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Sam Sax

Sam Sax is a queer Jewish writer and educator. Bury It won the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets and he is the two-time Bay Area Grand Slam Champion. He has received the Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and is currently a fellow at Stanford University.

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PoetryPoetry | The Online Edition

Poetry | The Online Edition

Two Poems

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‘grief is an animal. we all know that. but which animal / exactly? what kingdom, what family, is it ever a fish?’

PoetryPoetry | Issue 152

Poetry | Issue 152

Poem Written from Inside a Leather Pig Mask

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‘child who dreams of growing into / a swan only to wake in terror at a mouth / filled with feathers.’