Sarah Hannah's first book, Longing Distance (Tupelo Press, 2004), was a semi-finalist for the Yale Younger Poets Prize and was nominated for the Norma Farber Award, The Kate Tufts Discover Award, two Pushcart Prizes, and the Forward Prize. Her second book, Inflorescence, is forthcoming from Tupelo Press in Fall 2007. Sarah Hannah taught at Emerson College until her recent passing.

All the poems by Sarah Hannah that have appeared on Verse Daily:
January 21, 2008:   "Eclipse" "Every so often I am dilated; the pupils..."
November 26, 2007:   "Tread-softly (Cnidoscolus stimulosus)" "Hell, this is a field without end..."
July 12, 2007:   "The Riddle of the Sphinx Moth" " An enormous body kamikaze-dives..."
October 16, 2006:   "At Last, Fire Seen As a Psychotic Break" " It begins in the crux of beam and insulation..."
October 6, 2004:  "Destroying Angel (Amanita virosa)" "I'm way in, way in you, Mushroom..."
April 29, 2003:  "For the Fog Horn When There Is No Fog" "Still sounding in full sun past the jetty..."

Books by Sarah Hannah: Inflorescence, Longing Distance

Other poems on the web by Sarah Hannah:
Three poems
"Alembic"

About Poetry London:
Poets in this issue: Phillis Levin, Sarah Hannah, Colette Bryce, Todd Hearon, Susan Wicks, Eva Salzman, Philip Gross, Jane Duran, Padraig Rooney, Stephen Sandy, Tony Williams, Lydia Macpherson, Charles Bennett, Kathryn Simmonds, John Goodby, Moniza Alvi, Jo Shapcott, Christine Webb, Mick Wood, Caroline Bird