Sarah Sutro, Etudes

cover painting by Sarah Sutro 

Sarah Sutro is a poet and painter. A finalist for the Robert Frost Poetry Award and MA Artist Foundation Poetry Grant, she has been a Pollack Krasner Foundation Award recipient and a visiting writer/artist at the American Academy in Rome, MacDowell Colony, Blue Mountain Center, Millay and Ossabaw Island Colonies. A faculty and  visiting professor at several colleges and universities, including Emerson College, University of Massachusetts, Cornell University and Lesley University, she is also the author of COLORS:  Passages through Art, Asia and Nature (Blue Asia Press 2010).

Études, her first poetry book, has just been published by Finishing Line Press. The San Francisco poet Edward Mycue writes of the poems as including "bold objects, strong colors, landscapes, patterns, noises felt as elemental, windy, hot experiences, readers' leaps...." Kathleen Aguero, author of After That, comments, "With an artist’s eye and a poet’s voice, Sarah Sutro celebrates the ephemeral....this poet is always looking, catching the fleeting moments between one state and another." 

We have read Etudes and find the poems wonderful. Sutro is a poet seeing the world through a painter's eye, with many references to colors filling the lines. Behind many poets we find the desire to be a visual artist. Poet Theodore Roethke, for example, worked on a series of drawings inspired by his friend the artist Morris Graves, which were never shown. In Sutro's case we are fortunate to be able to see her paintings as well as read her poems. 

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Etudes

Mar 17, 2016

by Sarah Sutro