On Sarah Arvio: Three Sentences

1.
A Sarah Arvio reading represents an opportunity for strangers to gather into an audience for the purpose of being disregarded together.

2.
Sarah Arvio’s poems reveal a mind as dull as Emily Dickinson’s Outlook calendar.

3.
Sarah Arvio’s poems illustrate one possible result of a combination of privilege, ignorance and preening self-regard.  Such concatenations are as common in America as folding chairs, fatness and discomfort.