Sarah Carey is a graduate of the Florida State University creative writing program. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Atlanta Review, Grist, Yemassee, Frontier Poetry and elsewhere. Her poetry book reviews have appeared recently in the Los Angeles Review, Tinderbox Poetry Journal and EcoTheo Review. A Pushcart and Orison Prize nominee, Sarah's poetry chapbook, Accommodations (2019) received the Concrete Wolf Chapbook Award. Her debut chapbook, The Heart Contracts, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2016.

Other poems by Sarah Carey in Verse Daily:
September 10, 2017:   "Sinkhole" "We head for the sinkhole that just opened up..."

Books by Sarah Carey:

Other poems on the web by Sarah Carey:
"Exotic Taste"
"Consistency"
Two poems
"Nutritional Value"

Sarah Carey's Website.

Sarah Carey on Twitter.

About Accommodations:

"The consciousness that reigns in these poems is hurricane-proof, bulletproof, heartache-proof. And, lucky for us, this is the consciousness of our tour guide throughout this often heart-breaking volume. Again and again, with a grace and acceptance that reminds us of the strength of human beings, these poems examine the often-blurred line between what will happen in our lives--and what we can make happen. Carey's poetic breath becomes the reader's life-breath--a parity that only the best of poems can offer."
—M.B. McLatchey

"Sarah Carey makes many gracious accommodations to family, to the inevitable losses in an ordinary life, and to the idea of home in all its human dimensions in this intelligent, sensitive, and generous collection. She meditates on 'the long valediction' of a fully lived life and comes to artful terms with the repercussions of love and mortality in poems that ring true and resonate. Breathe the slow wind, she writes, another storm is always coming. We know it in our bones, and we see it again and again in these lovely measures."
—Sidney Wade

"This collection starts off with an ache that pulls a reader in uncontrollably with sorrow and beauty. It is a tremendous manuscript that begs to be read over and over. Organic in the purest sense. Anyone encountering these poems will be stunned."
—Amy MacLennan