Sage Ravenwood
@sageravenwood.bsky.social
Deaf. Cherokee. Writer.
My book ‘Everything That Hurt Us Becomes a Ghost’ is available from Gallaudet University Press. https://gupress.gallaudet.edu/Books/E/Everything-That-Hurt-Us-Becomes-a-Ghost
My book ‘Everything That Hurt Us Becomes a Ghost’ is available from Gallaudet University Press. https://gupress.gallaudet.edu/Books/E/Everything-That-Hurt-Us-Becomes-a-Ghost
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Sage Ravenwood
@sageravenwood.bsky.social
· Oct 18
Happy Bookaversary! It’s been one year since Everything That Hurt Us Becomes a Ghost debuted. I would love to hear what you thought of the collection or if there was a favorite poem. 🙏🤟
The poem is based on a true story. A fist did indeed come through a door…Every Damn Day Is Domestic Violence Awareness. Pulp was originally published in Pinhole Poetry. #DomesticViolence, #Holidays, #Pulp, #pinholepoetry
November 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The poem is based on a true story. A fist did indeed come through a door…Every Damn Day Is Domestic Violence Awareness. Pulp was originally published in Pinhole Poetry. #DomesticViolence, #Holidays, #Pulp, #pinholepoetry
Might be human…
We’re all complicit in this humanness. Let this be a reminder, kindness doesn’t cost a damn thing…
#human, #WeCarryTheWound, #mightbeapoet, #KindnessRebel
We’re all complicit in this humanness. Let this be a reminder, kindness doesn’t cost a damn thing…
#human, #WeCarryTheWound, #mightbeapoet, #KindnessRebel
November 15, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Might be human…
We’re all complicit in this humanness. Let this be a reminder, kindness doesn’t cost a damn thing…
#human, #WeCarryTheWound, #mightbeapoet, #KindnessRebel
We’re all complicit in this humanness. Let this be a reminder, kindness doesn’t cost a damn thing…
#human, #WeCarryTheWound, #mightbeapoet, #KindnessRebel
When you have fangs and a heart. Our humanity is making us the wrong kind of animal. #fangsandheart, #trashethos, #notgrandmaspoetry, #littlegirlgrownup
November 4, 2025 at 2:47 AM
When you have fangs and a heart. Our humanity is making us the wrong kind of animal. #fangsandheart, #trashethos, #notgrandmaspoetry, #littlegirlgrownup
She’s two and as fierce as the day she debuted. #everythingthathurtusbecomesaghost, #RebelPoet, #Indigenous, #gallaudetuniversity, #debutanniversay
October 20, 2025 at 2:28 PM
She’s two and as fierce as the day she debuted. #everythingthathurtusbecomesaghost, #RebelPoet, #Indigenous, #gallaudetuniversity, #debutanniversay
I’m not even mad the moon hid last night. Make sure to read the poem inspiring the caption. I was fortunate and honored Atlanta Review chose to published ‘Between Bites’ a few years back. #moonlight, #betweenbites, #atlantareview, #poetry
September 2, 2025 at 12:49 PM
I’m not even mad the moon hid last night. Make sure to read the poem inspiring the caption. I was fortunate and honored Atlanta Review chose to published ‘Between Bites’ a few years back. #moonlight, #betweenbites, #atlantareview, #poetry
*Lit Cigarette Summer is in two parts. The recent Canadian wildfires have me returning to this poem of mine in scavengers.lit . NY’s red haze moonlit nights of ‘what have we done’, is yet another in your face reminder. The world is becoming a dumpster fire with each passing day.
June 9, 2025 at 8:48 PM
*Lit Cigarette Summer is in two parts. The recent Canadian wildfires have me returning to this poem of mine in scavengers.lit . NY’s red haze moonlit nights of ‘what have we done’, is yet another in your face reminder. The world is becoming a dumpster fire with each passing day.
I’ve been sadly remiss in announcing two wonderful anthologies I had the pleasure of gracing recently. The first is @pioneertownlit decade long celebrated collection - Pioneertown Pairings. Poems are paired with a cocktail or mocktail recipe throughout. Check out my poem, ‘What Escapes a Throat’.
June 3, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I’ve been sadly remiss in announcing two wonderful anthologies I had the pleasure of gracing recently. The first is @pioneertownlit decade long celebrated collection - Pioneertown Pairings. Poems are paired with a cocktail or mocktail recipe throughout. Check out my poem, ‘What Escapes a Throat’.
Reposted by Sage Ravenwood
We can’t let April pass us by without featuring some #DeafLit for #NationalPoetryMonth! Here's “Night Speak” and “Playing God with a Flashlight” by @sageravenwood.bsky.social from EVERYTHING THAT HURT US BECOMES A GHOST. Now 30% off w/ promo code NDHM2025:
gupress.gallaudet.edu/Books/E/Ever...
gupress.gallaudet.edu/Books/E/Ever...
April 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
We can’t let April pass us by without featuring some #DeafLit for #NationalPoetryMonth! Here's “Night Speak” and “Playing God with a Flashlight” by @sageravenwood.bsky.social from EVERYTHING THAT HURT US BECOMES A GHOST. Now 30% off w/ promo code NDHM2025:
gupress.gallaudet.edu/Books/E/Ever...
gupress.gallaudet.edu/Books/E/Ever...
Reposted by Sage Ravenwood
Includes collections by @mailbykite.bsky.social, Naomi Cohn, @tagreathouse.bsky.social, Cyrée Jarelle Johnson, @cynthiamhoffman.bsky.social, @sageravenwood.bsky.social, and Jillian Weise.
April 2, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Includes collections by @mailbykite.bsky.social, Naomi Cohn, @tagreathouse.bsky.social, Cyrée Jarelle Johnson, @cynthiamhoffman.bsky.social, @sageravenwood.bsky.social, and Jillian Weise.
Your girl’s book is featured in the DeafLit Reading Fest. I’m right up there with Nyle Dimarco whose book Deaf Utopia made The NY Times Bestseller list. 🙏🤟
February 8, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Your girl’s book is featured in the DeafLit Reading Fest. I’m right up there with Nyle Dimarco whose book Deaf Utopia made The NY Times Bestseller list. 🙏🤟
There’s no flesh between love and pain…Twin shadows, never one without the other.” I’m a little too ‘real’, so you might want to grab a copy before it ends up getting banned in this new reality we find ourselves in.
gupress.gallaudet.edu/Books/E/Ever...
gupress.gallaudet.edu/Books/E/Ever...
February 5, 2025 at 2:19 PM
There’s no flesh between love and pain…Twin shadows, never one without the other.” I’m a little too ‘real’, so you might want to grab a copy before it ends up getting banned in this new reality we find ourselves in.
gupress.gallaudet.edu/Books/E/Ever...
gupress.gallaudet.edu/Books/E/Ever...
Today’s a good day after all. 🙏🤟
In honor of #LeonardPeltier's long-awaited clemency, let's have a look back at Sage Ravenwood's moving poem on the subject, from our revival issue (Shō No. 3). @sageravenwood.bsky.social
One of the most memorable poems we've published.
One of the most memorable poems we've published.
So my writing? Let’s start with a piece from Shó Poetry Journal that made me cry before and after and made my editor tear up while reading it to friends. Poem is 2 pages.
January 21, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Today’s a good day after all. 🙏🤟
What is Autumn of the soul but a lesson in how to let the dead things go. And what if we can’t? It’s been a quiet year of gentling loss and goodbyes. Words unflinchingly stabbing pins in nerve endings like a voodoo doll as if we haven’t already succumbed to grief.
November 16, 2024 at 4:05 PM
What is Autumn of the soul but a lesson in how to let the dead things go. And what if we can’t? It’s been a quiet year of gentling loss and goodbyes. Words unflinchingly stabbing pins in nerve endings like a voodoo doll as if we haven’t already succumbed to grief.
Honored! 🙏🤟
Today’s Friday Five features a Q&A with an extraordinary poet, @sageravenwood.bsky.social, and includes one of her pieces in full! Enjoy. andrewcareaga.com/2024/11/08/f...
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Friday Five: Q&A with poet Sage Ravenwood (and bonus poem)
‘Ghosts of our emotional discordance following us wherever we go.’
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November 8, 2024 at 6:47 PM
Honored! 🙏🤟
Happy Bookaversary! It’s been one year since Everything That Hurt Us Becomes a Ghost debuted. I would love to hear what you thought of the collection or if there was a favorite poem. 🙏🤟
October 18, 2024 at 5:14 PM
Happy Bookaversary! It’s been one year since Everything That Hurt Us Becomes a Ghost debuted. I would love to hear what you thought of the collection or if there was a favorite poem. 🙏🤟
A poetry expose, halfway between beauty and chaos.
‘I still don’t like my face’ but this book is what happens when you cut the raw truth from your body and expose it to the light of day. The emptying… (link in bio)
‘I still don’t like my face’ but this book is what happens when you cut the raw truth from your body and expose it to the light of day. The emptying… (link in bio)
June 12, 2024 at 12:26 PM
A poetry expose, halfway between beauty and chaos.
‘I still don’t like my face’ but this book is what happens when you cut the raw truth from your body and expose it to the light of day. The emptying… (link in bio)
‘I still don’t like my face’ but this book is what happens when you cut the raw truth from your body and expose it to the light of day. The emptying… (link in bio)
My poem ‘Deer Woman’ originally published in @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social is today’s feature poem on #versedaily
www.versedaily.org/2024/deerwom...
www.versedaily.org/2024/deerwom...
March 11, 2024 at 8:31 PM
My poem ‘Deer Woman’ originally published in @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social is today’s feature poem on #versedaily
www.versedaily.org/2024/deerwom...
www.versedaily.org/2024/deerwom...
I’m honored and thankful to @shiloniziolek for choosing ‘Tsola’ one of two poems for print in the recent issue of @scavengers.lit. When you see life unfolding around you and within you.
February 28, 2024 at 11:56 PM
I’m honored and thankful to @shiloniziolek for choosing ‘Tsola’ one of two poems for print in the recent issue of @scavengers.lit. When you see life unfolding around you and within you.
When you trip into Goodreads and find your book isn’t doing so bad after all. 🙏🤟
www.goodreads.com/book/show/17...
www.goodreads.com/book/show/17...
Everything That Hurt Us Becomes a Ghost: Poems
Sage Ravenwood is a deaf Indigenous poet whose work dea…
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February 20, 2024 at 2:38 PM
When you trip into Goodreads and find your book isn’t doing so bad after all. 🙏🤟
www.goodreads.com/book/show/17...
www.goodreads.com/book/show/17...
The post about my 2nd book making finalist for the Southeast Missouri State University Cowles Poetry Prize got a lot of traction. Here’s the poem the collection is based on. First published in Hobo Camp Review. It’s loosely based on the MMIW (Missing Murdered Indigenous Woman) movement.
February 19, 2024 at 2:17 PM
The post about my 2nd book making finalist for the Southeast Missouri State University Cowles Poetry Prize got a lot of traction. Here’s the poem the collection is based on. First published in Hobo Camp Review. It’s loosely based on the MMIW (Missing Murdered Indigenous Woman) movement.
I had the honor of having two poems accepted by South Dakota Review. I’ve already shared the first with you, here’s the second one, aptly titled, ‘Seeded Pain’. Once again the poem is in two parts, scroll for the second half. Indigenous thoughts on who we are.
February 17, 2024 at 12:22 AM
I had the honor of having two poems accepted by South Dakota Review. I’ve already shared the first with you, here’s the second one, aptly titled, ‘Seeded Pain’. Once again the poem is in two parts, scroll for the second half. Indigenous thoughts on who we are.