Bird on a Wire

Something happened to ignite us. A spark. An article in the newspaper. Suddenly we were compelled, inspired.

Sarah Ens is the author of Flyway and The World Is Mostly Sky.

Katherine Lawrence chats with us about the lasting impacts of divorce in our latest Quatrain Questions interview

Sarah Ens unpacks forced migrations, both personal and ecological, in a new Quatrain Questions interview.

Turnstone published No Escape from Greatness in Fall 2016.

I’m writing this in summer, 2020. Not much has changed in this time period, right?

Only everything.

Stories function as a time capsule for me, a place to preserve emotional truths—the feelings, if not the facts.

 If a writer doesn’t write the stories, they are lost to silence, and that silence is deafening. 

Let me tell you a secret: I believe that poetry saves lives.

Most writers draw on their experiences for whatever they write. I saw this as an exotic trip that would provide all kinds of incidents and details for me to use in my future writing.