Sherri Stepakoff is a Boston area poet whose poems have appeared in Passagers, Off the Coast, Notable Works’ environmental anthologies Voices of the Earth: The Future of Our Planet (III and IV), and elsewhere. She was awarded honorable mentions in the NFSPS Prouty Memorial Contest (2024) and the Fish Publishing Poetry Contest (2023). She served as the inaugural poet in residence at Unity Farm Sanctuary. Debut collection.
PRAISE:
In Sanctuary at Unity Farm, Stepakoff has established herself as the William Blake of the Barnyard Set.
–Francisco Goldman, author of Monkey Boy
Sherri Stepakoff’s poetry is not just about a sanctuary, it is a sanctuary. This is a book to keep by your side and read, and then re-read. Her poems offer a place of comfort, of humor, of love and a reminder, as she wrote, of “the impulse to live on.”
–Jeffrey S. Cramer, editor of The Portable Thoreau
In her debut collection, Sherri Stepakoff documents the comfort her speaker derives from living among rescued animals who survive and find joy despite the challenges of their previous lives. Like the creatures who sing through brays, grunts, calls and cries, the poet sings her truth, too, always conscious of her role, to shape words artfully to give voice to deep emotions. Rhymed couplets, praise poem, meditation, villanelle, Ars poetica, free verse—Stepakoff skillfully deploys a range of poetic forms, giving strong proof of her raison d’etre: “I record these things, and some that I invent, in my poems.”
–Lynne Viti, poet laureate emerita of Westwood, Massachusetts
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