Sarah Schweig

1 week ago | publicseminar.org | Sarah Schweig

Cover of The Ocean in the Next Room (2025) | Sarah V. Schweig / Milkweed EditionsI’m still here in the city I entered years ago. I’ve been in the city all this time. I don’t look up and around much anymore. I’ve been studying philosophy and having a sonand killing time. I follow my son from roomto room in our two-room rental. While he sleeps,I kill a roach in the bathroom with a broom,and even thoroughly crushed its legs keepmoving. I get up each morning still asleepand keep moving.

Jul 25, 2024 | milkweed.org | Sarah Schweig

Winner of the Jake Adam York Prize, this collection of poems seeks answers about how to live meaningfully in a world saturated by late capitalism. “The question isn’t / what exists,” writes Sarah V. Schweig in her engrossing and prize-winning collection, “The question is what doesn’t / die with us?” Positioned from within the morass of modern-day living, The Ocean in the Next Room searches for the hard, abiding particles of truth buried beneath our frenzied consumer culture. Stillness. Sunsets.

Feb 22, 2024 | milkweed.org | Sarah Schweig

Copper Nickel and Milkweed Editions are thrilled to announce that judge Cynthia Cruz has chosen Sarah V. Schweig’s collection of poems, The Ocean in the Next Room, as the winner of the 2023–24 Jake Adam York Prize. The Ocean in the Next Room will be published by Milkweed Editions in January 2025, and Schweig will receive $2,000. Sarah V. Schweig’s first book, Take Nothing with You, was published by the University of Iowa Press in 2016.

Sep 17, 2023 | yalereview.org | Sarah Schweig

Sarah V. Schweig Here we are in Barbados at Waves Hotel and Spa. We are three, now, with an infant son. Every other guest is British, burnt pink and smoking. The literal is all that’s left. Our son cries, and for a few long seconds I do nothing, keep writing. Everyone has a penchant for cruelty, given opportunity. Between feeds, I order a “mango breeze colada.”By the highway, men selling coconuts wield machetes. The sunset is burnt pink and smoking.