New Website: OuterChildPoetry.com

This website is relocating to its very own domain: outerchildpoetry.com. Check there for further updates.

Sari’s first book due Nov. 2012

My first full-length poetry collection, “god-chaser,” was picked up by CW Books and is due out in late 2012. Yay!

Two poems on Q Revew

Two poems from my verse novel, “A God’s Life,” are published on Q Review: “Monster B” and “Strange Love.”

‘Yossele’ E-book

“Yossele: a tale in poems” is now available for Kindle as well as in print from Amazon.

Chapbook Release Reading

“Yossele: a tale in poems” debuts at a poetry chapbook release feature reading and open mic on Tuesday, March 22, at Winning Coffee Co., 111 Harvard Dr. SE.

“Yossele” is based on myths of the golem in 16th century Prague. In Medieval Europe a common accusation against Jews was that they kidnapped and murdered Christian children to use their blood in rituals, particularly the preparation of unleavened bread at Passover. At the end of the 16th century in Prague (in several ways a tolerant and accepting city for Jews) this practice had arisen again, and the chief rabbi of the community, Rabbi Löv, created a golem to defend his people. A golem is unsentient and has no will of his own: only G-d can create a thinking, choosing spirit. The authors have imagined that something goes wrong with the complex creation process, and the creature becomes self-aware. His name was Yossele, a diminutive of Joseph.

The reading features authors Sari Krosinsky and Robert Arthur Reeves and an open mic emceed by Kenneth P. Gurney. It is free and open to the public.

Krosinsky’s poems have appeared in Arsenic Lobster, Contemporary American Voices, Duke City Fix, Main Street Rag, Verse Daily and others. She edits Fickle Muses, an online journal of mythic poetry and fiction. She received an MA in creative writing from the University of New Mexico.

Reeves has been writing poetry since 1965. His poetry has been published in The Chaffin Journal, The Homestead Review, The Blind Man’s Rainbow, Fulcrum, Adobe Walls, Permafrost, Poesia and Skidrow Penthouse, among others. He is the author of nine collections of poetry.

‘A God’s Life’ poems on Bewildering Stories

Two poems from my verse novel, “A God’s Life,” are in the current issue of Bewildering Stories, http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue415/index.html.

“Zero” on amphibi.us

My poem “Zero” is up on amphibi.us. (And of course, you can also catch the video on YouTube, channel sarikro.)

New chapbook

Yossele: a tale in poems

Bob and I just put out our first co-authored chapbook, “Yossele: a tale in poems.” It’s our re-imagining of the myth of a golem created to defend Jews in 16th century Prague.

You can get the book through Amazon.com or direct from CreateSpace (we earn higher royalties on the latter).

Poem on amphibi.us

One of my newer poems, “How much,” is featured on amphibi.us.

3 from ‘A God’s Life’ in Big Pulp

Three poems from my verse novel, “A God’s Life,” are in the first print edition of Big Pulp. Copies are available at Lulu. They’ll also be making a Kindle version available at Amazon. My poems in the issue are:

• Baking with Jane
• Lunch with JFK
• Trespass