Winner of the 2021 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award
Poems from How to Baptize…:
“Picking Up a Prescription for My Daughter…” Typo
“How to Baptize a Child in Flint, Michigan,” Copper Nickel
“Brother Gets Transferred Out of Solitary and Swears Jesus Planned It All,” the Christian Century
“Where the Pontiac Broke Down,” Waxwing
“Six Reasons I Can’t Answer the Door for You at Three in the Morning,” Rattle
“Brother Says in 1996, He Saw His Buddy Shoot a Girl,” The Journal
From Persea Books: In her second poetry collection, Sarah Carson continues to bring the reader into territory others shy away from, and does so with delicacy and brilliance. Her powerful How to Baptize a Child in Flint, Michigan, inspired by her own upbringing in Flint, is an eye opening and emotional collection of poetry that effectively brings the reader in to the generational experiences of living, working, and loving in Flint, Michigan.