Sahara Sidi

Jan 14, 2025 | sites.lsa.umich.edu | Sahara Sidi

Born in Japan and raised in the US, Sawako Nakayasu is an artist working with language, performance, and translation. Her newest books of poetry include Pink Waves (Omnidawn, 2023), a finalist for the PEN/Voelcker award, and Some Girls Walk Into The Country They Are From (Wave Books, 2020), both of which engage the intersection between writing and translation.

Feb 14, 2024 | theoffingmag.com | Anna Sandy Elrod |Jean-Luc Bouchard |Destini Baylis Adams |Sahara Sidi

Dear young poets, you should knowI’ll sleep with the best ones. Pulitzer pussy, Guggenheim gooch,Hugo anything — I’m good withBooker bastards in bed. PEN isdependent on tradition & individualtalent, your remarkable abilityto live & die both on the pageand in the air — face down. God,they know devotion so well. Contain multitudes and mommy issues. They can abandon one thingfor the next muse. Those starsare like dead. Did you know that? Keep counting them, baby.