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Sarah Blake

Sarah Blake lives outside of Philadelphia with her husband and son. She is the author of Mr. West, an unauthorized lyric biography of Kanye West, forthcoming from Wesleyan University Press in Spring 2015. Her poems have appeared in Boston Review, The Threepenny Review, The Awl, and elsewhere. She was awarded an NEA fellowship for poetry in 2013, and she’s Assistant Editor at Saturnalia Books and co-founder of Submittrs.

Articles

Excerpts from “In a Wood, with Clearings, It’s Spring”
Excerpts from Sarah Blake’s poem “In a Wood, with Clearings, It’s Spring.”
Sarah BlakeMay 7, 2014
We Can Be Heroes: The Winter Poetry Olympics Part I: On Skiing and Theory of Mind
LARB returns with a sequel to its “Poetry at the Olympics” series, featuring poets from across America responding to the Winter Olympics at Sochi.
Sarah BlakeFeb 7, 2014
We Can Be Heroes: Poetry at the XXX Olympiad (Part 7)
The Epilogues
Alison Stine, Deborah Paredez, Jake Adam York, Lynn Melnick, Lytton Smith, Michael Heald, P. Scott Cunningham, Patrick Rosal, Sarah BlakeAug 13, 2012
We Can Be Heroes: Poetry at the Olympics (Part 2)
On Table Tennis and Track & Field
Deborah Paredez, Gregory Pardlo, Jennifer L. Grotz, Ross Gay, Sarah Blake, Stephanie BurtAug 3, 2012