Sarah Wolfson
@sarahwolfson.bsky.social
Poet. Teaching Artist. A Common Name for Everything (Green Writers Press). UmichWriters MFA. Montreal & Vermont. wordplay. cuttlefish. writing pedagogy. ferns.
www.sarahwolfsonwriter.com
www.sarahwolfsonwriter.com
Pinned
And Then Came the Day | The Walrus
Afterward, let’s go home and lay failure, longing, / and some lost cicada husks all belly up on the table
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Happy to have a new poem in the summer reading issue of @thewalrus.ca . Thanks to @cstarnino.bsky.social for the editorial stewardship. thewalrus.ca/and-then-cam...
It’s been a privilege to serve on the committee for the Montreal International Poetry Prize and to witness how it builds community around contemporary poetry in a variety of styles that reach across global Englishes.
Spread the word—the Montreal International Poetry Prize returns in January 2026.
Once again, we will award $20.000 CAD for a single poem of 40 lines or fewer. For more information visit us at www.montrealpoetryprize.com.
#poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #poem #writer #writerscommunity
Once again, we will award $20.000 CAD for a single poem of 40 lines or fewer. For more information visit us at www.montrealpoetryprize.com.
#poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #poem #writer #writerscommunity
November 13, 2025 at 2:15 AM
It’s been a privilege to serve on the committee for the Montreal International Poetry Prize and to witness how it builds community around contemporary poetry in a variety of styles that reach across global Englishes.
Reposted by Sarah Wolfson
Cannot wait to read your work!
2026 MONTREAL PRIZE JURY MEMBER
BORIS DRALYUK
Boris Dralyuk is the author of “My Hollywood and Other Poems” (@pauldrybooks.bsky.social, 2022), and an award-winning translator and critic.
Find him @bdralyuk.bsky.social and bdralyuk.wordpress.com!
#poetry #PoetryPrize #poet #poem #poetrycommunity
BORIS DRALYUK
Boris Dralyuk is the author of “My Hollywood and Other Poems” (@pauldrybooks.bsky.social, 2022), and an award-winning translator and critic.
Find him @bdralyuk.bsky.social and bdralyuk.wordpress.com!
#poetry #PoetryPrize #poet #poem #poetrycommunity
November 12, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Cannot wait to read your work!
Really excited that Boris Dralyuk is joining the jury of the 2026 Montreal International Poetry Prize @montrealprize.bsky.social housed at McGill University. Huge fan of his poems and translations.
2026 MONTREAL PRIZE JURY MEMBER
BORIS DRALYUK
Boris Dralyuk is the author of “My Hollywood and Other Poems” (@pauldrybooks.bsky.social, 2022), and an award-winning translator and critic.
Find him @bdralyuk.bsky.social and bdralyuk.wordpress.com!
#poetry #PoetryPrize #poet #poem #poetrycommunity
BORIS DRALYUK
Boris Dralyuk is the author of “My Hollywood and Other Poems” (@pauldrybooks.bsky.social, 2022), and an award-winning translator and critic.
Find him @bdralyuk.bsky.social and bdralyuk.wordpress.com!
#poetry #PoetryPrize #poet #poem #poetrycommunity
November 13, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Really excited that Boris Dralyuk is joining the jury of the 2026 Montreal International Poetry Prize @montrealprize.bsky.social housed at McGill University. Huge fan of his poems and translations.
Reposted by Sarah Wolfson
newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Madelaine Caritas Longman : Three poems / @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social ;
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Madelaine Caritas Longman : Three poems
guzzle XIII balcony collapsing, the roof rotting through, low rent; i’ll live here as long as i can. nowhere to turn to that isn’t...
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November 3, 2025 at 8:38 PM
newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Madelaine Caritas Longman : Three poems / @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social ;
periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/11/made...
periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/11/made...
Micro-season: more November snow; Dolly Parton’s cover of Emmylou Harris’s “Boulder to Birmingham; transit strike newly suspended; grasping for the title of a pigeon poem conceived at this bus stop.
November 12, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Micro-season: more November snow; Dolly Parton’s cover of Emmylou Harris’s “Boulder to Birmingham; transit strike newly suspended; grasping for the title of a pigeon poem conceived at this bus stop.
Reposted by Sarah Wolfson
One month until the disability issue deadline, folks. Keep those poetry submissions rolling in!
For our Summer 2026 issue, Disability: The Revolution! The Fiddlehead has brought on a team of amazing editors! Our final genre editor almost needs no introduction. The well-loved Phillip Crymble, one of The Fiddlehead's very own poetry editors, is joining the team as poetry editor! (1/4)
October 31, 2025 at 2:59 PM
One month until the disability issue deadline, folks. Keep those poetry submissions rolling in!
micro-season: some rather robust cardinals face off against a flock of impertinent chickadees just ahead of the first snow
November 9, 2025 at 2:03 PM
micro-season: some rather robust cardinals face off against a flock of impertinent chickadees just ahead of the first snow
Favourite Quebec micro-season:
November 7, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Favourite Quebec micro-season:
Dentist chair found poem:
let me
give you
your
glasses
so
you
can see
your
X-rays
let me
give you
your
glasses
so
you
can see
your
X-rays
November 6, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Dentist chair found poem:
let me
give you
your
glasses
so
you
can see
your
X-rays
let me
give you
your
glasses
so
you
can see
your
X-rays
“Don’t underestimate direct / experience. Ants know earth. Dragonflies / know air. A cobbled mind is not fatal. / You have to be willing to self-educate / at a moment’s notice…”
— Diane Seuss from “My Education” in Modern Poetry
It’s taken me too long to get to this book.
— Diane Seuss from “My Education” in Modern Poetry
It’s taken me too long to get to this book.
October 31, 2025 at 3:56 PM
“Don’t underestimate direct / experience. Ants know earth. Dragonflies / know air. A cobbled mind is not fatal. / You have to be willing to self-educate / at a moment’s notice…”
— Diane Seuss from “My Education” in Modern Poetry
It’s taken me too long to get to this book.
— Diane Seuss from “My Education” in Modern Poetry
It’s taken me too long to get to this book.
Micro-season: vague, fuzzy half-moon; Muppet-song; arachnids.
October 30, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Micro-season: vague, fuzzy half-moon; Muppet-song; arachnids.
Crowd-sourcing question: Which songs can you think of (any genre, any style) that reference animals/creatures (any kind, order, size, eco-system, planet). Animal songs: quirky, ridiculous, serious, fun, melodic, dissonant, obscure, popular. Anything. 🙏🏻
October 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Crowd-sourcing question: Which songs can you think of (any genre, any style) that reference animals/creatures (any kind, order, size, eco-system, planet). Animal songs: quirky, ridiculous, serious, fun, melodic, dissonant, obscure, popular. Anything. 🙏🏻
Dream job: Poet in Residence at a conservation-minded zoo during feed-pumpkins-to-the-animals season.
October 27, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Dream job: Poet in Residence at a conservation-minded zoo during feed-pumpkins-to-the-animals season.
“…later much later I saw / that what I had taken to be the song / was in fact the joyous concordance of / moment that would not come again”
— Heather Christle, from “Perfect Song” in Paper Crown (Wesleyan University Press, 2025)
— Heather Christle, from “Perfect Song” in Paper Crown (Wesleyan University Press, 2025)
October 26, 2025 at 12:05 PM
“…later much later I saw / that what I had taken to be the song / was in fact the joyous concordance of / moment that would not come again”
— Heather Christle, from “Perfect Song” in Paper Crown (Wesleyan University Press, 2025)
— Heather Christle, from “Perfect Song” in Paper Crown (Wesleyan University Press, 2025)
Fond MFA memory: interviewing Susan Mitchell about Erotikon for Laurence Goldstein’s contemporary poetry class. Glad to see this new poem of hers.
“The kite had a will of its own, and its will / was wind which carried it the way love carries / surrender and forgiveness.”
poets.org/poem/wolf-moon
“The kite had a will of its own, and its will / was wind which carried it the way love carries / surrender and forgiveness.”
poets.org/poem/wolf-moon
Wolf Moon
Hold on, they said, but she was tiny and let / the kite go flying above tears and treetops.
poets.org
October 21, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Fond MFA memory: interviewing Susan Mitchell about Erotikon for Laurence Goldstein’s contemporary poetry class. Glad to see this new poem of hers.
“The kite had a will of its own, and its will / was wind which carried it the way love carries / surrender and forgiveness.”
poets.org/poem/wolf-moon
“The kite had a will of its own, and its will / was wind which carried it the way love carries / surrender and forgiveness.”
poets.org/poem/wolf-moon
Reposted by Sarah Wolfson
I don't think students should be asked to rhetorically analyze poetry in a class before they get practice experiencing poetry without imagining it as a rhetorical structure.
Like, cooking is so much better if you begin by first developing a relationship to the pleasure of food.
Like, cooking is so much better if you begin by first developing a relationship to the pleasure of food.
October 20, 2025 at 11:53 PM
I don't think students should be asked to rhetorically analyze poetry in a class before they get practice experiencing poetry without imagining it as a rhetorical structure.
Like, cooking is so much better if you begin by first developing a relationship to the pleasure of food.
Like, cooking is so much better if you begin by first developing a relationship to the pleasure of food.
Micro-season: Leonard Cohen, barometer drop, waning moon sliver
October 20, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Micro-season: Leonard Cohen, barometer drop, waning moon sliver
The performance of reading without having read.
Petition to ban student essays identifying "word choice" and "diction" as the thing a poem is doing. Yes. We know that this poem contains words somebody chose.
October 20, 2025 at 12:23 AM
The performance of reading without having read.
Reposted by Sarah Wolfson
You wonder who they mean,
but then you see. Their poison hemlock? That
is you. Their brown tree snake. Their killer bee.
-Amit Majmudar, 'Invasive Species'
#everynightapoem
We flower where we flower.
but then you see. Their poison hemlock? That
is you. Their brown tree snake. Their killer bee.
-Amit Majmudar, 'Invasive Species'
#everynightapoem
We flower where we flower.
October 19, 2025 at 10:43 PM
You wonder who they mean,
but then you see. Their poison hemlock? That
is you. Their brown tree snake. Their killer bee.
-Amit Majmudar, 'Invasive Species'
#everynightapoem
We flower where we flower.
but then you see. Their poison hemlock? That
is you. Their brown tree snake. Their killer bee.
-Amit Majmudar, 'Invasive Species'
#everynightapoem
We flower where we flower.
Reposted by Sarah Wolfson
"My skull / felt empty which meant I lacked the words / to describe such emptiness." I can't stop reading this poem in Geist by Sarah Wolfson @sarahwolfson.bsky.social. It gets deeper and deeper every time!
www.geist.com/poetry/the-g...
www.geist.com/poetry/the-g...
The Gravedigger - Geist.com
www.geist.com
October 19, 2025 at 6:14 PM
"My skull / felt empty which meant I lacked the words / to describe such emptiness." I can't stop reading this poem in Geist by Sarah Wolfson @sarahwolfson.bsky.social. It gets deeper and deeper every time!
www.geist.com/poetry/the-g...
www.geist.com/poetry/the-g...
Micro-season: aster on its last legs.
October 19, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Micro-season: aster on its last legs.
So good. So newly and steadily true.
October 18, 2025 at 2:38 PM
So good. So newly and steadily true.
“I have no quarrel with those who reject my way of writing, nor with those who reject the concept of a way of writing.”
— Richard Hugo, from the into to The Triggering Town.
— Richard Hugo, from the into to The Triggering Town.
October 17, 2025 at 12:04 AM
“I have no quarrel with those who reject my way of writing, nor with those who reject the concept of a way of writing.”
— Richard Hugo, from the into to The Triggering Town.
— Richard Hugo, from the into to The Triggering Town.
This morning I opened a rare older edition of a book of Robert Frost poems for young people. Tucked inside it was a temporary tattoo of a kale leaf. It’s going to be a good day.
October 16, 2025 at 1:45 PM
This morning I opened a rare older edition of a book of Robert Frost poems for young people. Tucked inside it was a temporary tattoo of a kale leaf. It’s going to be a good day.