Publications

Someplace Else (chapbook), dancing girl press, Chicago, 2020. You may order this directly from me at: saraepoet@gmail.com. Cost is $10.00, including shipping. Use the contact page at the end to email me your address; pay via Zelle or Venmo. I will provide payment information when I receive your email.

Reviews

In Sarah A. Rae’s debut chapbook of 12 poems, aptly titled Someplace Else, we are introduced to her world of travel that embraces diverse places . . . Here you will discover the poet’s eye for uncluttered detail and deft control of line. . . evocative poems that surprise and delight at every new signpost along the way; poems that beg you to pull over and linger a while; poems that take you home.

Jenene Ravesloot, Jenene Ravesloot's Poetry Reviews, Chicago

. . . from Mexico to Spain to Cuba to Morocco to the States, these strikingly cinematic poems from her chapbook Someplace Else use anaphora and recursivity to stitch us into the lush tapestry of her poetic terrains. . . But beneath the beautiful ornate lushness of her imagery, her words are barbed with the understanding of racial, gender, and economic inequities across geographies. . .resonant, relevant, but difficult images that help “sing” us forward to “someplace else.”

Simone Muench, author of Wolf Centos and The Under Hum, co-curator of Sunday Reading Series at the Hungry Brain, Chicago

The Poetry Buffet: An Anthology of New Orleans Poetry, G. Ferrara and G. Munsterman, Eds., New Orleans Poetry Journal Press, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2023. Available on several online sites, including Bookshop: bookshop.org/p/books/the-poetry-buffet-an-anthology-of-new-orleans-poetry-gina-ferrara/20631046?ean=9780938498124

On a Wednesday Night: Poems from the Creative Writing Workshop at the University of New Orleans, K. Murphy, Ed., New Orleans: UNO Press, 2019. Available on the University of New Orleans website: www.uno.edu/unopress/wednesday-night

I am currently translating La Alquimista, (2015, Ediciones 1450, Oaxaca, Mexico), by Mexican poet Guadalupe Ángela, from Spanish to English. Projected publication date in 2026 or 2027.

“Sara A. Rae Reads Poetry by Guadalupe Ángela," (Youtube video) in Jill! A Women+ in Translation Reading Series, August 2022. I read original poetry by Guadalupe Ángela in Spanish, and my translations of her work in English. You can access the video here, and also see it on my Gallery page.

Rae, Sarah A. Translations of poems by Guadalupe Ángela. In Ezra: An Online Journal of Translation, Spring 2016, Volume 10, No. 2. Journal PDF here; scroll to pages 37-42.

“My Mother, My Name,” and “Lunch at the Courier Café,” (poems) in Spanish and English (trans. to Spanish by Guadalupe Ángela), in Revista Blanco Y Negro, Oaxaca, Mexico: Fall 2015. Available online at ISSUU here; scroll to pages 15-16.

"After Totality," Naugatuck River Review. Finalist in the 16th Annual Narrative Poetry Contest, judged by Allison Joseph. Print journal Contest Edition (Winter/Spring 2025), Issue 33, PDF here, journal available for order through Lulu here.

"Waves are Mountains Pushing Us Through Time," Poemeleon, Happy Poems issue, Summer 2024. Available online here.

"Praise the Surgeon, Praise the Anesthesiologist, Praise the IV Nurse," Gyroscope Review, Winter 2024. PDF here.

"Learning of your death on a gray day in January," Anti-Heroin Chic, March 2023. Available online here.

"Vietnam," Sixty Heights, a Poetry Reading Journal, February 9, 2023, Online journal and video available here and on the Gallery page.

"In the Shoebox of Old Photos," Naugatuck River Review, Summer/Fall 2022, Issue 28, Summer/Fall 2022. PDF here.

"The Olives in Essaouira," Jet Fuel Review, Spring 2022, Issue 23. Available online here. This poem also received an Honorable Mention in the Chicagoland Poets and Patrons Free Verse Category in their 2021 contest.