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'Where Are We in This Story?': Poetic Musings on the Strangeness of Life

As both a psychologist and a poet, Sarah Rosenblatt has a unique advantage in dissecting the psyche of the average person. The family psychologist says she uses her work as a way of connecting with people, creating poems that speak to the curiousness of life and the human condition.

"I tend to write a lot about time passing, about human vulnerability, about - just the strangeness of time passing and the strangeness of kind of being alive, being human," says Sarah Rosenblatt. "That's definitely what interests me in general." 

Her third collection of poems is called Where Are We in This Story? and was released last month. Like her other collections, this book features line-drawings from Sarah's mother, Suzanne. 

"I just thought it worked really well with the poems... So you don't just get a poetry book, you get a poetry book and an art book," she says with a laugh. 

Where Are We in This Story? will be featured at an event at Boswell Books Friday, November 4. 

Joy is a WUWM host and producer for Lake Effect.