Sam Sax's Blog, page 6
March 15, 2016
buttonpoetry:
Sam Sax - “Politics of Elegy” (AWP 2015)
“I was...
Sam Sax - “Politics of Elegy” (AWP 2015)
“I was paid a thousand dollars for writing a poem about a dead man who hated me. I was paid, and each dollar is a ghost in my wallet.”
Performing during the Button Poetry/Organic Weapon Arts showcase at AWP 2015. Check out Sam’s book at the Button Website, and subscribe to Button on YouTube!
February 20, 2016
Late Twenties by Sam Sax
Everyone i know is building
& filling their house while i keep
Licking paint onto my fingernails.
The work of adulthood
Is dubious. Their children
Are beautiful & lack debt.
As friday clamors on inside
Its calendrical lung
I go to the club to drop something
Then pick it back up
I fly on my bicycle alone
To the barroom & watch
A boy play pool
He dances with a cue
In his teeth
His shirt holds him
Like a bad mother
I drink my coke through a straw
Suck the whole bar through it
My friends are all home
Praying their infants sleep
Through the evening
I pray too, the cradle crying
& on fire between my legs.
February 6, 2016
buttonpoetry:
Sam Sax - “Spring Is for Lovers” (AWP 2015)
“Not...
Sam Sax - “Spring Is for Lovers” (AWP 2015)
“Not to be weird about it, but pollen is just sperm floating in the air.”
Performing during the Button Poetry/Organic Weapon Arts showcase at AWP 2015. Check out Sam’s book at the Button Website, and subscribe to Button on YouTube!
February 3, 2016
January 29, 2016
One of my poems from the last issue of Beloit Poetry Journal
One of my poems from the last issue of Beloit Poetry Journal
December 8, 2015
buttonpoetry:
FROM THE VAULT: Sam Sax - “Miracles” (Rustbelt...
FROM THE VAULT: Sam Sax - “Miracles” (Rustbelt 2014)
“We are only here today not because what does not kill us makes us stronger, but because what does not kill us does not kill us.”
Sam Sax, performing during prelims at the 2014 Rustbelt Regional Poetry Slam. Check out Sam’s book on the Button website and subscribe to Button on YouTube!
December 2, 2015
"I love the strange intimacy and interiority that is only possible in poetry, what begs you to lean..."
- Sam Sax, interviewed by Audrey Zhao for The Adroit Journal (via bostonpoetryslam)
November 18, 2015
Dinnerview: Sam Sax
I did an interview about food & poetry.
