Sarah V. Schweig’s poems have appeared in Bomb Magazine, Boston Review, Western Humanities Review, and Verse Daily. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia and Columbia University, where her manuscript was a recipient of the David Craig Austin Memorial Award, and she was a 2010 Ruth Lilly Fellowship finalist. Her chapbook, S, will be available through […]
Sarah Schweig
Sarah Schweig: Tonight
When a man packs a lamp in newspaper, words rub off on his hands. People build factories to build lamps. They cut mountains open for a handful of gems. Harvested for a misshapen pearl, an oyster’s whole life. Tonight, a man sits at a desk and looks at his hands. Off the gems, lamplight would […]