- Sam Pereira
American
poet Sam Pereira was born in Los Banos,California on April 17,1949 . He received his Bachelor of Arts degree fromCalifornia State University, Fresno (1971 ) and his Master of Fine Arts degree from theUniversity of Iowa (1975 ), where he was a student in the legendaryIowa Writers' Workshop .Pereira's literary influences include
poets Philip Levine,Charles Wright (poet) ,Richard Hugo ,Mark Strand , andNorman Dubie . His contemporaries includepoets David St. John and the lateLarry Levis .He has published two earlier books of poetry: "The Marriage of the Portuguese" (L'Epervier Press,
1978 ) and "Brittle Water" (Abattoir Editions/Penumbra Press,University of Nebraska at Omaha ,1987 ). A third book, "A Cafe in Boca", was released in 2007 by [http://www.tebotbach.org Tebot Bach] .Work of his has also appeared in several anthologies of contemporary American poetry in recent decades, among them: "Piecework: 19 Fresno Poets" (Silver Skates,
1987 ), "The Body Electric" (W. W. Norton ,2000 ), and "How Much Earth: The Fresno Poets" (Heyday/Roundhouse Press,2001 ).His poems have been included in numerous magazines as well, among them, "
Alaska Quarterly Review ", "The American Poetry Review ", "Antioch Review", "Cutbank", "Manoa (journal) ", "The Missouri Review ", "Poetry (magazine) " and "Blackbird (online journal) ".He lives in the
San Joaquin Valley of California with his wife, the writer Susan R. G. Pereira, and is an Englishteacher in California's public school system.External links
* [http://litsam.blogspot.com Sam Pereira's Blog]
* [http://members.aol.com/litsam Original Pereira web site]
* [http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/ Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts]
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