sarahjsloat

Acceptances, publication, ephemera.

I would have liked to read more this year but I got in about 47 books, including the three or four I gave up on. Unlike previous years, I’m not going to list them all. Here are a few of my favorites.

Creatively, the biggest accomplishment of the year was finishing my book. Mostly I was working, or traveling, or cleaning birdshit off my balcony.

There is a strawberry that grew out of a carrot plant

After all, paper is a fabric, too.

Most days I was overwhelmed.

For the most part, I consider collage with text incorporated in it to be ‘visual poetry,’ though I wonder if even that is necessary.

The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them. -Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Coming back on the subway I was like, you know, actually that poem with the astronaut image kind of sucks.

Yesterday a middle-aged woman unlocking her car door turned around and looked at me to say “I was trying to get into the wrong black car!”