Writing Samples

Get to know my voice

Here are a few of my texts, reproduced with permission from their original publishers.

Sofia Silveira Sofia Silveira

A Poem About Feeling Crazy

I’ll have the pleasure of confirmed suspicions,

as I am put away,

in a 1950's sanatorium

because my madness

is simply too mad for progressive definitions of crazy.

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Sofia Silveira Sofia Silveira

In another life

… even a short life, lived in a community surrounded by love and sun, is worth the risk of prematurely having to leave it.

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