Sabra Loomis

Sabra Loomis (1938 – 2017) was an Irish-American poet. Her poetry collection House Held Together by Winds (Harper Perennial, 2008) won the 2007 National Poetry Series. Her honors included Yaddo and MacDowell Colony fellowships.

Her poems appeared in literary journals and magazines including American Poetry Review, American Voice, Cincinnati Poetry Review, Cyphers, Florida Review, Heliotrope, Lumina, Negative Capability, Poetry Ireland Review, Salamander, Salt Hill Journal, and St. Ann's Review.

The daughter of Alfred Loomis of Tuxedo Park, New York, she graduated from New York University, taught at the University of Massachusetts Boston, and was on the faculty of the Poets' House, Donegal. She divided her time between New York City and Achill Island, Ireland.

Loomis died in 2017, at the age of 79–80.

Honors and awards 2007 National Poetry Series Artists Foundation Yeats Society British Council Yaddo Fellowship MacDowell Colony Fellowship Virginia Center for the Creative Arts residency

Published works Full-Length Poetry Collections

Chapbooks The Ship (Firm Ground Press, 2001)

Anthology Publications

Reviews The house in House Held Together by Winds is both mansion and metaphor. Our docent for each construction is a little girl in a lace collar whose satirical observations of her dominating relatives expose the fears at the root of chauvinism....Readers who allow themselves to be voyeuristically fascinated by the gothic eccentricities of these poems will be moved by the transformation.