Castaway
Sarah’s chapbook Castaway was published by Glass Lyre Press in 2022.
A sampling of the poems included in Castaway which were first published in these journals:
So Far Away published by Rockvale Review
Salt and Other Spells published by Luna Luna Magazine and later anthologized in I Sing the Salmon Home, published by Empty Bowl Press.
Available Now from Glass Lyre Press
“Full of salt and sea, sailors and manta rays, Stockton’s Castaway is a seawall against loneliness and despair. She plumbs those difficult depths, looking into the face of dementia, illness, homelessness, and death, but she also makes room for a wedge of light. Stockton shows us, in poem after poem, how they are the lighthouses that make possible this dark voyaging.”
–Dayna Patterson, author of Titania in Yellow (Porkbelly Press) and If Mother Braids a Waterfall (Signature Books)
“In Sarah Stockton’s Castaway, a meditative collection of epistolaries, syllogisms, and spells, she calls back to the child self, a sailor’s daughter, and forward/inward to the adult self, a lover and friend. Alive to the sensory pleasures and pains of the world, in these poems we find a “goddess cavorting in her sea-spursed den,” “sorrow slips past the fact-checkers,” and “the heart is/ the center of the trunk of a tree.”
–Maya Jewell Zeller, author of Alchemy for Cells and Other Beasts (Entre Ríos Books), Yesterday, the Bees (Floating Bridge Press), Rust Fish (Lost Horse Press), and co-editor of Evergreen: Grim Tales & Verses from the Gloomy Northwest (Scablands Books)
Time’s Apprentice
Sarah’s chapbook Time’s Apprentice was published by dancing girl press in 2021. (Contact Sarah directly if you’d like a copy.)
An in-depth review is available at The Poetry Cafe
A sampling of the poems included in Time’s Apprentice which were first published in these journals:
The Color of My Uncle’s Car published by Psaltery and Lyre
Lucretia’s Legacy published by Gone Lawn
The Old Ways: How To Make a Man published by Rise Up Review
What I Have Done, and What I Have Failed to Do published by Glass Poetry, including a recording of my reading this poem, Here.
Sarah’s poems have also appeared in Emerge Journal, Blue Mountain Review, Poetry Northwest, Whale Road Review, Blue Mountain Review, EcoTheo Review, Luna Luna, About Place Journal, Gone Lawn, Glass Poetry, The Shallow Ends, Rise Up Review, Haunted Waters Press, Crab Creek Review, Snapdragon Journal, Rogue Agent, Earth’s Daughters, and I Sing the Salmon Home (an anthology from Empty Bowl Press), among others.