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Sarah Minor is the author of Slim Confessions: The Universe as a Spider or Spit (Noemi Press 2021), Bright Archive (Rescue Press 2020), winner of the 2020 Big Other Nonfiction Book Award and The Persistence of the Bonyleg: Annotated from Essay Press.
Sarah Rose Nordgren’s chapbook, The Creation Museum, is forthcoming from Harbor Editions in 2022. Her previous books include Best Bones (2014), winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, and Darwin’s Mother (2017), both from University of Pittsburgh Press. Nordgren’s poems, essays, and multimedia work appear widely in periodicals such as Agni, Ploughshares, The Kenyon
Rain or shine, Whiteman is out each day mowing and edging graves, preparing the ground for any upcoming funerals – and, most importantly, talking to mourners. “You’ve got to give people plenty of time, don’t rush them . You get to deal with them for years and years. Some of them I’ve met have gone into homes, and you miss them, so you ring up and check on them. “When you have a funeral on, everything comes to a stand still. You’ve got to allow those people that time and that moment. If you’re backfilling [the grave], you wait until the family’s gone,” he said.