Emmy-award winning poet Dr. Kwame Dawes says this of Samantha’s work:
“What Samantha does with language, with idiom, with sound, with metaphor and with form–strikes me as groundbreaking. It is the wrong word. The word I want should sound like opening a new space in our literature.”
The author of two commercially published children’s books, Samantha has also published her poems in over a dozen literary journals and anthologies. Below are examples of her works that have been published in: Crab Orchard Review, Two Review, Louisville Review, Solo Cafe, Indiana Review, Breakbeat Poets Anthology, Cimmaron Review, Massachusetts Review, and elsewhere. Her debut poetry collection, Reconstructing Venus, is forthcoming.
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- Lice
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- How Our Parents Got Us
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- Frogs & Bees
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- Ode to Chalk
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- Ode to a Starfig
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- Bianca
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- Elegy for a Trojan
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- Camel’s Back
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- Ode to a Killer Whale
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- Upon Hearing a Child Call You Old
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- Ode to Joy
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- Jezebels Song