BONE MAP

Selected for the 2013 National Poetry Series by Martha Collins, who writes: The territory mapped in this gorgeous book—first a forest with animals, then water and winter ice—is wracked by violence, war, and loss, with the bones and viscera of the living and dead laying claim to our attention. But it is also a […]

News & Press

8/25: Read “The Crooked Forest” and “Pastoral” at Quarterly West. 3/25: The essay “Lesser Moons” appears in River Styx. 10/24: Read “At the End, There is Always a House” on Poetry Daily. 8/24: Read “May Swenson and The Poetics of Letting Go” at Ilanot Review. 3/24: “At the End, There is Always a House” and […]

Events

Eastern Oregon University. Zoom. Feb 2023. University of Cincinnati. September 2022. Cincinnati, Ohio. Literati Bookstore. Zoom. Aug 2022. AWP Conference & Bookfair panel: “Beyond Representation: Intersections of Poetry and Mental Illness.” March 2022. Philadelphia, PA. AWP Conference & Bookfair panel: ” The Poetics of Film: Five Poets on the Influence & Impact of Cinema.” March 2022. […]

Poems, ESSAYS, etc.

Selected poems online: Creative Nonfiction Interviews: Audiovisual:

Featured

VAPOR

With a mind informed by physics, and a heart yearning for sky burial, Vapor’s epic vision swerves from the microscopic to telescopic, evoking an Anthropocene for a body and planet that are continually dying: “So alone / I open like a grave,” Johnson chronicles her love for “all this emptiness, this warp and transparence, the […]

About

Sara Eliza Johnson grew up in Stratford, Connecticut. She is a graduate of Cornell University. She received her MFA in poetry from the University of Oregon and her PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Utah. Her first book, Bone Map, won the 2013 National Poetry Series and was published by Milkweed Editions in […]