Poetry
Natasha Sajé is the author of four books of poetry: Red Under the Skin (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994), Bend (Tupelo Press, 2004), Vivarium (Tupelo Press, 2014), and The Future Will Call You Something Else (Tupelo, 2023). And a chapbook from Diode Editions: https://www.diodeeditions.com/authors/natasha-sajé. Poems presented here are selections from these books.
| Poem | Date | Periodical | Link to Poem |
|---|---|---|---|
| “on beauty” and “to the phaistos disk” | 2019 | Plume Poetry | Read the poem |
| “Alive” | 2019 | Poetry Magazine | Read the poem |
| “September swim” and “the lure” | 2019 | On the Seawall | Read the poem |
| “on invention” | 2019 | Journal of Compressed Creative Arts | Read the poem |
| “to the twelve muskrats..” | 2021 | Terrain | https://www.terrain.org/2021/poetry/natasha-saje/ |
| “one bud to one green leaf” | 2017 | Under a Warm Green Linden | Read the poem |
| “a meeting” “frangipani” |
2017 | Sunday Blog Read – Artists of Utah’s 15 Bytes | Read the poem |
| “palliative” | 2016 | Under a Warm Green Linden | Read the poem |
| “the night begins with sugar” | 2015 | Originally published on the Academy of American Poets website (Republished on The Spectrum) |
Read the poem |
| “Dear Fisher Cat” | 2013 | Solstice |
https://solsticelitmag.org/content/dear-fisher-cat-martes-pennanti/ |
| “Reading” | 2023 | The Nomad | |
| “against fireworks” | 2020 | America | https://www.americamagazine.org/arts-culture/2020/07/17/against-fireworks/ |
| “Against Chronology” | 2009 | Cerise Press | Read the poem |
| “Two Thieves” | 2009 | Cerise Press | Read the poem |
| “H” | 2005 | Poetry Society of America | https://poetrysociety.org/award-winners/2008-individual-awards/alice-fay-di-castagnola-award |
| “The Tunnel” | 2003 | Virginia Quarterly Review | Read the poem |
| “Bad News” “Song of the Cook” “trouble” |
2002 | Exquisite Corpse: A Journal of Letters and Life | Read the poems |
| “Then What Is the Question?” | 1995 | Feminist Studies, Inc. | Read the poem |
| “Agoraphobia” | 1994 | Virginia Quarterly Review | Read the poem |
Essays
Natasha Sajé has written essays on a variety of topics from poetry to food to love.
| Essay | Date | Periodical | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| “Ode to the hen’s egg” | 2019 | The Catalyst | Read the essay |
| “The Performance of Taste” | 2018 | North American Review 2018 | Read the essay |
| “The Terroir of Parsley” | 2021 | Craft Literary | https://www.craftliterary.com/2021/03/10/terroir-parsley-natasha-saje/ |
| “Some Thoughts about John Clare” | 2014 | North American Review (Blog) | Read the essay |
| “what to make” | 2025 | High Country News | https://www.hcn.org/author/natasha-saje/ |
| “In Praise of Dispraise” | 2014 | The Chronicle of Higher Education | Read the essay |
| “My Year in Fruit” | 2013 | Food52 | Read the essay |
| “Palette” (poem) | 2021 | Georgia Review | https://www.thegeorgiareview.com/posts/palette-featured-finalist/ |
| “Down to ‘The Wire’” | 2009 | New York Times | Read the essay |
| “Gradual” (poem) | 2023 | The Nomad | https://www.the-nomad.org/natasha-sajé-gradual |
| “Artful Artlessness: Reading the Coquette in Roderick Hudson“ | 1997 | The Henry James Review | https://muse.jhu.edu/article/12879 |
Other Bites
Hear and read interviews with and readings by Natasha Sajé.
| Interview or Reading | Date | Source | Link to Audio File or Journal |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poems Argue with One Another: Interview with Natasha Sajé | 2018 | Poet Fiona Sze-Lorrain interviews Natasha Sajé for the Poetry Society of America (PSA) | Read the interview |
| Judith Arcana interviews Natasha Sajé | 2017 | An Interview with Natasha Sajé – KBOO 90.7 Community Radio in Portland OR | |
| Natasha Sajé reads “the night begins with sugar” | 2015 | The Academy of American Poets – SoundCloud | |
| Interview | 2015 | Solstice Literary Magazine | |
| Interview | 2023 | Lisa Haselton | |
| Natasha reading “Tale” | 2012 | PBS News Hour January 23, 2012 | |
| Shelagh Shapiro interviews Natasha Sajé | 2009
2021 |
Write the Book – Burlington VT radio |
Click here (2009)
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