Sarah Emmett

SARAH EMMETT {[email protected]} is a master’s student in library science at Simmons University. She graduated from BYU with a BA in history and digital humanities.

Portrait of Agnes

Articles/Essays – Volume 56, No. 1

Listen the Out Loud version of this poem here. Stern little lady,ancestor in an oval frame,I like the way your shoulders slopeand your fingers dangleover the book and the carpetbag skirt.I like the way your…

Cemetery Walk

Articles/Essays – Volume 56, No. 1

Listen the Out Loud version of this poem here. It was somewhere around here, I think.Where they buried that baby,yeah, the one I told you about.No, not by the pioneer obelisksa wife for each sidefresh…

The Garden I Know

Articles/Essays – Volume 56, No. 1

Listen the Out Loud version of this poem here. In his artistic agony,diamond drops of bloodcovered Christ’s chiseled body,sacred sweat shimmeredin the light of the Passover moon.The Son of God, an altarpiece,in serene pain and…