Sarah Wolfson

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Poet & Teaching Artist University Lecturer UmichWriters MFA book: A COMMON NAME FOR EVERYTHING Montreal & Vermont | writing pedagogy | ferns 🌱 poems forthcoming in EVENT, Nimrod, Bennington Review & Best Canadian Poetry www.sarahwolfsonwriter.com

a brown goat standing jauntily on a DIY wooden bridge in a fenced-in pasture
a Morgan horse goal looking out over the green wooden barrier of its stall
book: Certain Details: The Poetry of Nelson Ball on a café table with an insulated coffee mug next to it.
Front cover of Event Magazine (red and blue) lying on an electric typewriter.
a poem by Lorine Niedecker
paws and snout of a black-brown Cairn terrier seen against the corners of a stack of papers
Poets Stephanie Bolster, Rhea Tregebov, and Sarah Wolfson pictured on an event notice for a May 21 Three Poet Reading from 5 to 7 pm at Librairie Paragraphe Books in MTL.
Pink magnolia blossoms seen from below against a blue sky with wispy clouds.
a red-winged blackbird near a marsh
Small mammal tracks dried into a stretch of sidewalk
Little blue flowers, heads bowed, in a green lawn
Purple crocuses emerging from underneath a ground covering of dead, brown leaves.
Colourful child’s clothes hanging rack in the shape of a bug with eyes qnd two what seem to be cat bowls all sit in an empty brown dishrack-like crate on the curb among old, dried leaves.
A view of Mount Royal from McGill campus.
Large icicle cluster hanging in a tree, photographed from below.
a small dog in a red jacket on a leash pictured trotting in the snow
Tear-shaped ice chunks on the ground.
A Montreal International Poetry Prize poster with a turquoise background, pastel bicycles, snow, and sparrows.
Brown-black Cairn terrier with an imploring expression on his face.
Close-up of a pelican, wings spread, in full flight
a close-up of large red and gold striped Christmas ornement hanging from a tree over snowy ground
Seed pods on snowy stairs.
The final lines of a poem called “The Day of the Animals” by Lorna Crozier.
Submission call poster with rabbit and mouse on old tile
Snowflakes on glass (up close)
old city buildings with snow and fire escape
Brown-black Cairn terrier lying in a curved, comma-like position.
the nose and face of a brown-black Cairn terrier pointed upward toward the camera and covered in snow
Flyer that says, “US & Canadian Environmental Writers Read to Support the Raven Trust, January 24, 2026, Hôtel Gault, 449 rue Sainte Hélène, Montreal”
Unevenly lit photo of a five-line, rhyming poem by Samuel Menashe
The title page of Vera Pavlova’s If There Is Something to Desire, translated from Russian by Steven Seymour
short, witty poem by Vera Pavlova translated from Russian by Steven Seymour
an excerpt from a poem about aging by Bill Gough
A poem called “The Mind Recalls Her Skinny Lovers” by Peter Harley.
An aloe plant on a windowsill overlooking an old water-circulating radiator.
Two books stacked: Diane Seuss’s Modern Poetry and Einstein’s Relativity.
a black-Brown Cairn terrier lying on its side next to a bilingual (French & English) edition of Emily Dickinson’s complete works
three slabs of wet concrete sidewalk stretching out ahead of the camera with light snow on either side
list of poets and poem titles at the back of an anthology
close-up of mud and bubbles under ice
Chalkboard sign that reads “bar à racines.”
a short poem by Fanny Howe from her collection O’Clock
a temporary tattoo image of a large, hearty green kale leaf
A woman with long brown hair and glasses standing at a microphone reading from paper — and wearing a green-grey blazer with a black top and black jeans.
Spines of poetry-related books bearing titles. Robert Bly’s Leaping Poetry (red spine, yellow and blue letters) and Fanny Howe’s O’Clock (green spine, white letters).
Cover of Kim Addonizio’s book Exit Opera, which features a dead songbird (yellow, blue, green, and white) and a yellow border on the bottom edge.
black-brown Cairn terrier lying diagonally in a tan dog bed