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Sage Curtis

Sage Curtis

San Jose
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Literary Arts

  • Editor
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  • Literary Critic
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  • Poet
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  • Reviewer
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  • Writer
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  • Writing Coach
Focus
Editing, Event Organizing, Literary Criticism, Performance & Reading, Teaching, Writing
Genres
Narrative Poetry, Free Verse Poetry, Memoir, Personal Narrative, Travel Writing
Trashcan Funeral | Sage Curtis

My work circles generational trauma, especially from mother to daughter. I’m particularly interested in how our experiences seemed to be cyclical and coursing through our veins. This often manifests in exploring alcoholism and how our bodies are bruised by the ancestral.

Projects

Vulvas + Voltas: A Collective

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    Sage Curtis

Voltas + Vulvas is an intersectional feminist collective of women-identifying, non-binary, and non-woman femme writers and creators. It is our aim to hold each other up, hold each other accountable, and just hold each other when we need that, too.

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Virtual Writing Workshop

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    Sage Curtis

This workshop is designed to meet writers where they are - at any level. It is focused on production, revising, and submitting creative work.

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Uncontrollable Venom

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    Sage Curtis

A working manuscript available for representation, reading for publication, and other collaborative works.

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Kiss to the Tune of my Tombstone

Kiss to the Tune of my Tombstone

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    Sage Curtis

A chapbook reimagining and flipping the script on early 2000s emo music. Layered with nostalgia, retrospect and hindsight, each poem works against the misogynistic tropes often celebrated in the lyrics.

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Trashcan Funeral

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    Sage Curtis

A chapbook about a young woman coming to her own in the grime of society's standards.

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Personal Statement

Sage is a Bay Area writer fascinated by the way cities grit and how women move through the world. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Tinderbox, Vinyl Poetry and Prose, Glass Poetry, The Normal School, Juked and more. She was a finalist for the Rita Dove Award in Poetry and the Gigantic Sequins Poetry Award, as well as an Honorable Mention for the Wrolstad Contemporary Poetry Series. Her chapbook, Trashcan Funeral, is available from dancing girl press.