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1 month ago | publicseminar.org | Carina Filemyr |Sarah Schweig

Still waters run deep (2021) | Foteini Zaglara  / CC BY 2.0For Sarah V. Schweig, writing poetry has always been a question of looking for the most truthful way to record things that had seemed otherwise inscrutable or difficult to understand. Her new collection, The Ocean in the Next Room (Milkweed Editions, 2025), peels back the noise of daily life to locate beauty—and with it, a way of making sense of the world.