Sam Abrams (born November 18, 1935) is an American

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems ( oral or wr ...

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/ref> He was a Fulbright Professor of American Literature at the

University of Athens The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA; el, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών, ''Ethnikó ke Kapodistriakó Panepistímio Athinón''), usually referred to simply as the Univers ...

and is a Professor Emeritus of Language and Literature in the College of Liberal Arts,

Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) is a private university, private research university in the town of Henrietta, New York, Henrietta in the Rochester, New York, metropolitan area. The university offers undergraduate and graduate degree ...

. He traveled extensively. He resides in Rochester, New York.

Education

Born in

Brooklyn Brooklyn () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York. Kings County is the most populous Administrative divisions of New York (state)#County, county in the State of New York, ...

, Abrams is a graduate of

James Madison High School (New York) James Madison High School is an elite public high school in the Midwood section of Brooklyn New York City. It serves students in grades 9 through 12 and is in Region 6 of the New York City Department of Education. Established in 1925, the school ...

, Brooklyn College (B.A. 1958), and the

University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Unive ...

(MA 1950).

Works

* ''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.

References

External links

"The Purpose" by Sam Abrams
1935 births Living people Poets from New York (state) Writers from Brooklyn Writers from Rochester, New York] New York School poets Brooklyn College alumni University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni Rochester Institute of Technology faculty James Madison High School (Brooklyn) alumni American expatriates in Greece {{US-poet-1930s-stub