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Sarah's writing has been widely published and anthologized. Here are links to some essays, stories, poems, criticism, and journalism available online.

Essays, stories & poems

The Cure
(New York Times Magazine)

Poet's Choice
(Washington Post)

Last Words
(Esquire.com)

I Am Afraid of the Future
(Esquire.com)

The Fourth Man
(McSweeney's)

Nineteen Boys
(McSweeney's)

Not That Anyone Deserves Anything
(McSweeney's)

Things I Have Learned
(McSweeney's)

Things I Realized in 2002
(McSweeney's)

What to Do on October 30
(McSweeney's)

Reverence
(Ploughshares)

Wild Goose Chase
(Boston Review)

A Glittering
(Blackbird)

The Movement of a Caravan over the Landscape
(Academy of American Poets)

Book Notes
(Largehearted Boy)

A Very Short Story
(Conduit)

Four Very Short Stories
(MiPOesias)

Address to an Absent Lover
(Kultureflash)

What Is the Correct Subject?
(Octopus)

Criticism & journalism

The Fallacy of Prose Poetry: T. S. Eliot
(Academy of American Poets)

The Ghost Inside: Jack Gilbert
(The Poetry Foundation)

Interglacial: James Richardson
(The Believer)

Interview: Lydia Davis
(The Believer)

Laughter and Oblivion: Dean Young
(Boston Review)

Why the Writer of Prose Poems Is Never Sad: Russell Edson
(The Believer)