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Sasja Janssen

Sasja Janssen
Sasja Janssen is a poet and novelist based in Amsterdam. Her poems feature the body in many shapes, from tool to target, from weapon to wound. Virgula (2021) was nominated for five Dutch prizes and awarded the prestigious Awater Poetry Prize. Putting On My Species (2014) was her first collection to be translated into English and was published by Shearsman in 2020. Janssen has performed nationally and internationally, including at festivals in Nicaragua, Medellín, Mexico and Buenos Aires.


“Virgula,” a Poem by Sasja Janssen

From the Collection “Virgula” Translated by Michele Hutchison
February 16, 2024  By Sasja Janssen
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