Steve Mentz

Past and Pending

Arts & Literature

“To tell a life’s story in poetry requires a deft touch, emotional range, and endless human bravery. Sasha Chinnaya’s poems range from ‘A Symphony of Curry,’ which beats on the page like a ‘tireless heart,’ to portraits of New York’s pandemic year, in which ‘parting is all we know’ and ‘uncertainty blooms like a new love.’ Her poems show a poet’s sensitivity to changing places, people, and the impersonal forces that shape and structure our lives.”