Pendleton Center for the Arts – 12.21.17 Reading. See you there!
Date: 2017-12-18
Categories: poetry
SAYING YOUR NAME THREE TIMES UNDERWATER – Book Trailer
Date: 2017-11-27
Here is the book trailer for Saying Your Name Three Times Underwater. Thank you so much to poet, musician, and good friend Max Heinegg for the accompanying music, I feel it truly captures the essence of the book. Special thanks to Danny Rosen, Kyle Harvey, and the Lithic Press team for making my dream come true for a second poetry collection!
Friends, I’m scheduling reading dates for 2018 for the two books (Saying Your Name Three Times Underwater and Echolalia in Script) and if you’d like to invite me to read at your class, library, bookstore or reading event, please let me know. I’d like to make it work and visit you.
Also, if you would like to review any of the books, please let me know too.
Feel free to share this post.
Yours,
Sam
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EMAIL: goodmorningsam@mac.com
WEBSITE: samroxaschua.com
BOOKSALES
Local: J. Michaels Books, Black Sun Books, and Barnes&Noble
Online:
The Requatorist -squareup.com/store/therequatorist
Lithic Press – lithicpress.com/index.php/our-catalog/82-saying-your-name-three-times-underwater
Paperback
978-1946-583-000
$17.00/ Poetry
Fall 2017
Four Tongues
Date: 2017-11-18
Poet Laureate Thoughts, New Book, Laundry
Date: 2017-11-17
Categories: poetry
I Had a long and deep conversation with my mentor this morning and he kept saying “Remember the past four years.” Four years ago…I buried my first poem because I dreamt of leaves needing words on them. Four years ago…I buried a bust sculpture of my birthfather and later dug it up because of another dream about drowning. Four years ago…I met Dorianne Laux and she asked me what I was doing with my writing. I said that most of the time I bury them.
Four years ago I decided to have a relationship with my writing. I wanted to to know what the ink of my pens tasted like, I pressed typewriters ribbon on my tongue to understand this path of writers. And to ask, am I one? Four years ago, Dorianne recited words so beautifully at a workshop I believe even thunder was listening. I wanted to know this language that lived inside her. I applied to an MFA program she mentioned and there I met my tribe.
The past four years gave me health. I met amazing people who encouraged me to befriend my doubts. I read a poem to an audience grieving for a country. I offered adult-adoptee and LGBTQI bereavement services with a coined up term called “Discovery writing.”
To discover. To grow. To see what happens if I show up.
Yes, I accept the Sarah’s nomination as the next Poet Laureate of Oregon and good luck to all the nominees. It’s a long-shot for me but I believe in the task and I know you all do too. Here’s the link to support the process: http://oregonpoetlaureate.org/nominations/
OK. Time do to the laundry.
Oh by the way, SAYING YOUR NAME THREE TIMES UNDERWATER is now available. Thank you Danny Rosen, Kyle Harvey, and the Lithic Press team for making this dream come true for my second collection of poems. You can order them here:
• squareup.com/store/therequatorist
• lithicpress.com/index.php/our-catalog/82-saying-your-name-three-times-underwater
Local: J. Michaels Books and Black Sun Books
2017 • October • November • December – Reading and Presentations
Date: 2017-10-16
INNER WIRING • Readings w/ asemic writing demonstration
Date: 2017-08-27
POETRY & ART NEWS | Friends, in celebration of the two books coming out in the Fall, I’ve updated my website which now includes samples of the written (text, audio and video) and visual work. My plan is to fill the entire 2018 calendar with readings which include asemic writing demonstrations. If you would like to help me promote the books please feel free to share this post to event organizers you might know. Yes, I’m willing to travel! Thanks again for all the love and support. Yours, Sam
heart/mouth
Date: 2017-06-27
Categories: poetry
