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Sarah Brockhaus

@scbrock.bsky.social
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Poet // MFA from LSU // PhD student @ UNT // co-editor of The Shore Poetry

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The Shore @theshorepoetry.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Long days, stretched light, summer has arrived and so has ISSUE 30!! 🌞🌊 Enjoy: www.theshorepoetry.org/issue-30
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Sarah Brockhaus @scbrock.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
A lot of poems start for me with random snippets of early memories that I don’t know why stuck with me, until the poem becomes a way to make sense of it. The one that became this poem has been following me for years, and I’m really glad storySouth gave it a home! storysouth.com/stories/a-li...
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A Lie of Linearity - storySouth
As a child I saw it: time going arrhythmic—A big sister was holding a little sister’s hand, they were maybe six and three, the older one’s eyes were searching for their mother, that is all it could be...
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Sarah Brockhaus @scbrock.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
So excited about this :) thanks Lisa and PBQ!
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Sarah Brockhaus @scbrock.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
The sudden drop off in work at the end of the semester is so jarring, I keep double checking that I’m not forgetting about something
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Sarah Brockhaus @scbrock.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
It is really reassuring when the CAPTCHA lets me know I am, in fact, human.
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Sarah Brockhaus @scbrock.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
I had a dream I was trying to kill a cockroach and it kept repairing itself somehow and then it became a tall blonde man and started fighting back by launching rubber bands at my face with surprisingly great accuracy. Interpretations?
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Sarah Brockhaus @scbrock.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Life really is just applying to things, isn’t it. You just apply to things and then you apply to more things and to other things and then sometimes you get the courtesy of a copy and paste response.
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Sarah Brockhaus @scbrock.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
I’m having so much fun teaching comp this semester (our topic is ways of knowing). This week we talked about fear and they came up with fears they think are inherently human. One group decided on the fear of being forgotten, and that we counteract that by caring for the people around us :)
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Sarah Brockhaus @scbrock.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Happy Spring!! Check out the new issue, so much weird and delightful poetry in this one:
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Sarah Brockhaus @scbrock.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Very happy with my AWP book haul :) can’t wait to dive into these!!
Stack of books: 
Places I’ve taken my body by Molly McCully Brown Dear Beast by Catherine Pierce 
Last Train to Paradise by Martha Silano
A Mother is an Intellectual thing by Kimberly 
grey Instead, it is dark by Catherine Hogue
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Sarah Brockhaus @scbrock.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Tonight! 6:30 @ Old Major!
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The Shore @theshorepoetry.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Come say hello at AWP’26! The Shore will be sharing a table at the book fair with our friends from @HarpurPalate at booth 419 ! 🌊🦀 #AWP26 #BaltimoreMD #AWP
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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
A great fog has enveloped Baltimore. The poets are coming.
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Sarah Brockhaus @scbrock.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Gonna be findable at AWP this year! You can catch me at The Shore table (419) and reading with these lovely people Saturday night:
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Sarah Brockhaus @scbrock.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
A little collection of the blooms I found in my yard today:
Photo of a yellow dandelion and other little spring yard flowers
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Sarah Brockhaus @scbrock.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Check out this new review series pairing albums and poetry collections! This one is on Courtney Kampa’s A Bright and Borrowed Light and The Weakerthan’s Left and Leaving:
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Lyric Time 1: Courtney Kampa & The Weakerthans
Our First Pairing--A deep and rich combo.
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Sarah Brockhaus @scbrock.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
The task I put off for three months took approximately an hour and a half to complete! I will not learn from this :)
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Sarah Brockhaus @scbrock.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
New issue is up!!! Can’t believe The Shore is 7 years old now. There are so many brilliant poems in this one, check it out:
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Sarah Brockhaus @scbrock.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
The Greensboro Review was the first print literary magazine I ever owned, so this feels really really special :) I’m so excited to read everyone’s work!
A copy of the new issue of The Greensboro Review (fall 2025, number 118) the cover is bright orange.
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Sarah Brockhaus @scbrock.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Just finished reading Courtney Kampa’s brilliant poetry collection. I really can’t recommend it enough, I think everyone should read it. It brought me to tears multiple times, it feels like something very precious and important.
The cover of Courtney Kampa’s poetry collection Bright and Borrowed Light
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Sarah Brockhaus @scbrock.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
If you use AI to generate poems you should receive the natural consequence of that action (never being able to weep human tears again)
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Sarah Brockhaus @scbrock.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
I can’t cook many meals, but I am very proud of my mushroom sage risotto
A photo of mushroom sage risotto
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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Don’t buy anything today. ✊ Read a book. Rest as much as you can. (Write a list of things to buy later.) #nobuy #blackfriday 📚💙
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Chill Subs @chillsubs.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
It’s back 😏 Nominate Your Favorite Lit Mags of 2025 through this form ⬇️ www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag... Let’s love on some editors, folks. They freakin’ deserve it!
Writers!
Who are the best litmags of 2025?

CHILL SUBS®
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The Shore @theshorepoetry.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
🏝️NEW INTERVIEW ALERT🐠Enjoy our newest interview with The Shore contributor Anastasios Mihalopoulos, conducted by our Interview Editor, Ella Flores! www.theshorepoetry.org/interview-mi...
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Sarah Brockhaus @scbrock.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Daydreaming about how I’m gonna deep clean my house over Thanksgiving break. I am itching to scrub some baseboards.
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Sarah Brockhaus @scbrock.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
So grateful to have poems in this beautiful issue of Louisiana Literature, and to get to hold this poem in print on the same porch I wrote it on :)
Two copies of Louisiana Literatures new issuePoem titled “Almost Autumn”
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Sarah Brockhaus @scbrock.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
I have a lil writer website now, I feel so cool and professional :)
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 22/10/2025
Eating gluten-free versions of food tastes like what I imagine eating replicator food on the Enterprise must taste like
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Sarah Brockhaus @scbrock.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Checking my horoscope to see if I’ll get a poetry acceptance today
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Sarah Brockhaus @scbrock.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
My computer updated while I was sleeping and it feels like a raccoon rummaged through all my open tabs and documents
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Sarah Brockhaus @scbrock.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
When I write on my porch my neighbor’s cats always come and say hi and it is my favorite thing
A beautiful cat with very blue eyes lounges on my little porch
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The Shore @theshorepoetry.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Happy October! 🍁 WE ARE OFFICIALLY OPEN FOR SUBS! 🦑 Submission guidelines on our website: www.theshorepoetry.org
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M Lenoir Bond @mlenoirbond.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Very intelligent and classy post written by the wonderful @rustandmoth.bsky.social regarding the subject of #plagiarism. rustandmoth.com/2025/a-lette... #writers #writinglife
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A Letter to a Young Plagiarist | Rust & Moth
We were lucky enough to publish many wonderful poems in 2024, but one of them certainly caught your eye. We confirmed recently through a simple Google search that you, a young university student, had ...
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Sarah Brockhaus @scbrock.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
I have an ungodly number of tabs open on my computer and I’m not sorry
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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.
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Sarah Brockhaus @scbrock.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Few things bring me more joy than wearing whatever I want like a toddler allowed to pick out their own clothes for the first time
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Jane Zwart (she/her) @janezwart.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Grateful to have two poems in issue 27 of The Shore, a journal I love--in the company of so many lovely poets & the photographer Melissa Marsh. So: thank you, dear editors, for making space for this narrow fellow, "Pink."
In this photograph by Melissa Marsh, titled "Bones," a dilapidated--and further dilapidating--building with wood siding is squeezed between two brick structures, probably apartment buildings. The aquamarine sky somehow makes the whole photo look like a watercolor.See the whole issue, including a more accessible version of "Pink," here: https://www.theshorepoetry.org/issue-27?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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Sarah Brockhaus @scbrock.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Happy Fall! Check out the new issue of The Shore for some gorgeous poems:
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Sarah Brockhaus @scbrock.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Watching two assassin bugs (I think) hunt right outside my window. One almost caught a little fly but missed! They are quite patient bugs. I’m scared they’ll catch one of the honey bees
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Sarah Brockhaus @scbrock.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
My students this semester are so wonderful and smart (they are every semester, but rare that they talk so much and so brilliantly on day one). I am so very excited!!
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Sarah Brockhaus @scbrock.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
I have definitely not kept up with the sealey challenge but I did read way more poetry books this month than I would have otherwise and that was the real goal :)
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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 22/08/2025
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me?
Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.
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The Shore @theshorepoetry.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
☀️NEW INTERVIEW ALERT☀️Enjoy our newest interview with The Shore contributor Yishak Yohannes Yebio, conducted by our Interview Editor, Ella Flores! www.theshorepoetry.org/interview-ye...
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The Shore @theshorepoetry.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
🦀Join us in congratulating our 2025 Best of the Net Nominations! 🐙 www.theshorepoetry.org/shore-things...
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Sarah Brockhaus @scbrock.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Promised myself I’d work on my syllabi today. The windows are cleaned inside and out, the car deep cleaned, the whole house swept… the syllabi? Untouched somehow!
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Sarah Brockhaus @scbrock.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Sometimes I worry I do have the cilantro soap gene, and I just like cilantro anyway
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Sarah Brockhaus @scbrock.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
My biggest travel flaw is always being sure the airport is out to get me and is going to do everything possible to make sure I miss my flight unless I double check my boarding pass and the screen every two minutes.
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Sarah Brockhaus @scbrock.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Going to make an honest attempt at completing the #sealeychallenge this August! I’ve assembled a little stack (in no particular order) of books, some old favorites and some new to me :) so curious to hear what others are planning to read!
Stack of poetry collections
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The Shore @theshorepoetry.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
🌊NEW INTERVIEW ALERT🌊Enjoy our newest interview with The Shore contributor Richard Siken, conducted by our Interview Editor, Ella Flores! www.theshorepoetry.org/interview-si...
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