Seth Abramson

Seth Abramson (1976-) is an American poet, author of "The Suburban Ecstasies" (Ghost Road Press, forthcoming 2009). He is also a contributing author, with fiction-writer Tom Kealey, to "The Creative Writing MFA Handbook" (Continuum Publishing, forthcoming 2008).

Born in Concord, Massachusetts, Seth Abramson is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School. In January 2005, he co-founded "The New Hampshire Review" [http://www.newhampshirereview.com/about.htm] , a literary magazine. He is currently a student in the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa.

His poems have been published in "AGNI", "The Alaska Quarterly Review", "Boston Review" [http://bostonreview.net/BR31.4/abramson.html] , "Colorado Review", "The Gettysburg Review" [http://public.gettysburg.edu/academics/gettysburg_review/sabramson.htm] , "Harvard Review", "Indiana Review", "The Iowa Review", "jubilat", "The Literary Review" [http://www.theliteraryreview.org/tlrweb/abramson.html] , "New American Writing", "New York Quarterly", "Poetry", "Poetry Daily" [http://www.poems.com/poem.php?date=13522] , "Salmagundi", "The Southern Review", "Sycamore Review" [http://sycamorereview.com/blog/2006/6/20/from-the-new-issue-seth-abramson-look-and-feel.html] , "Verse Daily" [http://www.versedaily.org/2006/saytheboy.shtml] [http://www.versedaily.org/2007/lullaby.shtml] , and elsewhere.

His work has also been anthologized, including appearances in "Law Poems" (University of Iowa Press, forthcoming 2009), "Best New Poets 2008" (University of Virginia Press, forthcoming 2008) [http://www.bestnewpoets.org/bnpblog.html/1112] , "Lawyers and Poetry" (West Virginia University Press, 2001) [http://myweb.wvnet.edu/~jelkins/lp-2001/intro/] , and "XConnect" (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000).

A former commentator for Air America Radio, Abramson was nominated for a Koufax Award in 2005.

Websites

* "The Suburban Ecstasies" (Author) [http://www.sethabramson.blogspot.com]
* "The Master of Fine Arts Blog" (Contributor) [http://creative-writing-mfa-handbook.blogspot.com/] ["The Suburban Ecstasies" features the first comprehensive rankings of Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Creative Writing programs since the 1997 rankings done by U.S. News and World Report. The site is also home to a compilation of MFA admissions information, including acceptance rates, class sizes, graduate placement data, and application response times. By April 2008, the site had received more than a quarter of a million unique visitors since its January 2007 introduction of updated MFA rankings [http://my2.statcounter.com/project/standard/stats.php?account_id=433336&login_id=3&code=35039d0b634df95e753f3201d2fc8782&guest_login=1&project_id=714869] .]

Selected Additional Publications

* "32 Poems" [http://www.32poems.com/]
* "Antietam Review" [http://philharveylit.org/shorts/baitswitch.pdf]
* "Antioch Review" [http://review.antioch.edu/]
* "Bellevue Literary Review" [http://www.blreview.org/]
* "Beloit Poetry Journal" [http://www.bpj.org/]
* "The Brooklyn Review" [http://depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/bkrvw/]
* "The Cincinnati Review" [http://www.cincinnatireview.com/]
* "Columbia Poetry Review" [http://english.colum.edu/cpr/]
* "Denver Quarterly" [http://www.denverquarterly.com/]
* "Florida Review" [http://www.flreview.com/]
* "Fourteen Hills" [http://www.atomicbooks.com/products/-/11599.html]
* "Green Mountains Review" [http://greenmountainsreview.jsc.vsc.edu/Vol.%20XVI,%202%20ToC.htm]
* "The Journal" [http://english.osu.edu/research/journals/thejournal/default.cfm]
* "The Manhattan Review" [http://themanhattanreview.com/]
* "The Mississippi Review" [http://www.mississippireview.com/2000/011400-abramson.htm]
* "Notre Dame Review" [http://www.nd.edu/~ndr/issues/ndr12/contributors.html]
* "Pleiades" [http://www.ucmo.edu/englphil/pleiades/]
* "Potomac Review" [http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/potomacreview/]
* "Quarterly West" [http://www.webdelsol.com/Quarterly_West/]
* "The Seattle Review" [http://depts.washington.edu/seaview/]
* "Subtropics" [http://www.english.ufl.edu/subtropics/submit.html]
* "Third Coast" [http://www.wmich.edu/thirdcoast/]
* "Washington Square" [http://www.cwp.fas.nyu.edu/page/wsr]
* "Western Humanities Review" [http://www.cc.utah.edu/~plk1/whr/index.html]

References By Media

* "The Los Angeles Times" [Website] ("A Thesis Statement," March 28, 2008) [http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/current_affairs/index.html]
* "Inside Higher Ed" (January 18, 2008) [http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/01/18/hamline]
* "NewPages.com" [Review] ("Gideon Asleep By the River," December 4, 2007) [http://www.newpages.com/magazinestand/litmags/2007_12/litmagreviews_2007_12.htm]
* "The Kenyon Review" [Website] (August 4, 2007) [http://kenyonreview.org/blog/?p=517]
* "American Bar Association Journal" (July 19, 2007) [http://abajd.com/blawgs/work+life+balance]
* "Jacket" (July 1, 2007) [http://jacketmagazine.com/33/humpo-discussion.shtml]
* Montana Heritage Project (June 15, 2007) [http://www.montanaheritageproject.org/index.php/MichaelUmphrey/mfa/]
* "ImmigrationProCon.org" ("Does Illegal Immigration Relate to Higher Crime Incidence?", March 7, 2007) [http://www.immigrationprocon.org/questions/illegalimmigrationcrime.html]
* Fuse (January 23, 2007) [http://webdelsol.com/FUSE/schools.htm]
* The Democratic Underground [Blog Box] (January 27, 2006) [http://www.democraticunderground.com/blogbox/06/048.html]
* "Ploughshares" [Website] (September 19, 2006) [http://pshares.blogspot.com/2006/09/more-bap-aka-just-cant-resist.html]
* "Nerve" ("Advice From Public Defenders," September 1, 2006) [http://www.nerve.com/regulars/sexadvicefrom/publicdefenders/]
* "Ploughshares" [Website] (August 25, 2006) [http://pshares.blogspot.com/2006/08/bap.html]
* "Encore" (July 30, 2006) [http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060730/ENTERTAINMENT/107300117]
* "Sycamore Review" [Purdue University] (February 15, 2006) [http://sycamorereview.com/blog/2006/6/20/from-the-new-issue-seth-abramson-look-and-feel.html]
* "The Harvard Law Record" (September 22, 2005) [http://media.www.hlrecord.org/media/storage/paper609/news/2005/09/22/News/Living.On.Lipp-996018.shtml?norewrite200611151509&sourcedomain=www.hlrecord.org&&&xmlsyn=1]
* The Democratic Underground [Blog Box] (July 15, 2005) [http://www.democraticunderground.com/blogbox/05/023.html]
* San Diego County Law Library (July 1, 2005) [http://www.sdcll.org/newsletter/2005/July2005News.html]