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Sarah Banks
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Writer | Nurse | Educator🪻🌼
Thank you to Humana Obscura for including my poem, “Lines Written on the Winter Solstice,” in their winter issue.

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ISSUE 15 (Winter 2025) - Humana Obscura — humana obscura
The Winter 2025 Issue of Humana Obscura features work from 54 contributors from around the globe, including cover art by Brigitte B. Burckhardt, back cover art by Rose-Marie Keller-Flaig, interviews w...
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December 28, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I have a new poem, “Longleaf Pines, Autumn,” in the fall issue of South Florida Poetry Journal.
November 1, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I have two poems, “Elegy for a Pine Tree” and “Grass,” in the fall issue of Willows Wept.
As fall lingers in cool wisps and skies that smell of rain that doesn’t fall, our new issue explores the liminal space between renewal and ruin, where bodies, memory, and land carry “burdens...vast like the sea of my god.” Read online for free or order in print: willowswept.com/2025/09/20/i...
Issue Thirty-Eight: Fall 2025
Fall has begun to arrive—slowly, and felt more in cool wisps of pre-dawn air than anywhere else. Storms linger offshore and make their afternoon way here less frequently, but the afternoon sky hold…
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September 21, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I have a new poem, “Pantoum for a Weed,” in the summer issue of The Orchards Poetry Journal.
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July 19, 2025 at 10:50 PM
My zinnias are blooming 🌼
June 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
I have a new poem today in the wonderful poetry journal, Autumn Sky Poetry DAILY. I’m always humbled when an editor decides to share my words.

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Triolet for Tulips by Sarah Banks
Editor’s Note: This sweet poem is the breath of a new season ushering in the change we need.
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March 28, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Reposted by Sarah Banks
Therapy walk: I did not want to get out of bed this morning — that said, I had a mini-epiphany as I took this picture. There are two ways to look at this photo: One, it’s pretty dark and gloomy. Or two, what light there is makes it a gorgeous scene. Same image, two ways to look at it.
March 19, 2025 at 11:19 AM