Miriam Sagan

Miriam Sagan is the author of 30 published books, including the novel Black Rainbow (Sherman Asher, 2015) and Geographic: A Memoir of Time and Space (Casa de Snapdragon, 2016). She founded and heads the creative writing program at Santa Fe Community College. Her blog Miriam’s Well (https://miriamswell.wordpress.com) has a thousand daily readers.

Miriam has been a writer-in-residence in two national parks, at Yaddo, MacDowell, Colorado Art Ranch, Andrew’s Experimental Forest, Center for Land Use Interpretation, Iceland’s Gullkistan Residency for creative people, and another dozen or so remote and unique places. Her awards include the Santa Fe Mayor’s award for Excellence in the Arts, the Poetry Gratitude Award from New Mexico Literary Arts, and A Lannan Foundation residency in Marfa.

In her second microchap collection, 'Ikisan Station,' Miriam tells us, "These poems were written earlier this year when I was in residence at Kura Studio, Itoshima, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. As part of the creative duo Maternal Mitochondria I also did a text installation of video and suminagashi in an ancient grain silo and a geocache pathway of haiku inside teapots in a garden."

► Miriam's microchaps & selected poems are available below. Click title to download one-page PDF micro.

Origami Microchap	Selected Poem(s)
Archipelago
Click Title to Download Microchap Cover: Kuan-yan Honolulu Academy_of_Arts (Stylized by JanK)	Banyan. Kwan-yin. an old lady whips a raft of yellow joss sticks out of her purse lights them on the altar at the Chinese Cultural Center courtyard Kwan-yin wears a lei just as does the Blessed Mother in the Portuguese garden old woman purifies the ten directions as I walk on to the botanical garden and sit beneath the huge trees ancient green bodies of compassion and from the park bench I include myself that is the surprising part • Miriam Sagan © 2024
Ikisan Station
Click TItle to Download microchap Cover photo by author •	Wayside Shrine tears— tears—I haven’t heard the temple bell in so long or ever before seen a Buddha’s shrine on the Tokyo business street or deep in country where the earthen sides of the lanes loom over my head offered an orange like the ones on the small trees despite the freezing weather for a few yen lit a stick of incense with my cold gloved hands stars, worlds this smoke that goes nowhere goes everywhere * Miriam Sagan © 2018
Lama Mountain
Cover photo: Road at Dusk by Isabel Winson-Sagan * Every Origami Micro-chapbook may be printed, for free, from this website. •	Selection barely a drop or two of rain I sit on the wooden bench reading a book which of necessity is not of this time and place a fat slice of rainbow without footed ends lies like an odalisque across Lama Mountain • Miriam Sagan © 2016

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