As It Ought To Be, January 2026 edition, is live! Many thanks to editor Chase Dimock for including my poem “Point of Reference.”

Sarah Carleton: “Point of Reference”

Issue #103 of Offcourse is live! You can read my poems “Goat at the Intersection” and “Finding Sleep” …and then keep going and check out all the other wonderful poetry therein.

https://offcourse.org/issue103/carleton_sarah.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawO0cbJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeRYViT4U9Soy_oo2Su4eTULDu6oqB3c5xt4pmHkzmID-19QnYeJMV_sfJWhY_aem_0j2OhWnGQ-rfzgCNMMSSdw

My poem “How to Peel a Pomegranate” is up today in Sublunary Review:

https://www.sublunaryreview.com/home/how-to-peel-a-pomegranate

Elena Klimenko, “Garnet,” 2023

The Westchester Review Fall 2025 issue went live yesterday. What a cool journal! Here’s a link to my poem “H Like a Talisman.”

https://www.westchesterreview.com/sarah-carleton?fbclid=IwY2xjawNLR1NleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHlM227ABpMe38EDXw3CKHCSBKqi52zhFQWJNHPoMV0L6aj78KdKUyfTQxIzB_aem_jmsY1pPR3qdw-plRlGvZFQ

September has brought a couple of other publications worth mentioning. First, the marvelous Rat’s Ass Review Fall-Winter 2025 issue includes my poem “Filling in the Gaps.”

https://ratsassreview.net/?page_id=4488&fbclid=IwY2xjawM4tjtleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHsb2dTF0Krks7hGVYtmjMWgAx4uMUAdIWT7_CNwbk-ftQDrd8a18BGa2v4en_aem_6wzFws4AkaZiz60x_YOZIg

And you can read my poem “Anchor” in this month’s Halfway Down the Stairs.

Anchor, by Sarah Carleton

It never rains, but it pours! Last week, I opened the mail to find the latest issue of Nixes Mate Review, which includes my poem “Solar Event.”

And yesterday, this month’s Verse-Virtual came out, including my poems “Florida Sunset” and “Five Ways Hair Is Like Sunlight.”
https://www.verse-virtual.org/2025/September/carleton-sarah-2025-september.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawMjxEJleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFtYXVCSW5Bb25pdXMwM0N1AR7B2nVmwX1htNFlsDNUFZbuTAUQVxSvZQ6uNECz1Ru_bgaoKhNLiQhuarp83w_aem_7fCmHgFER_AToEGnpdFWFw

Wordpeace, issue 10.2, is live! Check out my poem “Table by the Window, Fredericksburg, VA.”
https://wordpeace.co/sarah-carleton/

In which you can read “Password,” “Carpetbagger,” and “Startle” in issue #26 of Pirene’s Fountain, (although it looks like this issue came out about a month ago. D’oh!). This is their first-ever online issue.
http://www.glasslyrepress.com/pf_view.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawLSHApleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFmaUZRWUowQTRrbUZOd2g2AR58wJqGuKdp3zwQWKQK-UWWJByZd-xzV1xn7ksP4AxiwH-o8pBA0GrHA_gpoA_aem_RabEDG8DHLZAPb8_q7OyIw

The spring/summer issue of Mockingheart Review came out a week ago. Here’s a link to my poem “Jet-Lagged.”

Sarah Carleton

Rockvale Review is live! Check out my poem “Pond.”
https://rockvalereview.com/pond-by-sarah-carleton/?fbclid=IwY2xjawKnxyNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFVQWYwaUNzN1VRSWZGZGFtAR6KmzLTdDgk9P7LiJIX5X1S4Q5m2He4PMkxtvFD40NfdrwjxTQEJf7SJKh8cw_aem_MXWxuYySA2-O7JLlzgaQvg