Samuel Green

Biography

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. He is co-publisher of Brooding Heron Press on Waldron Island, Washington.

See Work

POETRY / Spring 2013

Working with Hayden Carruth (1921-2008)

By Samuel Green

Come work with me awhile, Hayden,
I can use your company in the shed 
among tools your hands have never lost

POETRY / Spring 2013

Shine

By Samuel Green

I’m nearly eighteen, between ships, moping 
on the mess deck of Coast Guard Base 
Seattle. It’s Saturday night & I’m broke

POETRY / Spring 2013

My Mother, Fetching a Switch

By Samuel Green

By now she knows that just because it’s thin
doesn’t mean it won’t hurt, that green is better 
than dead & dried. She needs to choose