Sam Hamill

Biography

Sam Hamill’s selected poems and translations, Almost Paradise, was recently published by Shambhala. He co-founded and was editor at Copper Canyon Press from 1972 through 2004 and is founder and director of Poets Against War.

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ESSAYS / Spring 2005

A Monk’s Tale

By Sam Hamill

For forty years I’d been a socially engaged antiwar poet. I was engaged in the civil rights campaigns of the sixties, supported feminist issues of the seventies, and had, in fact, been a devoted nonviolent revolutionary my entire adult life...