Two Visual Poems
Sarah J. Sloat
Art & Hybrid
16 April 2025
Launch, These are erasures sourced from Walden, and thus require a citation:Thoreau, Henry David. (1854) Walden. Reprint, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1971.
Artist statement: I love books, paper and the material world and hope my work reflects that. I appreciate what the visual element can bring to poetry, how text and images work together, and how the visual can open a poem to to new possibilities and a wider audience. I want what lends texture and most of my work is analog.
The Good Guards, These are erasures sourced from Walden, and thus require a citation:Thoreau, Henry David. (1854) Walden. Reprint, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1971.
Sarah J. Sloat splits her time between Frankfurt and Barcelona, where she works in news. Her work has appeared in The Offing, Shenandoah and Diagram, among other journals. Her book Hotel Almighty was published in 2020 by Sarabande Books, which will publish Classic Crimes, a second collection of Sarah’s, in 2025.