Sarah Pemberton Strong
Sarah Pemberton Strong is the author of the novel Burning the Sea (Alyson). She lives in Somerville, Massachusetts, where she is at work on her second novel, The Fainting Room.
Poetry
Fixing A Lamp
I pull the old cord from the base, / its black cloth rotted from the wires, / because my mother says this brass desk lamp / belonged to her great-grandmother
November 2013
Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
How To Make God Laugh
A full moon is rising peach-colored the night of the five-hundred-year anniversary of Columbus’s landing in the New World. Six months ago I planned for this to be the day I’d finish my novel.
January 2004
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