A photo of Sam Sax taken outside in a garden, they are wearing a striped button down shirt and green cardigan with flowers and smiling. Sam has reddish brown hair and beard.

Clearly Meant welcomes Sam Sax for a poetry reading, interview and discussion on 2-7-26 @Claremont branch at 2pm.
Sam Sax is the author of the novel Yr Dead, poetry collections PIG (best book 2023 Vulture and Electric Lit), Bury It (James Laughlin Award), and Madness (winner Natl. Poetry Series).

Going to the theatre is like being somewhere else
Reading memoir is like being someone else
Reading novel is like being sometime else
Poem is all banana moonlight spills on the sidewalk

((testing testing))

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Wow. No photo credit ?

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It being the last day of National Poetry Month, I figured I should post one of my own poems.

This one is in Repast and also appeared in my first book, Tea. It's about mayflies. In honor of May. And fleeting time...

All perspective is forced perspective

Baby got back pain

you have to write a lot of books to write a book

Yr Dead (longlisted for the National Book Award) Longlisted for the National Book Award. Named a best cover of the year by PRINT Magazine and top debut novel of 2024 by Kirkus. In between the space of time when Ezra lights themself on fire and when...

More amazing year-end news: @samsax.bsky.social’s YR DEAD has been named a best cover of the year by PRINT Magazine and a top 6 debut novel by Kirkus! Discover this brilliant book for yourself today:

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Baby got back pain

With sincere apologies to my mental health I think being left on read is my biggest kink

You ever just eat an apple?
Really makes you think.

I will build my new life here