Seth Abramson

Seth Abramson (born October 31, 1976) is an American poet, author of The Suburban Ecstasies (Ghost Road Press, 2009). He is also a contributing author, with fiction-writer Tom Kealey, to The Creative Writing MFA Handbook (Continuum Publishing, 2008).

Born in Concord, Massachusetts, Abramson is a graduate of Dartmouth College, Harvard Law School, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. He is currently a doctoral student in English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Abramson's poetic aesthetic has been described as "a poetics of economy....a curious mixture of specificity and spaciousness [in a] form-focused structure." In 2008, Poetry awarded his work the J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood Prize.

His poems have been published in AGNI, The Alaska Quarterly Review, The American Poetry Review, Boston Review [7], Colorado Review, Conjunctions, Crazyhorse, The Gettysburg Review [8], Harvard Review, Indiana Review, The Iowa Review, jubilat, The Literary Review [9], New American Writing, New York Quarterly, Pleiades, Poetry, Poetry Daily [10], Salmagundi, The Southern Review [11], Sycamore Review [12], Verse Daily [13][14], and elsewhere.

His work has also been anthologized, including appearances in Law Poems (University of Iowa Press, 2009), Best New Poets 2008 (University of Virginia Press, 2008) [15], Lawyers and Poetry (West Virginia University Press, 2001) [16], and XConnect (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000).

A former public defender, magazine editor, and commentator for Air America Radio, Abramson was nominated for a Koufax Award in 2005.

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Websites

•   The Suburban Ecstasies (Author) [17]
•   The Master of Fine Arts Blog (Contributor) [18]

Selected Additional Publications

•   32 Poems [19]
•   Antioch Review [20]
•   Bellevue Literary Review [21]
•   Cutbank [22]
•   Denver Quarterly [23]
•   Eclectica [24]
•   Florida Review [25]
•   Fourteen Hills [26]
•   Green Mountains Review [27]
•   Gulf Coast [28]
•   The Mississippi Review [29]
•   North Dakota Quarterly [30]
•   Notre Dame Review [31]
•   Potomac Review [32]
•   South Dakota Review [33]
•   Subtropics [34]
•   Third Coast [35]

References By Media

•   University of California at San Diego ("A Setting for Grad Writers," March 30, 2009) [36]
•   University of Arizona ("MFA in Nonfiction Ranked Second Overall," March 3, 2009) [37]
•   Emprise Review ("Out of the Suburbs: An Interview with Seth Abramson," February 15, 2009) [38]
•   University of Minnesota ("MFA Program Named the #3 Program in the Country," December 11, 2008) [39]
•   Burlington [IA] Hawk Eye ("Series Features Noted Poets", November 23, 2008) [40]
•   Poets & Writers ("Show Me the Money," November 1, 2008) [41]
•   Luna Park ("Effusion Through Compression: Seth Abramson's Poetics," October 9, 2008) [42]
•   Rake Magazine ("Minnesota's MFA Program Skyrockets Up List," August 30, 2008) [43]
•   The Los Angeles Times [Website] ("A Thesis Statement," March 28, 2008) [44]
•   Inside Higher Ed (January 18, 2008) [45]
•   NewPages.com [Review] ("Gideon Asleep By the River," December 4, 2007) [46]
•   The Kenyon Review [Website] (August 4, 2007) [47]
•   American Bar Association Journal (July 19, 2007) [48]
•   Jacket (July 1, 2007) [49]
•   Montana Heritage Project (June 15, 2007) [50]
•   ImmigrationProCon.org ("Does Illegal Immigration Relate to Higher Crime Incidence?", March 7, 2007) [51]
•   Fuse (January 23, 2007) [52]
•   Ploughshares [Website] (September 19, 2006) [53]
•   Nerve ("Advice From Public Defenders," September 1, 2006) [54]
•   Sycamore Review [Purdue University] (February 15, 2006) [55]
•   San Diego County Law Library (July 1, 2005) [56]