Amy Sailer

A headshot of Amy Sailer

Amy Sailer’s poetry appears in Michigan Quarterly Review, The Cincinnati Review, Meridian, among others, and Sycamore Review, where she won the 2020 Wabash Prize for poetry. She has received support from the Willapa Bay Residence program, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library, and the William Morris Society of the United States. The managing editor of Waxwing and an assistant professor of English at Richland Community College, she lives in Champaign, Illinois, with her husband and son.

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Centennial Valley, 2022

Amy Sailer  | 
Issue 75.2 Spring 2026

if I listen, the sky isn’t mute at all, /
my mind deaf to the names of each birdcall.