Poetry. "Like her 1999 book, not-chicago, Rosenthal's SITINGS is populated by stray voices, odd figures, alien subjects whose presence fascinates us not because of the way they live (we don't know how they live) but because of the things they say. SITINGS is a mark of legible meaning made clearly by subjects confident in their ability to speak and create the mystery of speech. What remains is the ambiguity of assertive character, attained by writing holes in the world: 'i met ruth/ she told me the knowledge/ it was more like a conversation/ many errors were corrected/ many more were created/ ruth ended with a riddle/ i have recorded everything here'"-Jono Schneider, Vert. Saddlestapled chapbook.

Author City: SAN FRANCISCO, CA USA

Sarah Rosenthal grew up in Chicago and lives in San Francisco. She is the author of three chapbooks: How I Wrote This Story (Margin to Margin, 2001), SITINGS (a+bend, 2000) and not-chicago (Melodeon Poetry Systems, 1998). Her poetry and fiction have appeared in numerous journals and have been anthologized in BAY POETICS (Faux Press, 2006) and hinge (Crack Press, 2002). She has taught creative writing at Santa Clara University and San Francisco State University. She has edited a collection of interviews entitled A Community Writing Itself: Conversations with Vanguard Writers of the Bay Area. She is the recipient of the Leo Litwak Award for Fiction and grant-supported writing residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and the Ragdale Foundation.