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Sarah Heady

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in New York, NY, The United States

January 10, 1985

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Sarah Heady is a poet and essayist interested in place, history, and the built environment. She is the author of Comfort (Spuyten Duyvil, 2022), Corduroy Road (dancing girl, 2021), and Niagara Transnational (Fourteen Hills, 2013). She is also the librettist of Halcyon, a new opera about the death and life of a women’s college. Sarah is the recipient of residencies from the Corporation of Yaddo, In Cahoots, Bethany Arts Community, and Art Farm. Raised in New York’s Hudson Valley, she lives in San Francisco, where she co-edits Drop Leaf Press, a small women-run poetry collective. More at sarahheady.com.

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Pleasure & Pain in the Blue Seat

I wrote a few months ago about the fact that my composer friend Joshua Groffman had set some of my poems to music, but I never shared how moving it was to actually experience the piece in person, in dear old Poughkeepsie at the end of June. Basically a poet's dream come true, to hear your language sung by professionals.

The piece is called "Pained in the blue seat, pained in the red seat" (Metro-N

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The Gods of New York: Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the Birth of the Modern City, 1986-1990

by Jonathan Mahler

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The Painted Room

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