Sam Abrams
Appearance
Sam Abrams (November 18, 1935 – 2023) was an American poet.[1] He was a Fulbright Professor of American Literature at the University of Athens and a Professor Emeritus of Language and Literature in the College of Liberal Arts, Rochester Institute of Technology. He lived in Rochester, New York, and traveled extensively.. Abrams died in the fall of 2023.
Education
[edit]Born in Brooklyn, Abrams graduated from James Madison High School (New York), Brooklyn College (B.A. 1958), and the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (MA 1950).
Works
[edit]- 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.
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Categories:
- 1935 births
- Poets from New York (state)
- Writers from Brooklyn
- Writers from Rochester, New York
- New York School poets
- Brooklyn College alumni
- Rochester Institute of Technology faculty
- James Madison High School (Brooklyn) alumni
- American expatriates in Greece
- University of Illinois College of Liberal Arts and Sciences alumni
- American poet, 20th-century birth stubs