Sarah Orman

Breakwater Review BREAKWATER REVIEW was founded in 2009 and is run by students of the University of Massachusetts Boston MFA program. Words that unite us against the storm—challenging our own perceptions of reality in ...

New poem in the Breakwater Review! www.breakwaterreview.com/copy-of-grie...

Austin is a tug-of-war over a lake that is really a river. Why I love The Slip by Lucas Schaefer.

Austin is a tug-of-war over a lake that is really a river.
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Cold Comfort: What The Austin Yogurt Shop Murders Mean to Me At age 15, I couldn’t lose my innocence fast enough.

It's a double CNF day! Read "Cold Comfort" by @sarahorman.bsky.social

A Dripping Springs Artist Talks Serendipity, Love of the Craft, and the ‘Fire in Her Belly’ On a recent Friday morning, I drove my daughter and four of her classmates from their school in central Austin to Dripping Springs for a seventh grade field trip.  Three rows of girls yell-sang Olivia...

Artist Daryl Howard’s journey—from a Texas childhood with no art on the walls to mastering Japanese woodblock prints—is a story of fate, fire, and following the work.

"I have been gifted the ability to do this."

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A Dripping Springs Artist Talks Serendipity, Love of the Craft, and the ‘Fire in Her Belly’ On a recent Friday morning, I drove my daughter and four of her classmates from their school in central Austin to Dripping Springs for a seventh grade field trip.  Three rows of girls yell-sang Olivia...

I'm excited to share a new essay today in the Barbed Wire! thebarbedwire.com/2025/03/18/d...

Pic of me with Say No To Nazi Cars sign.

Pic of me plus two friends. All of us holding signs.

Pic of some of the protesters outside the Tesla dealership. A line of cars passing by.

At today's Tesla Takedown protest in north Austin. Alex Jones showed up for a bit, got drowned out. Hundreds of people came. My pics don't do justice. Huge support from passing cars. #resist #austin @teslatakedown.com

Working on my memoir today, I wrote myself this note: "Where do I put my childhood?"

Rebecca Solnit plays devil's advocate in the best way. "Often, it’s an example of passionate idealism that converts others. The performance of integrity is more influential than that of compromise." H/T @tonyreads.bsky.social

I have subscribed! I 100% need to read a bookish Texan's views on Scandinavia.

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Time | The Manifest Station Fifteen years ago, I became a mother and lost track of time. The organizing principle of my life with my infant son was purely physical: milk in, milk out.

An essay about how motherhood changed my understanding of time. "Fifteen years ago, I became a mother and lost track of time. The organizing principle of my life with my infant son was purely physical: milk in, milk out. I was a manager of bodily fluids." www.themanifeststation.net/2024/11/17/s...

This was a great episode. I especially liked the bit of wisdom Matthew Zapruder quoted from Robert Hass: "Put the problem in the poem." I just tried it with a poem about seeing Magic Mike Live, and my draft is much better now.

Bridge In fifth grade, I was the new kid in school, an outsider, teased by other girls for my unusual height. It didn’t help when our class read the novel that won the Newbery Award that year: Sarah, Plain ...

This week I'm celebrating a new essay out in the world. "How She Suffered" is about how looking back on a series of kidney infections that I experienced in my 20s helped me quit drinking and suffering in silence in my 40s. www.bridge-chicago.org/magazine/how...