Associate professor of English and Creative Writing Sarah Green has published her second poetry collection, titled “The Deletions.”
“I put this collection together after experiencing a tragic personal loss, which led me to bundle together other poems I had written that touch on love, family and ecology, both in times of fruition and times of grief,” Green said. “I would call this an ecological book though it only contains a few nature poems; ecological in the sense that it explores interconnectedness, and the overlap between private and public pain.”
The collection was published earlier in April, previously winning the 2023 Editor’s Choice for the Akron Poetry Prize from University of Akron Press. The Akron Series in Poetry was founded 30 years ago to discover and amplify writers who speak in original and compelling voices.
Green is the author of a previous collection, “Earth Science,” and the editor of “Welcome to the Neighborhood: An Anthology of American Coexistence.” She has received a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and the Vermont Studio Center.
