Belly Dancing in a Brown Sweatsuit

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Belly Dancing in a Brown Sweatsuit by Elaine Sorrentino offers readers a first collection of poems full of candid self-observation, tenderness for a world almost lost, and good humor. In poems like her hilarious post-Covid elegy, “A Moment of Silence for the Salad Bar”, or through the closing line of her title poem, in which the speaker announces “I didn’t come to watch,” Sorrentino invites readers to participate in love in its many forms and walk life’s path with joy, even when it is deeply shadowed. A 2X cancer survivor, she reminds us to celebrate what we’re given.
—Miriam O’Neal, Plymouth, MA Poet Laureate

ISBN: 9781639806898
ISBN-10: 163980689X
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Publication Date: January 25th, 2025
Pages: 70
Language: English

Poet Elaine Sorrentino is Communications Director at South Shore Conservatory in Hingham, MA, where she creates promotional and first-person content for press and for a blog called SSC Musings.

Her poetry has been published online and in print in blogs and journals such as Minerva Rising, Willawaw Journal, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Gyroscope Review, Ekphrastic Review, Quartet Journal, Writing in a Woman’s Voice, ONE ART: a journal of poetry, Muddy River Poetry Review, Etched Onyx Magazine, and Haikuniverse. She is facilitator of the Duxbury Poetry Circle.

A two-time breast cancer survivor, Elaine, along with poet Dzvinia Orlowsky, founded a program called Pink LemonAid, where writers, artists, and musicians are invited to share art inspired by their experience with breast cancer—either as a survivor or as support for a loved one.

Elaine lives in Pembroke, Massachusetts with her musician husband and various farm animals who wander into their yard.

Cover design by Paul Hoffman, Creative Services Manager at SSC.