by Dana Guthrie Martin
In the Voice of a Minor Saint, by Sarah J. Sloat
“an unwavering line from the religious to the secular”
Welcome to the December / January Read Write Poem Virtual Book Tour. For more detail about the tour, if you are new to this series, take a look at this post.
About In the Voice of a Minor Saint
Sarah J. Sloat lives in Germany, where she works in news. Her poems have appeared in Juked, Bateau, Court Green and Third Coast, among other publications. She is also a contributing writer for Read Write Poem. (Note: This is a role she took on after we slated her for the tour, not before.) Tilt Press published her chapbook, In the Voice of a Minor Saint, earlier this year.
According to The Literary Bohemian, Sloat’s “titles usher us to the front pew of human frailties” and “draw an unwavering line from the religious to the secular; we see the devil in the details.”
For this tour, we have the following stops scheduled, and we’re taking a more leisurely pace, given that it’s the holiday season, with one post per week.
Tour stops for In the Voice of a Minor Saint
Dec. 8 :: Joseph Harker :: Naming Constellations
Jan. 5 :: David Moolten :: Edible Detritus
Jan. 12 :: Dave Jarecki :: Dave Jarecki
Jan. 19 :: Jill Crammond Wickham :: Jillypoet: Mom Trying to Write
Jan. 26 :: Ren Powell :: Babel Fruit
To learn more about Sloat, visit her site, The Rain in My Purse. To order her collection, visit the Tilt Press site.
Get involved!
Would you like to get involved in the tour as a reviewer? Just join the Read Write Poem Virtual Book Tour group, and then add your name to the forum thread titled “Sign up to be a Virtual Book Tour reviewer.”
Want to get your book on the tour? We’ve already set up partnerships with a number of presses, and we’re booked out several months. We also do the tour only once a month, which means we’re extremely limited in terms of what we can include. With that in mind, feel free to have your publisher send a query to virtualbooktour (at) readwritepoem (dot) org.
Next month, the Read Write Poem Virtual Book Tour will feature Pamela Johnson Parker’s collection, A Walk Through the Memory Palace, winner of Qarrtsiluni’s first chapbook competition.
Dana Guthrie Martin is the founder of Read Write Poem. She writes things and stuff. Most of the time, her things and stuff happen to be poetry, or at least they call themselves poetry. She has a robot named Feldman. He’s writing a book of poems.
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Wow, there’s a great line up of readers for this book. This should be good.
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Thanks for referring to us in your review! Could you please refer to us as The Literary Bohemian, rather than Vagabond Book Reviews?
All best,
Carolyn Zukowski, Editor
The Literary Bohemian
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Deb Scott replied:
December 12th, 2009 at 3:22 pm
You got caught in our spam filter! Thanks for letting us know.
I’ve made the change.
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