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Samuel ("Sam") Green (born 1948) is an American poet and bookbinder. He was appointed the first Poet Laureate of Washington in 2007. Green is the author of twelve poetry collections, including The Grace of Necessity, which won the 2008 Washington State Book Award for Poetry.
The author of numerous collections of poetry, including Washington State Book Award winner The Grace of Necessity (2008) and Vertebrae: Poems 1978–1994 (1997), Green is the founding editor of Brooding Heron Press, which he runs with his wife, Sally. Green was named the first Washington State poet laureate in 2007.
Samuel Green. Waldron, Washington. Poet and editor Samuel Green grew up in Washington State. After a tour with the Coast Guard, Green was educated at Highline Community College and Western Washington University, where he earned a BA and an MA.
Samuel Green served as the inaugural poet laureate of Washington. His newest collection of poems, All That Might Be Done, is due from Carnegie Mellon University Press in 2014. He received an NEA Fellowship in poetry and a fellowship in literature from the Artist Trust of Washington.
Night Dive. By Samuel Green. Down here, no light but what we carry with us. Everywhere we point our hands we scrawl. color: bulging eyes, spines, teeth or clinging tentacles. At negative buoyancy, when heavy hands. seem to grasp & pull us down, we let them, we don’t inflate our vests, but let the scrubbed cheeks.
Among his ten collections of poems are Vertebrae: Poems 1972-1994 (Eastern Washington University Press, 1994) and The Grace of Necessity (Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 2008), which won the 2008 Washington State Book Award for Poetry.
Samuel Green, poet and editor, writes about the Pacific Northwest landscape “with accessible, elemental observations of life’s small turns.” He has written eleven collections of poetry, including Washington State Book Award winner The Grace of Necessity (2008) and Vertebrae: Poems 1978–1994 (1997).
