Sherry Robbins is a poet, teaching artist, and long-time student of Tarot. Her publications include the full-length collection, Or, the Whale (BlazeVOX Books); the chapbook, Snapshots of Paradise; and numerous literary journals and anthologies including Denver Quarterly, Salmagundi, and Earth’s Daughters. She was one of 24 writers featured in the Poets at Work anthology alongside of Gwendolyn Brooks, Lucille Clifton, Robert Creeley, and Sonia Sanchez. Named New York State Teaching Artist of the Year in 2005, she has served as an arts education consultant for the University of Coimbra in Portugal, and for Portugal’s Belgais Center for the Study of Arts.

“Into this first and oldest cradle / I invite you, reader.” from “The Fossil Whale” by Sherry Robbins. “me in in in / in the boat / of my body” from “The Chase – First Day” by Sherry Robbins. This is her book of poetry. I read her returning to this poetry. Sherry Robbins, ubiquitous saillore at voyage in the allegorical myth of and in her life, explores her journey, the wovenings of woman currents, root drinker and her map of heaven. She is her life of adored poetry and summoning her poetry is here a balance of all the corners. She discovers that water is where Sherry Robbins stands upon or, The Whale.”

—Michael Basinski