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Sage Ravenwood
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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
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
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
November 15, 2025 at 10:36 PM
November 7, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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
October 20, 2025 at 2:28 PM
October 1, 2025 at 10:40 PM
September 29, 2025 at 3:31 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
September 2, 2025 at 12:49 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.
June 9, 2025 at 8:48 PM
The next gorgeous anthology is from Past Ten, a collection of stories highlighting an event in each of the writer’s lives 10 years later. My piece reflects on the loss of my working dog for the deaf, Pickles. She’s the reason I live and write.🙏🤟
June 3, 2025 at 3:11 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’.
June 3, 2025 at 3:06 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. 🙏🤟
February 8, 2025 at 8:29 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...
February 5, 2025 at 2:19 PM
January 2, 2025 at 2:19 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.
November 16, 2024 at 4:05 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. 🙏🤟
October 18, 2024 at 5:14 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)
June 12, 2024 at 12:26 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.
February 28, 2024 at 11:56 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.
February 19, 2024 at 2:17 PM
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
What better way to say I’m not a fan of Valentine’s Day than to share, ‘I’m Not the Branch’ a deaf poem about falling out of love or is it about love. You decide. This poem first showed up Santa Clara Review and makes an entrance in my book ‘Everything That Hurt Us Becomes a Ghost’.
February 14, 2024 at 2:05 AM
February 13, 2024 at 3:54 PM
It’s an incredible honor to grace the pages of the latest issue of South Dakota Review. American Spirit is in two parts✌️pages. Make sure you read for the full poem. Speaking about native cliches…
February 12, 2024 at 9:03 PM
So there’s this…
February 11, 2024 at 3:00 AM
When you’re trying to get creative promoting your book which came out in Oct. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Honestly, I don’t know what I’m doing. I wrote some words in a poetry collection. You can find it here: gupress.gallaudet.edu/Books/E/Ever... Let me know what your favorite poem of mine is. I’d love to know.
February 9, 2024 at 12:01 AM