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Sarah Brown Weitzman

 

Sarah Brown Weitzman, a Pushcart Prize nominee, has been widely published in hundreds of journals and anthologies including Poet & Critic, Art times, The North American Review, Rattle, Mid-American Review, Ekphrasis, Abraxas, The Windless Orchard, Poet Lore, Potomac Review, Poem, etc. She is a past recipient of a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. A departure from poetry, her fourth book, Herman and the Ice Witch, is a children’s novel published by Main Street Rag in 2011.

What is your creative process?

I work in two shifts — soon after coffee in the morning until lunch and then again after dinner. Although when I was young there was only radio, I no longer could manage without a computer.

What are you reading now?

I read poetry every single day since I was about eight but did not dare to write a poem until I was nearly forty. I have been widely published and received a NEA award.

What are your favorite books of all time?

The greatest books I ever read and reread are A Fearful Joy by Joyce Cary, Riders in the Chariot by Patrick White, Testimonies by Patrick O’Brian, How Green Was My Valley by Richard LLewellyn, The Eye of Love by Margery Sharp, Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy, Expiation by Elizabeth [von Arnim], Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope, A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh. There are more but these are the unforgetttable ones.