Sarah Bly Roach

Sarah Bly Roach

Sarah Bly Roach has studied at Springfield College in Illinois, where she received the SCI poetry scholarship, and also studied poetry and literature at the University of Illinois at Springfield. Sarah writes in jazz & memory. Her approach to writing is best said in her own words, "No emotion is cut and dry, so I try to choose an ambiguous word that supports the duality of the idea. From there, I can build around and structure of the poem with open form to express the array of the individual memory." Sarah Bly Roach’s influences are Walt Whitman’s for his melodic use of cadence, Gustaf Sobin for his line breaks & open form composition, and Robert Creeley because, as she says, "He makes despair feel ok."

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