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Received an incredible honor & Christmas gift as the Free Lance Star names my poetry collection one of the best books of 2022, Click HERE to read their selections and reviews. https://fredericksburg.com/entertainment/top-reads-of-2022-fls-reviewers-reveal-their-favorite-books-of-the-year/article_dcfef8ce-71b5-11ed-ac90-f31bc34a0efc.html

The December 14 episode of “Virginia’s Voices,” a series of interviews with poets from around the state in celebration of the Poetry Society of Virginia’s 100th anniversary, featured Nathan Richardson and me. I read poems from my last two collections as well as from the new one,  Stone Bird,  coming out January 2023. Click  HERE  to watch. 

The December 14 episode of "Virginia's Voices," a series of interviews with poets from around the state in celebration of the Poetry Society of Virginia's 100th anniversary, featured Nathan Richardson and me. I read poems from my last two collections as well as from the new one,  Stone Bird,  coming out January 2023. Click  HERE  to watch. 

A poem of mine is included in the latest issue of Blue Unicorn . They first published my work in the late 1970s.

You can read my poem “Some Have Entertained Unawares” for free, now published in Issue 17 of Aji Magazine but I do encourage you to buy a print copy of this fine journal. Look for my poem on page 102.

You can read my poem "Some Have Entertained Unawares" for free, now published in Issue 17 of Aji Magazine but I do encourage you to buy a print copy of this fine journal. Look for my poem on page 102.

From the December 3, 2022, Poetry Society of Virginia luncheon celebrating the Centennial Anthology, available May 2023.

What book are you reading right now? Countdown 1945 by Chris Wallace Starry Messenger by Neil deGrasse Tyson A Primer for Poets and Readers of Poetry by Gregory Orr A World at Arms by Gerhard L. Weinberg No Other Book: Selected Essays by Randall Jarrell The Life of Greece by Will Durant

Two other fine poets and I will read from our collections at A Night of Poetry, cosponsored by Germana Community College and the Poetry Society of Virginia – North Central Region. An Open Mic opportunity will follow. The event is open to the public and free. For more information and to register, click HERE Jenna Villforth Veazey Mike Maggio

View the comic strip for Pearls Before Swine by cartoonist Stephan Pastis created September 04, 2022 available on GoComics.com — Read on www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2022/09/04

Blue Unicorn  will publish my poem "The Wilderness" in its next issue. This is the third time they have published my work and I thank the Editor, John Hart.  

You can now order my new poetry collection Writing the Significant Soil from Thriftbooks.com https://tinyurl.com/4d26w2ew

You can read the review of my new book by Drew Gallagher, critic for the Fredericksburg Free Lance Star, here:

If you have purchased my new book, post a photo of yourself holding it. Then let me knew by email to davidanthonysam@gmail.com to receive a free ebook of another of my poetry collections.

Which activities make you lose track of time? Rewriting my poetry.

Congratulations to David Anthony Sam: Winner of the 2021 Homebound Publications Poetry Prize – Aji — Read on www.ajimagazine.com/blog/new-book-announcement-david-anthony-sam

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To celebrate the release of my new poetry collection on July 12,  Writing the Significant Soil  (Wayfarer Books), my 2014 collection,  Memories in Clay, Dreams of Wolves,  will be on a Kindle Countdown sale starting July 10, 2022, until Sunday, July 17, 2022. Click  HERE . 

To celebrate the release of my new poetry collection on July 12,  Writing the Significant Soil  (Wayfarer Books), my 2014 collection,  Memories in Clay, Dreams of Wolves,  will be on a Kindle Countdown sale starting July 10, 2022, until Sunday, July 17, 2022. Click  HERE . 

Another look inside my new poetry collection, Writing the Significant Soil, also available from Amazon. This poem recalls a real incident from the early 1960s and was originally published in The Macguffin.

What is your favorite genre of music? I don’t have a single favorite musical genre. Tops are rock, jazz, blues, American songbook, and classical.

You can purchase a signed copy of my new book direct from me. If interested, email me at davidanthonysam@gmail.com with your name and address. Cost is $18 with shipping free. Thank you.

You can purchase a signed copy of my new book direct from me. If interested, email me at davidanthonysam@gmail.com with your name and address. Cost is $18 with shipping free. Thank you.

My poem “Taconic Orogeny” from my new collection, originally published in Vine Leaves Literary Review . Order your copy oy my book HERE .

I’ve received my copies of my new collection from Wayfarer Books. The publisher will release them to the public on July 12. Order  HERE .

 I've received my copies of my new collection from Wayfarer Books. The publisher will release them to the public on July 12. Order  HERE .

Aji Magazine  has accepted my poem “Some Have Entertained Unawares” for publication in their next issue. This is the eighth time they have published my poetry and I than the Editor, ​Erin O’Neill Armendarez, and staff. 

Aji Magazine  has accepted my poem "Some Have Entertained Unawares" for publication in their next issue. This is the eighth time they have published my poetry and I than the Editor, ​Erin O’Neill Armendarez, and staff. 

You can now preorder my new poetry collection,  Writing the Significant Soil , from  Amazon . 

You can now preorder my new poetry collection,  Writing the Significant Soil , from  Amazon . 

You can now preorder my new poetry collection,  Writing the Significant Soil , through  Barnes and Noble .

 You can now preorder my new poetry collection,  Writing the Significant Soil , through  Barnes and Noble .

My poem “Killing Points” has been published in the Summer 2022 issue of  Crosswinds Poetry. Journal.  Copies may be ordered  HERE .  The poem begins with my father finding in our garden and giving me an arrowhead and explores our relationship through that event. 

My poem "Killing Points" has been published in the Summer 2022 issue of  Crosswinds Poetry. Journal.  Copies may be ordered  HERE .  The poem begins with my father finding in our garden and giving me an arrowhead and explores our relationship through that event. 

Here’s the full cover of my new award-winning book from Wayfarer Books to be published July 12 and available for preorder NOW .

My poem “In Any Season” was originally published in Great River Review in 1984. It was written as a personal challenge to create a poem about fishing in response to a poem in Atlantic Monthly .

Congrats to Abigail Morgan Prout whose collection will also be published by Wayfarer Books this year. It can be preordered HERE .

 Six of my poems will appear in the Summer Issue of the Journal of the Blue Ridge Writers.

My poem "Roads Taken" has been published by  Aji Magazine . You can read it for free on page 91 along with other fine work  HERE .

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Now available to pre-order from Homebound Publications and Wayfarer Books: Writing the Significant Soil by David Anthony Sam Pre-order in their store where 1 Book = One Tree Planted | https://bit.ly/3JvTwTb In this collection of poetry, Sam explores the long relationship of human life with nature without sentimentality or the cold distance of the clinical eye. Sam’s poems reveal his own close connection with the Appalachian Mountains the red clay of the MidAtlantic and Virginia as he searches for meaning in the act of living on and with the land by using the poetic ink he makes from the soil. The collection admits the danger we humans impose on the natural world while revealing a simple faith that that natural world will abide even as we as individuals give our identity back into the land we sprang from. The soil is significant in and of itself as life-giving place and because of our history of living on it.

You can read my ghazal poem “Images Divine and Secular” for free in The Big Windows Review , Issue 26, Winter 2022 available HERE .

You can read my ghazal poem "Images Divine and Secular" for free in  The Big Windows Review , Issue 26, Winter 2022 available  HERE .

My poem “Killing Points” will be published in the Spring issue of   Crosswinds Poetry Journal.   This is the second time they have accepted my work.  

My poem “Killing Points” will be published in the Spring issue of   Crosswinds Poetry Journal.   This is the second time they have accepted my work.  

My poem “My Friend the Shadow” has been published online at MONO and can be read  HERE .

  My poem "My Friend the Shadow" has been published online at MONO and can be read  HERE .

Poetry Quarterly  will publish 2 of my poems in their next issue. Thank you Editor Glenn Lyvers for regularly featuring my work. 

Poetry Quarterly  will publish 2 of my poems in their next issue. Thank you Editor Glenn Lyvers for regularly featuring my work.