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About Sarah Sarai

Sarah's poems have appeared in Boston Review, Threepenny Review, POOL, Pank, and others; in anthologies including Say It Loud: Poems About James Brown (Whirlwind); Maintenant: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing & Art (Three Rooms Press); and Gathered (Sundress) (forthcoming). Her poetry collection, The Future is Happy, was published by BlazeVOX[books]. She also writes fiction.

We Are Jack Kerouac

Sarah Sarai

railroad tracks

Though not in the sense we were born in Lowell Mass or beat it out of there to get famous, though we gassed up and burned rubber in Lowell Mass and in other states and cities we hitched … [Read more...]

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Established in 2000 and edited by Denise Enck, Empty Mirror is an online literary magazine that publishes new work each Friday.

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