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Sarah Getty is an award-winning poet and fiction writer living near Boston, Mass. Her second book of poems, Bring Me Her Heart,(Higganum Hill Books, 2006), received nominations for the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award. Her first collection, The Land of Milk and Honey, was published by the University of South Carolina Press as part of the James Dickey Contemporary Poetry Series and won a Cambridge Poetry Prize in 2002. Sarah’s poem “That Woman” appeared in the anthology Birds in the Hand (Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2004). She received the New England Poetry Club’s Barbara Bradley Prize in 2004. Her poetry can also be found in magazines such as The Paris Review, The Western Humanities Review, and Calyx.
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Sarah’s short fiction has appeared in the Iowa Review and the Larcom Review. Her story “Forces” is in the anthology Still Going Strong (Haworth Press, 2005.) Her short short story “Out on the Lake” was the first prize winner in Long Story Short’s summer 2006 competition. The story is part of her upcoming novel, Spend All You Have. Sarah is also a noted teacher and coach of creative writing and one of three poetry coaches featured in Poet’s Market 2007. In July of 2006, she led a 10-day poetry workshop at the Villa Vergiliana on the Bay of Naples in Italy. More details can be found in the Workshops section of this Web site. Praise for Bring Me Her Heart “These poems are accomplished, and what they anew accomplish is our interest, our recall, our gain.” --Richard Howard “Getty’s wit, human sympathy, and incisive control of language are here in abundance.” -- X. J. Kennedy “Because she knows literary biography, Getty can write absorbing and thought-provoking dramatic monologues in the personas of the elderly Alice Liddell, who was Lewis Carroll’s Alice as a child, and of Henry David Thoreau as the bothersome neighbor of Hawthorne and Emerson. Because she knows classic folk and fairy tales, she can sharply re-imagine Snow White in the title poem and the Frog Prince in “Conservation of Frogs.” Because she knows Greek religion, she can powerfully bring it to bear on her mother’s decline and death… in the suite of poems that makes up the third section of this book, “Eleusis….” Because she has learned her craft, she makes meter, rhyme, and formal stanzas the vehicles of winning, natural expression.” --Starred review in ALA’s Booklist Praise for The Land of Milk and Honey "Makes radiant the role of women over more than a century of physical and metaphysical voyaging. Here, poignantly, are "mortals, telling their stories." --Maxine Kumin
"Plain statements, everyday situations, ordinary American lives, yet suddenly with a last image, or a final line of great beauty and transcendence, and you realize that you are in the presence of a poet. Like Oliver's these poems have that weird, exhilarating combination of clarity of statement, story, or situation, with depth of feeling that reveals the mystery beneath the everyday." |
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