Publications

Books

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Killing Summer (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2017) – read more

Whiskey in the Garden of Eden (The Word Works, 2007)

D.C. Poets Against the War: An Anthology, co-editor with Michele Elliott and Danny Rose (Argonne House Press, 2004, out of print)

Poems in Literary Journals

• “Like the Stars, Broken and Hungry” in Tinderbox Poetry Journal
• “The Forever Knot” in Green Mountains Review
• “Everywhere” in Pine Hills Review
• “I’m sorry, but” in About Place: Dignity as an Endangered Species
• “Memory of Enchantment” in SWIMM Every Day
• “Ballad of the Seven Days,” “We All Have Our Thing,” “Body, Self, and All,” and “Day 7” in ArLiJo: Arlington Literary Journal (issue 105)
• “Praisesong” Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day
• “In Mind, Two Months” and “Full & Empty, 7 Months” in Mom Egg Review
• “The Neighborhood, Changing” in Beltway Poetry Quarterly Sterling Brown Tribute Issue
• “Joint Custody” in Splendid Wake-up’s Summer Poetry Pop-Up
• “Greeting” in Scoundrel Time
• “Gas,” Split This Rock Poem of the Week/The Quarry
• “When the sun returns” in POETRY magazine
• “US Lifts Vietnam Arms Ban” in PoetsArtists
• “Names she tried to teach me” in Truck
• “On My Triumphant Return to the DMV,” Kore Press Poem of the Week
• “Photo of a Woman with Nipples and a Cigarette” at Rogue Agent
• “Foreclosure” at WORD SOUP
• “Hot Priests,” “Going to See the Caravaggios,” and “Coming After Me” at Delaware Poetry Review
• “This Is the Poem,” “Petworth, Early Evening,” “Cawing Down the Airways,” “Killing Summer,” “Titian’s San Cristoforo,” and “I go for days,” at Vox Populi
• “Reading Dante’s Inferno on the Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina”at HEArt Online
• “Burning and Splendor ” in WORDPEACE
• “The Walton Mountain Museum” in Beltway Poetry Quarterly: The Museum Issue
• “The Final Talk,” “In a City of Barricades, I Dream of Baghdad” in Beltway Poetry Quarterly Split This Rock Issue
• “Columbia Shuttle Breaks Up Over Texas,” “I’m Not Homeless, My Son Fell Asleep,” and “Hard Headed Woman, or Getting It On with Yusef Islam” in Innisfree Poetry Journal
• “The Fifth Fact” at The Poetry Foundation
• “Prayer of the Ashamed American” at Beltway Poetry Quarterly Walt Whitman Issue
• “That Summer,” “Freedom Songs,” “How to Leave,” “Something They Never Tell You,” “The Fullness, the Bees,” and “Circus Performer” at Beltway Poetry Quarterly

Essays and Op Eds

• “Split This Rock: Celebrating 10 Years of Poetry, Witness, & Resistance,” The Writer’s Notebook
• “To Insist on the Depth and Complexity of Our Lives,” VIDA Web
• “There’s No Defending Founding Fathers Who Practiced Slavery, ” OtherWords
• “Nuts to First Class: The growing class divide on airplanes looks a lot like America’s,” OtherWords
• “The Intersection of Peril & Joy: Sarah Browning introduces Sharon Olds,” Blog This Rock
• “A Crime Against Humanity Sent Me to Harvard,” OtherWords
• Comments upon presenting the 2014 Busboys and Poets Award to Martín Espada, Busboys and Poets Blog
• “be loving ourselves/be sisters: Lucille Clifton Reminds Us that We are American Poetry,” Beltway Poetry Quarterly
• “To Scratch Away a Silence: On the Work of Jake Adam York,” Pilot Light Journal
• “Food for The Soul: Poetry That Pierces Injustice,” On The Issues Magazine

Interviews

• “Poetry of provocation and witness: Sarah Browning,” on Vermont Conversation with David Goodman (audio)
• “Sarah Browning: On Poetry & Politics,” Origins
• “John Feffer interviews poet Sarah Browning,” Patreon (free audio)
• “Q&A: Sarah Browning Splits This Rock,” Poets & Writers Magazine
• “Poetry as Provocation, ” On the Commons
• “Can She Get a Witness? Five Questions with Sarah Browning,” Post No Ills Magazine

Sarah Browning pierces the veil of artifice. She lives, breathes and stands for justice; using poetry to create the larger conversation. Her poems may be of real world effects, or matters central to her spirit, yet we can count on each poem to be a line of inquiry that searches for truth in action. Part of a spirited community that is working for social justice, she remains highly individual, like any true artist.

Grace Cavalieri, Poet Laureate of Maryland