagine in what hour you are tempted, how far pleases you best has shifted. Spiral-scalped apples, a barbed wire of cloud, a gate uplocked at dawn. What things can you take for welcome? A shade. A bell rushed close to the eyes is a portraiture of noise, […]
Sarah Gridley, author of Weather Eye Open (University of California Press, Berkeley, 2006), talks about how she became interested in poetry.
Sarah Gridley, author of Weather Eye Open (University of California Press, Berkeley, 2006), talks about the literary value of the spoken word.