#87 Grief is a Ghost with Poet and Artist Sarah Esmi (Ghosts #8)

This is the final episode in my series of special episodes of Write, Publish, and Shine that take a deep dive into the creation of Room magazine issue 46.3, where I was lead editor of the issue.

Today it’s my delight to speak to another artist whose work we accepted for inside the issue.

Sarah Esmi (she/her) is an Iranian-American mother, writer, collage artist, producer, director and lawyer. She told me about her collage practice and how the artistic interpretation of her visual work differs from her poetry.

I loved her art so much, and to learn more about what went into the piece we published called “Insides” plus collage as an art practice.

All the notes for this episode are up at rachelthompson.co/87

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