{"id":946,"date":"2023-03-19T11:20:38","date_gmt":"2023-03-19T15:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/?p=946"},"modified":"2023-03-19T11:20:39","modified_gmt":"2023-03-19T15:20:39","slug":"featured-writer-sara-moore-wagner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/featured-writer-sara-moore-wagner\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Writer: Sara Moore Wagner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Thursday, March 23<sup>rd<\/sup>, at 7:30 PM, Sara Moore Wagner will be reading a series of her poems for the 2023\u00a0Prout\u00a0Chapel Reading Series at Bowling Green State University.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sara Moore Wagner is the author of multiple collections including\u00a0<em>Swan Wife,<\/em>\u00a0awarded with the 2021 Cider Press Review Editor\u2019s prize,\u00a0and <em>Hillbilly Madonna<\/em>,\u00a0published by Driftwood Press in 2022. Wagner has also authored two chapbooks:\u00a0<em>Tumbling After\u00a0<\/em>released in March of 2022 and\u00a0<em>Hooked Through<\/em>\u00a0published by Five Oaks Press in 2017. Her work has appeared in several publications such as\u00a0<em>S<\/em>ixth Finch, Waxwing, Nimrod, Western Humanities Review, Tar River Poetry,\u00a0and<em>\u00a0<\/em>The Cincinnati Review. Wagner has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize multiple times as well as Best of the Net and Best New Poets awards.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wagner\u2019s poems explore relationships between mother and child, father and son, and other family ties in Appalachia. Several poems address the opiate crisis that heavily ravaged Appalachia and the entire country. Poems such as \u201cGirlhood Landscape\u201d explore the impermanence of beauty through a young girl waning optimism, stating: \u201cbecause I want to remember blooming. \/\/ Because I think I could just bloom.\u201d These poems also depict moments of trauma associated with miscarriages. Her work incorporates fairy tales and folklore, with several poems devoted to sharpshooter Annie Oakley, myths of Tantalus and Thetis, and Biblical figures in works like \u201cSelf Portrait as Judas.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In her work entitled \u201cInvasive Species,\u201d published by the Normal School in December 2020, Wagner talks about a nest created in a dated wreath. The relationship of mother\/daughter and mother bird\/hatchlings seems to blur. Both mothers are \u201cseparated [\u2026] by a door\u201d from their young. The poem closes with:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019re all just waiting to crack open\u202f&nbsp;<br>or be emptied out, to be forced\u202f&nbsp;<br>from our homes or windows,\u202f&nbsp;<br>to destroy what we love\u202f&nbsp;<br>because we need it,\u202f&nbsp;<br>because we think\u202f&nbsp;<br>we\u2019re safe.\u202f&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is a sense here of the complicated necessity of letting our loved ones live their own lives, continuing to love them from a distance. This necessary and natural trajectory of love and how it operates exists in these final lines. Perhaps the complexities of love lead to hurt when love is needed most. The shared habitat of the nest on the house\u2019s door creates all these avenues of focus.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Poem excerpts appear courtesy of Normal School and Saramoorewagner.com. Biographical info also from saramoorewagner.com.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2013Michael J Morris, MAR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, March 23rd, at 7:30 PM, Sara Moore Wagner will be reading a series of her poems for the 2023\u00a0Prout\u00a0Chapel&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[68,43,63,29,65,116],"class_list":["post-946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-writers","tag-bgsu","tag-mid-american-review-2","tag-poet","tag-poetry","tag-prout","tag-sara-moore-wagner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":947,"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions\/947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}