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Emily Sack

 

When she isn't writing poetry, Emily Sack is a Professor of Law at Roger Williams University.

 

 

 

 

 

 


► Emily's micro-chapbook and selected poem are available below.

 

Microchap

Selected Poem(s)

One Purpose of Poetry

 

Versus

Verses of versus I write
As opposed to,
against my better judgment.

Life isn’t black vs. white
up against down, don’t make
me choose red or green.

Life is and, and if,
and but. And yet,
there is a peace
to certainty, to knowing
against not. To be saved,
or not.

So should I relent
or should I fight on?
Am I angry or just stubborn?
Smart or dense? Sensitive or
merely weak.
Emily Sack © 2009