Department of English Language and Literature
Directory
Samuel Amadon
Title: | Professor MFA Director; McCausland Faculty Fellow |
Department: | English Language and Literature College of Arts and Sciences |
Email: | amadon@mailbox.sc.edu |
Phone: | 803-576-5983 |
Office: | HUO, Room 209 |
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Education
PhD, University of Houston, 2012
MFA, Columbia University, 2007
Specialization
Creative Writing
Contemporary Poetry
Courses
ENGL 200 Creative Writing, Voice, And Community
ENGL 286 Poetry
ENGL 360 Introduction to Creative Writing
ENGL 464 Poetry Workshop
ENGL 491 Advanced Poetry Workshop
ENGL 601 Seminar in Verse Composition
Activities
Breakthrough Star, 2019
Department of English Teaching Award, 2016
Alan Collins Fellow in Poetry, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, 2012
Believer Poetry Book Award, 2012
Best First Book, Coldfront, 2010
Iowa Poetry Prize, 2009
Publications
Books
• Often, Common, Some, And Free, Omindawn, (Forthcoming 2021)
• Listener, Solid Objects, (Forthcoming 2019)
• The Hartford Book, Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2012
• Like a Sea, University of Iowa Press, 2010
Recent Publications
• “Sunset Pool” – The Nation (2018)
• “Final Tea With Hoon” – Kenyon Review 2017
• “Pedestrian” – Salt Hill (2017)
• “Poem In Which My Love Will Not Let You Down” – Poetry Northwest (2017)
• “Twentieth-First Century” – Guernica (2016)
• "Poem That Wants To Be the Westside Highway," "A Partial View Of the Triborough"
— Poetry Magazine (2016)
• “At McCarren Pool” – jubilat (2016)
• “Poem That’s Never Been To Jones Beach” – American Poetry Review (2016)
• “Poem For the Opening Of the Hamilton Fish Park Pool, 1936” – The New Yorker,
2014
• "Poem Where the Airplane Is Torn Apart" — Denver Quarterly (2014)
• "Touring Fill" — Lana Turner, A Journal of Poetry and Opinion (2013)
• "Tinnitus Asks a Question" — A Public Space (2012)
• "Often, Common, Some, And Free" — Ploughshares (2012)
• "Black Helicopters" — American Poetry Review (2012)
• "Spy Poem" — Nonsite.org (2012)
• "Tourism" — New Yorker (2012)
Editorial
• Oversound