Forrest Hamer (born 1956) is an American poet, psychologist, and psychoanalyst. He is the author of three poetry collections, most recently ''Rift'' (
Four Way Books
Four Way Books is an American nonprofit literary press located in New York City, which publishes poetry and short fiction by emerging and established writers. It features the work of the winners of national poetry competitions, as well as collect ...
, 2007). His first collection, ''Call & Response,'' (
Alice James Books
Alice James Books is an American non-profit poetry press located in New Gloucester, Maine.
History and mission
"Alice James Books was founded as a co-operative press in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cambridge, MA in 1973 by five women and two men: ...
) won the
Beatrice Hawley Award, and his second, ''Middle Ear'' (Roundhouse Press), received the Northern California Book Award. He has received fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the
California Arts Council
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, and he has taught at the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshops.
His poetry has been anthologized in ''Poet’s Choice: Poems for Everyday Life, The Geography of Home: California’s Poetry of Place, The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South, Blues Poems,'' ''Word of Mouth: An Anthology of Gay American Poetry,'' and three editions of ''The Best American Poetry''; and has appeared in many magazines and literary journals including ''The American Poetry Review,''
Beloit Poetry Journal
The ''Beloit Poetry Journal'' is an American poetry magazine established in 1950 at Beloit College.[Yale University
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and the
University of California - Berkeley. He lives in
Oakland, California
Oakland is a city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area in the U.S. state of California. It is the county seat and most populous city in Alameda County, California, Alameda County, with a population of 440,646 in 2020. A major We ...
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Published works
Full-Length Poetry Collections
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References
Sources
Four Way Books > Author Page > Forrest Hamer
External links
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ttps://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/059.html Library of Congress > ''Poetry 180: A Poem a Day for American High Schools'' > Forrest Hamer > ''The Lesson''br>
''The Santa Clara'' > ''Hamer shares life experiences at poetry reading'' > by Richard Nieva > 02/05/09
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American male poets
Yale University alumni
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Living people
1956 births