AVOCATIONS

Sam Hamill is an esteemed poet, translator, essayist and editor. He was Editor of Copper Canyon Press from 1972-2004. Hamill has taught at prisons for fourteen years, in artist-in-residency programs for twenty years, and has worked extensively with battered women and children. He is the author of more than forty volumes of poetry, poetry-in-translation, and essays including, Almost Paradise: Selected Poems & Translations (2005), Dumb Luck (2002), Gratitude (1998), and A Poet's Work (1998). He also founded Poets Against War in 2003.