Sam Witt's talk will feature a poetry reading from his new book Everlasting Quail. It will conclude with an audience discussion about the poems themselves and observations about contemporary Russian and American Poetry.
Sam Witt is an American poet and free-lance journalist. He was graduated from the University of Virginia, with a Bachelor of Arts in English, and from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, with a Master of Fine Arts in Poetry Writing.
Witt's first book, Everlasting Quail, was chosen by American Poet Carol Frost as the winner of the 2000 Katherine Bakeless Nason Poetry Prize, sponsored by the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference of Middlebury College. It was published in August 2001 by University Press of New England.
Witt has published his poems in such journals as Georgia Review, Black Warrior Review, Colorado Review, Volt, Virginia Quarterly Review, Quarterly West, Epoch, Pleiades, Fence, Poetry Flash, Poetry Northwest, Puerto del Sol, Phoebe, Denver Quarterly, and the anthology The New Young American Poets (Southern Illinois University Press). His journalism has been featured in such magazines as Computerworld, San Francisco Chronicle, Wired, CNN.com,and The Vancouver Sun.
He has taught at the University of Iowa and the University of California at Berkeley. At the invitation of the Lithuanian government, he has twice participated in poetry festivals in Vilnius and Druskininkai. He is currently a Fulbright Fellow in Creative Writing and teaches class in American Poetry at Saint Petersburg State University.
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