Natasha Sajé was born stateless in Germany and grew up in NYC and suburbs. Professor Emerita at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, she continues to teach poetry and nonfiction writing at the Vermont College of Fine Arts, and now lives in Washington, D.C. She is the author of three previous books of poems; a chapbook; a memoir-in-essays (Terroir: Love, Out of Place); and a postmodern poetry handbook, Windows and Doors: A Poet Reads Literary Theory (Michigan, 2014). This poem appears in The Future Will Call You Something Else (Tupelo Press, 2023).

Other poems by Natasha Sajé in Verse Daily:
June 13, 2022:   "Dear Mike Pence," "Might homosexuality be contagious..."
July 9, 2020:   "Alcohol" "I remember the stale smell of urine and skin..."
June 6, 2020:   "mitti attar" "the scent of first rain on stone..."
May 4, 2014:   "Affirmative Action Babies" "Well, isn't this the world..."
January 1, 2014:   "Tired Blood" "Early stage, the old folks would have noticed..."
November 21, 2008:   "Approaching Thunder" "Let's assume about the body..."

Books by Natasha Sajé:

Other poems on the web by Natasha Sajé:
"to the twelve muskrats moving in a line behind my chain link fence at dawn in Salt Lake City on the first of September"
"Tinguage"
Two poems

Natasha Sajé's Website.

Natasha Sajé on Twitter

About The Future Will Call You Something Else:

"Natasha Sajé's quicksilver, wideawake poems in The Future Will Call You Something Else never fail to delight and impress me with their at-the-ready empathy, encyclopedic wit, and prismatic range of allusions. With its 'all systems go' verve and vigorous attention to the myriad world, this dazzling, exhilarating new book is a treasure and a wonder."
—Cyrus Cassells

"Is language our home, or is it a form of lament, an expression of our bewilderment and consternation? Throughout her career, Natasha Sajé has asked this question, always in the hope that words might offer us that 'shelter' that Celan so ardently believed they could. Sajé's poems are searching, canny, whip-smart, scrupulously self-aware, and effortlessly capable of moving from wit to pathos, from worry to delight, all in the space of a few lines. The Future Will Call You Something Else is a book of genuine accomplishment, the work of a poet of consequence, one who is writing at the height of her considerable powers."
—David Wojahn

"Natasha Sajé embraces the world not only through the wisdom of the senses but with philosophical intelligence, writing poems that open heart and mind. She considers the kinds of knowledge that imprint and form us, marveling at what remains untranslatable. Employing the slippage and trap doors of etymology, Sajé questions humankind's increasingly shaky place in nature. These poems alight '...on a fence dividing/ governable from wild/ known from unknown.'"
—Amy Gerstler