Sam Abrams

Not to be confused with the poet D. Sam Abrams.

Sam Abrams (born November 18, 1935) is an American poet. He was a Fulbright Professor of American Literature at the University of Athens and is a Professor Emeritus of Language and Literature in the College of Liberal Arts, Rochester Institute of Technology. He traveled extensively. He resides in Rochester, New York.

Education

Born in Brooklyn, Abrams is a graduate of James Madison High School (New York), Brooklyn College (B.A. 1958), and the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (MA 1950).

Works

• Barbara. Ferry Press (London, 1966), 1st Edition. 32 pp. Poems, limited edition of 350 copies.
• The Neglected Walt Whitman. Sam Abrams, Editor. Sixty-five poems, fragments, and three prose pieces by Whitman.
• The Old Pothead Poems.
• The Post-American Cultural Congress.
• Book of Days, with Paul Blackburn.

External links

• "The Purpose" by Sam Abrams