David Anthony Sam's Blog, page 105
June 3, 2022
“In Any Season” originally published in Great River Review 1984
My poem “In Any Season” was originally published in Great River Review in 1984. It was written as a personal challenge to create a poem about fishing in response to a poem in Atlantic Monthly.
May Sarton – another favorite poet
This poem has always resonated, but never more so than now that I am 72 and can see the sun beginning to set.
June 2, 2022
My poetry collection, Writing the Significant Soil, winner of the 2021 Homebound Poetry Prize, will be released on July 12, 2022.
My poetry collection, Writing the Significant Soil, winner of the 2021 Homebound Poetry Prize, will be released on July 12, 2022. You can preorder it HERE.
June 1, 2022
May 31, 2022
Congrats to Abigail Morgan Prout whose collection will also be published by Wayfarer Books this year.
Congrats to Abigail Morgan Prout whose collection will also be published by Wayfarer Books this year. It can be preordered HERE.
May 30, 2022
May 11, 2022
Six of my poems will appear in the Summer Issue of the Journal of the Blue Ridge Writers
Six of my poems will appear in the Summer Issue of the Journal of the Blue Ridge Writers.
My poem “Roads Taken” has been published by Aji Magazine
My poem “Roads Taken” has been published by Aji Magazine. You can read it for free on page 91 along with other fine work HERE.
April 15, 2022
My new poetry collection is now available for preorder from Wayfarer Books
Now available to pre-order from Homebound Publications and Wayfarer Books: Writing the Significant Soil by David Anthony Sam
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In this collection of poetry, Sam explores the long relationship of human life with nature without sentimentality or the cold distance of the clinical eye. Sam’s poems reveal his own close connection with the Appalachian Mountains the red clay of the MidAtlantic and Virginia as he searches for meaning in the act of living on and with the land by using the poetic ink he makes from the soil.
The collection admits the danger we humans impose on the natural world while revealing a simple faith that that natural world will abide even as we as individuals give our identity back into the land we sprang from. The soil is significant in and of itself as life-giving place and because of our history of living on it.
