Nicholas Samaras Biography Nicholas Samaras won the Yale Series of Younger Poets award with his first book, Hands of the Saddlemaker (1992). His books also include American Psalm, World Psalm (Ashland Poetry Press, 2014). See Work POETRY / Winter 2015 The Bridle Path By Nicholas Samaras We lived in a painting, a pastoral promise of stepped Berkshire hills, the Midlands of green meadows in the distance dotted with sheep POETRY / Winter 2015 Ars Poetica as Reconstruction By Nicholas Samaras I write in time to break into timelessness.