Sarah Riggs
Sarah Riggs is an American poet, filmmaker, visual artist, and translator. She is the author of eight collections of poetry.
Her films and films she has produced have screened at Anthology Film Archives, the Berlinale, Cinémathèque de Tanger, Jeu de Paume, Tate Modern, 98 Weeks, The Virginia Woolf Film Festival, and others. She has had solo exhibitions at FiveMyles Gallery, galerie éof, and Salon du Salon.
Her translation of Etel Adnan's TIME was awarded the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Best Translated Book Award.
In 2005, she co-founded the nonprofit art organization Tamaas which has produced an ongoing poet-to-poet Translation Seminar for twenty years, from which she co-edited the poetry collection and seven editions of READ: A Journal of Inter-Translation.
She received her B.A. from Amherst College and her Ph.D. in English from University of Michigan. She has previously taught at NYU Paris, Reid Hall, Pratt Institute, and the Naropa University Summer Writing Program. Her mentors include Etel Adnan, Michael Palmer, Cecilia Vicuña, Anne Waldman, and others.
She is a member of the bilingual experimental poetry association Double Change.
Books in English
Lines The Nerve Epistle Eavesdrop Pomme & Granite – Winner of the 1913 Press Poetry Prize, 2015.Autobiography of Envelopes 60 Textos Waterwork
- ''Chain of Minuscule Decisions in the Form of a Feeling''
Books in French
Murmurations, trans. by Marie Borel and Jérémy Victor Robert Chaîne de décisions minuscules dans la forme d'une sensation, trans. by Stéphane Bouquet, Virginie Lalucq, Jérôme Mauche, Eric Suchère, Bénédicte Vilgrain 43 post-it, trans. by Françoise Valéry and Marie Borel 60 textos, trans. by Françoise Valéry 28 télégrammes, translated by Françoise Valéry
Literary Criticism
Word Sightings: Poetry and Visual Media in Stevens, Bishop, and O'Hara.
Translations
Another Room to Live In: 15 Contemporary Arab Poets, co-edited and original translations of poems by Etel Adnan and Souad Labbize Love is Colder than the Lake by Liliane Giraudon, co-translated with Lindsay Turner Your Name, Palestine by Olivia Elias, co-translated with Jérémy Victor Robert TIME by Etel Adnan – Winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize and Best Translated Book Award, 2020. Lambda Literary Award Finalist, 2020.Present Participle by Oscarine Bosquet, co-translated by Ellen LeBlond-Schrader Face Before Against by Isabelle Garron Two Markets, Once Again by Ryoko Sekiguchi Wolftrot by Marie Borel, co-translated with Omar Berrada
Film
Outrider – ProducerSix Lives: A Cinepoem – Director, ScreenwriterThe Tangier 8 — Producer
Exhibitions
The Emotional Earth: Portraits, Salon Du Salon, 2023, MarseilleAmulet Sonnets: Sarah Riggs, FiveMyles Gallery, 2019, New YorkIsibilités: Sarah Riggs, galerie éof, 2006, ParisPortraits of Poets: Sarah Riggs, Berl's Brooklyn Poetry Shop, 2019, New York