Sara Potocsny is a poet and writer practicing at the intersection of the open field and narrative poetry.
Sara’s writing is invested in themes of motherhood, romantic love, place, stasis, loss, and that which might be found. Their work oscillates between the contained and the uncontained. Hybrid, narrative, and fiction are all pursuits of their work.
PublicationsB O D Y “Harrisons, Barbados” Forthcoming 2026
“In Joshua Tree”
Blackbird “Cafeteria Art” Forthcoming 2026
Poetry South “Lion Library” Winter 2025
West Branch “Wonder” Summer 2025
“Chicago, Memorial Day”
Boats Against the Current “The Railway, 1873” November 2024
Bull City Press Dozer May 2024
The Offing “I’m writing this from inside a vacuum” May 2023
SWWIM “Smolder” April 2023
Sugar House Review “Moving Through” January 2023
“Midnight”
The Nashville Review “Fire Pathology” July 2022
Juked “Fire Sestina” November 2021
Maudlin House “Hide-and-Seek” August 2021
The Los Angeles Review “Last Queer on Earth” August 2021
No Contact Magazine “Emily Dickinson in the First Year of her MFA Program June 2024
“At the Workshop on Rage”
“Damned if you do, damned if you don’t” May 2021
perhappened Magazine “from my butt at the rock gym” April 2021
HAD “Calamity Jane Learns the Difference Between
Bravery and Stupidity” August 2023
“At Wegmans, Which is Your Kroger, Which is My Friend” February 2021
“Teen Squirrels” August 2021
“Poem with No Typos” November 2021
“Marked” November 2021
The Racket “A Pippin in the Spring, a Monet in the Fall” February 2021
Hobart Magazine “Pool” November 2020
Radar Magazine The Glorious Veils of Diane Artwork April 2018
Lover Books The Circle Room March 2014
Birds Piled Loosely “Everyone Would Call Him Les” May 2014