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Samuel Amadon

Samuel Amadon’s recent books are Listener (Solid Objects, 2020) and Often, Common, Some, and Free (Omnidawn, 2021). He directs the MFA program at the University of South Carolina and edits the poetry journal Oversound with Liz Countryman.

Poetry

July/Aug 2022

Divers

By Samuel Amadon

I would declare and could myself believe On some sad day of my own making, blue Absent in my absent green, what I was Wishing another way, as the wind […]

Poetry

July/Aug 2022

Divers

By Samuel Amadon

I woke up again where I had been. This A first day or a last day of something. I forgot everything I wanted As music from the windows of passing […]

Poetry

July/Aug 2022

Divers

By Samuel Amadon

In my yard, I can fill up red things with Air, my air, out of my own lungs, and since There’s no help, when I fill them up, the air […]

Poetry

July/Aug 2022

Divers

By Samuel Amadon

The street I read this book on it in bed Asleep. I went along a TV street, Then a red street, then a street alongside A river, where I woke […]