Carly Sachs teaches creative writing at George Washington University. Her first collection of poems, the steam sequence won the 2006 Washington Writers’ Publishing House Book Prize and was published in August 2006. She is the founder and co-curator of the Burlesque Poetry Hour at Bar Rouge in Washington, D.C.
Washington Writers’ Publishing House is pleased to announce the publication of this year’s poetry contest winner, Carly Sachs’s the steam sequence. This book offers a journey into the mind of a Holocaust survivor in which past becomes present, as this woman struggles to locate herself. the steam sequence asks us to examine the silences and the spaces between memory and reality.
Carly Sachs teaches creative writing at George Washington University. She is the founder and co-curator of the Burlesque Poetry Hour at Bar Rouge in Washington, D.C. Her poems have been published in Alimentum, Another Chicago Magazine, Beltway Quarterly Review, Coconut, goodfoot, No Tell Motel, poemmemoirstory, Runes Review, Wicked Alice, and anthologized in Best American Poetry 2004, Regrets Only (Little Pear Press) and Literary Lunch (Knoxville Writer’s Guild).
Thesis: Three Chapbooks: the steam sequence, Only in This Place, and Grocery Store Diva (Creative Writing) The Poetry of Gabriel Preil: an American, Israeli, and Yiddish Poet (Critical Essay). Advisor: Laurie Sheck
B.A. in English,
Kent State University - Kent, OH (May 2001)
Concentrations: Writing and Jewish Studies
Study Abroad: Prague Summer Seminars (Summer 2000) with Mark Doty, Colleen McElroy, Roger Kamenetz
Thesis: Every Nine Seconds: An Anthology of Poems Women Have Written about Rape and Sexual Assault, Advisor, Maggie Anderson
Anna Engleman Creative Writing Award, Kent State University (March 2001)
Second Place 2001 Wick Undergraduate Poetry Competition, KSU (March 2001)
10th Place Judson Jerome Poetry Contest - Antioch, OH (May 2001)
Zurava Writing Portfolio Award, Kent State University (March 2002)
Second Place, Vera List Art Collection Writing Award, New School University (May 2002)
Jenny McKean Moore Fellowship Workshop Participant (January 2005)
Washington Writers’ Publishing House First Book Award (2006)
Finalist, Ekphrasis Prize for Poetry (July 2006)
- George Washington
University - Washington, DC
Instructor, January 2005-present
Develop content for and facilitate undergraduate introductory creative writing workshops. - B’nai
B’rith Youth Organization Starlight, PA
Creative Arts Specialist, June 2004-August 2004
Created public community art spaces though the integration of art and writing. - Walton High
School Bronx - New York, NY
Teacher, September 2003-February 2004
Create and implement curriculum based on New York ELA Standards. Classes taught: Freshman Repeating their Freshman English Classes, Honors Freshmen, and Students preparing to take the Regents Examination. - Community Word
- New York, NY
Teaching Artist Intern, P.S 79 - Bronx, NY (September 2002-May 2003)
Develop and create curriculum corresponding to New York ELA Standards that builds community through creative writing. Work with teaching artists in the classroom. Participated in a 25-week training program, which emphasized multiple intelligence learning, collaboration, and the interpretation of one’s process as an artist in order to make creative writing accessible and innovative to young students. - West Side YMCA
New York - NY
Literary Arts Counselor, July 2002-August 2002
Develop and implement a writing program at a summer arts camp. Lead campers in exercises to develop their skills as writers. - Akron Hebrew
High School - Akron, OH
Teacher, October 1999-May 2001
Develop coursework and lead classroom discussions for lessons on Comparative Judaism, Leadership, the Holocaust, and Jewish Literature.
- B’nai
B’rith Perlman Camp Washington, DC
Registrar January 2005-present
Manage the camp office. Create and edit documents and communication. Coordinate travel and serve as a representative of the camp at fairs and functions. - B’nai
B’rith Youth Organization -Washington, DC
Program Staff Assistant, March 2004-January 2005
Event planning. Develop content for promotional materials and website. Write, edit, and proofread any written communication from the Program Department. Coordinate community building through the arts while at summer camp and throughout the programming year. - Assistant to
David Lehman - New York, NY
May 2002-May 2003
Coordinate promotion of the KGB Bar Poetry Reading Series. Conducted research and assisted with general tasks relating to classes he teaches. - Assistant to
Joan Larkin - New York, NY
June 2002-February 2004
Critique student poems and type monthly process letters to students in the Low Residency MFA Program at New England College. - Council of Literary
Magazines and Presses - New York, NY
Intern, February 2002-May 2002
Assist program director with non-profit arts programming. Generate and edit press releases and correspond with member presses. Update database and CLMP website. Serve as representative at coffee talks, conferences, panel discussions, and book fairs. - Wick Poetry
Program Kent, Ohio
Intern, Jan. 2001 – May 2001
Serve as assistant to visiting poets. Organize reading series by coordinating publicity and correspondence efforts. Write articles for departmental newsletters. - Pig Iron Press
Youngstown, Ohio
Editorial Assistant December 1998-August 1999
Screen and edit both manuscripts and newsletters. Facilitate writing workshops, poetry readings and meetings. Coordinate a Poetry Slam competition, the first of its kind in Youngstown. Write articles for newsletters. Serve as a representative at various conferences and festivals.
- (2006) the steam sequence (book) Washington Writer’s Publishing House
- (2006) Self Portrait With Cigarette (finalist for Ekphrasis Prize) Ekphrasis
- (2006) The Possible Movement, The Art Student, Synaesthasia Coconut
- (2006) Jack in the Pulpit No. 4 Beltway Quarterly Review
- (2006) Nightmare, 30 Weeks, Indecent Docent, la gallerie d’une femme Wicked Alice
- (2006) The Beginning of Cubism Runes Review
- (2006) Vegetables Aren’t Immaculately Conceived, The Crisis, Ramona’s Mantra Alimentum
- (2006) forthcoming from deep cleveland press: the why and later: a collection of poems that explores the issues of rape and sexual assault and their affects on the survivors as well as society as a whole.
- (2005) Marriage Ceremony, Kibbutz Nir Am, 1948, The Barn, The Viola, The Glass Blower, The Reading Girl, The Conversion of Saint Paul. No Tell Motel (www.notellmotel.org)
- (2005) Mourner’s Kaddish, a variation, Kent, Ohio Regrets Only, Little Pear Press
- (2004) the story. Best American Poetry 2004
- (2004) this poem WRTA Verse and Vision Project (copies of this poem will appear on buses in Cleveland, Ohio~ similar to Poetry in Motion)
- (2004) selections from the steam sequence nominated for a Pushcart Prize in Poetry
- (2004) A Poem About Memory and/ or Dust Bunnies Goodfoot
- (2004) in the tea, steam rolling off. poemmemoirstory
- (2003) Truths. Another Chicago Magazine
- (2003) the story. poemmemoirstory
- (2003) Exorcising Paul. Slope #17 http://www.slope.org/archive/issue17/FU_sachs.html
- (2003) The House of Mirrors, Chiron Review
- (2003) selections from the steam sequence, Marriage Ceremony, My Father’s Auden. www.saucyvox.com
- (2002) Walking Home After a Poetry Reading. http://www.mipogallery.com/Impetus/sachs.htm
- (2002) Portabella Prince, Portabella Prince Gets a Make Over. Literary Lunch. Knoxville Writer’s Guild
- (2002) Longing, Nightshift, Confessional, Peanut Butter: A Life Philosophy. The Monday Poetry Report
- (2002) The Wanting Does Not Stop Here. ArtCrimes #20
- (2002) Portabella Prince, The Means Of Reproduction. Pavement Saw, 7
- (2001) Jepthah’s Daughter. Queens College of Jewish Studies Journal
- (2001) Roof Perspectives. Up From the Ruins: September 11 Chapbook
Carly Rae Sachs
2017 O Street NW, Apt. G
Washington, DC 20036
(917) 692-5299
Email: carly.sachs@gmail.com
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