My poem “Living Room” is up at Penmen Review.

This week in the mail, I received my copy of THINK: A Journal of Poetry, Fiction and Essays, which includes three (!) of my poems: “The Synesthetic Sea,” “Cicadas,” and “Secret Passages.” When I checked out the website, lo and behold, I found “The Synesthetic Sea” included in their sample poems. 

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My poem “How to Tell You’re Somewhere Else” is now live at Penmen Review.
https://penmenreview.com/how-to-tell-youre-somewhere-else/?fbclid=IwY2xjawQVEKVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeQphKw9zdvkXUt3WoyzC1ZGFOQJopfHK2ebMy6L8wxMZuTwVvmCo2fegWCac_aem_MxW628Nz0HMvDxYky9UJbQ

The dazzling Issue 10 of Gleam is live! You can scroll down to read my poem “Threads.” Many thanks to editor Lori Howe and the rest of the team.

Cadralor Issue 10

Photo by Tony Phan

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